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(Right now, thereâs little Moore canât take care of on his bellicose lonesome, unless you count Bush Senior, who gets trashed in the movie and has called him a âslimeballâ for tarnishing his sonâs image, or a cranky Ray Bradbury, who cussed out the filmmaker for stealing the title of his novel Fahrenheit 451 and then changing it without permission.)
The title is a play on Ray Bradbury's science-fiction classic "Fahrenheit 451," in which "firemen" burn books and serve a totalitarian regime that tolerates no dissent.
The title is a play on "Fahrenheit 451," the temperature at which paper burns, and a Ray Bradbury novel about a future totalitarian state in which reading and independent thought are banned.
Fahrenheit 9/11 the title is a play on the Ray Bradbury novel (and Francois Truffaut film) Fahrenheit 451, about a future totalitarian state where reading, and thus independent thinking, has been outlawed has news value beyond its financing and distribution tangles.
"Fahrenheit 9/11" takes its title from Ray Bradbury's novel "Fahrenheit 451," which takes place in a futuristic totalitarian state that prohibits reading -- and the independent thought it fosters.
This was Fritz Lang's theme for Germany's crime problems after WW1 when he made the classic "M." Taking a parent away from her child even if it's to get work just creates another problem, as this solution hailed by a majority of both Democrats and Republicans probably contributes more to crime in the streets than all the other reasons presented.
This harkens back to the scene in Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 that caused some to callously misunderstand George W. Bush’s momentary perplexity immediately after learning of the attack, when he was reading a story to a roomful of children.
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)
Directed by Lynne Ramsay
influenced by Bowling for Columbine (2002)
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It first entered mainstream cinema in Peter Bogdanovich's early film Targets (inspired by Charles Whitman's killing spree on the University of Texas campus in 1966), and has since been seen in Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine and Gus Van Sant's Elephant.
Y hay también toques a lo Michael Moore, el director de Fahrenheit 9/11, con lo cual decir que la mirada del director Adam McKay es cero condescendiente con el protagonista no es faltar a la verdad.
We are a country at war against ourselves, driven by these two impulses, and even if McKay thinks he’s making a fictionalized Fahrenheit 9/11 , he’s accidentally succeeded in making a movie about our split consciousness.
To wit: Michael Moore mined much of this material in his hit documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 back in 2004.
Hell or High Water (2016)
Directed by David Mackenzie
influenced by Capitalism: A Love Story (2009)
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In more recent terms, Tanner and Toby’s desperate situation echoes the rebellious subjects of Michael Moore’s doc Capitalism: A Love Story — or worse, the misguided agony of the stereotypical down-market Trump voter, taken for granted and left holding the bag.
The last time such a device was used to evoke that tragic day without relying on explicit images of burning buildings was Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11,” which utilized reaction shots to underscore the human element of the devastation.
When thinking of other ‘political’ Palme wins, the blatancy of Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 still lingers in the minds of some, but we’re a long way from that kind of agitprop…
Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (2016)
Directed by Nicholas Stoller
influenced by Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)
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The nutso rhetoric around this film reminds me of last decade when my fellow liberals rubber-stamped countless cruddy anti-Bush documentaries (betcha the Cannes jury wishes they could get a do-over on that Fahrenheit 9/11 Palme d’Or) or when evangelical audiences applaud the latest pile of crap from Kevin Sorbo or Kirk Cameron.
Recognizing that most viewers in the audience won’t know the difference between an RMBS and a CMBS, Chandor’s script manages a tight-rope balance between making the crisis generally understandable while also emphasizing the ridiculous levels of computational complexity involved in large-scale financial dealings (I was reminded of the scene in Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story in which he goes around Wall Street asking people to explain what a derivative is and no one can successfully do it).
But though we’re still down and out, at least we’re filthy rich in films: from features such as John Wells’ The Company Men, Oliver Stone’s Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps and Jason Reitman’s Up in the Air to documentaries such as Charles Ferguson’s Inside Job, Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story and Alex Gibney’s Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room.
After all, the main audience for a deep dive into the financial circumstances that prompted the global economic meltdown of 2007-2008 probably already knows much of the information it contains; they’ve probably read the Michael Lewis book it’s based on, or Matt Taibbi’s Griftopia (which came out around the same time), or they listened to This American Life’s “Giant Pool of Money” episode, or they’ve seen Inside Job or Capitalism: A Love Story or any of the other documentaries about the subject.
The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)
Directed by Martin Scorsese
influenced by Capitalism: A Love Story (2009)
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Though it ends well before the 2008 financial meltdown, The Wolf of Wall Street may be the most instructive movie about that disaster yet made, even more so than documentaries like Inside Job and Capitalism: A Love Story, because it gets at the rush, the draw, the very smell of the fuck-everybody greed which fueled it.
Michael Moore went further: He showed the actual surveillance footage from the high school in his 2002 documentary “Bowling for Columbine,” which relentlessly sought a solution to the problem of school shootings.
Parallels will be drawn to Bowling for Columbine , although not because the latter is sloppy, clueless, insulting, and monstrously self-indulgent, that is, a celluloid version of Michael Moore.
It's a lightning-rod film — not the first to address the recent wave of school shootings, but the highest-profile one since Michael Moore's Bowling for Columbine, and whatever one may think of its merits, there's no denying that Elephantleaves an indelible mark.
As much as the school massacre phenomenon has become an obsession of American cultural observers because it seems to touch on something indefinable but disturbing at our core (besides Michael Moore's "Bowling for Columbine," there was this year's "Zero Day" and numerous plays including the following: 1 , 2 , 3 ), it's not clear what "Elephant" adds in terms of understanding the psyche of those involved.
…won a prize for "Bowling for Columbine," a typical documentary from the liberal director that blamed the military-industrial culture around Columbine for the tragedy.
Fifty Shades of Grey (2015)
Directed by Sam Taylor-Johnson
influenced by Bowling for Columbine (2002)
It is the unsexiest movie since Bowling for Columbine.
13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi (2016)
Directed by Michael Bay
influenced by Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)
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As you reflect on that, and on 13 Hours's 2016 release date, it's natural to come to the conclusion that this was Bay's Fahrenheit 9/11 -style attempt to nudge the results of the American presidential election away from Clinton.
But it’s more than that: Not only is it Star Wars and The Matrix, it’s also John Smith and Pocahontas, Dances With Wolves and Fahrenheit 9/11, Edgar Rice Burroughs and Rider Haggard, Hayao Miyazaki and Jack Kirby, Ferngully: The Last Rainforest and Battle for Terra, Jurassic Park and Aliens.
And while the plot about kings and noblemen socking it to the middle class and poor with higher taxes resonates today — for tea party loyalists, this “Robin Hood” could become a rallying point like “Fahrenheit 9/11” was for Iraq war protesters — the screenplay never really knows what it wants to say about it.
There hasn't been a movie this anti-America (note that I'm not saying it's unamerican, since Gaghan is as entitled to his opinions as anyone), since Fahrenheit 9/11.