Spurlock was known for his groundbreaking film Super Size Me, which chronicled the detrimental physical and psychological effects of him eating only McDonald’s food for 30 days.
Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, an Oscar nominee whose most famous works skewered America’s food industry and who notably ate only at McDonald’s for a month to illustrate the dangers of a fast-food diet, has died. He was 53.
In one scene, Spurlock showed kids a photo of George Washington and none recognised the Founding Father. But they all instantly knew the mascots for Wendy’s and McDonald’s. “I wanted to be able to lean into the serious moments. I wanted to be able to breathe in the moments of levity. We want to give you permission to laugh in the places where it’s really hard to laugh,” he told the AP.
Not all his work dealt with food. Spurlock made documentaries about the boy band One Direction and the geeks and fanboys at Comic-Con. One of his films looked at life behind bars at the Henrico County Jail in Virginia.Spurlock went on a global search to find the al-Qaeda leader, who was killed in 2011. In, Spurlock tackled questions of product placement, marketing and advertising.“Being aware is half the battle, I think.
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