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In Reply to: RE: It would be difficult to make one ever worse than its predessessors! posted by patrickU on July 14, 2007 at 06:05:42:
Moore means less: How radical documentary maker Michael Moore lost the plot
Michael Moore has transformed the documentary film, drawing huge audiences to tales of greed and hypocrisy. But his biographer, Roger Rapoport, believes that there's another, darker, less attractive side to this crusader
...Elsewhere, Moore's methods and past work are under scrutiny while another film about Bush's last election campaign appears to have been placed firmly on the back-burner. Rumours abound, sparked by the man himself, that he may now decide to abandon documentaries to write romantic comedies and straight dramatic features (with a slice of wry) instead. Where else is there left for Moore to go?
The long gestation period for Sicko, Moore's paintball-style attack on the American health-care system, reflects parallel changes in his own life. Recognising the irony of an overweight director on a bad diet preaching healthy living, Moore decided to heal himself. He hired a personal trainer and began taking long walks. He also created the Traverse City Film Festival near his impressive home on Michigan's Torch Lake. As he personally reviewed entries, Moore also continued working on fictional screenplay ideas of his own.
This decision to create feature-length film dramas is curious, though, when you consider what happened to his one previous attempt. It was a $10m John Candy comedy called Canadian Bacon, and it cratered faster than a Flint, Michigan job at General Motors, the major employer in Moore's childhood home-town. Now, it looks like the Big Bopper of ambush journalism wants to turn to romantic comedies and other dramas that will win over the audiences that skip his non-stop assaults on the super-rich, warmongers, gun-slinging vigilantes and heartless drug companies out to grind the faces of the poor. It's as if the sheriff has decided to get out of Dodge City and take up macramé.
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Follow Ups
- Moore's biographer, Roger Rapoport, speaks out -- and it ain't pretty. - clarkjohnsen 10:12:06 07/16/07 (3)
- ad hominem nonsense, it is the message we are dicussing, not the messenger. - Duilawyer 18:38:20 07/16/07 (1)
- Stupid white men attack the messenger not the message... - RGA 20:39:51 07/20/07 (0)
- Bravo, well put, even if the director is not worth such an effort... - patrickU 10:25:49 07/16/07 (0)
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