Lollipop, Don’t Be A Hero is an experimental narrative film which investigates the idea of giving a voice to a specific section of the American working class, it is a response to the experience of working within the restaurant industry, where everyday routine erupts into absurdity. According to the National Restaurant Association, on a typical day in America in 2009, more than 130 million individuals will be food service patrons. Making the restaurant the perfect setting of an absurdist fantasy to address social interaction.Lollipop, revolves around the act of giving a voice to restaurant workers. I began my project by collecting memories, stories of people who have worked in this industry. The restaurant industry employs an estimated 13 million people, or 9% of the U.S. workforce. Nearly half of all adults have worked in the restaurant industry at some point during their lives, and more than one out of four adults got their first job experience in a restaurant. The script is weaved of real memories of waiters and bartenders in the revisionist literature tradition, highlighting the untold stories of minor elements to expose cultural realities not previously addressed. Many of the people who shared their memories are then cast in roles in the film, some as themselves and some are cast as other players. We revisit the stories and re-imagine them in the mode of fantasy by using highly stylized lighting, set design, costume design, framing and sound design. The majority of Lollipop, was shot in 35mm film, the language of Hollywood, and subsequently the language of fantasy. Lollipop, Don’t Be A Hero is filmic exercise in collaboration, within a collective lucid dream. The film is a fantasy functioning in the twilight between the ‘waitron’ collective unconscious and the rational desire to control one’s own destiny.