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They also aim to show, not tell. Moore is a terrific salesman for his point of view, but the new dockers avoid the omniscient narrator, who conjures up dusty memories of driver-safety films. "Documentaries used to have that should factor," says Dana Adam Shapiro, who co-directed Murderball with Henry Alex Rubin. "Like, you should know about the horrors of Vietnam. But it wasn't entertaining. We wanted to make a movie about these quadriplegics, not a movie about quadriplegia. We wanted it told from their perspective, which is why we shot much of the film from a wheelchair...
...Shapiro may be exaggerating the public's docuphobia. Consider how quickly the home audience tired of sitcom verities and embraced the supposedly factual dramas laid out in Survivor and its spawn. If reality TV can take over, why not reality...
...reality MTV. That network's film division is distributing Murderball--which Shapiro says is "definitely more MTV than PBS"--and will give it plenty of on-air promotion this month. MTV's kid brother, Nickelodeon Movies, put money into Mad Hot Ballroom. When dockers go to Nick and MTV rather than to the New York State Council on the Arts for support, something has changed. Docs have stopped relying on government sponsorship which was drying up anyway) and found allies in the marketplace. Mark Zupan, one of the "stars" of Murderball, will be part of Reebok's "I Am What...
...real-life Pitt has done right by Shapiro. The actor's production company has optioned Shapiro's novel The Every Boy and signed Shapiro to write and direct the movie version. "My goal was to make a great documentary, not to get a job in Hollywood," Shapiro insists. "But it's not a bad by-product...
...Shapiro will join a distinguished roster of filmmakers who either got their start in docs or frequently return to them. Frank Capra, John Ford, John Huston and William Wyler all directed World War II docs. Robert Altman made his feature-film debut in 1957 with The James Dean Story. Martin Scorsese has made nearly as many documentaries as fiction features. (His study of Bob Dylan premieres on PBS in September. He is also in talks to do a film on Airbus.) Such notables as Jonathan Demme, Spike Lee, Taylor Hackford and Michael Apted still shuttle from one form...