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...Morgan Spurlock: You know, I think for me it?s just one of those questions in this post-9/11 world that a lot of people wonder. For me, it was 2005 when ?we just got into a second term of the presidency. The war in Iraq had now been going on for two years. I think another tape came out somewhere around then, or a video, and suddenly on every news station people were saying, "Why hasn?t this guy been brought to justice?" "Why haven?t we found him?" "Where in the world is Osama bin Laden...
...drab, treacherous hills along the Afghan-Pakistani border, Morgan Spurlock sticks his head into a cave entrance and shouts, "Yoo-hoo! O-sa-ma!" Alas, there is no answer. This is not a SPOILER ALERT, unless you were maybe expecting to hear a heavily accented voice reply, "Come on in, kid. I've been itching to chat with some American doofus, if he only had the nerve to drop by. And, sure, bring your camera crew in. We'll all do lunch...
...headline-making but often entertaining docu-travelogue Where in the World Is Osama bin Laden? (henceforth acronymed as WITWIOBL), Spurlock resolves to comb the Islamic world in an attempt to locate al-Qaeda's CEO. Taking a cue from Hollywood action movies - that in impossible missions, where armies and statecraft fail, one lone hero can succeed - he travels to Egypt, Israel, Palestine, Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Afghanistan and Pakistan, speaking to and occasionally learning from street vendors, pundits, schoolkids, government officials and U.S. soldiers. To most of them he poses the simple question that is the movie's title. Will anyone...
...project only slightly more quixotic, and potentially lots more dangerous, than Spurlock's last big ordeal: subsisting for a month solely on food from McDonald's. That stunt generated the 2004 Super Size Me, which grossed a fat $11.5 million at the box office (on a lean $65,000 budget) and earned an Oscar nomination. The movie also allowed Spurlock to become his own little doc-conglomerate, hosting and producing the TV series 30 Days and lending his exec-producer imprimatur to such like-minded nonfiction films as The Third Wave (Americans in post-tsunami Sri Lanka) and What Would...
This bustling leftie docu-fomenting could make Spurlock a younger Michael Moore. Each man is from a working-class city - Flint, Mich., for Moore; Parkersburg, W. Va, for Spurlock - whose hard economic history has produced low median incomes. Each came to documentaries after working in other fields: journalism for Moore, playwrighting for Spurlock. And each puts his own quirky personality at the center of issue-driven movies; they both make ego-friendly documentaries. But where Moore is belligerent (and funny), Spurlock is laid-back (and funny). Moore, the provocateur, pokes his finger in his adversaries' chests. Spurlock plays the sweet...