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We recently noted two consecutive movie speeches offering very different techniques for engaging with an audience. Yes, I mean Black Dynamite!

I have been pointed to this other superb pair of consecutive movie speeches, this time offering substantive policy and moral choices in a carefully contrasted way. The movie is Other People’s Money, a story about a failing heavy industry plant in the USA and the manoeuvres by a ‘corporate raider’ to take it over.

Here is Gregory Peck making the case to the shareholders for rejecting the blandishments of the proposed buy-out:

And here is Danny De Vito mercilessly replying:

Both speeches are cleverly pitched, mini-masterpieces of speechwriting and public speaking, drafting and delivery. I could run a seminar quite happily on the multiple points of technique displayed here, for better or worse.

Indeed, if anyone wants one, all you have to do is ask nicely.