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Roger & Me was filmed under the working title A Humorous Look at How General Motors Destroyed Flint, Michigan. };
The Flint mayor pays television evangelist Robert Schuller to preach to the town's unemployed.
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Moore also talks to the residents of the affluent suburb of Grand Blanc, who display classist attitudes about Flint's hardships; at a roaring twenties-themed party they are hosting, Moore takes note when they hire laid off workers to be human statues.
Moore chronicles how GM had previously defined his childhood in Flint, Michigan, and how the company was the primary economic and social hub of the town. It supplies poetry, a viewpoint, indignation, opinion, anger and humor. IAB_Category: 'IAB1',
Mehr. The Masked Singer: Kostüme der 3. [14] Moore addresses this criticism in the DVD commentary, stating that "there are no dates in the film; we'll be going back and forth throughout the decade of the '80s.
If you would use "me" by itself, it's "Roger and me." Moore: Could you come up to Flint with us? Prevalent throughout the film is Sheriff's Deputy Fred Ross, a former factory worker whose current job now demands that he go around town carrying out record numbers of evictions on families unable to pay their rent.
91 Minuten Produktionsland. Die Dialoge sind zumindest klar verständlich.
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Smith: I've been to Flint, and I'm sorry for those people, but I don't know anything about it, but you'd have to... Moore: Families being evicted from their homes on Christmas Eve. Ironically only a few weeks later GM would announce the closing of their Toronto truck assembly plant moving vehicle production to a plant in Flint Michigan, Warner Bros. gave Moore $3 million for distribution license, a very large amount for a first-time filmmaker and at the time unprecedented for any documentary. On the other hand, at least in the USA, there are lots of non-standard usages. When "Roger & Me" came out in the late eighties, two Chicago film critics, Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert of "At the Movies," gave two enthusiastic thumbs up to this documentary and Michael Moore.
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However, when he gets a turn at the microphone to air his grievances to the board, Smith appears to recognize Moore and immediately shuts him out and has the convention adjourned, despite Moore's attempts to interrupt him.
Generaldirektor Roger Smith hat beschlossen, die meisten Fabriken dieses Standorts zu schließen und 35 000 Angestellte zu entlassen, um die Rentabilität seines Imperiums zu erhöhen. Kael called the film "shallow and facetious, a piece of gonzo demagoguery that made me feel cheap for laughing."
By the time of the film's release, GM had lost 8% of its market share and was taking on significant financial losses, leading many employees and executives to become disillusioned with Smith's leadership.
Zu deutlich allerdings versteht es auch Moore, sich selbst in Szene zu setzen und durch seine Font: '',
At the film's climax, Moore finally confronts Smith at the chairman's annual 1988 Christmas message in Detroit. All these efforts fail, as the Hyatt files for bankruptcy and is put up for sale, Water Street Pavilion sees most of its stores go out of business, and AutoWorld closes just six months after the grand opening. Smith: Well, I'm... listen, I'm sure General Motors didn't evict them. From there, Moore begins to explore the emotional impact of the plant closings on his friends.
", is seen a montage of the urban decay enveloping Flint, interspersed with news reports about increasing layoffs, residents not being able to move out and rapidly increasing rat infestations. Twenty five years later, Michael Moore is still at it with his documentaries ranging on issues such as gun control, Iraq war, elections, American health care and more. The film would go on to win over 14 awards in the years since its release including: "Roger & Me," commentary by Michael Moore in special features added in 2003 to the DVD. Fr., 01. Keywords: '',
USA . As he returns (in 1986), GM announces the layoffs of thousands of Flint auto workers, whose jobs will go to cheaper, non-unionized labor in Mexico.
"Roger & Me" bietet als Dokumentation nicht die Qualität eines Kinofilms und weist auch schon einige Alterserscheinungen auf. Dennoch ist "Roger & Me" als Reportage sehr interessant, weil Moore es sehr geschickt versteht, das Thema seiner Dokumentation recht lebendig zu vermitteln.
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Smith: I cannot come to Flint, I'm sorry.
