h a l f b a k e r yApply directly to forehead.
add, search, annotate, link, view, overview, recent, by name, best, random
news, help, about, links, report a problem
browse anonymously,
or get an account
and write.
register,
|
|
|
Please log in.
Before you can vote, you need to register.
Please log in or create an account.
|
Why dont the Hollywood Movie Industry keep elections on who shall be the official "Movie President of USA"
This mean that the one who is elected will act as the President of USA in all the movies being made in his period.
(Lets say the period will be a year or two.)
Imagine known and unknown actors
competing in this race.
They will all campaign on TV, and since all the known actors already have the attention of the media, they will have an easy way of getting their message out to the public.
If an outsider is getting a lot of votes, then this will attract the medias attention and help him/her in his/hers career.
Keep an election like the Oscars , and this will be a big event?
Let people vote on the internet.
[link]
|
| |
How would anyone tell the difference between this and the regular election campaigns? Perhaps campaign advertisements could carry a "Simulated Candidate" disclaimer (and perhaps a "don't try this at home" warning). |
|
| |
Could you cope with Arnie as president in all movies for a 2 year period? |
|
| |
Could you cope with King Bush II for at least four years of
real life? |
|
| |
Over the holiday vacation I was forced to watch 'West Wing' episodes that a friend had been taping for months. Now, much against my wishes, I have become a big fan of this fantastically written show. |
|
| |
This made me consider the possible candidacy of Martin Sheen as president. I suspect that his actual politics aren't that far removed from the character he plays. Besides, several years of playing the president is probably good training for the actual job. |
|
| |
The American public (of which I have very little faith in) would probably jump at the idea because Sheen's is a widely recognized face, has name recognitian, many probably already think that he already is the president, and any population that can elect a former heavy-weight wrestler to office is either easily swayed by 'non-political' criteria , or just too stupid to know better. Besides, he could easily beat Bush. |
|
| |
This election would be easily
distinguished from real
elections, as this one would be
entirely superficial and devoid
of any meaningless discussion
of the issues at hand; would
involve political conventions
catered to television
broadcast, rather than
development of a party
platform; and candidates would
employ heavily scripted and
formulaic stump speeches after
having been coached on how to
act "presidential." |
|
| |
RobGraham: I seem to remember
Martin Sheen being involved in
some anti-militarization
protests, which would more or
less sink his chances. |
|
| |
I think I'd really like to see
the Academy of Motion Picture
Arts and Sciences act as an
electoral college. |
|
| |
I think Mr. Sheen's politics are considerably left of Jed Bartlet's. Also, like most actors, Martin Sheen is much shorter than most successful presidential candidates, and I think this is not a trivial matter. |
|
| |
Besides, as I repeatedly told my wife during the real election, what we want is not Martin Sheen nor even Jed Bartlet for (real) President, but West Wing's writers. And even then, we'd need The Future to be considerably more submissive to these writers than she's been to writers in the past. |
|
| |
Back to the original idea, I guess Martin Sheen would be okay as a movie President (especially if he got to keep his writers), but there are other actors with more presidential bearing. |
|
| |
I think it was Billy Crystal who said "I would vote for Warren Beatty for President for one reason.....Vice President Jack Nicholson." |
|
| |
A few weeks ago Charlie Sheen was hosting SNL, in his opening monologue/skit a member of the audience asked 'Do you think you would ever want to follow in your fathers footsteps and play the President of the United States?' to which he replied: 'I don't know...I've done cocaine, I've been arrested, I'm not too smart...no-one would believe I could play the President of the United States.' |
|
| |
I think the real president should have to play the president in all movies set in his time period. And he should not be given a script, he should just react as himself to all events happening around him. That way we could really see what the president we have elected (or not elected, as the case may be...) is made of. |
|
| |
(it would also encourage Hollywood screenwriters to challenge him in various provocative ways...I'm liking this idea a lot...) |
|
| |
Stanley Anderson played the President twice (in Armageddon and The Rock) in two years. Coincidentally, they were also both Jerry Bruckheimer/Michael Bay movies, and he also delivers a "This operation is hopefully gonna be a success but it could go wrong so I'm being sombre"-type speech in both both! |
|
| |
You may remember him as Drew Carey's dad from that show, or the judge from the last episode of Seinfeld. |
|
| |
I thought you guys baked this one with Reagan? |
|
| |
Can we do this in the UK please? I think President/King Vinnie Jones, Alan Rickman, Ewan MacGregor, or (the ultimate..!) Richard Attenborough, would seriously kick ass, as you Americans say. Queens are a little harder to come by. Couldn't have Catherine Zeta Jones, because then the Amerians would think they'd taken us over by marrying us.
Oh, just thought of a bad one. President/King Hugh Grant. Bad idea.
Would Elton John be a King or a Queen (see "Neo-Socratic Government") |
|
| |
And we'd all still be able to laugh at Belgium: King Jean-Claude Van Damme meets President Arnie for a summit meeting... President Gerard Depardieu pops in from France carrying the garlic and croissants...! King Roberto 'Life is Beautiful' Benigni does the stand up comedy in their coffee break. Fantastic. |
|
| |
Arnie (assuming you mean he of the Schwarzenegger persuasion) is Austrian (by birth), but that is certainly not a good enough reason not to laugh at Belgians. |
|
| |
I thought he was an American citizen now? Isn't he running for Governor of California or something? To the Belgium question I will add Hercule Poirot, the European Union, and sprouts. |
|
| |
I'm sure you're correct on Arnie's current nationality - I said 'by birth'.
It says a lot about Belgium that its most famous native (the afore-mentioned Poirot) is fictitious. Incidentally, although Belgium has a king, he is not the king of Belgium. For some bizarre reason, he is referred to as the 'King of the Belgians'. Even the people who live there don't know where it is.
And I'm with you all the way on sprouts and the EU. To paraphrase Marx, 'The world would be a better place for children if the parents had to eat the sprouts'. |
|
| |
I'm not sure who would win the
election for Movie President,
but I do know that Kevin Bacon
would always be elected to a
staff position. It just seems
right, dammit. |
|
| |
How about Prime Minister Paul Shaffer? |
|
| |
I'd say Val Kilmer or Brad Pitt could be president as long as Val Kilmer stayed in character as Doc Holiday and Brad Pitt stayed in character as Tyler Derdon. We need a no nonsense president, not some pansy ass like Martin Sheen. |
|
| |
I think Reba McIntire (sp?) could play Dubya. |
|
| |
*votes in lewisgirl as the prophetess of the month, and Lloyd Bridges for candidate. Kevin Bacon would be excellent in the DoD or State Dept. After all, he has all of those connections... |
|
| |
Lloyd Bridges is died in 1998, though. |
|
| |
Some have pointed out that two of the cast of "Predator" have been elected to state governorships so far (Jesse Ventura in Minnesota, Arnold in California), so the rest of that cast should be a gold mine for candidates. (WTAGIPBAN) |
|
| |