CRITICAL APPROACHES : BOWLING FOR COLUMBINE INDEPENDENT RSEARCH

• Bowling for Columbine is a documentary produced,directed and narrated by Film Maker, Michael Moore. Michael Moore is best known for his political activists views and his popular documentary Fahrenheit 9/11 that raked in $222,446,882 at the Box Office in 2004. His documentary, Bowling of Columbine which shares the same Genre and Type of documentary as Fahrenheit 9/11 - Investigative and Current Affairs, had also been a financial success at the Box Office ,earning a total of $58,008,423 in 2002. 
• In terms of Bowling of Columbines international success, it was aired at the following countries :

Country (click to view weekend breakdown) Release Date Opening Wknd % of Total Total Gross / As Of FOREIGN TOTAL 10/9/02 n/a - $36,432,405 N/A Argentina 3/28/03 $60,987 23% $264,825 6/18/03 Australia 12/26/02 $255,036 9.9% $2,565,433 4/16/03 Austria 12/6/02 $44,490 4.9% $911,044 5/22/03 Chile 6/26/03 $19,264 14.3% $134,865 10/8/03 Czech Republic 3/6/03 $3,650 34.7% $10,509 3/16/03 Finland 2/7/03 $19,398 11.3% $172,263 8/14/03 France 10/9/02 $704,694 14.3% $4,911,174 1/28/03 Germany 11/21/02 $280,932 4.4% $6,412,679 8/6/03 Greece 11/15/02 $21,600 36.8% $58,750 11/24/02 Hungary 6/26/03 $14,832 48.1% $30,822 7/9/03 Italy 10/18/02 $48,382 11% $439,096 4/3/03 Mexico 7/18/03 $58,952 17.4% $337,842 9/4/03 Netherlands 12/5/02 $41,179 5.9% $703,425 6/4/03 New Zealand 12/26/02 $27,276 8% $341,349 4/30/03 Norway N/A - - $696,264 6/8/03 South Africa (Entire Region) 6/6/03 $29,218 100% $29,218 6/12/03 Spain N/A - - $2,326,163 8/7/03 United Kingdom 11/15/02 $249,416 12.8% $1,954,067 1/12/03

Profits earned varies according to country, with Germany being of the highest sales and Czech Republic being the least. 

• Quotes/Interviews from Michael Moore that reflect his ideology on gun crime include

1) "I'm Anti-American? No I would say I'm very pro-American you see there's nothing more positive to do for your country than to dissent when you feel that there is a need to speak out against the things that you see are wrong. And to give people an opportunity to laugh, at their own foibles."

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3) "Everything that you see, is exactly how it happens. There's no take two, there's no recreation. There's no fakery, every fact in the film is true but... The film has my point of view. The opinions in the film are only mine and you can take them or leave them and I may be right or I may be wrong. Or I may be half right, or half wrong. It's a highly subjective film, from my point of view. But everything you see happens.

4) We as Americans believe it's OK to kill people. We believe it's OK to invade a country that had nothing to do with 9/11. We think it's OK to invade a country where we think Osama Bin Laden is and he's in the other country. So we just go in and we just kill. And we have the death penalty; we sanction it.

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