Fast Food Nation – Do you want lies with that?
I have a great appreciation for talented and creative souls. The team over at free range studios are gifted to say the least. A few months ago I watched their Meatrix series and I was an instant fan. free range has a bevy of talent with gifted flash programmers, illustrators and writers.
Recently, they were hired by Participant Productions to produce “Backwards Hamburger” to help promote Fast Food Nation that will hit theatres on November 17th. The animated film follows a burger backwards to the feedlot, and identifies the many environmental and social costs that go into that grilled morsel of meat we call a burger. After watching the short clip it has me wanting to sit outside my local Burger King or McDonald’s with my laptop showing people this video clip. Perhaps we can change people’s minds into eating locally instead of these powerhouse fast food chains. I think Bentley and I should mark a date in our calendars to go see Fast Food Nation. We will write a review of the movie and post in our website. If anyone wants to post their review, feel free to email us and we will gladly post it.
Here is a synopsis of Fast Food Nation from the website:
Inspired by the incendiary bestseller that exposed the hidden facts behind America’s fast food industry comes a powerful drama that takes an eye-opening journey into the dark heart of the All-American meal. Richard Linklater’s FAST FOOD NATION traces the birth of an everyday, ordinary burger through a chain of riveting, interlocked human stories – from a hopeful, young immigrant couple who cross the border to work in a perilous meat-packing plant, to a teen clerk who dreams of life beyond the counter; to the corporate marketing whiz who is shocked to discover that his latest burger invention – “The Big One” – is literally full of manure. As the film traverses from pristine barbeque smoke labs to the volatile U.S.-Mexican border, it unveils a provocative portrait of all the yearning, ambition, corruption and hope that lies inside what America is biting into.
The Backwards Hamburger website is also worth checking out.
Fast Food Nation website – filled with great facts and information.
free range studios website – Watch the Meatrix and read about the company
Written by steve on November 16th, 2006 with
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