- cross-posted to:
- shermanposting@piefed.social
- cross-posted to:
- shermanposting@piefed.social
cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/shermanposting/p/1855263/don-t-be-a-loser
cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/shermanposting/p/1855263/don-t-be-a-loser
Whatever your views on him as an actor or his political affiliation, you should watch the original speech in its entirety, rather than keep this soundbite in and of itself and hijack its meaning. It’s also worth noting this was recorded in early 2023, so a lot of things have changed since then.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsETTn7DehI
I think it’s a powerful message and well delivered. Something the hardline MAGA crowd definitely needed to heed. And all around the world, as more of these populist movements rise or have risen.
Schwarzenegger may have had a very specific niche he fit within as an actor, but when he worked within that niche he was excellent. If you look at Conan the Barbarian, it should not have worked as a movie, and yet it absolutely does, and no small part of that is his acting. Dude can smolder stoically. Terminator, T2, Running Man, Total Recall, Predator, they’re all excellent uses of his very specific type.
Then jump ahead to True Lies and Last Action Hero, where he’s arguably at his height of fame, and he makes basically a couple of parodies of his acting persona, during a time when action heroes were largely taken much more seriously than they are today, and he nails both of those roles, too.
Sure, he’s got a bad habit of trying to make movies he maybe shouldn’t have, and yeah, he’s always a huge muscly Austrian with a thick accent, but I think he might be the best Western action star who’s ever lived.
As a person or a politician… ehh… could be a lot worse.
Hes a really great example of what you can achieve when you put literally all your time and energy into one thing. Gotta give him credit.
Yeah, well, the people who need to hear it wont because of algos.
That’s what no leaders seem to get. Twitter or YouTube is shouting into the void.
Not that I have a good solution for someone like him.