posted on April 28, 2003 05:16:18 PM new
for Michael Moore's "Bowling for Columbine", which by Academy rules is not a documentary.
The 75th Academy Awards® handed the Oscar® for "Best Documentary" to Michael Moore for Bowling for Columbine. Bowling is a nasty bit of anti-American propaganda. Viewers are taught that: America was founded on violence and fear, as quarrelsome pilgrims fled to the new world, where their paranoia led them to massacre the Indians, then the British, and then each other;
The Columbine murderers' violence might have its roots in the fact that one had a father in our military (American soldiers are presumably murderers, and it must rub off on their kids) or that there was a defense contractor in the area;
Charlton Heston (one of Hollywood's few upstanding men) is a callous fool;
The terrorist attack on 9/11 is related to past American foreign policy -- in short, America's own fault; (No need to go farther, you get the drift. No wonder it got a standing ovation at France's Cannes Film Festival.)
What you can do It's time we take back the stage. Bowling for Columbine violated the Academy's own rules. These limit the documentary competition to nonfiction films. Bowling isn't nonfiction. Whenever it was necessary to his theme, Moore invented facts, fabricated events, staged scenes, or doctored the depiction of what actually happened. When Heston, for example, gave a mild and concilliatory speech, Moore simply edited the footage (and inserted footage from a different speech a year later) to make it sound arrogant.
posted on April 28, 2003 07:17:50 PM new
If you think he is a publicity sucking blow hard the last thing you want is to give him new life when everyone else not obsessed has forgotten him.
posted on April 28, 2003 08:19:19 PM new
Celebrities do love publicity!!! But who is paying attention this late in the game? Maybe your guy will win next year, bear.
