The Coca-Cola Kid Page #2

Synopsis: An eccentric marketing guru visits a Coca-Cola subsidiary in Australia to try and increase market penetration. He finds zero penetration in a valley owned by an old man who makes his own soft drinks, and visits the valley to see why. After "the Kid's" persistence is tested he's given a tour of the man's plant, and they begin talking of a joint venture. Things get more complicated when the Coca-Cola man begins falling in love with his temporary secretary, who seems to have connections to the valley.
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Director(s): Dusan Makavejev
Production: Cinecom Pictures
  8 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.0
Rotten Tomatoes:
44%
R
Year:
1985
98 min
527 Views


and you'll end up...

with ''dark color,

cold, wet, and bubbly.''

Come on.

That is no way to explain...

what getting in touch

with the American way of life...

really means

to billions of people.

Listen--the sound of Coke.

Mmm ! Dark and bubbly.

Why our dark and bubbly liquid

is so loved...

by all those Eskimos

and other Canadians...

we don't need to know.

We need only just

to bring it to the people.

All right.

OK. Here we are.

Sorry about that.

lt won't take a sec.

Whenever you're ready,

Mr. Projectionist.

Just getting the focus.

This is quite

a pretty effect, Daryl.

We're working on it.

Let us look

at available charts...

of crosscheck points

and social activities...

of our selling outlets,

shall we?

Excuse me, please.

Sorry, boss.

Frank, have them

take it back again.

Take it back, Fred.

Well, how far back do you want?

As far as it takes, Fred.

Could you take that back,

please, Daryl.

Fred, give me a break.

The other way.

More.

-Stop.

-Stop!

Frank, what is that

wide gap there?

ls that a per capita

consumption chart?

Yes, that's right.

l don't know what's there.

Must be a national park

or maybe a desert.

We should be selling in

national parks and in deserts.

People tend to get thirsty

in deserts, Fred.

Maybe it's uninhabited.

l have a hunch there must be

somebody there.

All right.

Take me in for a closer look.

Give me churches...

schools, bars...

Oh, that would be

Anderson Valley.

Playgrounds,

supermarkets, cemeteries.

See? There is

a living population there.

A few thousand maybe.

lt's pretty isolated.

Well, they have throats.

l mean,

they must drink something.

There used to be a soft-drink

man down there, but...

that was a long time ago now--

Well, what the hell is he,

Frank, a Pepsi man?

Frank, l asked you a question.

There's no Pepsi or Coke

in Anderson Valley, l'm afraid.

How come she knows that

and you don't, Frank?

l come from there.

l know the man.

ls she telling me that this man

makes his own soft drink, Frank?

Since the beginning of time.

-Good ones.

-And he sells where we can't?

Fred, l want you to get me

all the data on that place.

l want to know why,

in the whole goddamn world...

that we don't sell

a single bottle down there.

He owns Anderson Valley.

He owns the people.

He owns the birds and the trees.

Rent me a four-wheel-drive

for tomorrow morning...

please, will you?

Now.

Sure.

l want to see

this Anderson Valley.

Right.

Fred, what are you doing...

for the next couple of days?

Frank, l want to go alone.

He might prefer

to go alone, Frank.

Take a gun.

''Take a gun.''

Projectionist...

would you see to it

that those tapes...

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Frank Moorhouse

Frank Moorhouse (born 21 December 1938) is an Australian writer. He has won major Australian national prizes for the short story, the novel, the essay, and for script writing. His work has been published in the United Kingdom, France and the United States and also translated into German, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Serbian, and Swedish. Moorhouse is perhaps best known for winning the 2001 Miles Franklin Literary Award for his novel, Dark Palace; which together with Grand Days and Cold Light, the "Edith Trilogy" is a fictional account of the League of Nations, which trace the strange, convoluted life of a young woman who enters the world of diplomacy in the 1920s through to her involvement in the newly formed International Atomic Energy Agency after World War II. more…

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