THE FOUNDER

THE FOUNDER. John Lee Hancock, dir. Robert D. Siegel, script. USA:,FiimNation Entertainments and The Weinstein Company present Faliro House Productions, The Combine Speedie Distribution (prod.) / Weinstein (US dist)., 2017. See IMDb for complexities of distribution.

Logline on IMDb: "The story of Ray Kroc, a salesman who turned two brothers' innovative fast food eatery, McDonald's, into one of the biggest restaurant businesses in the world with a combination of ambition, persistence, and ruthlessness." It is never made explicit, but the innovation of the McDonald brothers was applying to the drive-in restaurant model the time-motion techniques of Frederick Winslow Taylor and, to a lesser extent, the production theories of Henry Ford. Note scene of balletic movement of workers as the McDonald brothers figure out the most efficient design of their store (a word that is used in the movie).

RDE, 31/I/17