Introduction: Good Morning/Afternoon I’m Jasmine Antonie and I’m here to talk about Michael Moore’s film ‘Bowling for Columbine’ and some of the techniques that are used in the film. Michael Moore uses persuasive film techniques to position the audience to accept his version of the truth. Some of the techniques used by Michael Moore to position the audience are editing‚ sequencing and music. He uses them by editing parts of the film to marginalise the NRA and gun owners. He sequences the film into
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control. After viewing the documentary Bowling for Columbine‚ I was intrigued. What follows is a summary of the documentary viewed and my thoughtful reaction. First‚ the shocking information and summary of school shootings and gun control must be understood. Throughout the documentary‚ shocking information on school shootings is shown. On April 20‚ 1999‚ the town of Littleton‚ Colorado was changed forever by the violent acts of two students at Columbine High School. According to the documentary
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Bowling for columbine -speech- I’m here to talk about Michael Moore’s film ‘Bowling for Columbine’ and some of the techniques that are used in the film. Michael Moore uses persuasive film techniques to position the audience to accept his version of the truth. Some of the techniques used by Michael Moore to position the audience are editing‚ sequencing and music. He uses them by editing parts of the film to marginalize the NRA and gun owners. He sequences the film into a certain position to make
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Lam ENG 3U Ms. Teacher September 25th‚ 2014 Bowling for Columbine Michael Marshall once said “you can’t stop being afraid by pretending everything that scares you is there” that evidently means that fear is not real. It is the product of thoughts you create‚ however danger is real‚ but fear is a choice. When following Michael Moore’s journey in the documentary Bowling for Columbine‚ it is proven that most‚ if not all Americans live in fear. In doing so‚ he learns that the conventional answers
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Bowling For Columbine Essay In Bowling for Columbine‚ Michael Moore’s documentary film he proposes that the availability of guns is directly influencing the increasing gun related incidents that are taking place in the U.S. Furthermore‚ he points out that the media is manipulating these killings to create a culture of fear. Moore uses narrative elements and film language to persuade us to embrace his proposal while being entertained. The availability of guns in the U.S is causing
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Bowling for Columbine. 1. Give a short summary of the movie. 2. What is your opinion about the NRA? 3. Give examples where Michael Moore uses humor or irony! 4. What is the difference between USA and Canada? 5. What is the “welfare to work” – program? 6. Describe what happened at the K-mart. 1. Short summary: “Bowling for Columbine” is a humorous and horrifying film about the United States. The director of the film Michael Moore asks a country‚ who has plenty of guns‚ where schools have detectors
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What would drive two teenagers to comit such a horriffic tragedy as what happened at Columbine? In Bowling for Columbine director Michael Moore takes a look at gun violence in America and the causes behind such horriffic events that have led to Columbine. In the film Michael Moore explores the question "What makes the US have the most gun deaths than the rest of the world?" By exploring this Moore and his viewers explore a variety of reasons‚ The strongest point made by Moore is that largely
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documentary ‘Bowling for Columbine’ presents strong messages concerning the low gun control and the high murder rate in “the land of the free”. Directed by Michael Moore‚ the documentary shows the follies of the National Rifle Association (NRA) and the US government‚ often in a satirical fashion. This use of humour and other techniques allowed Moore to win many awards for the documentary‚ including the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature 2003‚ but the largest victory ‘Bowling for Columbine’ had was
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Michael Moore’s documentary‚ ’Bowling for Columbine’‚ highlights the devastating state of gun violence within the United States. He also examines the events leading up to the tragic events that occurred at the massacre at Columbine High School as well as the impacts this had on society. The film was released October 11th‚ 2002 and was met with both critical and commercial success. It is now considered to be one of the best documentaries to ever be created‚ according to The Guardian. The premise
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gun driven country. In this documentary‚ Bowling for Columbine‚ Michael Moore has used many persuasive techniques to get us to believe that every person in America feels safe to have a gun somewhere in their house for protection and that there are many terrible things that happen in America. To prove that Americans feel safer with a gun in their house and how America has many tragedies I will deconstruct 2 scenes from the documentary Bowling for Columbine. First I will be talking about selection
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