Letters to the Editor
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An inconvenient truth about "An Inconvenient Truth"
Here's an inconvenient truth for you. Did you know that Al Gore did not write or produce "An Inconvenient Truth"? This documentary has 9 producers listed in IMDB, none being Al Gore or any of his family members. The movie was directed by Davis Guggenheim and edited by Jay Cassidy and Dan Swietlik. The film was originally inspired when one of the producers, Laurie Lennard, saw Al Gore's PowerPoint presentation about Global Warming and she pressed her husband and friends to make a documentary about Al Gore and his work. By all accounts, Al Gore did not want the movie to be about him--he wanted to focus entirely on the subject he's devoted so much of his life to for so many decades. It was the moviemakers' decision to frame the movie as they did. But make no mistake: Al Gore's work is the SUBJECT of the documentary, he is not the documentary maker. Calling "An Inconvenient Truth" "Al Gore's movie" is like calling "Gone with the Wind" "Scarlett O'Hara's movie."
If Ms. Paglia can't separate the subject of a movie from its creator, perhaps she has as little expertise in film as she does in science.