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micheal moore bowling for colombinereadership 3.2 Michel Moore Michel Moore's movies are all infused with his political views and opinions. He has a very unique
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3.2 Michel Moore
Michel Moore's movies are all infused with his political views and opinions. He has a very unique style of film making, his films are usually melodramatic and over the top, he uses music to footage extremely well to evoke emotion with the audience and his films are often very funny through use of conventions like juxtaposition and V/O. He uses an incredible array of techniques and elements from cinema not only to entertain the audience, but also convey his message and convince the audience in an often very subversive way. The two texts in particular I am looking at are Bowling for Columbine' (BFC) and Fahrenheit 9/11' (F9/11).
One of the standout elements that Michel Moore (MM) uses to manipulate the audience in his films is montage. Montage is a series of seemingly unrelated shots cut together rapidly often with a common song or V/O to make an entirely new point or to show the passage of time. He uses it not only to draw laughs and ironic symbolism, but also to shock and evoke emotion, to convince the viewer of his opinion in a fast, effective and entertaining way.
In BFC the montage Gun Love' is a great example of his trademark style. It consists of stock footage of people who romanticise gun ownership and the whole gun culture on the U.S, but what makes this standout MM instead of just a typical montage is the sense of irony and tongue in cheek humour in his shot choices.
At first he comments on the obsession with guns with shots of people stroking and shooting guns, he progresses this into the more absurd with a slow motion MLS of a woman in a bikini shooting an assault rifle (gun porn') or examples of news stories of blind men who collect and shoot weapons. All the while the song Happiness Is A Warm Gun' is played in the background. At this point in the montage the song choice becomes much more relevant and ironic as the shots evolve from tongue in cheek to shocking when he turns the gun on its...
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