Bowling for columbine Part 2 (TEEHEE)

The camera then shows a bank and Michael Moore in it. He opens a bank account, which would give him a free gun with it. He asks many sarcastic questions throughout the entire scene. The people walking in the background and the non-diegetic sounds, such as the phone ringing and the peoples footsteps, of this shot just prove that this shot is as real as it gets. That this all actually happened at the spot, that there was no script behind the words either of them said. This makes people think, that since this is a real life situation it could happen anywhere, and this helps a documentary teach people about others mistakes. At the end of the scene, before he leaves the bank he ends the dialogue with the question “do you think it’s a little dangerous handing out guns in a bank?” From the tone of his voice and the way the line was spoken you could tell this was his thesis point or a set for the mood. Right after he says this, triumphant music plays, my first thought is that he’s happy, simply cause he’s just got the first of what I thought was one of his “money shots” and also he won his argument and was able to tell the audience that he was for gun-control with that one line and within the first 5 minutes of the show without using actually saying those words. To support my point, when he walks out, he waves the gun proudly. 

Opening of Bowling for Columbine

Bowling for Columbine starts with a stock footage of people from the National Rifle Association. This made me a little more interested as I was in a bit of confusion and was trying to figure out what was happening. After watching it though, I realize that all the stock footage shown was to set the mood.

In the next scene, you see different clips of different places in America, each clip flashing across the screen quickly, creating a music video feel. You see typical people doing their ordinary jobs, along with a very traditional American piece of music playing in the background. Michael Moore’s voice is also narrating in the background, in a calm, friendly tone. But even with his tone, you can still sense the sarcasm and irony in his voice and in the music played in the background as compared to the words he is actually saying and the images shown on screen. The music slowly grows louder as he finishes his voice over.

In depth analysis

I have chosen to do my in depth analysis Michael Moore's inspiaring documentary, Bowling for Columbine. I chose this movie because i have always had a liking for guns and have never been able to decide between pro gun control or not. I think that this video will influence my thinking quite greatly and so I chose this film as I will be able to learn a lot from it. 

Back ground information of the directors

Michael Moore

Michael Francis Moore was born April 23, 1954 in Davison, a suburb of Flint, Michigan. He is an Academy Award winning american filmmaker, author, and liberal political commentator. He is the director and producer of many well known documentaries, in fact, three of the top five highest grossing documentaries of all time, Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11 and Sicko. In september 2008, he released his first free movie on the internet, Slacker Uprising. He has also written and starred in the TV shows TV Nation and The Awful Truth, both of which continue his trademark styled of presenting serious issues in humorous ways. 

In his written and cinematic works, he has explored globalization, large corporations, gun ownership, the iraq war, U.S President George W. Bush and the American health care system. Michael Moore

Back ground information of the directors

Stanley Kubrick

Born 26 July 1928 in New York City. He was considered intelligent despite poor grades in school. In 1940, his father, Jack, hoping that a change of scenery would help him perform better academically in school, sent him away to Pasadena, California to stay with his uncle. In 1941, returning to New York city for his last year of grammar school, there was close to no change in his attitude or results. Then, hoping to find some

thing that would interest his son, Jack introduced him to chess. Stanley took the game passionately and soon became a very skilled player. In later years, Kubrick used chess as a tool for dealing with recalcitrant actors and also as a artistic motif in his films. 

Later, for Stanley's thirteenth birthday, his fathers idea of giving his son a camera would be the best idea yet. Kubrick became an active photographer, taking pictures of everything. He would often make trips around New York, taking his camera with him, just to take pictures which he would later develop in his friends darkroom. 

After selling an unsolicited photograph to Look Magazine, Kubrick began to associate with their staff photographers, by age seventeen he was offered a job as an apprentice photographer.

In the next few years, Kubrick was busy with regular assignments for "Look", and had developed a sudden love for movies and became a voracious movie-goer. Together with a friend named Alexander Singer, Kubrick Planned a move into film, and in 1950, he used his every penny into making the documentary Day of the Fight (1951). This was followed by several shot commissined documentaries, and by attracting investors and hustling chess games in Central Park, Kubrick was able to make Fear and Desire (1953) in California. 

Kubrick's experience filming this movie was not a happy one. His marriage to high school sweetheart Toba Metz did not last the first showing of the film. Despite the mixed reviews for the film itself, Kubrick was praised for his obvious talent in directing. Kubricks next two films Killer's Kiss (1995) and The Killing (1956) gave him to the attention of Hollywood, and in 1957 he directed Kirk Douglas in Paths of Glory (1957). 

Later, Douglas called upon Kubrick to take over the production of Spartacus (1960), hoping that Kubrick would be daunted by the scale of the project and would be more understanding when directing. However, this was not the case, Kubrick took complete charge of the project, imposing his ideas and standards on the film. Many crew members were upset by his style of shooting, the cinematographer, Russell Metty complained to producers that Kubrick took over his job completely, Metty had complied to Kubrick asking him to just sit there and do nothing, ironically, he was awarded the Academy Award for his Cinematography. 

From 1961 to 1990 Stanley Kubrick worked on many different films including starting an on and off collaboration with Brian Aldiss on a new science fiction film "Artificial Intelligence (AI)", however, the project was backgrounded until speacial effects technology was up to standard that Kubrick wanted. 

In 1999 speacial effects technology had matured greatly in the meantime, Kubrick immediately began work on AI, but tragically, suffered a fatal heart attack in his sleep on March 7th, 1999.