[kcvl]

Former Vice President of the United States Al Gore, right, and director Davis Guggenheim pose during the 59th International film festival in Cannes, southern France, on Monday, May 22, 2006. Their film "An Inconvenient Truth" will screen during the 59th International film festival. (AP Photo/Jeff Christensen)

[kcvl]

Davis Guggenheim: That’s the problem with global warming / climate change, I think, and why people have such a hard time connecting with it. It’s very hard to touch and to see and to know how your life fits into it, because it’s so huge and broad. When you see homeless people, you know – you see them outside your house and think that’s a problem, but global warming is much more abstract. So, that’s a challenge, and my instinct was that if I could tell Al’s story in the movie, that perhaps, if we learned about him and learned how he became so invested, then maybe we would too.

DG: He’s been saying this for a long time. You know, An Inconvenient Truth is the title for a bunch of reasons, but one of them was that he was given this burden to carry as a young man in college. Early in the 70’s he brought Roger Ravelle to Congress and held hearings as a congressman, hearing as a senator, and people weren’t listening. And people read his book and people loved his book, but people weren’t acting. This guy’s been out there, ringing the alarm bell but no one’s listening. And I thought that f we connected to that struggle, if we understood that, than maybe we could get the message across.

What film is so good at is giving people an experience, an emotional, gripping experience. If you want to really learn about global warming, and you really want to get into the science of it, there are lots of better ways – you can read voluminous books – but this is a way to really experience the full profound time with Gore. And I thought, if we get people that, we get them hooked, and they can take the rest of the journey on their own.

[Nomorjer Kinov]

Wow! It's a good thing Al didn't dress like his daughter at her movie coming-out.

[D-fendr]

Hipster. And Hipster-Doofus.

[HIDEK6]

If you were getting your picture take with a former Vice-President of the US who you actually liked, wouldn't you want to wear a decent pair of trousers?

[Disturbin]

Why is Fat Al posing with that loser from New Kids on the Block?