Morgan Spurlock, documentary filmmaker behind 'Super Size Me,' dies at 53
Morgan Spurlock, documentary filmmaker behind 'Super Size Me,' dies at 53
www.nbcnews.com Morgan Spurlock, documentary filmmaker behind 'Super Size Me,' dies at 53
The documentary about a 30-day McDonald's diet made $22 million, earned an Oscar nomination and put Spurlock on the map. He later retreated from Hollywood after admitting to sexual misconduct.
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He's a good lesson in why you can't take a documentary as 100% truth, no matter how good it is or how much the message confirms your biases.
6 20 ReplyBecause years later the guy in the documentary could die from cancer?
14 1 ReplyBecause he was a massive alcoholic and was experiencing the effects of detox and passing it off as what he was doing for the documentary
They said "he is" not "here is"
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Yeah, Ken Burns baseball totally needs to be questioned...
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