The only two documentaries I can recall seeing prior to the Errol Morris films we saw in class were \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Fahrenheit 911,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Super Size Me.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Errol Morris kind of opened my eyes to the complexities involved in producing such a film. While I found both \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Fahrenheit 911,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Super Size Me\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to be very interesting, and entertaining, I can also understand now that while they are all classified as documentaries, there are monumental differences in the way all of these film makers choose to go about expressing their message, and point of views. Both Michael Moore, and Morgan Spurlock seem to center their films in many ways around themselves. In Spurlock\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s case, in attempting to prove that Fast food (McDonalds in particular) was unhealthy, he involved himself in an experiment for a month I believe, where all he ate for breakfast, lunch, and dinner was McDonalds. While there were interviews with other people, several of whom believed they were overweight, and unhealthy due to the affects of fast food; the film was based primarily on the film maker Spurlock; and the changes that he underwent as he filled his body with unprecedented amounts of trans fats. The pictures of themselves on the front cover of their films are very telling. On the other hand, the cover of Morris\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Thin Blue Line\u00e2\u20ac\u009d features a photo of Randall Adams. In fact, Morris is no where to be found in any of his films. He is, in many ways an objective observer along with the rest of his audience. By the end of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The Thin Blue Line\u00e2\u20ac\u009d we are all for the most part convinced of Randall Adam\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s innocence; however, unlike Moore, and Spurlock, Morris was not blatant in revealing his bias. He focused on the people in the case, and let them piece together the puzzle of what actually occurred. In this way, Morris did not have to come right out and tell the audience, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Randall Adams DID NOT commit this crime!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d But by simply divulging the facts, as well as false aspects of the case in an objective way, the audience could come to their own conclusion about what really happened. I think that the methods used by all three film makers are certainly very affective\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6just look at some of the results. Through Errol Morris\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 film, Randall Adams was able to walk free after 12 years in prison; and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Super Size Me\u00e2\u20ac\u009d made such an impact, that McDonalds decided to rid the world of the extra large, extra unhealthy aspect of being able to super size value meals\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s pretty impressive. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The only two documentaries I can recall seeing prior to the Errol Morris films we saw in class were \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Fahrenheit 911,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Super Size Me.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Errol Morris kind of opened my eyes to the complexities involved in producing such a film. While I found both \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Fahrenheit 911,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d and \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Super Size Me\u00e2\u20ac\u009d to be very interesting, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/ellie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/ellie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/ellie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/ellie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/73"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/ellie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/ellie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/ellie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/ellie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.elsweb.org\/ellie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}