Word: superealism
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Church said follow-up studies should determine which genes control this “super-resistance” and if humans contain bacteria with similar genetic makeups...
Four years after the release of his Oscar-nominated documentary, Super Size Me, in which he spent 30 days eating nothing but McDonald's food, Morgan Spurlock is about to release his second feature film. This one's about his search for the most wanted man on earth. The filmmaker forgoes fast-food binges for another type of physical danger: searching for Osama bin Laden. In an interview with TIME, Spurlock opens up about his quest...
...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...
...actually addresses one Hasidic man as "Dude.") Here's this guy doing these nutty things - all those McNuggets, all those Muslims - and behaving as if he'd just taken a toke of something stronger than a Marlboro Lite. In the recent history of nonfiction films, WITWIOBL, no less than Super-Size Me, occupies the fairly extensive, if unexplored, territory between Fahrenheit 9/11 and Jackass Number Two. (Spurlock's earliest claim to fame was the webcast and MTV show I Bet You Will, in which contestants did ugly things to win prizes...
...just a history lesson; the symposium also focused on the relevance of the porcelains in modern culture. “I really think there is a connection with culture today, because of the bombastic extravagance of modern day parties . . . such as on the TV show ‘My Super Sweet Sixteen,’” Hess says. “These parties with 16-year-olds are decadent, and it’s kind of sickening that you would spend so much money on one night. But it’s interesting to remember that these kinds...