Politics & performance: Why Zelenskyy succeeds where others fail

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Politics & performance: Why Zelenskyy succeeds where others fail
One of the reasons the Ukranian president is winning the PR offensive is that he's a comedian who knows his people

By MELANIE MCFARLAND
PUBLISHED MARCH 5, 2022 3:30PM


One emergent piece of trivia about Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelenskyy that may have conquered more hearts and minds than any video propaganda ever could is that he provided the voice for Ukraine's versions of 2014's "Paddington" and 2017's "Paddington 2."

Politicians playing roles in movies stopped being novel decades go, but this is something else. Paddington Bear is a children's literature institution, a soft-spoken, polite character who disarms adversaries with kindness. He's also a talking bear, pure fiction, and Zelenskyy isn't channeling him in the role he's playing right now.

However, in each of his persuasive speeches to world leaders and conversations with journalists, Zelenskyy conveys the deportment of a rational, determined man. In the viral video he filmed in a studio and others taken in the streets, using his own mobile device, he's personable and calm. Reassuring.

Vox's Emily VanDerWerff wrote a defining piece about the ways in which Zelenskyy is using his stagecraft to successfully dominate the propaganda space, analyzing his expert staging of backgrounds and angles, even breaking down the importance of where he stands in each frame. .............(more)

https://www.salon.com/2022/03/05/and-performance-why-zelenskyy-succeeds-where-others-fail/

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1. He is also very brave and not a corrupt politician.