Posted on 06/13/2004 6:41:01 AM PDT by veronica
"You may have heard he won an award recently at the Cannes Film Festival. Somehow, I don't suspect the judges were talking about the subtle use of shadow and contrast, the almost Kafkaesque use of symbology reminiscent of Pynchon's early works during the scene in which Moore talks about how President Bush's library burned down and he wasn't even done coloring all the books when they chose to give him the award. They probably just looked up from the checks they were about to make out to the genocidal madman, Yasir Arafat, saw an unhappy fat man whining about America and unanimously decided to hand over the prize."
LOL, funny piece.
Truman Capote invented the non-fiction novel.
Michael Moor invented the all-fiction documentary.
Both variaties were never heard of from again.
'Must Read' Bump.
Truman Capote IMO was a genius. He invented to some degree, the modern true crime genre. In addition, he was a great writer. An odd man personally, obviously, but a great talent nevertheless IMO. Michael Moore on the other hand, is a con artist, a propagandist, a clown, a liar.
LOL - this writer has got quite a prose!
Michael Moore seems to ascribe to a saying I heard back in college:
"If you can't dazzle 'em with brilliance, baffle 'em with bulls**t."
Moore is a idiot, he reminds me of Kerry. Why anyone would want to listen to either one of them is beyond me.
Wow. Moore is a Democrat and a liar. Surpise, surprise.
Perhaps a better term for what Michael Moore produces is a "mocumentary".
Or perhaps, considering the fiction he spins into his yarns, a "focumentary".
Encouraging seeing this coming from a student. Is Drexel amore conservative school?
Lockheed Martin does not make missiles at that site in Colorado. It makes space launch vehicles for TV satellites.
Michael Moore is a documented liar.
It's never a good idea to underestimate the enemy. Learn from them, yes. Underestimate, no.
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I love this clip from an article on CNN:
"To counteract efforts challenging "Fahrenheit 9/11," he has hired Chris Lehane and Mark Fabiani, two former political advisers to Bill Clinton and Al Gore, to establish a "war room" that will immediately support any claims made in the movie that come under attack.
The group, he said, will be staffed by six to seven people and will operate 24 hours a day, monitoring newscasts and scanning newspapers, magazines and other publications for statements made discrediting the movie.
"You come at me with anything, we come back with the truth," Moore said."
Boy do these guys have an uphill battle!!
Like Leni Riefenstahl. Very talented cinematically, just not well-equipped in the sensibilities department. at least, that is how I undertsand you argument.
But why do so many buy the shallow lies of the blubbery boob? It explains why Kerry is the possible victor in November; Moore's people are Kerry's people. And attendant to that, what are we to make of Moore's great acceptance in Europe? What changes in US policy or style would reverse that short of surrender? The problem is with devotees of the fat liar here and abroad.
I've seen Leni Riefenstahl's work and Michael Moore is no Leni Riefenstahl!
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