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5 Things Brad Pitt Has Adopted That Have Made His Masculinity Incredibly Intimidating

Sometimes it seems as though the gods created Brad Pitt specifically as a check to keep self-conscious guys from becoming overconfident in themselves. This isn’t a bad thing. Dudes could stand to be taken down a peg from time to time. Everyone laments, and rightly so, the fact that women are constantly being compared to utterly impossible ideals, and that’s unlikely to stop any time soon. To even things out, maybe it’s just that we need more images in our culture that present men in ways that make us dudes feel like we can never measure up. That may present a host of other problems, but at least there’d be a more level playing field. This path toward equality is aided by movies like Magic Mike and stars like Brad Pitt. Maybe.

[h2]4) That having an awesome voice thing[/h2]

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His commercial for Chanel No. 5 perfume is now the stuff of infamy, having been parodied now to death and ridiculed at great length, not without good reason. But it’s also kind of oddly compelling, and a lot of this is because Brad Pitt has one of those mesmerizing voices. This is true of a lot of movie stars. It’s one of the things that made them who they are. They’re natural narrators.

Pitt’s voice has some unique qualities, though. And it’s one of the things that made The Tree of Life so engaging. It can handle the serious poetry of a movie from someone like Terence Malick and also the insane dialogue of a guy like Quentin Tarantino, transitioning from 1940s southern general to post-war suburban scary dad as though no effort is required. It’s the resonant baritone sound we all aim for and rarely achieve save for early mornings and sick days.

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