December 05, 2007

Documentary Filmmaker Finds Osama bin Laden!

Has documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock of Super Size Me succeeded where the CIA has failed and located Osama bin Laden? That's what internet rumors are saying is the the end product of his new film: Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?

Of course, there's a reason we don't let students cite the internet in research papers: it's the effing internet!

This is what Josh Tyler at Cinima Blend concludes:

I can’t even begin to imagine the media madness this film will unleash if Morgan Spurlock actually found and hung out with Osama Bin Laden. It instantly raises a lot of important questions like... if mustachioed Morgan Spurlock can find him, don’t you have to assume the US government isn’t even trying?

Richard Adams points out that the rumor is being based on a stupid misreading of this quote from Vanity Fair:

"We've definitely got the Holy Grail"

"We've definitely got the Holy Grail," avers Spurlock's New York-based director of photography on the project, Daniel Marracino. "Visually, this film is just going to be gorgeous."

1) Bin Laden is dead and the Bush-Haliburton regime has been busy covering up that fact so they can exploit it for their unjust wars on the Taliban and al Qaeda in Iraq. Hence, not finding bin Laden is "irony" because there is no bin Laden to find.

2) No one--not even brilliant filmmakers--can find bin Laden thanks to Bush-Haliburton distraction of bombing babies in Iraq for oil.

I'd like to try my hand at ironic filmmaking someday. How about this for film plot: American filmmaker goes to Pakistan seeking to find Osama bin Laden. Actually finds bin Laden. Is beheaded on film.

Irony. Or something like it.

Thanks to Birddog26