Fahrenheit 9/11 Film Techniques

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The two documentaries ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’ by Michael Moore and ‘Manufacturing Dissent’ by Debbie Melnyk and Rick Caine have a similar theme, but are different in many ways. The reasons why these films are not alike is because of the different directors; there is a Canadian director and an American director which makes the film styles different from each other. ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’ uses propaganda to try and convince the viewers that they are right. These documentaries were very hard to follow for someone who knows very little about politics, and coming up with things to write the paragraphs on were difficult. These two films may have been about a similar topic, but have very different interpretations. A big difference in these two films …show more content…
For example, when the first plane hit the tower, Bush was reportedly sitting in a classroom reading a book to students even after he found out his country was under attack. Moore made it look like Bush did not want to help his people, but thought he could just ignore it completely. After hearing that your country is being attacked, not much can be done right away so Bush was probably thinking up things to do while trying to not make a big deal in front of the children. Moore did not add this into his film or else he would have been supporting Bush instead of sticking to his side. One of the reasons Moore had made his film was because his friend had been killed in the September first incident. This made him very upset that Bush did not care about the lives that would be effected so it gave him even more reason to create his film. ‘Manufacturing Dissent’ does not use propaganda because some of the people in their interviews liked Michael Moore and agreed with the things he had to say. If they were to use card stacking propaganda for their film, they would have not added the interviews where people chose Moore’s side over theirs and had more people that were against

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