In 1989, Michael Moore released a documentary that he made called Roger & Me. Michael Moore grew up in Flint, Michigan. He was an editor for his own newspaper that was named Michigan Voice. Michael worked as an editor for ten years when he decided to take a job in California. The new job out west did not work well. When Michael returned home to Flint, he received some bad news. Roger Smith, General Motors, and Flint, Michigan were at troubled times. This is Michael Moore's story. .
General Motors was born in Flint, Michigan. At one time, this company employed most of the residents there. General Motors was the largest corporation in the world. The people of Flint loved General Motors. They threw the company birthday parties and parades. Michael Moore's family was a major contributor to their workforce. With the exception of himself, his entire family worked for the company at on time or another. .
Flint, Michigan and General Motors were responsible for an important piece of American history; they spawned the United Auto Workers union. In 1936, just hours before the new year, thousands of General Motor employees in Flint, Michigan barricaded themselves inside the factories. The workers took over; they refused to budge unless there demands were met. Forty-four days later, on February 11, 1937, General Motors gave up. This was the birth of the UAB.
Many years after this sit down strike, the workers in Flint were in trouble again. Roger Smith, the chairman of General Motors announced the closing of eleven factories. Roger's plan was to close these eleven plants in Michigan and reopen them in Mexico. In Mexico, General Motors would only have to pays the workers seventy cents an hour. The money that General Motors generated from this would be invested into more advanced technology. An estimated thirty thousand Flint employees were to lose their jobs. There were more autoworkers in the city of Flint then in any other city in the world.
Recognize me not, by word, by sign, by look! ... Shouldst thou fail me in this, beware! ... When Roger found out that it was Arthur he was joyous. ... Roger began to thrive on hurting Arthur. ... Ay, ay, you must have known it; for he tells me he is of your party, and a close friend to the gentleman you spoke of, - he that is in peril from these sour old Puritan rulers!" ...
Roger and Me The Modes Moore Employs Roger and Me is the story of Michael Moore's quest to right the wrong done to Flint, Michigan by Roger Smith, CEO of General Motors. ... Roger and Me, on a basic level falls into the Interactive category with its involved interviews and archival footage. ... In Roger and Me, Michael Moore interviews many laid off auto workers, the city council of Flint, Michigan, representatives of upper-class Flint, and in the end, he finally speaks briefly with Roger Smith. ... Moore acts as the narrator/protagonist throughout Roger and Me, ushering the viewer on a g...
Roger & Me by Michael Moore is a documentary that set a new standard and a fresh outlook for a whole genre of films. ... The best moment was when Moore switches between Roger Smith reading A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, and the Sherriff evicting a family and watching the family throw their Christmas tree in the street. There is a moment where you feel all hatred for Roger Smith and GM. ...
It has been fourteen years since General Motors laid off 33,000 people and inspired Michael Moore's documentary "Roger & Me." ... However, in the late 1980's, GM president Roger Smith decided to close down some of the plants in Flint and laid off some 33,000 people. ... Their fears sound a lot like what happened in "Roger & Me" back in the 80's. "Roger & Me" delivered the message about Corporate Newspeak and how profits are more important to big American corporations than the lives of their workers. Movie Critic Roger Ebert said of "Roger & Me", "The movie is a counterattac...
Roger & Me This film is billed as a comedy however the life stressors of unemployment are not funny in the true comedic sense at all unless laughter is used instead of crying as a sort of defense mechanism. If any thing Roger & Me is such an extremely dark comedy, you need a microscope to find the humor. This story shows Michael Moore a Flint Michigan native who is looking for Roger Smith the CEO of General Motors after GM closes 11 plants in Flint and lays off more then 33,000 workers. ... Roger Smith but, were comfortable in their lives. ...
Changes in Roger Chillingworth In the novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter, there is a character by the name of Roger Prynne. ... Roger Prynne changes physically over the course of the book. ... He is the Roger Prynne and changes to Roger Chillingworth to hide form the shame of being Hester's husband. ... Last of all Roger Chillingworth changes spiritually. ... Who made me so?!" ...
Who is to blame - Roger or America? ... The downside to so much freedom is the fact many may have to suffer in order for others to succeed, a situation shown in the events of "Roger & Me". ... Leftward - leaning filmmaker Michael Moore spends nearly three years documenting the demise of his hometown of Flint, Michigan, in his late 1980's documentary, "Roger & Me". "Roger & Me" surrounds the decision, made by the corporation General Motors, to close down 11 of their auto plants in the Flint area, and Moore's resultant pursuit to meet and talk to the man he deemed responsible for...
Roger Chillingworth, for example, had the flaw of seeking revenge. ... Ultimately Roger Chillingworth comes to represent true evil. ... "I must seek this man there is a sympathy that will make me conscious of him. ... This leads me to my next point; another affect on Chillingworth's life was how revenge completely consumed him. ... Who made me so?...
Roger and Me Analysis In this film, Michael Moore is satirizing corporate America, specifically the General Motors scenario in Flint, Michigan, during the late 1980's. ... This final sequence involved a scene with Roger Smith delivering a speech at a fancy Christmas party, followed by a scene with a family getting evicted from their home on Christmas Eve. ... The singing was also punctuated by curse words from the family directed at Roger Smith. ... On the other hand, Moore was able to emphasize those scenes even more by juxtaposing them with scenes of Roger Smith living in luxury....
