Manufacturing Dissent

Manufacturing Dissent Uncovering Michael Moore is a 2007 documentary film. It asserts that filmmaker Michael Moore has used misleading tactics, primarily using oncamera statements by interviewees with personal grievances against Moore as proof. The documentary attempts to expose what the creators say are Moores misleading tactics and mimics Moores style of small documentary makers seeking and badgering their target for an interview to receive answers to their charges. The film was made over the course of two years by Canadians Debbie Melnyk and Rick Caine after they viewed Fahrenheit 911, Moores controversial film that attacked the Bush administration and its policies. Melnyk and Caine have stated that when they first sought to make a film about Moore, they held great admiration for what he had done for the documentary genre and set out to make a biography of him. During the course of their research, they became disenchanted with Moores tactics. The title is a parody of the book Manufacturing Consent by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky, and the film it inspired. In June 2007, Liberation Entertainment Inc. signed an exclusive deal with the filmmakers for all video and theatrical rights in the US amp UK.

The film also presents extended footage of the Al Smith annual memorial dinner from which Moore, in Fahrenheit 911, took a clip of President George W. Bush greeting the guests as the haves and havemores, insinuating that President Bush views the elite upperclass as his constituency, not the average American. The extended footage shows each speaker at the dinner poking fun at himself, including a clip of Al Gore joking that he invented the Internet. It is argued that the extended footage shows Moore to have taken the quote from President Bush out of context.The filmmakers were unable to land their sitdown interview with Moore, just as Moore said he was unable to have done with Roger Smith in Roger amp Me. They assert their attempts to interview Moore were consistently dodged and obstructed by Moore and the people surrounding him. ........

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