How Do You Pay?

Bee Wilson

  • Citizen Moore: An American Maverick by Roger Rapoport
    Methuen, 361 pp, £8.99, July 2007, ISBN 978 0 413 77649 5
  • Manufacturing Dissent directed by Rick Caine and Debbie Melnyk
    October 2007
  • Sicko directed by Michael Moore
    October 2007

Because the man himself is so ungainly, it is easy to overlook Michael Moore’s voice. Where his body seems ungovernable and a source of embarrassment to him – he often can’t bear to watch himself on screen – his voice is confident, almost suave. There’s a moment in his least known movie, The Big One (1997), where he launches effortlessly into a gravelly imitation of Dylan singing ‘The Times They Are A-Changin’’ before reverting, with a chuckle, to his own spoken voice. In his films, his physical appearance – in flannel shirt and outsize jeans – represents Moore the underdog, the champion of regular working folk.

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Vol. 29 No. 21 · 1 November 2007 » Bee Wilson » How Do You Pay? (print version)
Pages 37-38 | 4131 words