Sam+C.

Topic: FAST FOOD NATION By: Peewee

Introduction: In America we have a serious problem: obesity. This doesn't come from the fact that we don't diet and exercise. It comes from the fact that we are eating too much fast food. People consume HUGE amounts of burgers, fries etc. without asking themselves the question "What's in this burger I'm eating?" In this movie I'm going to explain what's in the burger and why it's bad for you.

Characters: Peewee: Cook/cashier/narrator/etc. Hunter: Fat guy who eats fast food. Rafael: Skinny guy who eats beef. Ethan: Cameraman.

ACT 1: In act one I will appear as the narrator There going to be an introduction how after watching the movie "Fast Food Nation" I looked at my favorite foods with different eyes and reconsidered my eating habits. The monologue will include some short facts, for example, about how fast food is bad for you and how grade A beef is good for you. There will be multiple camera angles and it will be like a news caster's report. This will take from 30-60 seconds.

ACT 2: Here I will show two scenes, one of Ethan eating fast food burgers and another of Rafael eating good burgers. I will say how this is their daily diet and then show Ethan all plumped up with pillows in order to make him look fat and Rafi the same. This will take from 1-2 minutes.

ACT 3: Here I will conclude the movie by giving some information about nutrition of beef and about mass production of hamburger patties and what goes into them. It is going to look that I am pretty much advertising grade A beef and I will be doing a kind of commercial. This will take about a minute.

Total time: Approx. 2:30 ->4:00 minutes.

Dialog: ACT 1: Scene 1. My face appears in the first shot. The camera moves back showing me holding a Big Mac and I appear to be eating it. I suddenly notice the camera and begin talking. "Oh hi, you've caught me on my lunch break. While I'm eating, let me tell you some things about what I'm eating. I'm eating a Big Mac, with some fries and a soda. This is a classic McDonalds meal. I'm positive that most of you have eaten this meal at least once in your lifetime. *Change View* But what you don't know about this classic meal is that it can kill you (serious face) Literally. *change view* In this video you will see why it's bad for you and how it happens. In the mean time, I'm gonna finish this meal. *Starts eating it*

Scene 2: Here it's a kind of monotonous narrators voice. It kind of a slideshow and it explains the process of making fast food beef and grade a beef. Narrator: The meal you have just seen consists of 1230 calories. Might not seem like a lot, but out of a 2000 calorie per day diet, 1230 for one meal is more than you want. (Picture is of the meal than an equal sign shows up and the number 1200 comes here making it like an equation.) Breaking the meal down, the Big Mac is 540 calories which is approximately how much per meal. Medium fries are 380 calories and a large coke is 310. Separately it doesn't seem to be like a lot, but it is. (Picture is a slideshow of all the food separated)

ACT 2: Here I'll be standing with Ethan on one side of me and Rafi on the other. No one will have pillows yet. "Now, let's experiment with using Grade A 100% beef and using McDonalds beef. Ethan here will be eating McDonalds and Rafi will be eating good beef. We're gonna give them these types of food for a month. After a month, we will compare who is in better shape. Let's get started!" Here we will show Rafi and Ethan eating the food in various very short clips. The clips will be from 2-5 seconds long. This will, probably take about 30 seconds. "Alright, a month has passed, so lets see what happened." Ethan will have pillows up his shirt and Rafi will be the same as before. "As you can see, Ethan has gained a considerable amount of weight. Rafi has gained close to nothing. This is what McDonalds does to you."

ACT 3: Narrator (me): "Now you know how bad fast food patties are and how much they affect how you look. Now lets look at what's inside the patty. Beef come from cows. We all know that. But what you don't know is what goes into the cow. The cows are fed with special preservatives that make them grow bigger, faster. But there's a problem with that. When ever someone eats the cow (hamburgers), the person himself is growing as well. That's how they gain weight. There is also a problem in the way that the patties are made. When cows are being sent to a slaughter house to be turned into beef, they aren't just painlessly killed. First they get stunned by a worker who shocks them in the head with a bolt stunner. This isn't always a one shot thing, too. Sometimes the "shooter" misses a couple of times and has to shock the cow multiple times. When the cow is shocked, it is than chained up from it's hind legs to a long conveyor belt type thing. It moves the cows slowly down the "belt" until it arrives to it's destination and has it's carotid artery cut up. Keep in mind that the cow is alive the entire process and while it's moving down the line it is in pain and most likely realizes that it's going to die. The cow becomes terrified and it's hormones rush throughout it's body. Finally it comes to another worker who cuts the artery. Even then the cow doesn't die right away. You have to wait until the cow dies from blood loss. Because of the hormones, the meat tastes differently than if a person walked up to a cow and killed it quickly and painlessly without terror.

Well I hope you learned something about this whole situation and that you think twice before ordering that Big Mac. Thanks!

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