Couric and Palin, on piano. This is an ear-opening way to hear spoken words. As notes.
I can think of so many movies in which the images play the orchestra (or band, depending on the kind of music the movie suggests) and the actors are the soloists. Dialog by Billy Wilder, or Preston Sturges, or the Coen Bros. often strikes me as fundamentally musical. But I didn't hear this one coming.
This is a not entirely uncommon trope in new music circles. Check out Steve Reich's Different Trains , The Cave & Three Tales; Jason Moran's Artists Ought to be Writing (text by artist Adrian Piper) or, most amazingly (not least because it was created early enough so that it was done by editing tape rather than with a digital process), Scott Johnson's John Somebody. All available via iTunes and some other download services.
There never seems to be a shortage of contemptible material to sling Palin's way. Now, it's her annoyance with Couric and all those pesky, irrelevant questions - in lieu presumably of the "right" questions that should have been asked (what's you favorite color, do you like pina coladas and getting caught in the rain?).
“Last time I was here I got to tell a crowd that I had to give a national interview that didn’t go so well,” she said. “And it was because I was kind of annoyed with the questions that I was being asked because I thought they were kind of irrelevant to, you know, national security issues and getting our economy back on track, so I kind of showed some of that annoyance.”
Couric did, in fact, ask Palin several questions about the economy and national security, focusing in particular on the congressional bailout package, the mortgage crisis, John McCain’s record on regulation, the war in Afghanistan, hunting terrorists in Pakistan, Russia, Iran, Syria, Israel and the role of the United States in the world.
Palin joked, however, about another line of questioning.
“But I think the one question that I answered that everyone could agree on, it maybe shows where my heart is… too is, she asked me this relevant question: What was my favorite movie? And I said ‘Hoosiers!’”
Palin's interview with Couric is the main reason I'm not voting for John McCain.
There are gaffes and more gaffes, but the inability to name a Supreme Court case by someone on a major party ticket doesn't fall into this category. And the question isn't irrelevant at all: Should Palin ascend to the Presidency, she would be appointing nominees to the court she doesn't know anything about.
Gov. Palin knows about Roe v Wade. If you think she doesn't, you're wrong.
Jim, I was wondering when you were going to start taking digs at Sarah Palin becaue, to date, your jokey digs at Barack Obama have killed me.
My main appreciation for dialog has always been as a musical instrument. I usually prefer the visuals to tell %99 percent of the story, with the dialog serving three purposes: Adding a little clarity to the images, keeping it from sounding weird that nobody talks, and sounding good to the ear.
Why'd they have to go and get an acting coach for Palin? This video is ten times funnier than the VP debate.