Factual error: A headline from the Pantagraph (an Illinois newspaper) dated 19 December 2001, is shown in big letters to read, "Latest Florida recount shows Gore won election." In fact, no edition of the Pentagraph has ever featured an article that claimed this. The only time those words appeared in that newspaper was in small print over a letter to the editor dated 5 December 2001.
Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)
Plot summary
Directed by: Michael Moore
Starring: Ben Affleck, Michael Moore, George W. Bush, James Baker III, Stevie Wonder
From start to finish, the film is about what is really going on with the war in Iraq. It begins with some highlights regarding the erroneous coverage of the presidential election in 2000, continues on with dozens of politicians caught saying various incriminating things on tape and finishes off with american soldiers admitting things that haven't been shown anywhere else on national tv. This documentary is startling in the number of incriminating things that the director somehow manages to capture on tape.
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Question: I would like to know why Michael Moore named this film Fahrenheit 9/11. I know that the 9/11 is about the twin towers terrorist attack, but I can't get the Fahrenheit part. Could someone please explain?
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Answer: It's a reference to the book Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, which deals with a totalitarian society where people are not encouraged to think for themselves, question the government and so forth. One of the features of this society is that all books are burnt (hence the title - apparently the temperature at which paper will ignite).
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