Michael Moore
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Michael Francis Moore (born April 23, 1954) is an American documentary filmmaker and author.
He is best known for his studies on globalization and capitalism. Moore received the 2002 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature for Bowling in Columbine, which investigated the origins of the Columbine High School massacre and the United States' overall gun culture.
He also produced Fahrenheit 9/11, a critical look at George W. Bush's presidency and the War on Terror, which earned $119,771 to become the highest-grossing documentary at the American box office of all time.
At the 2004 Cannes film festival, the film also received the Palme d'Or.
Sicko, his documentary that examines health-care in the United States, is one of the top ten highest-grossing documentaries.
In September 2008, he released Slacker Uprising, his first free movie on the internet, which chronicled his personal struggle to persuade more Americans to vote in presidential elections.
He has also appeared on TV Nation, a satirical news-magazine television series, and The Awful Truth, a satirical film.
Fahrenheit 11/9, his latest film about the 2016 United States presidential election and Donald Trump's subsequent presidency, was released in 2018. Moore's written and cinematic works discuss issues such as globalization, major corporations, assault weapon ownership, Presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Donald Trump, the Iraq War, the American health care system, and capitalism as a whole.
Moore was named one of the world's top 100 most influential people in 2005 by Time magazine.
Early life
Michael Francis Moore was born outside Flint, Michigan, and raised in Davison by parents Helene Veronica (née Wall) (1921–2014) and Francis Richard "Frank" Moore, an automotive assembly line worker. At that time, Flint was home to several GM plants, where his parents and grandfather worked. LaVerne, his uncle, was one of the founders of the United Car Workers union and was instrumental in the Flint sit-down strike.
Moore was brought up in a traditional Catholic home, and he has Irish, as well as smaller amounts of Scottish and English ancestry. Any of his ancestors were Quakers. He attended parochial St. John's Elementary School for primary school and then attended St. Paul's Seminary in Saginaw, Michigan, for a year. He then attended Davison High School, where he was involved in both drama and debate, graduating in 1972. He attained the rank of Eagle Scout as a member of the Boy Scouts of America. He was elected to the Davison school board at the age of 18. At the time, he was the youngest person elected to office in the United States, as the minimum age to hold public office had just been reduced to 18.
Personal life
Moore married film director Kathleen Glynn on October 19, 1991. On June 17, 2013, he applied for divorce. The divorce was finally concluded on July 22, 2014.
Moore was raised Catholic, but he disagreed with traditional church teaching on topics such as abortion and same-sex marriage. In an interview with The A.V., David Atti revealed the truth. "Yes, there is a God," Club asked if there was one. I'm not sure how you describe it, but yeah."
Moore was awarded a lifetime membership in the National Rifle Association as a result of the Columbine High School massacre (NRA). Moore said he had hoped to become the NRA's president in the first place but that the effort was not a success. Gun rights campaigners, including Dave Kopel, denied there was any likelihood of that happening; David T. Hardy and Jason Clarke said that Moore was not aware that the NRA chooses a president not by membership vote but by a vote of the board of directors.
Time Magazine named Moore as one of the world's top 100 influencers in 2005. Moore founded the Traverse City Film Festival in Traverse City, Michigan, in 2005. In 2009, he co-founded the Traverse City Comedy Festival, which also takes place annually in Traverse City, where Moore helped to orchestrate the restoration of the historic downtown State Theater.
Career
Following his first year of college (where he wrote for the University of Michigan-Flint), Moore dropped out of the University of Michigan-Flint. He founded The Flint Voice, an alternative weekly newspaper that morphed into The Michigan Voice as it grew to include the entire state. Popstar Harry Chapin is credited with the magazine's success by staging benefit concerts and donating the money to Moore. Moore crept backstage after a concert to Chapin's dressing room and begged him to perform a show and then give the money to him. Every year, Chapin performed a concert in Flint. The Michigan Voice was shut down by the investors in 1986, when Moore took over as editor of Mother Jones, a liberal political journal, and he moved to California.
Moore was fired after four months with Mother Jones. This was for refusing to publish an article by Paul Berman that was critical of the Sandinista human rights record in Nicaragua, according to Matt Labash of The Weekly Standard. Moore refused to run the story because it was inaccurate. "The essay was fundamentally inaccurate and the worst case of patronizing bullshit." You would barely know from it that the US had been at war with Nicaragua for the past five years."
Moore argues that Mother Jones was shot because of the publisher's refusal to allow him to cover a story about the GM plant closings in Flint, Michigan. He retaliated by laying off GM employee Ben Hamper (who was also writing for the same journal at the time) on the magazine's front page, causing his dismissal. Moore sued forwrongful dismissal and dropped out of court for $58,000, giving him seed money for his first film, Roger & Me.
