Morgan Spurlock, the filmmaker finest identified for his documentary Tremendous Measurement Me, has died on the age of 53.
His household introduced his demise in an announcement Friday, saying he “handed away peacefully surrounded by household and buddies on Could 23, 2024, in New York from problems of most cancers.”
“It was a tragic day, as we stated goodbye to my brother Morgan,” stated Craig Spurlock, who labored along with his brother on a number of tasks. “Morgan gave a lot by way of his artwork, concepts, and generosity. The world has misplaced a real artistic genius and a particular man. I’m so proud to have labored along with him.”
Tremendous Measurement Me, which hit theatres in 2004, earned Spurlock an Oscar nomination for Greatest Documentary Characteristic. Within the movie, he challenged himself to solely eat meals from McDonald’s for a month — by no means being allowed to show down the “super-size” choice of the meal, if provided — whereas monitoring the consequences on his psychological and bodily well being and taking a deep dive into the inside workings of the quick meals business.
By the top of the month, Spurlock stated he was affected by liver dysfunction, despair and had gained 25 kilos. He additionally claimed his ldl cholesterol spiked and was affected by a low intercourse drive.
“All the things’s larger in America,” he stated within the movie. “We’ve obtained the largest vehicles, the largest homes, the largest firms, the largest meals, and eventually: the largest individuals.”
In a single scene, Spurlock confirmed children a photograph of George Washington and none acknowledged the Founding Father. However all of them immediately knew the mascots for Wendy’s and McDonald’s.
The film, which grossed US$22 million in theatres worldwide, prompted McDonald’s to chop its “super-size” choice from menus. It additionally preceded the discharge of Eric Schlosser’s influential Quick Meals Nation, which accused the business of being unhealthy for the atmosphere and rife with labor points.
After the success of Tremendous Measurement Me, he went on to create a number of different documentaries: The place within the World Is Osama bin Laden (2008), The Biggest Film Ever Offered (2011) and the 2017 sequel Tremendous Measurement Me 2: Holy Hen!
He additionally had his personal manufacturing firm, Warrior Poets, which produced and directed practically 70 documentary movies and collection.
FILE – Filmmaker Morgan Spurlock participates within the BUILD Speaker Collection to debate the movie, ‘Go North,’ at AOL Studios on Jan. 4, 2017, in New York.
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In 2017, because the #MeToo motion gained traction, Spurlock posted an open letter on Twitter the place he admitted he was “a part of the issue” and admitted to settling a 2009 sexual harassment declare made by a feminine workplace assistant. He additionally revealed he was accused of rape whereas in school and wrote that he’d been “untrue to each spouse and girlfriend I ever had.”
“For me, there was a second of type of realization — as any person who’s a truth-teller and any person who has made it a degree of making an attempt to do what’s proper — of recognizing that I may do higher in my very own life. We must always be capable to admit we have been fallacious,” he advised The Related Press on the time.
He stepped down from Warrior Poets shortly after the confession, successfully ending his filmmaking profession.
Spurlock is survived by his former spouses; two youngsters, Laken and Kallen; his mom, Phyllis Spurlock and father, Ben; two brothers and a handful of nieces and nephews.
— with recordsdata from The Related Press
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