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Genre | Drama |
Format | NTSC, Widescreen, Subtitled |
Contributor | John Lynch, Patrick Wilson, FilmNation Entertainment, B.J. Novak, Michael Keaton, Linda Cardellini, Jeremy Renner, Don Handfield, Laura Dern, Nick Offerman, Aaron Ryder, John Hancock See more |
Language | English |
Runtime | 1 hour and 34 minutes |
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THE FOUNDER is a drama that tells the true story of how Ray Kroc, a salesman from Illinois, met Mac and Dick McDonald, who were running a burger operation in 1950s Southern California. Kroc was impressed by the brothers' speedy system of making the food and saw franchise potential. He maneuvered himself into a position to be able to pull the company from the brothers and create a billion-dollar empire.
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- Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
- MPAA rating : PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
- Product Dimensions : 0.7 x 7.5 x 5.4 inches; 0.01 ounces
- Audio Description: : English
- Director : John Hancock
- Media Format : NTSC, Widescreen, Subtitled
- Run time : 1 hour and 34 minutes
- Release date : April 18, 2017
- Actors : Michael Keaton, Linda Cardellini, Patrick Wilson, Nick Offerman, Laura Dern
- Producers : Jeremy Renner, Aaron Ryder, Don Handfield
- Studio : Lionsgate
- ASIN : B01LTIAQEG
- Country of Origin : USA
- Number of discs : 1
- Best Sellers Rank: #5,251 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
- #760 in Drama DVDs
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A SOURCE OF COURAGE. Since I received shipment of this movie, I have watched it over twentyfive times. Michael Keaton's depiction of persistence and courage, in the face of continued adversity and failure, is a source of strength to me. For example, the scene where Mr. Keaton listens to a vinyl record with the "persistence speech" can be a source of strength to almost anyone. In particular, I liked the quotation from Emerson - - - A man is what he thinks about all day long. The scene where Michael Keaton puts his hand into the earth where his first McDonald's is going to be built, and where Mr. Keaton mutters words of hope to himself, can be a source of courage to almost anyone. In this movie, adversity takes the form of: (1) Restaurant owners refusing to buy Prince Castle milk shake mixers; (2) Retired idle rich from the club, who have agreed to invest in new McDonald's restaurants, end up mis-managing these new restaurants, where their mistakes include selling chicken and biscuits; (3) The remark from Laura Dern's character to Michael Keaton, YOU WOULD HAVE A GOOD LIFE, IF YOU WERE NOT TOO BUSY TO LIVE IT. This is the greatest bit of dialogue from the entire movie. I love it!!!!
MISTAKE MADE BY WIKIPEDIA. In the write-up about this movie (The Founder), Wikipedia states that this movie is a comedy. This is incorrect. The notion that this movie is a comedy is ABSOLUTELY ABSURD. The comment by Wikipedia that the movie is a comedy IS DEVOID OF REASON AND SENSE.
RAY KROK MATERIALIZES. A transition in this movie occurs, where Mr. Ray Krok materializes, and where he is shown peddling his milk shake mixing machine. The machine weighs about 50 pounds, and we see Mr. Krok driving to various potential customers, with the mixing machine in the rear trunk. We see Mr. Krok making some sales, and also failing to achieve sales. How pathetic it is to see Mr. Krok lifting the 50 pound mixer out of the trunk, carrying it to a potential customer, and then failing to achieve a sale, carrying it back to his automobile and sticking it back in the trunk.
RAY KROK TAKES OVER. Somewhat early in this movie, Ray Krok meets the McDonald brothers, and tries to convince them that they should franchise their operation to him. They are not sure at first, but do enjoy the idea of having their family name becoming a famous name. And so, the McDonald brothers stay in San Bernardino, while Ray Krok sets up operation in the mid-west, that is, in the Chicago area. Eventually, as many Americans know, Ray Krok claims that he is the person who opened the first McDonald's restaurant, and that he is the person who devised the name, "McDonalds." The rest is history.
