Over the course of a month, Spurlock commited himself to a diet consisting purely of McDonalds menu items. After certain specifications and stipulations were put into place, Spurlock began his "McDiet" which soon proved to be a gruesome and nauseating experience. Almost instantly after the start of the documentary, it becomes apparent that Spurlock was subjecting himself for the sake of health revelations. In the humorous, insightful documentary Super Size Me, director Morgan Spurlock combines his unique style of participatory narration with strong appeals to ethos, pathos and logos in order to successfully educate the audience of the negative health impacts of fast food on the collective physique. Sporlock takes on the unique stle of participatory narration in order to create an intense level of engagement between the filmmaker and the viewers, thus making the film more personal and effective.
I know that if you eat too much acidic food than you can get wicked bad heart burn to the point it feels like your heart is on fire. This movie would definitely change how I eat at Mcdonalds!, no more chicken nuggets for me after I saw how they made them. Morgan had started to have very bad chest pains once he started to eat all of the Mcdonalds in one month. It was hard to believe that there were seventeen different Mcdonalds in New York City in that little town. People say that it is Mcdonalds fault for them gaining weight, but what they don’t understand is that they have the choice wether they should eat it or not, or even how much they eat.
Yeah that’s what I like. I would have this Thanksgiving in my house. In this 34 feet long and 6 feet wide wooden table, filled with my favorite food specially that juicy flavored food that would make your mouth drop and watered like I’m doing right now, just by thinking about it. In the middle of the table 2 large stuffed turkeys 10 inches apart. The table would also have * Soft warm bread that just got out the oven; * Extra Hot Wings with fries, a lot of ranch; * Mom’s delicious Mexican style beans and rice and a lot of bacon to eat like I’ve never eaten before; * For the drinks would include unlimited Dr. Pepper, unlimited Pepsi, unlimited sweet tea, and unlimited hot drinks for the cold weather.
When I think of the best slapstick moment of the film, I think of the food fight scene. Bluto, who’s played by John Belushi, piles up his tray with food and sits down with his friends and enemies for lunch. He squishes green Jell-O into his mouth which causes one of the girls to insult him by saying, “That boy is a P-I-G, Pig.” Bluto responds by saying,” See if you can guess, what I am now.” He puts a rice ball into his mouth, puffs up his cheeks, then spits it on everyone at the table and says, “I’m a zit, get it”. This scene quickly turns into a food fight which shows all the attributes of a slapstick joke. Showing violent action to demonstrate humor such as food fight, or spitting food at people represents slapstick hilarity at its finest.
Poker Face Have you ever walked into a restaurant and placed an order, only to hear the waitress repeat something completely different to the cook? You want a hotdog and beans and she’s asking for a bowwow and bullets? That’s the beauty of jargon, and many of America’s greatest occupations and past times include their own special set of terms. Poker is no exception. The game of Texas Hold’em has been growing in popularity over the years and has even secured publicity on many major television networks.
During a commercial break, an advertisement for a pizza place comes on showing a delicious pepperoni pizza dripping with tomato sauce and cheese. Suddenly, everyone in the room is now starving and they are all craving a hot, hand tossed pizza. Ironically, no one was even hungry before seeing the commercial but now they can’t seem to shake the idea of ordering one from the local pizza parlor. That is exactly what the commercial was put out to do. It’s introducing an idea or thought to an audience with the hope of making them see it, then want it so badly that they have to get it.
Chicken of the Sea International The Jessica Simpson Spokesperson Decision Teaching Note Case Overview This case examines Chicken of the Sea International (COSI), one of the major competitors in the canned/packaged tuna and seafood industry, and the decision facing the company’s senior vice president of marketing as to whether the he should hire pop star Jessica Simpson as a spokesperson. COSI received a tremendous amount of publicity in the Fall of 2003 and early 2004 following the famous fish faux pas that Simpson made on the MTV reality show The Newlyweds: Nick & Jessica. While eating a can of Chicken of the Sea tuna Simpson turned to her co-star husband and asked the whether the product inside is chicken or tuna. Simpson’s gaffe became the target of jokes and a myriad of media stories that resulted in a great deal of publicity for Chicken of the Sea. The company took advantage of the incident by having her make a surprise visit to its annual sales meeting in October 2003.
Then the third one you see actress Paris Hilton wearing a skin tight swimsuit, washing a car. She makes sexual motions and has that sexy body language. At the very end of what seems to be a soft-core porn ad, Paris Hilton takes a bite out of a Carl’s Jr. Spicy Burger. Now is this what you want your young, influential child to be seeing while they are in the middle of watching there show? That is one of many examples of television advertising pushing the bar.
Even some of the athletes grasp the opportunity to work with McDonald’s. After winning 2 gold medals at the Olympic Games in Beijing Rebecca Adlington was interviewed by The Independent and said: “I’m going to go to McDonald’s, after all this hard work, and watching what I eat, I just fancy a burger and some chips.” Research shows that children see fast food as less unhealthy if associated with sports and doctors agree that the sponsorship is wrong and could worsen the obesity epidemic as people will begin to link the fast food with fit healthy athletes. When the public is asked if you think the sponsors should be healthier on an online survey only one-in-five agreed though that it was appropriate for these brands to be allowed to be 2012 Olympic sponsors and sixty per cent agreed that the
Coincidentally, George Naddaff, owner of 19 Kentucky Fried Chicken franchises, caught on to the “home-cooked” fast food idea and purchased a Boston Market franchise. Boston Market’s direct competition at that point, wanted to participate in their concept which carried them far beyond their current sales and revenue. Some indirect competitors of Boston Market eventually got involved as well. McDonalds ended up purchasing the chain of stores in 1998 and changed a few things to increase the appeal of Boston Market to its consumers. Fortunately for McDonalds, they are a big enough corporate themselves which enabled them to make this deal with Boston Market, whereas the other indirect competitors (local sub shops, Chinese restaurants, etc.)