英語名人堂：邁克爾·摩爾
他當(dāng)?shù)卮髮W(xué)里完成新聞學(xué)的學(xué)業(yè)，在學(xué)習(xí)的同時還培養(yǎng)了射擊等愛好，還贏得過一次射擊競賽。在大學(xué)時，邁克爾進(jìn)入校報(bào)并成為一名編輯，由此開始他的新聞職業(yè)，并靠玩賓戈游戲(bingogames)攢夠了他第一部電影《大亨與我》 (1989年)的預(yù)算?！洞蠛嗯c我》的背景是通用汽車公司大幅裁員而全面衰敗，同時還造成四萬人失業(yè)。邁克爾以此片質(zhì)問大企業(yè)，用事實(shí)撕開他們偽善面目。
Michael Moore is an award-winning American director, author, and political commentator. He has spent over a decade making controversial movie documentaries about the problems in American society. He is especially critical of the presidency of President George W. Bush. He has also criticized globalization and large corporations, gun ownership and the American health care system.
Moore is the director and producer of three of the top five money-making documentaries of all time. ‘Fahrenheit 9/11’ examined the political climate after the 2001 attacks; ‘Sicko’ highlighted the ills of American healthcare; and ‘Bowling for Columbine’ probed America’s widespread gun culture and its relation to violence. He uses a mixture of hard-hitting fact and humour in all of his work.
Moore became famous in 1989 for his film ‘Roger and Me’. It was about what happened to his hometown after General Motors closed its car factories there and opened new ones in Mexico. ‘Roger’ is Roger B. Smith, former CEO of General Motors. The film established Moore as a teller of uncomfortable truths about his nation and a serious investigative journalist and filmmaker.
In 2005 Time magazine named him one of the world's 100 most influential people. His appetite for making movies and writing about society seems as strong as ever. He has earned a reputation as being America’s most fearless social critic. He will surely make more movies on the major issues of our time and at the same time fight for the small man.
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