Fast Food (1989) — AI Story Visualization

Plot Analysis Summary

Two perpetual college students pursue fast success through a burger joint, only to discover that their special sauce functions as a sex drug.

Story Structure — 5 Plot Phases

Students Awaiting Escape

Auggie and Drew are perpetual college students whose school is ready to let them graduate just to be rid of them. Their shared situation establishes their friendship and stagnation.

Key Events

• Perpetual Student Pair — Auggie and Drew remain perpetual college students. Characters: Auggie, Drew Location: College
• School Loses Patience — Their school has become tired of their prolonged student status. Characters: Auggie, Drew Location: College
• Graduation Becomes Necessary — The school plans to let them graduate simply to get rid of them. Characters: Auggie, Drew Location: College
• Auggie's Ambition — Auggie wants to make it big fast. Characters: Auggie
• The Easy Way — He pursues what he sees as the proverbial easy way to success. Characters: Auggie

The Fast Success Scheme

Auggie wants to make it big fast through the easy way. He chooses a burger joint as his latest scheme, with Drew helping him pursue it.

Key Events

• The Easy Way — He pursues what he sees as the proverbial easy way to success. Characters: Auggie
• Burger Joint Scheme — Auggie's latest scheme is opening a burger joint. Characters: Auggie Location: Planned burger joint
• Drew Joins The Plan — Drew helps Auggie pursue the burger-joint plan. Characters: Auggie, Drew Location: Planned burger joint
• Customer Attraction Idea — They create a special sauce to help entice customers. Characters: Auggie, Drew Location: Burger joint
• Sauce Development — Auggie and Drew develop an unusually distinctive sauce. Characters: Auggie, Drew Location: Burger joint

Sauce Fuels Success

The pair develops a very special sauce intended to entice customers. The burger joint appears to become a huge success.

Key Events

• Sauce Development — Auggie and Drew develop an unusually distinctive sauce. Characters: Auggie, Drew Location: Burger joint
• Very Special Sauce — Their completed sauce becomes the business's unusual attraction. Characters: Auggie, Drew Location: Burger joint
• Customers Are Enticed — The sauce helps attract customers to the new establishment. Characters: Auggie, Drew Location: Burger joint
• Business Seems Successful — The burger joint appears to be a huge success. Characters: Auggie, Drew Location: Burger joint
• Success Raises Questions — The scale of the apparent success is linked to the unusual sauce. Characters: Auggie, Drew Location: Burger joint

The Hidden Side Effect

The special sauce is revealed to have an odd and unexpected effect. It functions as a sex drug rather than merely a customer-attracting condiment.

Key Events

• Success Raises Questions — The scale of the apparent success is linked to the unusual sauce. Characters: Auggie, Drew Location: Burger joint
• Odd Side Effect — The special sauce produces an unexpected odd side effect. Characters: Auggie, Drew Location: Burger joint
• Sauce Is A Sex Drug — The sauce is revealed to function as a sex drug. Characters: Auggie, Drew Location: Burger joint
• Business Meaning Changes — The sauce's true effect changes the meaning of the restaurant's success. Characters: Auggie, Drew Location: Burger joint
• Unexpected Consequences — The unexpected drug effect creates consequences for the business. Characters: Auggie, Drew Location: Burger joint

Success Turns To Trouble

The sauce's unexpected function transforms the pair's apparent success into a serious problem. This consequence begins the film's central conflict.

Key Events

• Unexpected Consequences — The unexpected drug effect creates consequences for the business. Characters: Auggie, Drew Location: Burger joint
• The Trouble Begins — The sex-drug side effect marks the beginning of the central trouble. Characters: Auggie, Drew Location: Burger joint
• Scheme Becomes Liability — The shortcut to success becomes the source of the pair's trouble. Characters: Auggie, Drew Location: Burger joint
• Central Conflict Established — Auggie and Drew face the consequences of their sexually active special sauce. Characters: Auggie, Drew Location: Burger joint

Story Breakdown

• Perpetual Student Life — Auggie and Drew remain stuck in college while their school grows tired of them.
  • Endless College Years — Auggie and Drew are described as perpetual college students.
  • Forced Graduation — The school is ready to let them graduate just to get rid of them.
• Auggie's Fast Ambition — Auggie seeks a rapid route to success rather than continuing his existing student life.
  • Make It Big — Auggie wants to make it big fast.
  • Easy Way — He pursues the proverbial easy way to achieve that goal.
• Burger Joint Scheme — Auggie's latest plan is to open a burger joint with Drew's assistance.
  • New Restaurant Plan — Auggie decides that a burger joint will be his fast-success scheme.
  • Drew Joins — Drew helps Auggie pursue the restaurant plan.
• Special Sauce Creation — The two friends develop a highly unusual sauce to attract customers.
  • Customer Attraction — The sauce is intended to help entice customers.
  • Joint Development — Auggie and Drew develop the special sauce together.
• Apparent Business Success — The burger joint seems to succeed after the special sauce is introduced.
  • Customers Arrive — The sauce helps make the establishment attractive to customers.
  • Huge Success — The restaurant appears to become a huge success.
• Sex Drug Revelation — The sauce's unexpected biological effect changes the direction of the story.
  • Odd Side Effect — The sauce produces an unexpected odd side effect.
  • Trouble Begins — The sauce is actually a sex drug, creating the central conflict.

Directed by

Michael A. Simpson

Key Cast

• Clark Brandon — Auggie
• Tracy Griffith — Samantha
• Randal Patrick — Drew
• Lanny Horn — Calvin
• Blake Clark — E.G. McCormick