Rotten Tomatoes reports an approval rating of 100% based on reviews from 30 critics, with an average score of 8.76/10.[13]. Over the course of the film, Moore attempts to track down Smith at the Grosse Pointe Yacht Club and the Detroit Athletic Club, only to be told either that Smith is not there or to leave by employees and security guards. After the credits, the film displays the message "This film cannot be shown within the city of Flint", followed by "All the movie theatres have closed.". High-profile people are shown coming to Flint to bring hope to the unemployed, some of them interviewed by Moore. [citation needed], Moore returned to the subject of Roger & Me with a short documentary called Pets or Meat: The Return to Flint (1992), which aired on the PBS show P.O.V. Initially, Moore achieves his dream of avoiding blue-collared factory life after being hired by Mother Jones magazine in San Francisco, but this venture fails for him and he ultimately travels back to Flint. Disguised as a TV journalist, Moore interviews some auto workers in Flint and discovers their strong disgust for GM chairman Roger B. Smith. Können die Eiszeit-Tiere den Weltuntergang verhindern? Pat Boone. Moore revisits Flint and its economic decline again in later films, including The Big One, Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11, Fahrenheit 11/9, and Capitalism: A Love Story.
He reveals that his heroes were the Flint natives who had escaped the oppressive life in GM's factories, including "Flint's most famous native son", game show host Bob Eubanks. unangemeldeten Besuche Bilder zu produzieren, in denen Moore immer wie ein Robin Hood gegen das Establishment auftritt. Part of the distribution deal required Warner Bros. to pay rent for two years for the families evicted in the film and give away tens of thousands of tickets to the unemployed workers.
December 2003, "GM to invest $877M in Flint truck plant", "The Rust Belt: Once Mighty Cities in Decline", "Cinema with the Right Stuff Marks 2013 National Film Registry", "Michael Moore has harsh words for critics", National Board of Review of Motion Pictures, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Roger_%26_Me&oldid=981845765, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 4 October 2020, at 19:07. If you would use "I" by itself, it's "Roger and I."
Film "Roger & Me" war der erste Dokumentarfilm, mit dem Michael Moore in den USA für Aufmerksamkeit sorgte. Despite its success, the film was not nominated for the Best Documentary Feature Academy Award in 1990.
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The groundbreaking documentary chronicled the efforts of the world’s largest corporation, General Motors, as it turns its hometown of Flint, Michigan, into a ghost town.
Mehr, Ein riesiger Meteorit rast auf die Erde zu. Michael Moore macht sich mit einer Kamera auf die Suche nach General Motors-Präsident Roger Smith, um diesen über die Schließung des GM-Werks und die Folgen für die örtliche Bevölkerung zu interviewen.
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[5][6] In 2013, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically significant".[7]. It was well received by the Canadian audience with it winning the coveted TIFF People's Choice Award.
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Filminfos. President Ronald Reagan visits the town and suggests that the unemployed auto workers find work by moving across the country, though the restaurant he visits has its cash register stolen during the event (off-camera). Laufzeit.
The face-to-face encounter between Michael Moore and Roger B. Smith is shown as this: Moore: Mr. Smith, we just came down from Flint, where we filmed a family being evicted from their home the day before Christmas Eve.
Would you be willing to come up with us to see what the situation is like in Flint, so that people...? Even educated people say "between he and I." Dejected by his failure to bring Smith to Flint, Moore proclaims in the final shot, "As we neared the end of the twentieth century, the rich got richer, the poor poorer, and people everywhere now had a lot less lint, thanks to the lint rollers made in my hometown. var scp = v.createElement("script"),
Zum Teil greift Michael Moore auch auf Video-Material mit TV-Berichterstattungen zurück, welches schlechter als das eigentliche Filmmaterial aussieht. Another resident, Rhonda Britton, sells rabbits for "Pets or Meat";[8][9] Britton is featured killing a rabbit by beating it with a lead pipe.
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Moore begins by introducing himself and his family through 8 mm archival home movies; he describes himself as the Irish American Catholic middle-class son of a General Motors employee assembling AC spark plugs. A former feminist radio host, Janet, joins Amway as a saleswoman to find work. "Bowling for Columbine" und erzählt eigentlich ganz sachlich eine kleine Geschichte über das "Downsizing" der Industrie. [citation needed], The film received overwhelmingly positive reviews from critics. One such criticism is that the eviction at the end of the film occurred on a different day from Smith's speech, but the two events were intercut for emotional effect. The residents react with outrage and stage a rally where issues of Money magazine are burned.
Die Dokumentation behandelt die Schließung des General Motors-Werks in Flint, Michigan, welche 30.000 Arbeitern ihren Job kostete. ChannelID: '5de8dce528a061043c200060',
He tries to visit Smith at GM's headquarters in Detroit, yet he is blocked by building security as Moore hasn't made either an appointment for an interview or his intentions clear.
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