Like other large institutions, the current political climate has a lot of Hollywood, which is afraid to wade into politics when the award season starts, with Emmys on Sunday and the film period just behind them.
As someone who has seen too many price exhibitions – and must for a living – here is a simple suggestion: embrace political speech and encourage recipients to formulate strongly held opinions.
It probably sounds counter -intuitive, especially with so many conservative voices just waiting to encounter Hollywood liberals, who accuse them are in contact and elitist and hate Donald Trump, among others. Why potentially foreign more viewers or rile up those who are already waiting to be upset?
The toxic political environment has certainly played a role in celebrities who shoot away From political speech, predict Voller from online vitriol or the alignment of President Trump’s social media account. A wave of political violence, the latest was the murder of conservative activist Charlie KirkHas increased the broader feeling of concern, making the prospects for the backlash seemingly even more powerful, as Trump and allies as adviser Stephen Miller try to clamp on dissenses by scaring and silent critics.
Given all this, it may sound like a lot to ask to turn a career -defining moment into a call. Yet regardless of the policy advocated or the cause that is promoted, these numbers generally show more memorable because they are If Something, delivered with passion and a point of view that goes beyond the ordinary, “I want to thank my agent and co -stars.” And if price exhibitions need something right now, it is a feeling of spontaneity-a must-watch factor-to overcome all the well-documented forces that reduce linear TV ratings in general.
Conservatives will claim that like-minded viewers stay away because some outspoken liberal deeply injured them-or at least injured their surprisingly horror emotion-by talking about the environment, women’s rights or badmouth Trump.
The president himself picked up that theme last week, after West Point interrupted an event that would have honored Tom Hanks. Trump published, nonsensically, that the award shows that “wake” recipients and “look at their dead rating!”
Such grips conveniently ignore the challenges that plague the entertainment industry at large and assign in particular: a more fragmented audience, with less rooting interest in series and movies Many have not bothered to see. Plus the knowledge that people can see shows clips in almost real time on social media, without having to sit through three hours of presenter Blather and commercial breaks.
With the elements that dilute the live experience, it is only genuine, from the heart moments that tend to stand out. And apart from the feeling of feelings about asserting a great award-Olivia Colman’s funny speech after winning for the “favorite” as a policy-free example of coming by on unlimited charm-having the recipients the best chance to join a deeper level by daring to discuss something greater than themselves.
Admittedly, people still look at price exhibitions for various reasons, many have nothing to do with who wins. This is definitely the case for performance-driven exhibitions such as Grammys or Tony’s, but even Oscars and Emmys can deliver showbiz style if they get the alchemical right.
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Among more traditional price exhibitors, however, is what tends to make a show memorable things that cannot be planned-what Gil CatesThe late producer of many Oscar-TeleCast, called the “Award ceremony.”
Plan all the presenter edges, reunions, sketch and honorary dividends that you like, but everyone who has seen price exhibitions knows the limits for the scriptful sequences.
Often, moments that have resisted the test of the time from a teleprompter, from Marlon Brando who sent Sacheen Littlefeather to accept his Oscar for “The Godfather” to Halle Berry’s tear -filled speech after making history for “Monster’s Ball.” Ditto for the documentary Michael Moore’s charges against the Iraq War 2003, Patricia Arquett’s basis for women’s rights (and equal pay) at Oscars 2015, Andrew Garfield embraced LGBTQ rights at Tony’s 2018 or Meryl Streep 2017 Golden Golden Globe, which clearly aimed for the Trump.
Who won the best picture of that show? Who knows? But Arquette’s speech, with Streep enthusiastically pointing to her, got a lasting meme, while Streep’s comments echoed for several days – and drew an inevitable “overestimated” punishment from Trump.
Award-Show ratings have remained on a downward arch, which reflects gravity that draws on all linear TV, as well as the remaining aftercare of Covid and Strike-loss-satisfied years.
While last year’s Emmy’s recovered to almost 6.9 million viewers, two years with historical lows – the audience first went under 10 million viewers in 2019 – which indicated that there is relatively little to lose. And with its existing TV agreement, where prices rotate between the four major broadcast networks, because after next year’s ceremony, the TV Academy has an increased need to present a telecast that people will watch and someone will pay to carry.
Considering social media’s whirlwind, you invite a stand some headaches, but there is plenty of talent with zero F’s to give – what should you do, cancel Helen Mirren or Harrison Ford? And besides, it only takes a few important moments, in the midst of the compulsory business that needs to be done, to puncture these ceremonies.
In a performance at MSNBC in August, Henry Winkler addressed the question of having the courage to speak out on issues that are important to him by saying: “I am an American, I am a man and then I’m a professional. And people still tell me on Twitter:” Stay in your lane. “And my lane is to be a man in America.
Although it would be naive to ignore choosing a lane involves risks, you often have to take chances to make sounds. And that’s what price exhibitions have to do, in the end, if they still hope to create a feeling that they are worth watching.
So bring politics. Sure, you will offend someone. But honestly, if they are so sensitive, most people would not look at anyway.
