Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock, an Oscar-nominee who made food and American diets his life's work, famously eating only at McDonald’s for a month to illustrate the dangers of a fast-food diet, has died. He was 53.
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00:10 I think people know fast food is bad for you.
00:36 But I don't think people realize how bad fast food is for you.
00:39 And what I'm showing in the film is over a long period
00:43 of eating a high fat, high sugar, overconsuming,
00:46 under-exercising diet, this is what can happen to you.
00:50 While I kind of fast forwarded your life
00:52 in a period of like 30 days of here's what's going to happen,
00:54 this happens regularly to people across the world.
00:57 And I think that people don't realize
01:00 that just these types of diets can be very dangerous.
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01:09 More people are going to see this film on opening day
01:26 worldwide than have seen all my films in theaters combined.
01:31 So I think, no, it's not depressing.
01:33 It's part of the reason why I wanted to make this film,
01:35 because as a filmmaker, you want to make things
01:36 that appeal to an audience.
01:38 We make pop docs already.
01:39 And what's better pop than this?
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