Post by masterofallgoons on May 24, 2024 15:20:16 GMT
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Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock has died at the age of 53 from complications relating to cancer. Most people will remember him by his film Super Size Me in which he ate nothing but fast food for a month and detailed the ways in which it ravaged his body and health. He never nearly touched the zeitgeist in that way ever again, but worked on lots of stuff after that including multiple documentaries that focused on a single topic in that same way, like Freakonomics, The Greatest Movie Ever Sold which was about product placement, The Dotted Line which was about sports agents, Mansome which was about the evolution in men's grooming, Rats which was about Rats, a TV doc about The Simpsons, and Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken, which was about the poultry industry.
Amidst the 'Me Too Movement' he wrote an op-Ed where he volunteered a story about how he had been 'part of the problem' and settled a sexual harassment case with a former assistant, which effectively ended his career.
But he will always be remembered for that one project that touched the broad social zeitgeist.
Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock has died at the age of 53 from complications relating to cancer. Most people will remember him by his film Super Size Me in which he ate nothing but fast food for a month and detailed the ways in which it ravaged his body and health. He never nearly touched the zeitgeist in that way ever again, but worked on lots of stuff after that including multiple documentaries that focused on a single topic in that same way, like Freakonomics, The Greatest Movie Ever Sold which was about product placement, The Dotted Line which was about sports agents, Mansome which was about the evolution in men's grooming, Rats which was about Rats, a TV doc about The Simpsons, and Super Size Me 2: Holy Chicken, which was about the poultry industry.
Amidst the 'Me Too Movement' he wrote an op-Ed where he volunteered a story about how he had been 'part of the problem' and settled a sexual harassment case with a former assistant, which effectively ended his career.
But he will always be remembered for that one project that touched the broad social zeitgeist.