TAKE-HOME LESSON. The main take-home lesson from this movie, is that the McDonald brothers were totally content with devoting all of their energies to their one and only location, that is, their single location in San Bernardino (corner of 1398 North E Street and West 14th Street), and it was Ray Krok who was the one who developed all of the innovations of the McDonald brothers, to create a chain of restaurants, that was highly successful and popular throughout the entire world. This type of fact-pattern is common in the history of the world. Here are some examples. Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity was developed from Hendrik Lorentz's formulas. To provide another example from physics, Isaac Newton is famed for saying: -- If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulder of giants -- ; To provide examples from the field of music, it is widely appreciated that CREAM (Ginger Baker, Jack Bruce, Eric Clapton) derived their music from acoustic Mississippi Delta bluesman. And so, what would you rather listen to, recordings by various Mississippi Delta bluesmen, strumming on guitars, and singing in their whiny voices, or listen to high-potency electric blues from CREAM recordings? Another pathway of innovation occurred in the transition from folk music to folk rock, where innocuous-sounding folk songs played with acoustic accompaniments were converted to high-potency multi-voiced soaring harmonies, driven by electric twelve string guitars, electric bass guitars, and propelled by jazz-inspired drum kit. This transition can be found in the recordings of THE BYRDS and by MAMAS AND THE PAPAS. And so, while the accomplishments of Mr. Ray Kroc are phenomenal, the technique of taking an existing innovation, and developing it, is a recurring feature of human history (as wonderfully disclosed in the movie, THE FOUNDER).
EXTRAS. This DVD provides a panel interview and discussion with many of the actors from this movie. The panel sits at a long table. Included in this lineup are two grandsons of Ray Krok. This is a great extra, and I was glad that it was included in this movie.
SECOND VIEWING. Upon my second viewing, I decided that THE FOUNDER was going to be one of those movies that I watch repeatedly. There is no question that I will be watching THE FOUNDER again and again and again, perhaps twice a year, for the next dozen years. That is how inspiring this fricken' movie is. Also, upon my second viewing, I noticed the music more. The music is like dignified chamber music with woodwinds and strings. Also, what I liked was one episode in THE FOUNDER where the music took the form of a recording by PENGUIN CAFE ORCHESTRA.
Now I’m trying to replicate how they make cheeseburgers, so that is not a healthy outcome of watching this.
Ray Kroc was born in Oak Park, Illinois and he opened his first McDonald’s franchise on Lee Street in Des Plaines, where I grew up. I passed by the old McDonald’s museum hundreds of times, but never knew the story of how McDonald’s got its start. Ray Kroc himself was responsible for much of the popular mythology behind the company’s founding. His claim of being “the founder,” despite his first McDonald’s restaurant actually being the ninth, was so ostentatious, it turned out to be the perfect title for a film about his life.
The film charts Ray Kroc’s rise from struggling milkshake salesman to restaurant/real estate mogul, his tumultuous relationship with the McDonald brothers and his wife Ethel (Laura Dern), and his unshakable faith in persistence. The movie’s first half tells the inspiring story of how Kroc turns around his business prospects despite daunting odds. The second half shows him screwing over everyone who helped him along the way, even stealing a restaurant owner’s wife.
The Founder is historically accurate, for the most part. Some of Kroc’s relationships are simplified for the sake of plot, including omitting a brief second marriage before marrying Joan, the restaurant owner’s wife. In real life, Joan was not actually married to the restaurant owner as the film depicts, but to another man who became a manager at McDonald’s. It also omits Ray’s daughter, Marilyn.
It’s difficult to reconcile Kroc’s personality at the beginning of the film with his personality at the end. I think the filmmakers wanted to show how success and ambition corrupted him and destroyed his personal relationships. His relationship with his business partners was a little more complex, however. The McDonald brothers basically sat back and profited from Kroc’s hard work as he flew all over the country setting up franchises, while stubbornly resisting his every idea, including simple suggestions to increase profitability.
The McDonald brothers didn’t tell Kroc they already sold the rights to their name in Cook County, Illinois, where he wanted to open his first location. He had to pay $25,000 to buy out the contract. Later, when he finally bought out the McDonald brothers, they insisted at the closing negotiation the deal didn’t include their original location. So Kroc famously made them change the name and then opened a McDonald’s across the street, putting them out of business.
In the film, this negotiation is portrayed as one-sided, with Kroc simply screwing the McDonald brothers out of their royalty with a handshake deal. His refusal to honor the royalty, however, was partially driven by his belief that the McDonald brothers screwed him out of their original location. At that point, I think there was genuine animosity between them. None of this is to absolve Ray Kroc of any share of the blame, but it’s just to say that things were a little more complex than The Founder lets on.
Director John Lee Hancock described his concept of The Founder as The Social Network (2010) meets There Will Be Blood (2007), so that helps explain why the story took this route.
Nick Offerman of Parks and Recreation (2009–2015) was great as obsessive-compulsive Dick McDonald, but Michael Keaton’s studied, careful portrayal of Ray Kroc carries the movie. His vocal cadence is memorable and infectious. He gets the McDonald brothers, as well as the audience, into the palm of his hand before ruthlessly crushing them. His speech, in which he lays out his vision for a McDonald’s in every American town, “the new American church,” will go down as one of the great movie monologues.
Overall, The Founder is a compelling portrayal of American business and the price of success.