Manufacturing dissent

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Movie
German title The Troublemaker - The Strange Methods Of Michael Moore
Original title Manufacturing dissent
Country of production Canada
original language English
Publishing year 2007
length 96 minutes
Rod
Director Rick Caine , Debbie Melnyk
script Rick Caine, Debbie Melnyk
production Rick Caine, Debbie Melnyk
music Michael White
camera Rick Caine
cut Rob Ruzic , Bill Towgood

Manufacturing Dissent (about: How to contradictions produces ) is a Canadian documentary from the year 2007 , of the methods of documentary filmmaker Michael Moore examines critical. It was published and shown in Germany on May 5, 2007 and in the USA in March 2007. The film exposes Moore's tactics, which are misleading from the point of view of its makers, and parodies Moore's stylistic device of showing a documentary filmmaker who is interested in an interview with the person that he makes an effort. The film was created over a two-year period by Canadians Debbie Melnyk and Rick Caine after watching Fahrenheit 9/11 .

According to their own account, Melnyk and Caine admired Moore very much before making the film and planned to shoot a biography. However, in the course of their research, they became increasingly disaffected. The film title is a reference to the 1992 documentary Manufacturing Consent about Noam Chomsky .

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Criticism of Moore

One of the allegations concerns Roger & Me . While Moore featured an evasive Roger Smith (then General Motors CEO ) in his film , Moore actually spoke to Smith twice, but decided not to use that material in his film. Moore had an extended conversation with Smith during GM's May 1987 general meeting. The filmmakers found this shocking, as it ran counter to the film's central premise that the top executives of big corporations exploit workers and refuse to answer questions or acknowledge their mistakes. Manufacturing Dissent shows all of the rotated material. In addition, the film reported on an alleged city hall meeting, which could not take place, however, because the outside broadcast van of a news broadcast was stolen. In fact, this scene was fictitious.

According to another of their discoveries Moore leads in his Oscar -gekrönten film Bowling for Columbine viewers astray, as he describes the security, reportedly feel the Canadians at home. In the film, Moore goes door to door in suburban Toronto to see if the front doors are locked or not. Moore edited his film so that all the doors he showed were unlocked. According to Caine and Melnyk, producer Moore told them that in fact only 40 percent of the houses had unlocked doors, which may invalidate Moore's theory that Canadians felt safer.

The film also presents footage from the Al Smith dinner. Moore used a clip from it in Fahrenheit 9/11 , in which President George W. Bush greeted the guests as the "haves and have-mores", suggesting that the president considered the American upper class and not the average American as his base. The extensive material shows that each of the speakers made fun of themselves, including Al Gore , who jokingly claims he invented the Internet. Moore took Bush's statement out of context.

Moore's answer

In the film, the documentary filmmakers never managed to get an interview with Moore, just as Moore apparently failed to get an interview with Roger Smith. Moore had always avoided her attempts to interview him and was protected by people around him. His silence resembles other responses to criticism (or lack of such responses); Melnyk interprets this as Moore's attempt not to draw any attention to allegations directed against him or to the film.

Media response

After the film's premiere, Republican-oriented American news corporations and long-time opponents of Moore quickly showed a keen interest in interviews with the filmmakers. Melnyk and Caine received invitations to various programs on the conservative Fox News . Finally, they took an appearance on the live show The Live Desk Fox News, since they feared that their comments would be processed in a playing of tape broadcast. When the two directed their criticism of manipulative reporting not exclusively against Michael Moore during the broadcast, but also included the established US media and George W. Bush, the interview was broken off. Caine told the Canadian Press, "I could hear someone in New York yelling into my earplugs, 'Get the assholes off the show.' They cut us off. "

Moore's reaction

Moore spoke out vehemently against the allegation that he had suppressed an interview with Roger Smith. " Anyone who says that is a damn liar" ( "Anyone who says that is a fucking liar." ) Although he was able to speak to him for a good five minutes without a camera, an interview did not take place. If there had really been an interview, General Motors would have mentioned it, solely to harm Moore. He also said that both of Smith's statements had nothing to do with his film Roger & Me , as they were made before he began working on this film, which in no way centered on Smith's refusal to accept an interview, but rather on his refusal to deny the ruin Visit City of Flint. The film producer John Pierson, who was instrumental in the commercial success of the documentary Roger & Me as a distribution partner and who later made himself available as an interview partner for Manufacturing Dissent , disappointed Moore's late statements as an inability to admit the truth.

Reviews

  • Jette Kernion wrote in Cinematical on March 13, 2007 that it was a Michael Moore-style documentary about himself .
  • Joe Leydon said in Variety on March 19, 2007 , that it was an intelligent, provocative and necessary investigation of the Michael Moore phenomenon .
  • The lexicon of international films judges: “ Dedicated documentary film that accuses the American filmmaker Michael Moore of“ Roger and Me ”,“ Bowling for Columbine ”of manipulating and questioning his documentary material, although in the end he is the same, long questioned Means served. The cinematic examination of the tasks and limits of investigative documentary film seems to be shaped in its sharpness by the personal animosities of the filmmakers. Still an interesting document about how documentaries and ultimately opinions are created. "
  • Documentary filmmaker John Pilger ruled on the film Manufacturing Dissent intends to discredit Michael Moore himself. In doing so, one falls back on rumors and stories that would come from hearsay.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Christy Lemire, "Film Questions Michael Moore's Tactics," Associated Press, March 11, http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070312/D8NQB9600.html March 12, 2007
  2. ↑ John Anderson, "Manufacturing Dissent": Turning the lens on Michael Moore, International Herald Tribune | 11. March 2007, http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/02/23/news/moore.php%7C (accessed March 12, 2007)
  3. ↑ a b Tony Allen-Mills, "Tables turned on Fahrenheit 9/11's," Times Online , March 4, http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article1466668.ece (accessed December 12, 2008). March 2007)
  4. ↑ - ( Memento of the original from March 17, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.foxnews.com
  5. ↑ Canadian Press, Moore documentary sheds light on his filmmaking, April 20, 2007, http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070420/moore_doc_070420/20070420?hub=Entertainment (accessed May 5 2007)
  6. ↑ John Flesher: Michael Moore has harsh words for critics , MSNBC. June 16, 2007. Retrieved June 17, 2007. 
  7. ↑ Moore Says He Didn't Interview GM Head , in: Washington Post, June 17, 2007, accessed August 14, 2012
  8. ↑ John Pierson: An Open Letter to Michael Moore , in: Indiewire from June 29, 2007, accessed on August 14, 2012 (English)
  9. ↑ Jette Kernion, March 13, 2007, Cinematical
  10. ↑ Joe Leydon, March 19, 2007, Variety ( Memento of the original from March 17, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.variety.com
  11. ^ Journal film-dienst and Catholic Film Commission for Germany (eds.), Horst Peter Koll and Hans Messias (ed.): Lexikon des Internationale Films - Filmjahr 2007 . Schüren Verlag, Marburg 2008. ISBN 978-3-89472-624-9
  12. ↑ Pilgrims, John. Why they're afraid of Michael Moore , johnpilger.com. October 17, 2007.