27年前の昨日起きたこと

1990年1月31日にモスクワでマクドナルド１号店が開店したそうですね。ソ連崩壊が翌年暮れの1991年12月とされているので直前にすでに開店していたことになります。この頃は自由主義や資本主義、グローバル化に期待を持てた時期だったとノスタルジーを感じるほどです。。。



ちょうどマクドナルドを世界的なチェーン店にしたレイクロックの映画が米国で公開されているようです。映画の評価はイマイチのようですが。。。

日本だと51歳から起業して夢を叶えたというプロジェクトX的な感動物語の方向性で映画を作りそうですが、こちらはマクドナルド兄弟を蹴落としていったダークサイドも描いているようです。あとは現状ではトランプとどうしても比較してしまうようです。

How Ray Kroc Became an American Villain
Considered a 20th-century hero by his contemporaries, the story of the McDonald’s mogul gets a 21st-century spin in The Founder.
ADAM CHANDLER JAN 26, 2017

Simmering grievances against the fast-food industry don’t entirely explain why the story of Ray Kroc merits relevance in 2017. The Founder also bears some strong resemblances to recent industry-themed movies—Steve Jobs, The Social Network—that have not only sought to chronicle the histories of hugely influential companies and gesture at their far-reaching impacts, but also gawk doubtfully at the manias of their creators. As a title, The Founder is a provocation: After all, the McDonald brothers created McDonald’s and, like the Winklevii of an earlier era, their roles have been mostly written out of the history.

Another potential and potent reason for its newsworthiness has to do with an additional theme that connects Kroc to the present day: the arrival of a hectoring, fast-food-loving salesman into the highest seat of power. “However decent the director’s original intentions, The Founder emerges as the first Trumpist film of the new era,” wrote The New Yorker’s Anthony Lane in his review. Another entry from Flavorpill is entitled “I Dare You to Watch ‘The Founder’ Without Thinking About Trump.” That The Founder’s release date switched twice before it was finally slated for wide release on Inauguration Day only fuels this theory.



ただ相変わらず日本公開は未定のようです。。。