Gross US & Canada
$3,493,516
Opening weekend US & Canada
$28,671
Gross worldwide
$4,605,682
The Corporation
"The Corporation" (The Corporation) , is a very thought-provoking of Documentary .
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- Release date June 4, 2004
- Filming locations Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Production companies Big Picture Media Corporation
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By Christiana 2022-12-20 16:48:16
The four major international grain merchants "ABCD":
ADM (Archer Daniels Midland), Bunge, Cargill and Louis Dreyfus. These four major grain merchants currently monopolize 80% of the global grain trading volume. They control the world's food import and export, food manufacturing and packaging, and price setting. For their own interests, they are inextricably linked with the political blocs of various countries, and a close interest group has been formed.
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By Melyssa 2022-12-11 21:47:11
From child labor and sweatshops to other
In this film, a lot of child labor and sweatshops are discussed. At first glance, it is quite reasonable. If you think about it carefully, it may not be.
Judging from the Walmart sweatshop incident, it is indeed nonsense to say that Walmart has no responsibility for the sweatshop at all, but if the responsibility lies only with a company like Walmart or Nike, it would be too rash judgment. Think about why Wal-Mart or Nike keep setting up factories overseas in order to keep costs down,... -
By Taya 2022-12-08 15:32:24
1. The power of a family cannot compete with the power of an industry that spends $1.2 billion to promote products. Talk to them now, maintain good relationships with them when they are young, and wait for them to grow up. , They become your consumers. I don’t know if this is ethical. Our job is to sell products.
2. The principle of excess. Instill the concept of need and let them focus on unnecessary consumption, such as fashion consumption.
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By Stone 2022-12-07 12:40:34
There is a lot of information that I haven’t heard before. Privatization develops fast, but too soon it will cause problems, and now the private ownership is approaching the extreme. At the same time, we have come from public ownership, and public ownership is not a solution to the problem. When I finally said that we have the ability to take control back from the big companies, I just thought, can we take it back? How to get it back? What should I do after taking it back? Human development has...
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By Jacklyn 2022-12-05 19:54:01
About the Water War: A Victory for the Poor
At ten o'clock in the morning, President Banzer imposed martial law on Bolivia. The protests have been going on for a week: strikes, traffic jams have brought the country to a complete standstill. The government had to back down, acceding to protesters' demands, to terminate the $2 million contract to sell the Cochabamba public water system to a foreign-invested company.
Citizens of Cochabamba demanded that Brecht, one of the foreign-invested companies, return the water system to the...
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By Lela 2023-09-09 10:30:10
The two-and-a-half-hour documentary has been watched from the exam week until I watched it today..... Most of the time was spent on stating the unbearable side of the "enterprise", which was too left-handed and unfair. However, the cutting of each paragraph is well done, and it can be used as a ppt template. The scholars who appear in the story are all very fanciful, especially the Indian woman with a red mole between her eyebrows, very...
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By Dedrick 2023-07-29 20:57:57
The idea of the structure, influence and social status of corporate (esp. MNC) is rooted in my mind by this film. But not a good film because it is not objective enough and not smart enough to provide a solutionable...
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By Retta 2023-07-23 17:14:12
not until enviromental conditions become commodities...
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By Devon 2023-07-21 10:00:21
It is difficult for documentaries to maintain a neutral attitude. Because the director is outside the system. Outside of the system, we can all play the role of a good person. In an evil system, it is difficult for us to avoid becoming monsters. This is the power of...
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By Greyson 2023-05-24 10:58:58
It’s too long, and it’s almost enough to condense it to the first 70 minutes. Some of the latter examples are so extreme that the theme of the whole film is not very clear, but I really envy this spiral mode of continuous struggle and...
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Noam Chomsky: It's a fair assumption that every human being, real human beings, flesh and blood ones, not corporations, but every flesh and blood human being is a moral person. You know, we've got the same genes, we're more or less the same, but our nature, the nature of humans, allows all kinds of behaviour. I mean, every one of us under some circumstances could be a gas chamber attendant and a saint.
Sam Gibara: No job, in my experience with Goodyear, has been as frustrating as the CEO job. Because even though the perception is that you have absolute power to do whatever you want, the reality is you don't have that power, and sometimes, if you had really a free hand, if you really did what you wanted to do that suits you personal thoughts and you're personal priorities, you'd act differently. But as a CEO you cannot do that. Layoffs have become so widespread that people tend to believe that CEOs make these decisions without any consideration to the human implications of their decisions. It is never a decision that any CEO makes lightly. It is a tough decision. But it is the consequence of modern capitalism.
Noam Chomsky: When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the insitution and the individual. So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous, but the individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you could imagine. Benevolent, friendly, nice to their children, even nice to their slaves, caring about other people. I mean, as individuals they may be anything. In their institutional role they're monsters because the institution is monstrous. The same is true here. So an individual CEO, let's say, may really care about the environment and, in fact, since they have such extraordinary resources, they can even devote some of their resources to that without violating their responsibility to be totally inhuman.
Narrator: Which is thy, as the Moody-Stuarts serve tea to protestors, Shell Nigeria can flare unrivalled amounts of gas, making it one of the world's single worst sources of pollution. And all the professed concerns about the environment do not spare Ken Saro Wiwa and 8 other activists from being hanged for opposing Shell's environmental practices in the Niger Delta.
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Vandana Shiva: A corporation is not a person. It doesn't think. People in it think and for them it is legitimate to create terminator technology, so that farmers are not able to save their seeds. Seeds that will destroy themselves through a suicide gene. Seeds that are designed to only produce crop in one season. You really need to have a brutal mind. It's a war against evolution to even think in those terms. But quite clearly profifs are so much higher in their minds.
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Marc Barry: We're predators. It about competition, it's about market share, it's about being aggressive, it's about shareholder value. What is your stock at today? If you're a CEO, do you think your shareholders really care whether you're Billy Buttercup or not? Do you think that they really would prefer you to be a nice guy? Over having money in their pocket? I don't think so. I think people want money. That's the bottom line.
Michael Moore: The fact that most of these companies white rich men, means that they are out of touch with what the majority of the world is. Because the majority of this planet are not a bunch of rich white guys. They are people of other colours, they are the majority. Women are the majority, the poor, and working poor make up the majority of this planet. So the decisions they make come from not the reality that exists throughout the world.
