said, "How do you say that, Gore is not a vivid language person, and the squirrels will crawl on him halfway through his speech." Talk show host David Letterman once made fun of the former American (Vice) ) President Gore. In 2000, Gore lost the presidential election to George W. Bush. At that time, Americans agreed that he was the most boring politician in the United States. There was a special category in political jokes called "Gore jokes."
Gore talks about global warming? Isn't that a boring thing to do at home? When they first heard that "The Inconvenient Truth" was such a documentary, many people had doubts at the first time, including the director of the documentary himself. However, those who have listened to Gore's live speech or watched the film are all attracted by his personal charm, and are shocked by the facts and conclusions he provides: In the past three thousand years, the temperature of the earth has always fluctuated within a certain range, Self-regulation, and in the past 50 years, the temperature of the earth has not only exceeded this range, but has exceeded many times. If we do nothing, in another 10 years, Earth's climate will cross a tipping point where it will be irreversible.
Two-thirds of the ninety-plus-minute documentary is Gore's live speeches, aided by a large screen, where he provides a wealth of data, graphs, computer animations and image comparisons. We see lakes and rivers disappearing, ice shrinking in the North and South Poles, snow in Kilimanjaro no longer spectacular, droughts and floods in one country, and the hottest 10 years of the last century all occurred in the last 14 years. A very professional and complex scientific problem, explained by Gore in a straightforward, coherent, and irrefutable manner.
Judging from the presentation techniques of the documentary, "An Inconvenient Truth" is a relatively simple work. The director interspersed the video materials of Gore's life at different stages in the speech, telling the audience how he started to pay attention to the climate issue. What experiences have taught him to cherish. The other four Oscar nominees for Best Documentary may be in many ways better than this one, but it's hard to ignore the fact that the weight of the conversation is too important for a documentary. The Iraq issue and the religious issue are of course worthy of attention, but not for everyone, the crisis of global warming and the impending tipping point of the planet 10 years from now are relevant to everyone, which is one of the reasons why Oscar finally chose it . Many people who watched the documentary, including the film's producer and director, became active environmentalists. Roger Ebert, the No. 1 film critic in the United States, said that he has written film reviews for 39 years and has never called on the audience to watch a certain film, but this time he hopes that everyone will go and watch this film. Future generations explain why.
"An Inconvenient Truth" earned more than $25 million at the U.S. box office and is another blockbuster documentary after "Fahrenheit 9/11" and "The Emperor Penguin Diary." Stealing the Oscar for Best Original Song from the musical "Dreamgirls". Its success is largely due to Gore's public image. Honesty and trustworthiness are his personality labels. In the film, he is also confident, humorous, witty, full of charisma and professional persuasion. Pay attention to become a movie star” and “the simple and honest version of Brad Pitt” to describe him, and there is even a public opinion that if people saw such a Gore a few years ago, the history of the United States in the 21st century would be rewritten.
During the 2000 presidential campaign, George W. Bush once commented on Gore, who was a little silly since he was honest: "He measures everything by whether there is a factual basis, and the fact that he relies too much on the facts will ruin his campaign." .
Now more and more people believe that the facts cannot be ignored.
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