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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Narrator: As 34 nations of the Western Hemisphere gathered to draft a far reaching trade agreement, one that would lay the groundwork to privatise every resource and service imaginable, thousands of people from hundreds of grassroots organisations joined to oppose it. Canada's top business lobbyists and its chief trade representative discount the dissent in the streets. For them, the America's 800 million citizens speak with one voice.
Thomas D'Aquino: Nice to see you. Well done on your strong advocacy of truth, justice, wisdom and all those things, eh.
Pierre Pettigrew: I was looking yesterday at the statements at the inauguration and opening ceremony. What an extraordinary progress over the last 15 years. When you heard such a common language. Yes, and from the most developed to the least. It was extraordinary that now that we see the benefits of trade, more and more people want to buy in. Because we do realise that it helps everyone. From the poorer to the better off.
Robert Keyes: A lot of these countries are not saying they want to get off, they want to get on.
Pierre Pettigrew: Exactly, no one wants out, everyone wants in.
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Robert Keyes: Does there need to be some measure of accountability? Yes. And, I think the business community recognises that. But that accountability is in the marketplace, it's with their shareholders. It's with the public perception and the public image that they are projecting. If companies don't do what they should be doing, they're going to be punished in the marketplace, and that's not what any company wants.
Ira Jackson: There's a new market. These guys and gals aren't out there because government's putting a gun to their head. Or because they've suddenly read a book about transcendental meditation and global morality. They're there because they understand the market requires them to be there. That there's competitive advantage to be there.
Sir Mark Moody-Stuart: I'm listening to your concerns. I worry about climate. I worry about pollution. I do not have all the answers to this, but we are prepared to work with you, with society, with NGOs, with governments to address it. So you rebuild the trust, so that you come back to a new kind of trust, and then the ultimate goal is then to become the corporation of choice.
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Ray Anderson: I ask myself often times why so many companies subscribe to corporate social responsibility. I'm not sure it's because they necessarily want to be responsible in an ultimate way, but because they want to be identified and seen to be responsible. But who am I to judge? It's better that they belong than not belong. It's better that they make some public profession than the opposite.
Elaine Bernard: Social responsibility isn't a deep shift because it's a voluntary tactic. A tactic, a reaction to a certain market at this point. And as the corporation reads the market differently, it can go back. One day you see Bambi, next day you see Godzilla.
Milton Friedman: How do you define social responsible? What business is it of the corporation to decide what's socially responsible? That isn't their expertise. That isn't what their stockholders ask them to do. So I think they're going out of their range and it certainly is not democratic.
Robert Monks: I don't really care what the chairman of General Motors thinks is an appropriate level of emissions to come out the tailpipe of General Motors' automobiles. He may have a lot of scientists, he may be a very good person, but I didn't elect him to do anything. He doesn't have any power to speak for me. These are decisions that must be made by government and not by corporations.
