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...arrived at the Pittsburgh airport to relieve Reggie from the exciting but monotonous job of babysitting John Kerry’s 757. I walked into the terminal expecting to find Reggie, who was on my advance team, but instead found myself staring into the lens of an ABC news camera. I headed back out, trying to look inconspicuous in my suit and realized that I had a big Kerry sticker on my backpack. I peeled it off and threw it away, as if the cameraperson had not already noticed...
...love. Fahrenheit 9/11 considerably ups his nuisance value: he is after a President's foreign and domestic policy, and Moore is not cowed. "I come from a factory town," he says, "and you don't go to a gunfight with a slingshot." Moore shoots only with a camera, but it's loaded...
Documentaries are traditionally the sober stepchildren of movies, their makers are usually diligent folks behind the camera and in the editing room. With his 1989 Roger & Me, Michael Moore juiced up the genre by putting his bulky charisma front and center, pestering the powerful and using every trick in the propagandist's (and stand-up comedian's) arsenal to push home his political point. Fahrenheit 9/11 offers a crash course in an artful documentarian's sleight of hand. Five strategies in Moore Method...
Moore gets himself and his camera crews into situations you wouldn't expect. At one point, his lens tags along with two Marine recruiters as they go to a less-than-affluent shopping mall to troll for prospects...
Ports have been another site of suspicious activity. On June 24 at the Benicia Port terminal, 24 miles from the Golden Gate Bridge, a photographer fled as police approached him twice on the same day. A few days later, a Middle Eastern man was spotted training a camera on the terminal piers of New York City's Staten Island ferry. Law-enforcement sources have had reports of suspicious photography of ferries in California, Texas, Louisiana and Washington State. In yet another incident, a guard confronted three Middle Eastern men who were photographing and videotaping the Towne Square Mall in Boise...