Various bits of flotsam that washed up on our computers, before we moved to a better blog system in November 2004. Now a repository for YouTube videos and testing new tools. Go to http://www.b12partners.net/wp/ for more recent content.

Tuesday, May 18, 2004

Another interesting take on Moore

Guardian Unlimited Film | Features | Peter Bradshaw on Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11:
I suppose I will have to see Fahrenheit 9/11 now, just to witness the comb licking part....

"It does not have a big "showdown" moment, like Moore's encounter with Charlton Heston, although the director shouts out questions to the president he derisively calls Governor Bush and is rewarded by him with a snarling suggestion that he should get a real job, which takes some effrontery coming from the slacker fratboy head of state who makes Ronald Reagan's workload look Stakhanovite.

Fahrenheit 9/11 cheekily begins with "feed" footage of the major players - Bush, Dick Cheney, Condoleezza Rice and Paul Wolfowitz - smirking, and preening themselves as they prepare to go on TV. Wolfowitz even has a habit of licking his comb before running it through his hair, which got a deafening "eeeuuuuuwwwww" from the audience."

0 Comments:

Post a Comment

Links to this post:

Create a Link

<< Home