Ecstasy of Order: The Tetris Masters director Adam Cornelius on entertainment in documentaries
Adam Cornelius: I didn't realize, but the fast majority of documentaries are pretty serious. Usually they're about sort of a current affairs, sort of a somber topic, you know. You name it, you know. And environmental thing or human trafficking or there's lots of very, very sad stories to be told. So it kind of puts you in a minority to do a documentary that's actually lighthearted. And that's great. But I don't really think it... I mean, I think every documentary has value. And that's why I like doing documentaries. Because anything, even if the documentary is not very good, you still have captured a moment in time that otherwise wouldn't be available to see. So I even am thankful for the YouTube videos that come out on a cellphone, if it's something that is interesting. It's just a process of archival. So I view all documentaries as worthwhile, even the ones that are poorly made. So I'm just a big fan of documentaries.
There's no question that the popularity to documentaries, I think, probably stems from the more lighthearted ones that have been made. If you look at, there are some good examples, like you mentioned Morgan Spurlock, Michael Moore makes really entertaining... there's always humor. I think the idea of having humor in documentary is relatively new. Teams like, maybe Errol Morris was one of the first to have humorous documentaries. And that was not that long ago. That was in the eighties. So I think specifically having humor in documentaries is definitely making the genre more popular. Yeah, sure. And I think our film has some humor.
