Michael Moore keeps stirring controversy
Filmmaker Michael Moore says on his Web site that his new documentary, “SiCKO,” “will expose the health-care industry’s greed and control over America’s political processes.”
Controversy has become a key ingredient of marketing the Flint native’s work, and the backers of “SiCKO” hope that the new movie will stir up emotions and help generate the kind of buzz that made his last movie, “Fahrenheit 9/11,” both a topic of national debate and an unprecedented blockbuster in the documentary genre. “Fahrenheit 9/11″ had a budget of $6 million and grossed more than $100 million in the U.S. alone.
Moore’s formula is simple: Pick a divisive topic and goad opponents into a public debate before the movie opens. (WALL STREET JOURNAL)