Moore Believes Dick Clark example essay topic

After watching "Bowling for Columbine" written by Michael Moore, your mind may be filled with many new thoughts on who to blame for our nation's knack of always acting in violence. Some of the problems that come to mind after watching this movie may be poverty, gun control, media, or even politics. Moore doesn't necessarily place the blame on anything in particular, but through the movie you are able to see that things need to be changed when Americans act in violent ways such as killing 11,127 annually by gunshot, and some of those shooting happening in schools across the country. There is a lot of finger pointing but Moore doesn't give any suggestions on how to actually control the violence anywhere in his film. He leaves it up to his audience to answer this on their own with the information he has given them Throughout the movie celebrities are used in the blame game as well. Moore uses famous people because they have high profiles and may influence people thoughts easier.

Some of the famous people may be part of the problem, but he uses some bad examples as well. In the movie Moore influences hate on NRA president Charlton Heston. He explains how Heston held large gun rallies after both the Columbine school shooting and the shooting of a child by another child in an elementary school outside Flint Michigan. This is not the first time Heston has done something controversial.

In December 1997, he gave a gave a speech in front of the Free Congress Foundation in which he made provocative comments about women, gays, and African American. The speech can be found at web One example in the speech that caused controversy stated, "I find my blood pressure rising when Clinton's cultural shock troops participate in homosexual-rights fund-raisers but boycott gun-rights fund-raisers... ". Moore also has a scene that accuses Dick Clark of being part of the blame for the child shooting in Flint. The reason given was the mother was forced to work two jobs, one of them being at Dick Clark's restaurant, which was part of the government program to earn welfare. It is obvious he is just getting the blame because of his high profile.

Dick Clark does not actually have anything to do with the day-to-day running of the restaurant, so how could he be at fault for this tragedy. Moore believes Dick Clark, the well know host of American Bandstand, has more of an impact on violence than Marilyn Manson a singer who at a concert on October 30 2003 had his concert ended because fans twice broke the barricade separating them from the stage. It is safe to assume that Dick Clark didn't cause any acts of violence similar to this with the playing of songs such as the theme song "Bandstand Boogie" at his show. Moore was not completely accurate in his finger pointing of blame for our nations violence. There were many biased opinions in this movie that were controversial, but the true meaning of the movie was to make people think about changing our ways to reduce the amount of violence in our nation.

And it was successful at achieving that..