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When Simmons talks about Hitler, I think she somewhat misses the point with the quality of his storytelling. For all we know, a lot of Hitleer's speeches, manifestos, etc. could have been written by ghost writers. Historians agree that a vast majority of Hitler's power lied in his charisma... it was the charisma with which he TOLD the stories that made him so powerful... again, who's to say who wrote all his material?
With that said, how important do you think the WAY IN WHICH a story is told is compared to the story itself? How important is charisma in the storytelling process? Is it more important than the story itself?
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posted by Erik Crosier @ 4:27 PM
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I think that connecting with the people you are talking to is very important in the process. For instance, a person with few ideals and morals can make people feel comfortable as long as they are fed what they wish by someone they might feel comfortable with in their manner.
I think charisma is very important to the way a story goes over. There's a scene in Three Men and a Baby where Tom Selleck is reading something out of the newspaper to baby Mary in a sing-song voice and she is cooing away. I'm going to go out on a limb and say that most of our audiences are going to be smarter than an infant, but I think the scene still demonstrates that how you say something can be even more important than what you're saying.
I still say that you need a good story first. But the performance can make a lessor story better. A great story told well is the best of both worlds.
I think we went over this somewhat early on in the semester when someone posted about whether or not we remembered stories from class that were told with some flair. I think I even commented at that time about Hitler and his charisma. Funny how it all actually came up later in the book. I must have ESPN or something.
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