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The Big One Page #8
- PG-13
- Year:
- 1997
- 91 min
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and they're doing 20 to life.
And what do you think
they're getting paid?
Virtually nothing.
Why don't we just close down
all the factories...
throw everyone out of work,
right?
A number of them
will obviously turn to crime...
because they'll be unemployed.
We can then ship them
back into the factory...
which can now be a prison...
and they can do their old job,
which they're trained to do...
and get paid
two dollars an hour...
and the company can make
a huge profit.
What a great idea! Huh?
Then the Dow can hit 10,000.
MOORE:
Yeah!MAN:
But, you know,it's kind of a new generation...
of media guides
coming in now, and...
MOORE:
Could we changethe name to media guide...
or something,
but not escort?
- Literary gigolo?
- Yeah. Ha ha!
MOORE:
Minneapolis isthe headquarters for Pillsbury,
which has been
using federal funds...
to send their doughboy
to the Third World.
[Speaking Spanish]
Pillsbury Doughboy!
[Speaking Spanish]
[Giggles]
MOORE:
This escortwould be the first...
to join me
as a partner in crime.
OK, now, one side of it
is coming up here on the left.
our easiest way to approach it.
MOORE:
Huh?- Hi, how you doing?
- You wanna shut that off?
- What's wrong?
- You wanna shut it off?
- Yeah, shut it off.
- What are you doing?
We'd like to talk to
You don't be taking film
through this building.
You have to have permission
from the building...
before you can do
anything in here.
All we want to ask is about
Pillsbury and $11 million...
GUARD:
I don't care.Come with me.
All right.
Can we film out here?
MOORE:
I was allowed to askthe chairman one question...
as long as I wrote it
on a yellow Post-It note.
OK, so here's the question:
"Why does Pillsbury need...
"$11 million in welfare
for the Doughboy?"
GUARD:
All right. What youshould do this afternoon...
is check in here and
they'll have some information.
- But I'll call. 330-5103.
- Yeah.
MOORE:
I left Pillsburyconfident they would take...
this Post-It note
to their leader...
and convince him to stop
accepting welfare checks...
You know I'm standing
at the station
Ready to go
Oh, big, old air-o-plane
I'm trusting you so
Get on up, big bird,
to my baby's love
Get on up, big bird,
to my baby's love
- Get on up
- Babe
- 'Cause I got to make it
- Babe
- Just get on up
- Babe
- 'Cause I got to make it
- Babe
Get on up
Michael Moore? Diane Mitchell
from Chicago Media.
MOORE:
Oh, hi.Are you the new escort?
- Yes, I am.
- How you doin'?
Fine. How 'bout you?
They're ready for you.
They are? OK. All right.
Thanks for being here.
My pleasure, believe me.
Michael is like a floor sample
of what we can all be.
He's a wonderful
floor sample...
and he gives us courage,
you know?
And he says, you know...
"We can make a difference.
Each one of us can.
"And all we have to do
is stand up and stand together."
We're gonna roll
right over him
We're gonna roll
the union on
TERKEL:
One more. One more.We're gonna roll
we're gonna roll
We're gonna roll
the union on
One more verse.
We're gonna roll
we're gonna roll
We're gonna roll
the union on
Hearing that song
of the Thirties...
of the Flint
sit-down strike...
of labor, the CIO...
I'm seated
next to Michael Moore.
Now, many of you
And Michael Moore's new book
is called "Downsize This!
"Random Threats
from an Unarmed American."
And so,
just hearing this passage...
from this old Labor song
of the Thirties...
what thought
comes to your mind immediately?
I think of
my uncle Laverne, actually...
who was in that sit-down strike
60 years ago this winter, Studs.
And I think about, you know...
how all of us
gained from that...
that came after that.
How the standard of living,
how our health care...
social security, child labor...
as a result of the struggle...
that those people
participated in.
And if they could see
what's going on now...
[Scoffs]
We come to the big subject.
We hear the phrase today...
"Since the evil empire
is gone...
"we have a new enemy
called terrorists."
And so you have a picture...
at the beginning of this book,
"Downsize This!"
Two photographs.
"What is terrorism?"
And it's almost... two photographs
almost identical.
Destroyed buildings.
The first one's
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma...
1995, after the bombing.
Down below...
Flint, Michigan, 1996.
And you can hardly tell
the difference.
They're two pieces
of destruction.
So the question is,
"What is terrorism?"
Well, obviously,
if you park a Ryder truck...
in front of a building
filled with explosives...
and blow up that building
and kill 168 people...
that's an act of terrorism.
There's no question about that.
But what do you call it,
Studs...
when you politely remove
the people...
from the building first
and then blow it up?
But in the ensuing years...
the people that used to work
in that building...
because their livelihood
has been stripped from them...
the people
that used work there...
a number of them will die.
They'll die from suicide.
They'll die from spousal abuse.
They'll die from
drugs and alcoholism.
All the social problems
that surround people...
when they become unemployed.
Those people are just as dead as
the people in Oklahoma City...
but we don't call the actions
of the company terrorism, do we?
We don't call
the company a murderer.
But I do consider this
an act of economic terrorism...
when at a time
you're making a record profit...
out of work...
just so you can
make a little bit more.
MOORE:
Back whenwe were in Centralia...
we had promised
the workers at PayDay...
that when we got to Chicago,
we'd pay their owners a visit.
[Whistling]
I'll write it in for you.
OK.
We're just supposed
to take this...
to the chairman's office...
surprise.
You'd better check
with that girl in there...
- before you go anywhere.
- OK.
WOMAN:
Jim, they're not allowedin here. Get them out.
MOORE:
Surprise.It's PayDay, Friday.
MAN:
Wait a minute.MOORE:
I got a check here for65 cents to buy the last PayDay.
MAN:
But who said you guyscould come in here?
- We did.
- Who is Michael Moore?
That's me. I'm Michael Moore.
- Are you security?
- Yeah.
- Huh?
- Outside.
MOORE:
What?We can't wait in here?
- No.
- No. Outside.
Oh, OK. All right.
WOMAN:
If you don't,we'll call the police.
- Call the police?
- Yeah.
MAN:
You need to callthe police.
- You can just go outside.
- I'm bringing a present.
MAN:
Leave your presentoutside the door.
You wanna get outside
the door, please? Huh?
Are they gonna call up?
GUARD:
They already did call.You're not allowed in here.
Outside.
MAN:
Yeah, take him outsidethe door and wait there.
MOORE:
All we wanted...MAN:
The boss is coming
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