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Moore Approves Fahrenheit 9/11 Downloads
13.7BillionYears writes "The Sunday Herald reports that Michael Moore has expressed his approval of Fahrenheit 9/11 being downloaded through networks like BitTorrent and eDonkey2000. He also champions a very Lessig-esque outlook in his reasoning. Quentin Tarantino's earlier support for such practices is also mentioned. Meanwhile, Lion's Gate says it has no plans to oppose the practice."
Before the movie was released in the states, I downloaded what was supposed to be Farenheit 9/11 off of a P2P network, but what I downloaded wasn't even in the final movie that showed in the states. What I downloaded had to do with "Skull and Bones" and stuff like that. Does anyone know what that is from?
and formed a completely different opinion of the film. the film was custom tailored to bush haters and the tin-foil hat crowd. it started out with a bang in the first 10 minutes by espousing alternate histories of what happened in the 2000 election followed by several paranoid conspiracies (including bush helped plan 9-11 and bush went into afghanistan for oil).
after the first 10 minutes, however, it quickly devolved into long boring stretches of raw footage with no voiceover or script. it seemed to me he was trying to stretch the film into feature length just so he could charge $9/pop for it.
i can't really blame him. it certainly can't be easy to make a documentary from falsehoods and far out innuendo.
picture this:
you are michael moore. you've got all the footage for your movie and you are in the editing process. you're sitting at your computer with your box of donuts carefully crafting your next lie and innuendo. your carefully researched script has you saying in a voiceover "george bush made the claim that saddam hussein had weapons of mass destruction, a claim that no other president or politician made before him." you've decided to show a video clip of bill clinton looking all presidential with his "i feel your pain" look on his face. while you are editing this together, you hear in the background a cnn report that shows bill clinton and al gore making claims that saddam hussein had weapons of mass destruction.
you curse loudly and quickly edit the script and the video footage in hopes that your finished film won't make you look like a complete retard.
your next clip you decided to find footage for is the one where you say "people who join the military are statistically more likely to abuse their spouse, kick their dog, have sex with goats and murder people with dark skin." you find some footage of goofy looking servicemen having sex with goats to put into your movie at this point. after you've put it all in and made it for your final movie, one of your editors says "i think that might be going a little overboard with the anti-soldier rhetoric, maybe we ought to take it out." when your other editors agree, you fly off in a rage throwing the box of krispy kremes across the room, before you edit out the most overt anti-soldier footage in the film.
after all the editing is said and done and you think you got out all the stuff that is blatantly false as well as the stuff that will show what you really think about america and the troops, you are left with 10 minutes of a film. the election is coming near and you realize that at the pace you are going, you will miss the push that the election will give to your movie and you won't make anywhere near the amount of money that you hope to. so you decide to show long stretches of footage of a woman who lost her son in iraq and the grief she feels over it. don't worry about a script, perhaps the first ten minutes of tin-foil hat conspiracies will be enough to satiate the nutcases and bush-haters.
unfortunately, when you film is done, in the can and in distributor's hands, it's clear that you missed editing out many of the falsehoods that make you look like a tard, but you hang on to the hope that the french film festival will look past the factual errors, contradictions and general boringness of the film and only be able to see it's direct anti-americanism. knowing that it doesn't require a good salesman to sell anti-americanism to the french or liberal elites, you hope that it's enough to get their praise.
your hopes come true and you have donut money for the rest of your life.
in all, i think this film was built to appeal to the paranoid choir and as such has no chance of convincing anyone who isn't already convinced.
-bk
At Yorktown, the victory that won the war, Frenchman outnumbered Americans almost three to one!
Washington had 11,000 men engaged in the battle, while the French had at least 29,000 soldiers and sailors. The 37 French ships-of-the-line played a crucial role in trapping the 8,700 strong British army and winning the engagement.
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Please, listen to Rush Limbaugh every day. Give him a chance.
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So now not only is the net clogged with SPAM and porn its going to deal with this Big Fat White Man's BULL SHIT. Mod me down who cares this country is getting exactly what it's dumb ass sheeple have earned.
Si vis pacem, para bellum! For evil to succeed good men need only do nothing!