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{{Film}}'''''Fahrenheit 9/11''''' is a documentary film by [[Michael Moore]], rushed out in 2004 in an attempt to affect the coming election.<ref>He even wanted people to copy it and spread it around.</ref> The title is a play on the ''Fahrenheit 451'', a novel by Ray Bradbury, who was not pleased with the homage, and repeatedly asked Moore to change the title<ref>[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5324876/ MSNBC Hardball - "Fahrenheit 451" author wants title back]</ref> (it being a mere coincidence that a new film version of ''Fahrenheit 451'' was in development at the time).
 
{{Film}}'''''Fahrenheit 9/11''''' is a documentary film by [[Michael Moore]], rushed out in 2004 in an attempt to affect the coming election.<ref>He even wanted people to copy it and spread it around.</ref> The title is a play on the ''Fahrenheit 451'', a novel by Ray Bradbury, who was not pleased with the homage, and repeatedly asked Moore to change the title<ref>[http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5324876/ MSNBC Hardball - "Fahrenheit 451" author wants title back]</ref> (it being a mere coincidence that a new film version of ''Fahrenheit 451'' was in development at the time).
 
The tagline for the movie is "The Temperature at Which Freedom Burns". Freedom apparently has a fairly low flash point of 0.82 Fahrenheit (-17.32C) making it far too volatile of a substance to allow it to go unregulated. Clearly it is necessary for a government body to enact laws covering the sale, distribution and usage of [[gasoline|Freedom]].
 
  
 
==Plot and reception==
 
==Plot and reception==

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Fahrenheit 9/11 is a documentary film by Michael Moore, rushed out in 2004 in an attempt to affect the coming election.[1] The title is a play on the Fahrenheit 451, a novel by Ray Bradbury, who was not pleased with the homage, and repeatedly asked Moore to change the title[2] (it being a mere coincidence that a new film version of Fahrenheit 451 was in development at the time).

Plot and reception

It's mostly a bunch of liberal "hate America first" lies, smearing the good Bush family name, and as such, it received a 20 minute standing ovation at the Cannes Film Festival (but that's Hollywood values for you). Despite the accolades, it's arguably one of the less entertaining or thoughtful jaunts by Michael Moore. Noted left-wing hawkish columnist Christopher Hitchens said that "to describe it as an exercise in facile crowd-pleasing would be too obvious"[3] in reference to the fact that the film was just an exercise in Bush-bashing - which had been a national sport for the American Left[4] since the Iraq invasion of 2003.

See also

Footnotes

  1. He even wanted people to copy it and spread it around.
  2. MSNBC Hardball - "Fahrenheit 451" author wants title back
  3. Slate.com - Unfairenheit 9/11: The lies of Michael Moore.
  4. And the American "sane", it might be argued.