Michael Moore is a multimedia personality: writing books, film making and producing and starring in two television shows. ... Moore had built up a growing fan base over the 90's starting with his successful documentary "Roger and Me" in 1989 and continuing with his books and television shows. ... There is even often a concluding confrontation with the "hero" Moore/Broomfield and the selected villain, this is perhaps best exemplified by Moore confronting Heston in the final section of Bowling For Columbine with Moore shouting and appearing upset holding a picture of a dead schoolgirl and b...

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The development of motion picture complexity has been driven by a continuing technological evolution, ignited and manipulated by human initiative and inventiveness, which has afforded filmmakers the opportunity to practice a more complex craft to tell more complex stories. ... While it is true that primitive technology did limit these small-scale productions, which, according to Thompson and Bordwell, "lasted only twenty seconds or so – the longest run of film that the Kinetoscope could hold," advanced technology would not necessarily have improved them, for their simplistic natur...

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