Sunday, 11 July 2010

Michael Moore

Michael Moore

Michael Moore is an American Filmmaker as well as an Author and Liberal Political Commentator. Moore was born in Flint, Michigan on 23rd April 1954.

He began his path of success studying journalism at the university of Michigan-Flint. Michael began his journalist career by writing for the school newspaper 'The Michigan Times'.
By the time he was 32, Michael became the editor of a liberal political magazine called 'Mother Jones'.


After editing, Michael moved onto Filmmaking and bBy 1989, Moore directed and produced a documentary film called 'Roger & Me'. This was about what happened to Flint in Michigan after General Motors closed its factories and opened new ones in Mexico, of where the workers were paid much less. Moore was able to produce this documentary from earning the money for the budget by getting sued for wrongful dismissal and settled out of court for $58,000 which produced him enough money for his first film.


He had also Directed and produced films of mainly which were a string of Documentaries and TV Series predominently about the same subject of attacks on corrupt politicians and greedy business corporations. These are the films of which Michael Moore had produced and directed:


-Pets or Meat: Return to Flint (1992)


-Canadian Bacon (1995)


-The Big one (1997)


-Bowling for Columbine (2002)
The Bowling for Columbine was his first big hit about the bad points of the right to bear arms and probes the culture of guns and violence in the United States, which earned him an Oscar and a big reputation.


-Fahrenheit 9/11 (2005)
Fahrenheit then became a bigger hit which examined the aftermath of America's September 11th, 2001 attacks, Particularly the record of the Bush administration and alleged links between the families of George Bush and Osama Bin Laden of which were making fun out of. This is known as the highest-grossing documentary of all time. Michael is known for having the guts to give his opinion in public, which not many people are courageous enough to do, and for that is respected by many.

-Sicko (2007)
This is one of Michael Moore's most famous documentay. It is about comparing the highly profitable American health care industry to other nations.

-Captain Mike across America (2008)

-Capitalism: A Love Story (2009).

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