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Michael Moore surely doesn’t want to be living in Trump’s America, but the circumstances around the election date sure work out well for a title to a new documentary. Moore is working on a quasi-sequel to his G.W. Bush takedown Fahrenheit 9/11 called Fahrenheit 11/9. How perfect. The Bush doc ended up as one of the highest-grossing documentaries of all-time, raking in over $220 million worldwide, and won Moore the Cannes Palme d’Or. Those times were full of political vitriol as the U.S. rebounded from the greatest terror attack on its soil, and Moore hoped his burning of the Bush administration would affect the 2004 election. It didn’t, but maybe his spiritual sequel will help bring down Trump.
Moore seems confident it will, as he told Variety:
“No matter what you throw at him, it hasn’t worked. No matter what is revealed, he remains standing. Facts, reality, brains cannot defeat him. Even when he commits a self-inflicted wound, he gets up the next morning and keeps going and tweeting. That all ends with this movie.”
The Weinsteins added to Moore’s thoughts on the critical timing of this documentary:
“There is no greater part of what we can do right now than to have the power to bring Michael Moore to a mass audience. When we had the opportunity to work with him on ‘Fahrenheit 9/11,’ we were so persistent that we ultimately had to part ways from Disney and we lost our beloved Miramax, named after our parents, because we believed so strongly in the message. The movie broke all records then, and we plan to do so again. This movie will have one of the most innovative distribution plans ever. Now more than ever, Michael’s appetite for the truth is crucial. We are ecstatic to be a part of this revolution.”
While it certainly seems lucrative for Moore and the Weinsteins to start cranking out anything anti-Trump they can, the odds of them actually affecting anything seems low. As it was mentioned above, Fahrenheit 9/11 was held up on a pedestal, made hundreds of millions of dollars, and sadly resided in the liberal echo chamber. Will this documentary actually get through to people who are still employing the strongest cognitive dissonance known to man? We’ll find out soon enough, it seems.
(Via Variety)
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I’m sure it’ll be as completely factual as his previous “documentaries”
A movie by extreme liberals for extreme liberals, which will only be seen by liberals, and then they’ll wonder why it didn’t move the polls.
How egotistical do you have to be to think your little movie will have a larger impact than the first female presidential candidate going against the biggest wild card in election history? You think anyone who voted for Trump first time around will watch your movie? You think if you shout Russia a few more times people might actually start to care?
The dems need to work on fixing their own house before they think they can change the minds of anyone who might have second thoughts about Trump in 2020.
I don’t think Michael Moore will see your comment, but I’ll let him know at the next pizzagate meetup.
Exactly the point. My comment isn’t going to be seen or impact his life any more than his movie is going to influence the people who voted for Trump or are disillusioned with the Democratic Party. It’s simply catharsis for the liberal masses, to affirm their natural feeling of superior and help them sleep at night. It’s a bedtime story.
So you don’t think that a movie directed by Michael Moore is going to be seen anymore than your comment on Uproxx? Just stop being dumb.
Not what I said at all. But the people who see the movie are going to be people who already agree with his point of view. He’s not going to change any minds (not enough, anyhow), just like I’m not expecting anybody to change their minds because some stranger on the Internet (I.e., me) posted his two cents.
michael moore is not an “extreme” liberal. he’s a little to the left of the democratic party line. that would put him just left of center in most other countries.
okay, maybe not “most,” but a lot of the more first world-y ones.
Moore should probably use a different name while making the movie so as not to be polarizing, and then while he’s at it, he should not appear in the movie or do any of the narration, and to top it off someone else should make the documentary.
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Not. Helping.
Michael Moore, you’re just feeding into the “left-wing liberal conspiracy” to take down Trump. I’m a pretty liberal person and even I cringe at the thought of watching another one of his movies. I’m fairly certain that the Venn diagram of Moore fans and Trump supporters consists of 2 circles on different pieces of paper.
This.
Fahrenheit 7/11 would be much better.