The great imitator

As is known, the sincerest form of flattery is imitation. A photographic survey shows that, in this light, Lula is traveling a compliment to the dictator Fidel Castro, who succeeded the dictator Fulgencio Batista in Cuba


Fidel Castro put a pair of sunglasses in 1999 and Lula also, ten years later. Fidel swaps places with photographers in 2004. Lula repeats the joke in 2009 - Photo montage: Robson Fernandjes / AE - Christophe Simon / AFP - Adalberto Roque / AFP - Ed Ferreira / AE

Fidel Castro put a pair of sunglasses in 1999 and Lula also, ten years later. Fidel swaps places with photographers in 2004. Lula repeats the joke in 2009 - Photo montage: Robson Fernandjes / AE - Christophe Simon / AFP - Adalberto Roque / AFP - Ed Ferreira / AE (Photomontage)

Man or woman, black or whitey Nordic African inky, tall or short, intelligent or stupid, fat or thin ... Film director Otto Preminger (1905-1986), American born in Austria, was the classifications of the persons listed above imperfect and incomplete. For him, deep down, there are only two kinds of people: those who were born to be on camera and to get behind them. Lula and Fidel Castro is undoubtedly the first kind of human beings on the strict division made by Otto Preminger. The director of Laura, Anatomy of a Murder and The Cardinal also valued another way to sort the talented actors: those who hone their innate qualities through imitation of others better than them and those who slip by their life and career driven only gifts brought by the crib. Lula and Fidel also appear in the first category of actors table Preminger.

Imitation of the masters is a known and approved method to open a shortcut on the evolutionary pathway in any career. Cicero and Quintilian, Roman masters of classical oratory, they disagreed on many aspects of rhetoric, but they agreed to advise his disciples about the importance of getting through imitation, leaving to develop his own style later, after you signed your reputation. Copy should be mainly the actio, ie, intonation, gestures, facial expressions, body language. They, more than words are, in view of the masters, the very elements of persuasion. Actors and politicians are abusing them to magnetize audiences.

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Lula Castro before and after. Emphasize speaking with one of the indicators in hand is natural. Using the two requires a model, and some training - Photo montage: Sipa Press - Mauricio Lima / AFP - Adalberto Roque / AFP - Roberto Stuckert Filho / Ag. Globe

Lula Castro before and after. Emphasize speaking with one of the indicators in hand is natural. Using the two requires a model, and some training - Photo montage: Sipa Press - Mauricio Lima / AFP - Adalberto Roque / AFP - Roberto Stuckert Filho / Ag. Globe



The great hall of the University Roma Three to be given next November 10 will focus on the elements of political discourse. Tells the program that will highlight the role of gesture in communication and persuasion. The teacher will not be Fidel Castro. But it could be. The Italian school joins dozens of others in Europe and the United States who seek to discover whether certain body postures, gestures and facial expressions are specific proven effective in convincing the audience. Is it possible to prove scientifically that certain tones of voice or mannerisms are inherent to the speakers who not only want to argue but to convince his listeners? Does the appeal to emotion and dramatic gestures always outweigh other forms of oral expression and contained more rational? You can learn to be charismatic at a podium on stage or just repeating demonstrably charismatic gestures of speakers? These studies are just beginning, but are fascinating.

Perhaps scholars can get a day of body language and facial allowing even the most awkward speakers become perfect masters of the stage? If the person has to born in the classification of Preminger, live on camera, it is quite likely that the answer is yes. The best way, since the Romans, is the imitation of an idol. Fidel Castro is one of the idols of Lula. So many visits Brazil to Cuba before and after becoming president, he must have more hours of assistance to Fidel's speeches (the short are three hours long and can exceed ten) than any other politician Brazilian or international. Consciously or unconsciously, Lula has assimilated the style of Fidel Castro. The teacher is more educated and more charismatic than the pupil of Brazil - but Lula has already won by Hugo Chavez, another notorious Cuban impersonator.

These pages are illustrated with gestures of Lula clearly copied from Fidel Castro. Some of them are private to the master of Cuban and Brazilian students. It is the case with the indicator pointing gesture to a foreign head of state. When U.S. President Bill Clinton did not miss a chance to use the trick. Lula and Fidel Ibid. In most cases, are simply pointing to a distinguished visitor the place reserved for him by the ceremonial. In the pictures, but the gesture gives the impression that anyone who points the finger is the "alpha agent, who is in command of the situation, pointing the way to a colleague or disoriented without much conviction.

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The command body of Fidel in front of a foreign agent, point his finger. The photos will show you in command of the situation. Castro in 1998 and Lula in 2007 - Photo montage: Zoraida Diaz / Reuters - Sergio Moraes / Reuters

The command body of Fidel in front of a foreign agent, point his finger. The photos will show you in command of the situation. Castro in 1998 and Lula in 2007 - Photo montage: Zoraida Diaz / Reuters - Sergio Moraes / Reuters



Monolingual, Lula enjoys quite a trick of Fidel Castro - to always talk more than the speaker, so that the pictures he seems to be teaching something colleague. In the case of Lula, the magic of "open mouth, because the picture has no sound," is even more efficient. Lula appears frequently in official photos with the greatest calm talking to Russian counterparts, Germans, Arabs, Israelis, Africans, as it dominated their language. Fidel Castro made this game a classic scene of his arsenal, because even vitally depending on annual giving billions from the Soviets for their island does not founder, appeared in the photos should be taught as something for old people in the Kremlin.

The boundary between the grotesque and the efficiency is tenuous at romps Fidel learned by Lula. The patron of theatrics to the stage it is Adolf Hitler, who, in turn, learned everything from a comedian Munich Ferdl Weiss. Castro Cubans call "El jefe en comedian."

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Adolf Hitler, Nazi leader who grew to 90% in the polls, he learned to gesture with a comedian in Munich. Heinrich Hoffman, his photographer particular, did an amazing sequence of photos of the chief rehearsing and published them in book form in 1939. Charles Chaplin studied these photographs to compose their parody of Hitler in the unforgettable film The Great Dictator, 1940 - Photo montage: AKG / Latin Stock - AFP

Adolf Hitler, Nazi leader who grew to 90% in the polls, he learned to gesture with a comedian in Munich. Heinrich Hoffman, his photographer particular, did an amazing sequence of photos of the chief rehearsing and published them in book form in 1939. Charles Chaplin studied these photographs to compose their parody of Hitler in the unforgettable film The Great Dictator, 1940 - Photo montage: AKG / Latin Stock - AFP

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