Word: fahrenheit
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...Indeed, one supple irony is that even those who liked ?Fahrenhype? and ?Celsius? were obliged to see Moore?s film in order to bury it. The Swift Boat commercials may have brought down John Kerry; the anti-Moore movies simply enriched Moore. As the director realized. The week ?Fahrenheit? opened, he was on Jon Stewart?s ?The Daily Show? and said, ?If there?s any right-wing groups listening tonight, please keep doing this...
...More important, this scrappy little Bush-whacker lured audiences to a movie that made them (gasp!) think, and maybe even act. Leeching instantly into the national and international consciousness, ?Fahrenheit? stoked angry debates about life-and-death issues...
...Marginally more professional was ?Fahrenhype 9/11,? narrated by ex-Leftie haranguer Ron Silver and co-written by tabloid scandal-magnet Dick Morris. This flabby, flailing enterprise pokes some of the same holes in ?Fahrenheit? that mainstream journalists had already spotted - and here I must join Moore in wishing aloud that these journalists had been half as resourceful in challenging the WMD claims of Bush-Cheney-Powell-Rumsfeld - while padding the rest out with malice, fat jokes and campaign speeches for the Republican ticket...
...left-field victory of ?Fahrenheit? told moviegoers that a non-fiction film could make them laugh and cry. It also energized the documentary community, which is reflexively and almost unanimously left-wing. (To my knowledge, there is simply no right-wing political documentary, unless you count ?Triumph of the Will,? Leni Riefenstahl?s hypnotic record of the Sixth Nazi Congress.) Moore had given the film industry?s poor, scrappy cousins a shot at the movie mainstream...
...Arab news channel Al Jazeera during Operation Iraqi Freedom) and ?Outfoxed? (a searing attack on Rupert Murdoch?s Fox News Channel).. The genre could expand to embrace ?The Corporation,? a scholarly, skeptical essay on multinational capitalism. All these films tried to share a bit of the spotlight in the ?Fahrenheit? glare. And hoped to get some collateral damning from the attacks aimed at Moore...