From "Tucker: The Man and His Dream" to "The Social Network" and "Jobs," the filmmaker's re-telling of the startup's story usually is a combination of reluctant admiration mixed with the perception/dramatic hook that the only way someone in business can be successful is by stepping on someone else (although in "Tucker," the entrepreneur was the guy who got stepped on, unlike the Winkelvoss twins or Steve Wozniak). I am always interested in the way filmmakers portray entrepreneurs. They also owned and franchised the first restaurants with that name. The title refers to the fact that he went so far as to credit himself with founding McDonald's, even though two McDonald brothers invented everything from the number of steps required in food preparation all the way up to the golden arches. I went to see "The Founder" this week, the movie about how Ray Kroc rose from selling milkshake mixers to growing the world's first fast-food empire and ultimately claiming it as his own.
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