Editing Bowling for Columbine (section)

===Charlton Heston interview===
For the final scene of the film, Moore visits [[Charlton Heston]]'s home and asks to speak to him via the speakerbox in front of his gated home. Heston declines to speak to him at the time, but agrees to look at his schedule for the next day. Moore returns and first shows his NRA card, which Heston expresses pleasure at. They go inside the large property and sit down to discuss American firearm violence. Heston's response includes the suggestions that the United States has a "history of violence" and more "mixed ethnicity" than other countries. He also states that he does not believe that the United States is any more violent than other countries.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Jonathan Curiel |date=2002-10-18 |title=Moore captures U.S. zeitgeist |url=https://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Moore-captures-U-S-zeitgeist-Bowling-for-2761485.php |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110430185024/http://articles.sfgate.com/2002-10-18/entertainment/17566584_1_columbine-killings-columbine-high-school-nra-president-charlton-heston |archive-date=2011-04-30 |access-date=2011-02-24 |work=[[San Francisco Chronicle]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Chris Coates |date=2002-10-21 |title=Moore puts gun culture in cross hairs |url=http://www.columbiachronicle.com/back/2002_fall/2002-10-21/arts1.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110708175635/http://www.columbiachronicle.com/back/2002_fall/2002-10-21/arts1.html |archive-date=2011-07-08 |access-date=2011-02-24 |publisher=The Columbia Chronicle}}</ref> Moore then asks Heston if he would like to apologize for leading NRA rallies in [[Flint, Michigan|Flint]], [[Michigan]] (Moore's hometown) after the [[Shooting of Kayla Rolland|shooting death of a six-year-old girl at Buell Elementary School]] and in Littleton after the Columbine shooting. Heston claims he did not know about the girl's death or how soon the rally was after it. When Moore presses to know if he would have cancelled the rally, he declines to answer and walks out of the interview. Moore implores him not to leave and asks him to look at a picture of the girl. Heston turns around, but then turns back to continue his exit. Upon his exit, Moore leaves the picture outside the home.<ref>{{Cite magazine |last=Alan A. Stone |date=Summer 2003 |title=Cheap Shots |url=http://bostonreview.net/BR28.3/stone.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402173852/http://bostonreview.net/BR28.3/stone.html |archive-date=2012-04-02 |access-date=2011-02-24 |magazine=[[Boston Review]]}}</ref> Moore was later criticized by some for his perceived "ambush" of the actor.<ref>{{Citation |last=Ebert, Roger |title='9/11': Just the facts? |date=2004-06-18 |work=[[Chicago Sun-Times]] |page=55}}.</ref> Heston later announced he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease.

"I'm uncomfortable watching the scene now, and I'm uncomfortable sitting there with him," Moore told ''[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]''{{'}}s Katey Rich in 2019. "But I wasn't going to not put it in the film either. He revealed his core beliefs. But I remember feeling kind of sad about it later. Here's a man who 40 years prior to that marched with [[Martin Luther King Jr.|Martin Luther King]], and now in his elderly years had just turned into this angry white guy who believed that we should have these laws where it's O.K. to shoot first and ask questions later."<ref name="Nast 2019">{{Cite magazine |date=2019-01-25 |title=The 25 Most Influential Movie Scenes of the Past 25 Years |url=https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/01/25-best-movie-scenes |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201107233809/https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/01/25-best-movie-scenes |archive-date=2020-11-07 |access-date=2019-01-31 |magazine=Vanity Fair}}</ref>