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    An analysis of the film Super Size Me, which is a 2004 documentary over Morgan Spurlock who documents the obesity problem we have in this country and how McDonald’s and other fast food chains are the ones that mainly contribute to the increasing problem, and exploring the realist aesthetics of the film goes over the elements of direct address to the camera, handheld camera, on-camera interview and also real people (non actors). This documentary was made to study the influence that the fast food

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    Super Size Me and Well Being The movie Super-Size Me starring Morgan Spurlock shows many benefits and harms of particular eating habits. It warns us about the dangers of constant fast food eating. Along with showcasing the dangers, it also gives examples of good foods to eat, how much of those foods, and methods to maintain a healthy weight. Super-Size Me gives us a great example of what happens to our bodies on unhealthy diets. This documentary is a good teaching tool for anyone to learn from.

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    "Analysis of Super Size Me" Morgan Spurlock decided to make this documentary to investigate the fast food companies, and the effects of certain fast food chains products, particularly McDonalds, on the health of society. This Documentary explores the United States growing epidemic of obesity and diabetes as well. Morgan decides to eat nothing but McDonald 's food for thirty days. He must eat one of everything on the menu at least once, and when asked to super size his meal he must do so. Another

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    McDonald’s is killing Americans, at least that is what Morgan Spurlock believes. In his documentary Super Size Me he embarks on a quest to not only describe and use himself as an example of the growing obesity trend, but to offer the viewers with base-line nutritional knowledge that will allow them to draw their own informed conclusions. Spurlock's primary intention is to prove through self-experimentation that eating solely McDonald's food is dangerous. His secondary intention is to denounce the

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    The's Super Size Me

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    Being able to persuade someone is a very powerful thing, Morgan Spurlock in the documentary Super Size Me surely did. In this film, he sets out a goal to prove that Mc Donald’s is very bad for you. To prove that he eats a different meal from their menu three times a day for thirty days. He demonstrated techniques that made him very convincing to the audience. Some of the major techniques he used were the use of many facts/statistics, the audience trusting him, and interviewing people that are living

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    Thesis Of Super Size Me

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    Contrary to the popular belief of the time, Morgan Spurlock’s amateur documentary “Supersize Me” pushed reform in both fast food culture, and eating habits of citizens, being one of the first catalysts in a new movement in America. This 2004 film, being the first of his works to establish Spurlock as a filmmaker, focuses on Spurlock’s 30 day journey in which he vowed to eat solely McDonalds for three meals a day, and track his overall mental, physical, and social changes over this span of time.

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    “Super Size Me” is a creative documentary that follows Morgan Spurlock for 30 days. The catch is for the 30 days he only allowed to ingest food handed over the counter of McDonalds. As one would expect his health deteriorated immensely, along with the size of McDonald's portions after the film debuted. Amazingly, this low budget documentary had a huge effect on the top fast food restaurant. First, the day before “Super Size Me” was scheduled to premier in theaters

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    Movies on ABC 1 and as usual I’m your host, _______. Tonight we’ll be reviewing the socially critical 2004 documentary, “Super Size Me” directed by and starring Morgan Spurlock. The film documents the 30 day period in which Morgan Spurlock ate three meals a day consisting of nothing but McDonalds whilst following these four rules: he can only eat things on sale, he must super size his meal if asked, he must eat everything on the menu at least once and lastly he must restrict himself to the ‘average’

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    Spurlock’s documentary exposes the results of a fast food diet such as weight gain, adverse medical issues, also McDonalds direct advertising to small children and the changes to McDonalds practices after the film's release. “Super Size Me” a documentary created by Morgan Spurlock inspired after two teens filed a lawsuit against McDonalds claiming the restaurant's food caused their obesity. Author A.O. Scott published an online review of Spurlock’s documentary on the nytimes.com website (published

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    In the documentary Super Size Me Morgan Spurlock uses a lot of non factual evidence to support his claim but without evidence your claim means nothing. Spurlock's objective of the experiment was to prove that fast food specifically McDonald's is the leading cause in America's rising obesity epidemic and are knowingly serving unhealthy food unfit for human consumption. He also wanted to prove that Mcdonald want you to eat their food for every meal and super size the drink and fries. THis was later

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