The everyman

For the past four years, Morgan Spurlock has been best known as the handlebar moustache-sporting face that puffed up in the interest of proving fast food isn't good for you. Now, with his latest film, Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?, he is the guy who rode a camel in the hopes of finding public enemy number one. He's also the guy who put himself in jail for 30 days for his television show, appropriately titled 30 Days. For the show, he also worked for and lived on minimum wage and toiled in a coal mine in his hometown in West Virginia. He's more than just a documentary filmmaker and factual television producer, he's the personality of his own programs, which means they rely not only on his skills as a director, but also on his ability to get the audience to trust him.

March 1, 2008

For the past four years, Morgan Spurlock has been best known as the handlebar moustache-sporting face that puffed up in the interest of proving fast food isn't good for you. Now, with his latest film, Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?, he is the guy who rode a camel in the hopes of finding public enemy number one. He's also the guy who put himself in jail for 30 days for his television show, appropriately titled 30 Days. For the show, he also worked for and lived on minimum wage and toiled in a coal mine in his hometown in West Virginia. He's more than just a documentary filmmaker and factual television producer, he's the personality of his own programs, which means they rely not only on his skills as a director, but also on his ability to get the audience to trust him.