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Room for Moore Improvement
Teri and I saw Fahrenheit 9/11 last week. Given our widely different political backgrounds (my family is intensely political, while hers is much less so), it was surprising that we both came away with a very similar response.
We were a little bit disappointed. There were some very powerful moments (Teri cried once or twice), but it seemed that there were a lot of points that could have been made much more strongly, and with far more oomph.
Example: the famous scene in which Bush was told that a plane had hit the second tower. He just sat there looking befuddled for more than seven minutes.
In the movie, Moore showed clips of Bush looking like an idiot, while narrating over the soundtrack. Effective, in large part because the footage of Bush makes the whole point. But the voice-over didn't enhance the effect. Instead, Moore should have played the ENTIRE seven minutes straight, split-screen, with the other half of the screen either showing footage of what was happening at that very moment in NYC or - if Moore was reluctant to use that footage - a black screen with time-stamped transcripted lines, in bold white newspaper font, of what emergency workers and/or FEMA staff were saying at the time.
Now that would have taken a powerful scene and made it far more effective.
We were a little bit disappointed. There were some very powerful moments (Teri cried once or twice), but it seemed that there were a lot of points that could have been made much more strongly, and with far more oomph.
Example: the famous scene in which Bush was told that a plane had hit the second tower. He just sat there looking befuddled for more than seven minutes.
In the movie, Moore showed clips of Bush looking like an idiot, while narrating over the soundtrack. Effective, in large part because the footage of Bush makes the whole point. But the voice-over didn't enhance the effect. Instead, Moore should have played the ENTIRE seven minutes straight, split-screen, with the other half of the screen either showing footage of what was happening at that very moment in NYC or - if Moore was reluctant to use that footage - a black screen with time-stamped transcripted lines, in bold white newspaper font, of what emergency workers and/or FEMA staff were saying at the time.
Now that would have taken a powerful scene and made it far more effective.
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He could have done better, but overall He did well.