The Big One Page #12

- I'm not gonna arm wrestle you.

If you win, I'll wear

those Nike shoes forever.

But if I win, we gotta make

some jobs in Flint.

- We're not arm wrestling.

- Come on, Phil.

MOORE:
I issued Phil

one last challenge...

to contribute money

to the schools of Flint.

It's very unlikely that

I would make a contribution...

to the Flint schools

in the future.

If I made the contribution,

would you match me?

Um...

I'll contribute

$10,000 to do that...

for the Flint school system

if you'll do that.

- I will match you.

- You'll match me.

I'll shake your hand for that.

Thank you very much.

- Yes, you're welcome.

- All right.

- Jeez, ten grand.

- You're the one...

Your stock went up

$3 billion last year.

I got ten grand out of you.

MOORE:

Hey, it's something, right?

And I know what

most of you are thinking...

"I sure would've liked

to have seen that footrace."

Well, maybe next movie.

Meanwhile, back in my neck

of the woods in the Midwest...

there was

some pretty good news.

The people at the Borders

in Des Moines...

had voted in the union.

Yes! Yes!

[Laughing]

It's sort of stunning after

you do something for so long.

It's sort of hard...

to all of a sudden

start thinking any other way.

But tomorrow morning...

We'll probably all sleep

the sleep of the dead tonight.

That'll be great.

MOORE:
And in

suburban Philadelphia...

We just got the word.

The final vote was 26-20.

We got a union.

[Laughing, whooping]

There you go.

Swell my chest to full size.

I'm gonna run over to ACME

and let someone over there know.

OK.

MOORE:
The Borders workers

were so happy...

their first thought

was to run across the street...

to tell the grocery store

baggers the good news.

It kind of gave me

a good feeling...

them realizing everyone was

sort of in the same boat...

and if things

are gonna get better...

it's gonna happen right here.

These companies...

big business, right?

They had us talking that talk

for so long...

free enterprise,

free market, capitalism...

when they were the last ones

to believe in it.

It's all so weird, isn't it?

Now we're at a point

in our history...

where we have one candidate,

one party, one company.

[Audience laughing]

I like to say...

one evil empire down,

one to go.

[Audience clapping]

I've traveled every road

in this here land

I've been everywhere, man

I've been everywhere, man

Across

the deserts bare, man

I've breathed

the mountain air, man

Of travel

I've had my share, man

I've been everywhere

I've been to Reno,

Chicago, Fargo, Minnesota

Buffalo, Toronto,

Winslow, Sarasota

Wichita, Tulsa,

Ottawa, Oklahoma

Did you hear the story

about last night...

Turn it off now. The story

last night in the hotel?

About the naked man?

I've been everywhere, man

I've been everywhere, man

I look out the peephole,

and there is a stark naked man...

I mean, butt naked, nothing on,

banging on my door.

And the first thought

that goes through my head is...

"This is how

it's all going to end."

[Audience laughing]

General Motors has sent

a naked man.

They don't

even have the decency...

to send the assassin

with clothes on.

I've been everywhere, man

Across

the deserts bare, man

I've breathed

the mountain air, man

If 12-year-olds are working

in these factories...

that's OK with you?

There are not 12-year-olds

working in the factory.

- How old?

- Minimum age is 14.

How about 14, then?

Doesn't that bother you?

No.

Shefferville, Jacksonville

Waterville, Costa Rica

Pittsfield,

Springfield, Bakersfield

Shreveport, Hackensack,

Cadillac

WOMAN:
You should

run for president.

It would send a message.

What would be the message?

"Eat out more often"? Jeez.

No. I'm a bad example.

I breathe

the mountain air, man

Of travel

I've had my share, man

I don't give a f*** about

you, you, you, you, you.

I've been to Pittsburgh,

Parkersburg, Gravellburg

Colorado, Ellensburg,

Rexburg

Vicksburg, El Dorado,

Larimore, Atmore

Haverstraw, Chattanika

You say, "the poor little

Indonesian workers."

Come back in five years...

one of them will

probably be your landlord.

What does that mean?

I've been everywhere, man

Across

the deserts bare, man

I breathe

the mountain air, man

Of travel

I've had my share, man

Yeah. You're pointing right

to your uvula, basically.

Mm-hmm. I thought guys

didn't have those.

I've been everywhere

No, I think you're wasting

batteries, actually.

I mean, and David with

his only one battery...

Brian, will you back off?

You seem really upset.

Well, I can't shoot.

I don't have a battery.

Just relax. The batteries

are charging upstairs.

So we need... What else

do you need, a tripod?

I really want this

to have a happy ending.

I really wanted you to,

at the end of the film, say...

"I'm a little different...

"than what's going on here

in corporate America.

"I care about the fact

that Americans need jobs.

"I care about the fact...

"that Indonesians

need a livable wage...

"and that kids shouldn't be

working in these factories...

"and that I'm going to be

a man of conscience...

"and a leader

and do something about it."

That's the ending

I wanted for this movie.

That's what I really

was hoping for here.

And...

And I'm waiting

for the ending of the film.

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