Thursday, October 2, 2014

Matthew McConaughey gives the talk


8 comments:

Unknown said...

Seems kinda full of himself.

ndspinelli said...

Well, I have the exact opposite take. I use to think the same of this guy. But, I have read a lot about him. He is a REAL actor, not just a pretty boy. He was a pretty boy when he started out, but what he said in that speech is true. He has pushed himself. And, let me tell you, there are very few actors w/ the intelligence and eloquence to make a speech like that. They need writers to tell them what to say. And, in Godless Hollywood he fearlessly talks about being a believer. Naw, this guy is OK in my book. And 5-10 years ago I thought the exact opposite.

bagoh20 said...

"Naw, this guy is OK in my book. And 5-10 years ago I thought the exact opposite."

That's because you are a conservative. You can learn, you can admit mistakes, you can change, instead of just expecting everyone else to.

chickelit said...

@April: You need to watch his debut role in "Dazed And Confused" (if you haven't). He was good in that but he's become an outstanding actor.

He is so not another Brad Pitt or the singularly overrated DiCaprio.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

I watched Mud, the movie he mentions as his favorite.

He was very good in that.

Unknown said...

I know I'm alone but I find it odd that our culture looks up to "actors" as if they are so important.

Matthew might be one of the better ones - but I have no interest in treating the hollwyood crowd like sacred golden cows.

deborah said...

"Seems kinda full of himself."

Was he talking?

I first came across him in Contact with Jody Foster. I was taken with the sweet graveness of his character and charmingly unusual good looks. Stayed a fan till the movie where he played a son who was sticking around home too long, with Terry Bradshaw and Kathy Bateman as his parents. He struck me in that movie as mailing it in, a little full of himself.

Then along came True Detective. Mmm, mmm, mmm-mmm-MMM.

Chick, thanks for the Dazed and Confused tip, I'll take a look at that and Mud. I guess I have to watch Wolf of Wall Street, too :)

As far as this talk, I really liked when he said about making the right decision...when you were half a second away from holding back. A way of saying being in the moment, in the flow. Not watching people watch you (in your head), but you just being.

Fr Martin Fox said...

This improved my opinion of McConaughey, akin to what Ndspinelli said (aside: am I not supposed to capitalize your screen name?)

Some years ago, I remember a conversation with some friends, and we were talking about actors and actresses, and we started designating some actors as "men's men" and "women's men" -- the idea being actors who appeal to men, vs. those who appeal to women; we (or maybe just I) assigned McConaughey to the latter category.

This speech may alter my opinion.