It was rather surprising news to come out that documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock passed away on May 24 at the age of 53, a victim of cancer. If you do not know Spurlock by name you may possibly recognize him, and more certainly are aware of his most famous film – “Super Size Me” – taking on the McDonalds corporation and the travails of consuming fast food. This was the film where Morgan pledged to eat three meals a day at McDonald’s for a month and would agree to supersize his order whenever prompted.
Spurlock parlayed that success into a string of other films, as well as producing documentary television programming on a number of cable networks. It can be said that Spurlock helped transform the documentary film genre to some degree, as he helped alter that category from being a very dry, and frequently boring style of motion picture. Look at how today Netflix has developed…
