Watching the interview from Bowling for Columbine you can see that straight from the get go that Michael Moore is attempting to pressure the response he wants from Charlton Heston by giving him questions that have to get a personal or emotional response. Michael Moore has obviously came to the talk in an attempt to try and reveal some of the darker thoughts and feelings inside Charlton Heston. Evidently Charlton Heston does start to feel the pressure of the interview bearing down on him as some of his replies become half hearted and at one point possibly racist.
I have to say that Michael Moore is definitely twisting the way Charlton has to respond to him. Michael started to force and try to pressure Charlton on any slip-ups he made in an attempt to force either a deeper meaning or possibly even infuriate him into more mistakes. One he focused on was when Heston said roughly "more ethnicities in the us" In an attempt to pry out information that Charlton might be partly racist in his excuse for gun crime he forced more questions on him before he had finished explaining his point. The only problem with that tactic is the answers can never really be considered sincere.
Its a certainty that Michael held alot of the power in the interview. At the beginning it was a fairly neutral and relaxed environment for both but as it progressed Michael took a much more aggressive stance and it became fairly one-sided. Charlton managed to remain calm pretty much to the end of the interview until he ended it which gained back some power in his favour.
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