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...This year?s documentaries had a lot in common. Often they began in a sense of awed outrage. (?Was it all a dream?? asks ?Fahrenheit.? ?How did this happen?? demands ?Bush?s Brain.?) They attempted to demolish the opposition?s arguments and actions with news clips and expert rebuttal. To prove this isn?t just partisan nit-picking but a matter of mortal consequence, the anti-Bush films went simultaneously for the heart and the throat, depicting the casualties of war: interviews with the families of U.S. soldiers - or, in the case of ?Control Room,? Iraqi civilians - killed during...
...Fahrenheit? was both an event and a fluke. Moore made it, and sold it, with a combination of indefatigable ingenuity and churlish charisma. He, not Bush, was the star at the movie?s center. And he wasn?t only angry; he was also funny. That?s docu-tainment...
...Moore?s success was not contagious. When the other agit-docs were released in theaters, only ?Control Room? did any business - about $2.6 million. But theatrical release is just the gravy for agit-docs; DVD is the meat. The Friday before the election, on amazon.com?s best-seller list, ?Fahrenheit? was 9th, and ?Control Room,? ?Outfoxed? and ?Uncovered? were all in the top 100. Long before ?Uncovered? played in movie houses, a shorter version of the film sold more than 100,000 units through moveon.org. The website, a prime galvanizer of anti-Bush fulmination and fund-raising, has helped peddle...
...best-laid plans of Mike and his men, and the rest of the bury-Bush contingent, went wrong. A movie can?t change events and attitudes; it reflects them. And that can be seen by the relative impact of the two big out-of-nowhere hits of 2004: ?Fahrenheit? and ?The Passion of the Christ...
...Both movies were astonishingly successful at the box office. The worldwide gross of ?Fahrenheit? was more than 36 million times its $6 million budget (yikes! someone?s getting rich off this movie!), whereas ?The Passion? took in some 20 million times its $30 million budget (Mel was already rich). But for our purposes, the salient stats are North American revenue. ?Fahrenheit?: just over $119 million. ?The Passion?: just over $370 million - more than three times as much - to rank ninth on the domestic list of all-time money earners. (To be sure, constantly rising ticket prices skew this list. Interestingly...