Roger & Me, Moore's first documentary about what happened to Flint, Michigan, after GM closed its plants and opened new ones in Mexico, where the employees were paid lower wages. Roger B. Smith, the former CEO and President of GM, is the "Roger" on the radio. Moore muddled the chronology in Roger & Me to make it seem that events occurred before G.M., according to Harlan Jacobson, editor of Film Comment magazine. The layoffs were a result of them. Moore's treatment of the timeline as an artistic and stylistic choice that had less to do with his reputation as a filmmaker and more to do with the flexibility of film as a medium to express a satiric viewpoint, according to critic Roger Ebert.
Pets or Meat: The Return to Flint, Moore's 23-minute documentary film that aired on PBS in 1992. It is based on Roger & Me. Rhonda Britton, a Flint, Michigan resident who appeared in both the 1989 and 1992 films, is the subject of the film's title.
In 1995, Moore's satirical film Can Bacon features a fictional US president (played by Alan Alda) engineering a fake war with Canada in order to raise his profile. The film is also one of the last major television stars John Candy's. Any commentators in the media claimed that the film was inspired by Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove's film Dr. Strangelove.
The tour publicizing Moore's book Downsize This! was captured by Moore's 1997 film The Big One. Random Threats from an Unarmed American, in which he criticizes mass layoffs despite record company profits, including regular profits. He is, among other things, aiming for outsourced shoe manufacturing to Indonesia.
Using Columbine High School's 1999 massacre as a starting point, he documentary Bowling for Columbine, which was released in 2002, investigates the American culture of firearms and violence, with Columbine High School as a starting point. Columbine's centennial Film Festival and France's César Award as the Best Foreign Film at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival and France's César Award were coveted for the Best Foreign Film. It received the 2002 Academy Award for Documentary Feature in the United States. It also received critical and critical success for a film of its kind, and has since been named one of the finest documentary films of all time. It was the first-grossing mainstream documentary at the time of Columbine's debut (a record set by Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11).
Fahrenheit 9/11, Moore's 2004 film, examines America in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks, notably the George W. Bush Administration's record and suspected links between George W. Bush and Osama bin Laden. Fahrenheit was named the Palme d'Or, the top award at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival; it was the first documentary film to win the award since 1956. Fahrenheit 9/11 would not be considered for the 2005 Academy Award for Documentary Feature, but not for the Academy Award for Best Picture, according to Moore later. He stated that he wanted the film to be seen by a few million more people via television broadcast before Election Day. "Academy rules forbid the airing of a documentary on television within nine months of its theatrical premiere," Moore said, and since the November 2 election was less than nine months after the film's release, it would have been disqualified for the Documentary Oscar. Despite this, Fahrenheit did not receive an Oscar nomination for Best Picture. According to the novel, the film refers to Fahrenheit 451 about a young totalitarian state in which books are banned; according to the novel, the paper begins to burn at 451 °F (233 °C). "The temperature at which freedom burns is revealed in the film's pre-release subtitles" reveals the allusion: "The temperature at which freedom burns."
Fahrenheit 9/11 is the highest-grossing documentary of all time, with over US$200 million worldwide, including United States box office revenues of over US$120 million. Moore sued producer Bob and Harvey Weinstein for US$2.7 million in unpaid income from the film in February 2011, alleging that they used "Hollywood accounting tricks" to avoid paying him the money. Moore and the Weinsteins announced in February 2012 that they had mediated their legal matter.
Moore starred Sicko, a 2007 film about the American health care system, with a particular emphasis on the managed-care and pharmaceutical industries. Pfizer, Eli Lilly, AstraZeneca, and GlaxoSmithKline were among the at least four major pharmaceutical firms that had refused to schedule any interviews or assist Moore. "roads that often surprise us and inspire us with new ideas and inspire us with fresh ones, and we encourage you to reconsider the ones we started with have caused some minor delays," Moore wrote on his website. The film premiered at the Cannes Film Festival on May 19, 2007, gaining a long standing ovation, and was released in the United States and Canada on June 29, 2007. The film is now ranked as the twelfth highest-grossing documentary of all time, as well as an Academy Award nomination for Best Documentary Feature.
With Captain Mike Across America, Moore explores college students's politics in the months leading up to the 2004 presidential election. On September 7, 2007, the film premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. Moore converted it into Slacker Uprising and released it for free on the internet on September 23, 2008.
Capitalism: A Love Story, published on September 23, 2009, examines the financial crisis of 2007–2008 and the US economy during the transition between the new Obama administration and the outgoing Bush Administration. Moore said, "Democracy is not a spectator sport, it's a participatory activity," Moore said at a press conference at its unveiling. If we do not participate in it, it will no longer be a democracy. So Obama will rise or fall based not so much on what he does but rather on what we do to help him."
Where to Invade Next explores the benefits of democratic social policies in many nations. The film premiered at the 2015 Toronto International Film Festival. "Moore's surprising and triumphant Where to Invade Next will almost certainly bring his detractors into contempt," Godfrey Cheshire, who wrote for Roger Ebert.com.
