Speech on Restricting Hollywood's Influence

Speech on Restricting Hollywood's Influence

Ladies and Gentlemen it is my honour to be here tonight proposing the

motion “This house believes in restricting Hollywood’s influence.”

In my speech I will be following up on arguments introduced by my

partner. This includes the promotion of smoking, the political

influence of Hollywood and the use of it’s monopoly to spread the

American way of thinking throughout the world. However after having

listened quite attentively to the 1st opposer’s speech, I feel obliged

to comment on some arguments brought up by him that seemed irrelevant/

unsupported.

To witness how much smoking is glorified by the Hollywood industry,

all you need to do is go to a movie theatre and sit in front of a big

screen with a coke and popcorn. You’ll find characters such as Bruce

Willis defusing a bomb with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth, or

Arnold Schwarzenegger playing the role of a president’s fitness

expert, posing on the cover magazines with a big cigar in his mouth.

Is that cigarette going to help Bruce Willis in any way defuse the

bomb? Is a cigar a symbol of success and fame in our society? Ladies

and gentlemen this is obviously sending a contradictory message to the

teenagers and kids…. These are their heroes… role models. However this

doesn’t mean that the message being passed on is “Smoking is good for

you”… what is actually happening is that the naïve audience is

becoming less sensitive to the serious dangers of smoking. This comes

as a result of movies portraying smoking as a common thing that

everyone does.

This youthful audience is too young to understand life, its obstacles

and dangers. They don’t understand that in the real world, the smokers

tend to be poor and less educated because Hollywood’s movies show them

that it is the powerful and successful who smoke the most. You’d be

surprised to find out that smoking can be found in movies that are

practically aimed towards the young audience such as Ghostbusters II,