Morgan Spurlock

Morgan Spurlock came as a Distinguished Speaker to the Union. Super Size Me the documentary was one of the documentaries that I found very captivating when I first saw it. ; You might say it changed the way I looked at documentaries. I honestly hadn’t watched as many as I could have before then, but this probably was a turning point for a lot of people. For someone to make something and for it to create as much of a snowball effect as it had done was very inspiring.

Morgan was very honest in his way of speaking, but for a large portion of his speech was more pushing against the unhealthy ways of McDonald’s and how it’s a big evil corporation and so forth. Not that I don’t agree, but I wanted him to talk more about his process.

Once he finally got talking about his process though it seemed like it was just a miracle idea that just popped into his head. He decided to create Super Size me over a Thanksgiving coma when he was watching television and saw a clip of an indivual who was suing McDonalds for making them overweight. And he gathered all of his resources and went out on a limb and did that.

It seemed more like a comedy act than a speech. It was a pretty dynamic speech but it just made me want to stumble upon something that’ll give me recognition like him.