Will You Help Me With My Next Film? ...a request from Michael Moore

Friends,

I am in the middle of shooting my next movie and I am looking for a few brave people who work on Wall Street or in the financial industry to come forward and share with me what they know. Based on those who have already contacted me, I believe there are a number of you who know "the real deal" about the abuses that have been happening. You have information that the American people need to hear. I am humbly asking you for a moment of courage, to be a hero and help me expose the biggest swindle in American history.

All correspondence with me will be kept confidential. Your identity will be protected and you will decide to what extent you wish to participate in telling the greatest crime story ever told.

The important thing here is for you to step up as an American and do your duty of shedding some light on this financial collapse. A few good people have already come forward, which leads me to believe there are many more of you out there who know what's going on. Here's your chance to let your fellow citizens in on the truth.

If you have any info that would help, please contact me at my private email address: [e-mail].

For the rest of you on my email list who don't work in the financial industry, you're probably wondering, "What the heck is this all about? I thought he said he was making a romantic comedy!"

Well, I just can't say much right now. I'm sure you can understand why. One thing I can tell you is that you're gonna like this movie when I'm done with it. Oh, yeah...

So, again, if you work for a bank, a brokerage firm or an insurance company -- or if you have seen things or heard things that you believe the American people have a right to know -- please contact me at [e-mail].

Thank you in advance for your help!

Yours,
Michael Moore
[e-mail]
MichaelMoore.com

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Comments

[toyboat]

Looking forward to adding your new film to my collection, GET EM MIKE!

[OYea]

You've got mail.

[BonnieJW]

I forwarded your email to all my contacts. Someone will know someone and hopefully, they will talk to you.

[BARRISTER]

I saw Sicko for the first time on cable recently. Mr.Moore deserves a 'Profiles in Courage" Award. Take note Ms. Kennedy Schlosberg.

[LHoney]

Love you Michael. This country owes you a debt of gratitude since we have no real press anymore. I sure hope you're talking to Mr. Markopolous regarding the banking industry... Can't wait to see the movie! Hope I still have a job so I can afford to go! Maybe after this, you could do a movie on the abysmal excuse we have for press/media these days. Maybe Chronkite would talk to you! I'll bet he has a few stories! Good luck!

[jcorrington]

You go Micheal. You are truly a hero, Diogenes. But good luck mon ami, who really cares that the American people are enraged. Cheney;s comment comes to mind, SO.

[kellygrrrl]

OK. heard back from a few family and friends in the industry.
They said they'd be more than happy to give you enough insidery info on Hedge Funds and Preferrential Treatment, etc. to "MAKE YOUR HEAD SPIN"
for
a cut of the profits from the movie.

True Capitalists :)

[kellygrrrl]

just forwarded your letter to everyone I know in the Fnl Industry. Good Luck!

[tdbach]

Michael, your prejudices are showing. Of course, we all know they're there. We (I) even agree with most of them. But is the job of a documentary filmmaker to explore a subject or to sell an idea? Maybe it's a bit of both. Maybe it really is the latter, and I'm one of those naive people who thinks documentaries are a form of journalism and journalism is about diving into the details and letting the facts you learn in the process drive you to the story.

The funny thing is, a more neutral approach to this project would probably lead to a more revealing insight into this mess and confirmation of at least some of the "swindle" you think has been there. If I were a Wall Street player with a hint of a conscience, I might be inclined to respond to an open invitation to discuss what my experience has been over the last 10 years and share my unfiltered insights. But if I see this as a project designed to ridicule and blackwash my life's career, I'd probably not respond. What you'll end up getting is all the failures and misfits who have an ax to grind. Which ain't going to give you much of a credible story.

[RoloTomassi]

I hear you, but I gotta say that when I see anyone make this argument I always think that it's kinda besides the point; as far as I know, MM has never denied the fact that he's an advocate for progressive policies.

So he makes a movie on his current policy obssession, and releases it; then comes all of this nonsense about what the film really is. If one is nominated for an award in the documentary categories, he's attacked because purists feel that it's not a "real documentary."

It's just silly, and usually more about sour grapes for being called out than it is about proper labels or biased opinions.

SO, to Michael Moore: keep making your films any damn way you please; obviously many of us enjoy and appreciate your approach to making films, and in the end that's what should matter most to a film maker, IMO.

[twofish]

I am not in the financial business. My impression of those people is that they dip a bucket into a river of money and thinks themselves superior and wonderfully clever for coming up "rich." Hopefully your film will hasten the day when people see through their fraud and take the loot away from them.

Keep 'em coming, Michael. Anyone who draws as much hostility from the righties as you do must be doing something right.

[PoliticalEnnui]

Since I have this privileged position of being first and therefore a shot at having your ear for a moment, I have a suggestion for the next movie (after this one).

In the vein of "Sicko", I think you should take a look at the sky-rocketing cost of education in this country, especially higher education. It's a racket and the collapse of the credit market threatens to expose it.

[kellygrrrl]

Hear Hear