Moore in TrumpLand speaks about the 2016 Presidential Election Campaigns. Moore appears on stage for the first time in front of a seated audience, in a solo performance. Moore's film features Moore's predictions of the candidates and highlights the Democratic National Candidate Hillary Clinton's strengths as well as a lengthy section on how the Republican National Candidate Donald Trump may win. Over the course of two nights in October 2016, the Murphy Theatre in Wilmington, Ohio, was filmed. The film premiered just 11 days after it was shot at the IFC Center in New York City.
Moore reunited with Harvey Weinstein to direct his latest film about Donald Trump, Fahrenheit 11/9, which was released in nearly 1,500 theaters in the United States and Canada on September 21, 2018. Moore was compelled to rework his offer to work with The Weinstein Company, which stalled development, owing to the sexual harassment charges against Weinstein. The date refers to the day when Donald Trump officially became President-elect of the United States. "How Michael Moore Lost His Audience," a sympathetic film critic, Owen Gleiberman wrote, "He's like an old rock star putting out albums that don't mean a lot to those that were, and are, his core followers." "What he's trying is of utmost importance," Glenn Greenwald says, "not to take the cheap route of simply denouncing Trump but to explore who and what made the climate in which Trump thrives."
Michael Moore, executive producer of the documentary Planet of the Humans, was produced by Jeff Gibbs and released on July 31, 2019. Since the first Earth Day, the film makes the argument that the planet's conditions have deteriorated, and that industrial attempts to combat climate change have environmental costs that could equal or even outweigh the benefits. A number of climate change experts and activists criticized the film's assertions and the accuracy of figures cited in the film, along with the suggestion that it may have played into the hands of the fossil fuel industry.
On an episode of Roaring, Michael Moore, Jeff Gibbs, and co-producer Ozzie Zehner responded to the critics.
Moore has written and co-written eight non-fiction books, the bulk of which were on a similar subject matter as his documentaries. Stupid White Men (2001) is ostensibly a critique of American domestic and foreign policy, but Moore's admission says it is also "a book of political humor."Dude, Where's My Country?
An investigation into the Bush family's ties with Saudi prince, the Bin Laden family, and the oil industry, as well as a call-to-action for liberals in the 2004 election. Several of his books have made it to bestseller lists.Moore has dabbled in acting since appearing in Lucky Numbers (2000) as the cousin of Lisa Kudrow's character, who accepts to be part of the scheme concocted by John Travolta. He also appeared in his Canadian Bacon as an anti-Canadian protester. In 2004, he made a cameo as a news journalist in The Fever, starring Vanessa Redgrave in the lead.
Between 1994 and 1995, he produced and hosted the BBC television show TV Nation, which followed the same style as news magazine magazines, but did not discuss topics they avoided. In the United Kingdom, the series appeared on BBC2. In 1994, the series first aired on NBC in the United States for nine episodes and then on Fox for eight episodes.
The Awful Truth, his other major series, mocked major companies and politicians' conduct. In 1999 and 2000, it appeared on Channel 4, and the Bravo network in the United States. Moore received the Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award in Arts and Entertainment for his role as the executive producer and host of The Awful Truth, where he also described himself as a "muckraker, poet, and documentary filmmaker."
Michael Moore Live, another 1999 film, was broadcast in the United Kingdom only on Channel 4, although it was broadcast from New York. This show had a similar appearance to The Awful Truth, but it also included phone-ins and a live stunt each week.
Moore planned to return to prime time television on Turner/TNT in late 2017 or early 2018 with a program called "Michael Moore Live from the Apocalypse." The network announced in February 2019 that the program would not be produced.
Moore has produced several music videos, including two for Rage Against the Machine for songs from The Battle of Los Angeles: "Sleep Now in the Fire" and "Testify." During the shooting of "Sleep Now in the Fire," which was shot on Wall Street, he was shot and arrested; and then, the city of New York City refused to perform there, despite the band and Moore obtaining a federal license to perform.
Moore also directed R.E.M.'s videos. Single "All the Way to Reno (You're Gonna Be a Star)" in 2001, and the Down song "Boom! "This is where the problems arise."
The terms of My Surrender, Moore's debut on Broadway, an anti-Trump dramatic monologue, premiered at the Belasco Theatre on August 10, 2017. Donald Trump expressed his displeasure with the program and incorrectly claimed that it had ended early. In the first week, the company earned $456,195 in sales and $367,634 in the final week, but less than half of its projected gross. It lasted 13 weeks, with 96 shows before October 2017, grossing 49% of its potential. It received a critical review from Fox News, which was in accordance with Trump's remarks. The show had been unenthusiastically lauded by The Guardian, who said he only wanted to "preach to the choir." According to a spokesman for "The Terms of My Surrender," the production may have started in San Francisco in early 2018, but it didn't materialize.
