Michael Moore slams Pelosi after '60 Minutes' interview: Her 'old tired privileged ways are over'

No, that hasn't always been an issue for the Democratic Party, AJ.

I can remember when Democrats fought communists - today they are communists.

 

What you fail to understand is that the vast majority of Americans understand MacDonald's and seek out their restaurants the world over. If you blindfold them they wouldn't notice the difference between a Big Mac and a filet mignon. And let's be truthful the french fries at one are no better than the other. As far as those who prefer filet mignon a great percent of them dine on the stuff in the same way that most people go to the theatre but do not understand a thing about it.

NOTE: I am not criticizing Americans for their appreciation of "fine food". Absolutely not. I admire them for being honest. I am merely using your own analogy to prove to you that the films of Michael Moore make more sense to audiences and his message is right on the bullseye and they make more people think than any Orson Wells film, no matter how much cinematic wow-sa-fras he might have achieved.

 

I can assure you that Americans can distinguish hamburger from filet mignon, my friend, which is why we have steakhouses in this country. The same thing goes for film - Americans can distinguish between political documentaries and cinematographic art.

As far as accessibility goes, I understand that documentaries are generally more straightforward than art films, but different audiences are drawn to different films and different directors target different audiences. In that respect neither genre is more accessible to its intended audience, and once you stray outside the target audience it naturally becomes less accessible. In Moore's case, the people who share his ideological.and political views are going to appreciate his films more than the people who don't share his views and consider his films and message bullshit. In Welles and Kurosawa's cases, the people who share their appreciation for cinematographic art are going to enjoy their films more than people who don't share that and consider films like Citizen Kane and Ran tedious and boring (or bullshit).

That's why I can appreciate your comment that Moore is the Julian Assange of filmmaking and my response that he's certainly not the Orson Welles and Akira Kurosawa of filmmaking. Moore isn't an artist nor have I ever sensed that he intends or wants to be an artist. I've always thought that one of our greatest literary figures, William Faulkner, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949, best articulated the difference between the two - the political and the artistic - in his Banquet speech, which is a marvelous piece of prose in itself:

 

Exactly my thought.. I was like.. Hey kettle.....