From <a href="http://www.michaelmoore.com/articles/index.php" target="_blank">michaelmoore.com</a>:
As the article implies, the release date is intended to influence the 2004 Presidential Election. My question is, can it seriously affect the outcome?
Of course there are many other factors to take into consideration, some unknown, such as what will Bush Jr., do in the next two years and who will the Dems nominate, will Moore's next film be any good? However, these unknown shouldn't stop a hypothesis about whether a movie which directly criticizes the president can affect the votes on Election Day.
Personally, I think it's very possible. Elections have been heavily influence from a single political commercial, why can't a film do the same?
Quote:
| [Moore's] next film, titled "Fahrenheit 911," is scheduled for release in the two months before Election Day. It tells "in part the story of twin errant sons of different oilmen," he says, and will stir together the pre-9/11 intersection of Bush and bin Laden family business interests when both had ties to the Carlyle Group. Such connections "may mean nothing," Mr. Moore concedes. But then he recalls Jane Mayer's article in the November 2001 New Yorker about the private Saudi jet that the Bush administration permitted to fly 24 members of the bin Laden family out of the country after 9/11, before they could be questioned in detail by the F.B.I. "Here's one question I want to pose," he says. "What if on the day after Oklahoma City, Bill Clinton, suddenly worried about the safety of the McVeigh family up in Buffalo, allowed a jet to pick them all up and take them out of the country, not to return?" You can already fantasize how Mr. Moore, once he is turned away from the White House, might travel to Kennebunkport to pursue the first President Bush in retirement much as he did Charlton Heston in "Bowling for Columbine." |
Of course there are many other factors to take into consideration, some unknown, such as what will Bush Jr., do in the next two years and who will the Dems nominate, will Moore's next film be any good? However, these unknown shouldn't stop a hypothesis about whether a movie which directly criticizes the president can affect the votes on Election Day.
Personally, I think it's very possible. Elections have been heavily influence from a single political commercial, why can't a film do the same?
