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Director hopes search for 'Bin Laden' fun

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Published: April 17, 2008 at 3:15 PM

LOS ANGELES, April 17 (UPI) -- A documentary filmmakers says he's exploring America's sense of fear as he traipses around the globe in search of Osama bin Laden.

Morgan Spurlock wasn't trained by special ops nor did he actually find bin Laden, the Los Angeles Times reported Friday. He just made a documentary, "Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?"

"There were so many expectations," Spurlock said of the documentary that opens Friday in Los Angeles. "I'm flattered that people had so much faith in me, but now audiences can just go and enjoy the movie."

He readily says he didn't expect to find the terrorist -- his real target was the fear he says he saw gripping his fellow U.S. citizens.

When he tells people to enjoy his movies, Spurlock means it -- because, he said, non-fiction films and fun aren't mutually exclusive. In his debut film, "Super Size Me," Spurlock put himself on a month-long diet of nothing but McDonald's food to show America's addiction to fast food.

"I knew where we would start," Spurlock says of his celluloid search, "but I didn't know where we'd end."

Topics: bin Laden, Morgan Spurlock, Osama bin Laden
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