{"id":438,"date":"2017-04-13T19:15:01","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T19:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moviesformysoul.com\/?p=438"},"modified":"2018-04-15T13:54:30","modified_gmt":"2018-04-15T17:54:30","slug":"the-founder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moviesformysoul.com\/the-founder\/","title":{"rendered":"The Founder – Birdman serving you a Big Mac"},"content":{"rendered":"
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And for me, if you played Batman<\/strong>, you were the man<\/strong>! It was one of the first actors whom I can remember his name. That was in ’90 or something when I was four years old. And since then, like in Birdman, he kind of went in the fog. A little bit in Robocop as I just remembered now. But that was it.<\/p>\n This weekend I’ve been watching 3 movies, all of them based on true stories, recent stories. One was Gold<\/strong> starring Matthew McConaughey alongside Edgar Ramirez<\/strong>, a Venezuelan actor who I look forward to seeing again in other big Hollywood productions. I’ve seen with him The Liberator<\/strong><\/a> and I definitely recommend watching it. It’s part of America’s (south) history. As for Matthew McConaughey<\/strong> (so hard typing and pronouncing his name) well, he’s not an actor. He’s a character (like Al Pacino<\/strong> and Robert De Niro<\/strong>) and he really doesn’t act much. All his parts are pretty much the same. And of course, I meant that in the best way possible.<\/p>\n The other one, Patriots Day<\/strong>, is about a tragic event that was too recent if you would ask\u00a0me and would not like to talk about it (for now) here. As the commemoration is really close let’s take a moment of silence in the memory of all terrorism victims out there and in the meantime let’s reflect on life<\/em> itself and how fragile it is.<\/p>\n Also, IMDB is suggesting the same 3 movies so it must be legit \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n I’ve decided to write a couple of words about this one, The founder<\/strong>, for more than the reason for the main character that’s personalized by Michael Keaton. It isn’t the fact that is about McDonald’s<\/strong>, which I love (and who doesn’t?).<\/p>\n I guess the main reason for this article is because it’s about perseverance. There’s a sequence in the movie when Raymond Kroc<\/strong>, (arguably) the founder of what we know today to be McDonald’s<\/strong> – the most successful restaurant chain in the world- where he, a 50+ something salesman, alone in a hotel room after a hard day work, away from his home and his wife, listens to a record (did they had turntables back then in the hotel room or did he brought his own?). It was a motivational record from a fictional character<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0and the part, soon to memorize, was about persistence.<\/p>\n Knowing about the Self Help – Personal Development<\/strong>\u00a0literature. I am familiar with the works of Brian Tracy,<\/strong> Napoleon Hill<\/strong>, and Anthony Tony<\/em> Robbins<\/strong>. Inevitably in our lifetime, we intersect with it. It depends on what and how much anybody wants to get from it.<\/p>\n It doesn’t say more than common sense. And they don’t reinvent the wheel. They’ve just structured our lives and insisted on something and made a (good) living on it. Because it’s about persistence as we find out.<\/p>\n Some people tend to over exaggerate with it. Most of them are young and they are excited about finding out that there is a way of arranging our lives to be successful. Others are old and broke, financially and emotionally, and they hang on to this lifestyle because they don’t have anything else to hang on to (family, religion, future). They are the ones that become like zombies and they are usually in the sales business – but they’re not successful.<\/p>\nSo what if this is a giant McDonalds commercial?<\/h2>\n