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The Big One Page #11
- PG-13
- Year:
- 1997
- 91 min
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walking around Michigan
looking for Roger...
and I say,
"Yeah, come on out."
- Really?
- Yeah.
- Is Phil there?
- Yeah.
- And he wants to see Michael?
- Yeah.
MOORE:
Whoa. Are you serious?Is this a prank call?
KEITH:
Come on out.We'll talk whatever you want to.
MOORE:
Thank you for the offer.MOORE:
I couldn't believethe chairman of Nike...
was granting me a visit.
I was met at the door by
who warned me
that Phil Knight's wife...
had given Phil my book...
as her wedding anniversary
present to him...
with his face circled.
This was not the way
I wanted to meet...
the first CEO
willing to talk to me.
- Hey. How you doing?
- Good.
Thanks for having me in here.
I appreciate it.
I got a little gift for you.
whenever I get to meet a CEO...
which I'll tell you
isn't that often.
KNIGHT:
Then you don't haveto take too many gifts.
MOORE:
No. This is a good one.You'll like this one.
I've got here two tickets...
one in my name
and one in your name...
for you and I
to go to Indonesia together.
And you show me those factories,
you explain this to me...
What's the date
on those tickets?
- Sunday.
- Oh, no, not a chance.
- No?
- No.
But they're transferable.
I can change it to another day.
No, and I'll tell you...
Seriously. Look at this.
Michael Moore...
I got it right here
in your name here...
And Phil Knight.
Look at this.
You and me
on Singapore Airlines.
- No, no. I'm not going.
- It's a good airline.
It's a great airline.
Here, sit back down.
- We gotta negotiate this deal.
- Have you been there?
- I've never been to Indonesia.
- Oh, you've gotta go.
I can't go between now
and the rest of this year.
Your wife. Remember the wife
that gave you the book?
My wife may make me go.
That's why
I won't tell her about it.
Tell her Michael Moore
came here with a free ticket.
- This is a free ticket, Phil!
- Another anniversary present.
- A free ticket to Indonesia.
- I understand that.
Basically, you've got,
you know...
an underdeveloped country
with a repressive regime.
And the way they pull
themselves out of this thing...
is by having... trade helps them.
That's a separate discussion
from an American company...
going into Indonesia
and working with a regime...
that killed 200,000 people.
That's almost
a form of genocide.
I know that
that's got to bother you.
I don't know you personally...
but I know
you have a conscience.
[Exhales]
I certainly wouldn't approve of
any of that sort of thing.
But, basically... I mean...
how many people were killed
in The Cultural Revolution?
How much is enough?
How much is enough
if you are a billionaire?
Wouldn't it be OK to be
just a half a billionaire?
Wouldn't it be OK
for your company...
to make a little less money...
if it meant providing
some jobs here in this country?
- No, but I mean...
I'll give you the answer to it.
Basically, what drives me
is not money anymore.
MOORE:
Right.I wouldn't think so.
KNIGHT:
And basically,what I want to do...
before I go to that great
shoe factory in the sky...
is make this as good a company
as I can make it.
having been burned on it once...
and really believing
this very strongly...
that Americans
do not want to make shoes.
They don't want to make shoes.
MOORE:
That's wrong.You are wrong.
If I could find 500 people
in Flint, Michigan...
who want to make shoes,
will you open the factory?
I didn't say
they didn't want to make shoes.
I think they don't want
those jobs.
No, if they do...
if they will work those jobs...
will you come to Flint?
[Chuckling]
You'll have to convince me
that they want to make shoes...
and can do so
reasonably economically.
Now, they won't work
for five dollars a day.
I understand that.
- But reasonably economically...
- I will explore it.
You will do that?
I didn't say I'd come.
I said I'll explore it.
MOORE:
You'll explore it.Seriously, now?
- With sincerity.
- I'll shake your hand for that.
- All right. Thank you.
- All right.
Filmmaker Michael Moore
is urging...
the world's largest
athletic shoe company...
to open a factory,
a factory in Flint.
Michael Moore chastised...
the chairman of Nike,
Philip Knight...
criticizing the company...
for making most
of its shoes in Indonesia.
So Moore has come home
to convince Knight.
He's staging an event tomorrow
in front of City Hall.
So tomorrow at noon,
I want to prove him wrong.
I want the people of Flint
who would like to work...
who would like
to have a job at Nike...
to come here and stand
in front of City Hall.
I'll have my film crew here.
Dress warm.
And we'll make
and show him
that the people of Flint...
if they had an opportunity
to work, would certainly work.
We need jobs! We need jobs!
We need jobs! We need jobs!
Flint needs jobs!
Flint needs jobs!
Flint needs jobs!
Flint needs jobs!
Flint needs jobs!
Flint needs jobs!
Mr. Knight, I'm 37 years old.
For 25 years,
I've been wearing Nike.
If Nike means
that much to me...
Flint should mean
that much to you.
If you don't make 'em here,
we shouldn't buy 'em.
There's a lot of people
in Flint...
and all over Michigan
that need jobs...
but especially in Flint,
and I'm one of those people.
If I can buy my son
these Air Jordans...
and he can wear 'em...
you best believe
I will help you make 'em.
Come to Flint.
MAN:
All right!We're hard workers in this area.
We've been working a long time.
Five generations...
four generations of hard workers
puttin' cars together.
We can put together
your tennis shoe.
Please give us a chance.
Thank you.
- Very impressive.
- So what do you think?
I think that a lot of people
without jobs will take any job,
But that given choice...
Americans really don't want
to work in shoe factories.
But I just showed you
these people here.
Yeah, they said that.
I think any unemployed person
will say "I would like any job."
Basically, Flint isn't on
as far as a warehouse
or a sales office.
Would you do it
[Chuckles] No.
MOORE:
Phil swore he wouldnever build a factory in Flint.
But he did present me with
the only American-made...
pair of Nike shoes,
built just for me.
I'll tell you what...
How about this?
Why don't you and I have a race?
We're not gonna have a race.
That was suggested already.
No, how about this?
We'll do a 100-yard dash,
you and me, right?
And if you win,
I'll always wear these Nikes...
wherever I go,
If I win, you have to build
the shoe factory...
in Flint, Michigan.
No, there's no race.
How about arm wrestling?
Come on.
I'm not gonna arm wrestle.
You would win that one.
- No, no. Don't assume that.
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