andy warhol

About this scene Leth gives a few details:

[Warhol] is told that he has to say his name and that he should do so when he has finished performing his action, but what happens is that the action takes a very long time to perform; it’s simply agonizing. I have to admit that I personally adore that, because its a pure homage to Warhol. It couldn’t be more Warholesque. That’s of course why he agreed to do it.

“What’s great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest. You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good. Liz Taylor knows it, the President knows it, the bum knows it, and you know it.” - warhol

this shows his brand fasinaction. i just find the film very bizarre like you want to keep watching it to see what happens and if anything does or if is simply eating a burger. but also the fact that your watching a man awkwardly eating a burger kind of makes you want to look away and give him his privacy. i think the response you get from this video really works and i like the simplicity of it