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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2009 18:48:57 GMT
Some movies devote major scenes to meals, and occasionally the entire film revolves around the event.
What can you remember as meal scenes -- either wonderful or horrible -- in movies that you have seen, and which remain vivid in your mind.
I can think of two of them to start this off:
1. Babette's Feast. Even though I am not a big fan of elaborate dinners, the whole point of the movie was to win over people who consider such things to be sinful decadence, and it was perfectly handled. Even I would have wanted to be at that dinner.
2. Eraserhead. The dinner with the girlfriend's parents, with the wiggling oozing chicken remains engraved in my mind.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 11, 2009 21:01:09 GMT
There is the image graven in all our minds of Henry VIII robustly enjoying a turkey leg -- a bird that did not exist in England at that time, I don't believe. Was there really such a scene in a movie, or are we simply remembering some burlesque versions?
There's the scene in Tom Jones with Tom & the woman who turns out to be his mother, I think, sensuously & sloppily enjoying a meal at length.
Women in Love has more than one meal scene, and the famous 'how to eat' a fig scene in it probably qualifies for this thread.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2009 21:10:21 GMT
Another over the top meal scene is of course the banquet in Fellini Satyricon.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2009 21:36:19 GMT
La Grande Bouffe(1973) Suicide by gluttony with Marcello Mastroianni,Phillipe Noiret.et al. Four bored middle aged men deceide to have one last blow out of a meal.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 11, 2009 21:41:03 GMT
Eat Drink Man Woman
Cooking & eating!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2009 21:42:15 GMT
I don't know how I could have overlooked La Grande Bouffe. It was so incredibly controversial in Europe in 1973. I think I went to see it at least 3 times because I was hypnotized. Strangely enough, a few years later, I was one of Andrea Ferreol's English teachers -- she played the fat lady.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2009 10:53:15 GMT
I saw an Ivorian movie on TV, I don't know what it was called - the man takes his mistress to the Novotel in Abidjan for a fancy meal. He doesn't know anything but wants to impress her so he orders the expensive things and asks for a good bottle of French wine. When the wine arrives, he sees the date on the bottle, 4 or 5 years old, and becomes very angry.
--You are trying to cheat me! You have brought an old bottle of wine! I want a bottle of wine from this year!
When the waiter goes away he laughs with his mistress about how brilliant he is not to get caught by such trickery.
Since most people here (Senegal) do not drink wine, I was wondering what percentage of the spectators understood the joke.
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Post by tillystar on Feb 12, 2009 12:18:18 GMT
Henry VIII probably would have eaten turkey. It started arriving in England in his time and he probably was the first to try out new arrivals his merchants and traders brought back. www.worldwidewords.org/articles/turkey.htmIts also a falicy that we only started eating it at Christmas in the last 100 years as I read Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) diaries (condensed!) and he always enjoyed a good turkey at Christmas! Off to start another thread!
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Post by tillystar on Feb 12, 2009 12:22:45 GMT
I always liked The Last Supper where four liberal friends invite someone with "bad" political views to dinner each Sunday night and murder them.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2009 12:26:34 GMT
My Dinner with Andre although I don't remember much about the food
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Post by palesa on Feb 12, 2009 12:40:33 GMT
Does Ratatouille count?
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Post by tillystar on Feb 12, 2009 12:46:13 GMT
Of course, that was a great film!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2009 13:58:11 GMT
Like Water for Chocolate!!! Chocolat and Willy Wonka &the Chocolate Factory
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Post by Jazz on Feb 12, 2009 15:43:53 GMT
Big Night This film is all about realizing the dream of two brothers and setting up their own Italian restaurant. Wonderful food scenes.
Mostly Martha This German film is about two chefs. The Italian male chef woos the cool, aloof Martha with food. The scene where he prepares her his gift of a meal and feeds it to her blindfolded...
Vatel Gerard Depardieu prepares a sumptuous feast for the court of Louis IV at Versailles. Wonderful period piece.
Tampopo You'll want to be near a noodle shop when you watch this. A Japanese film.
La Graine et le Mulet (Couscous) This is a sensual film about an aging Arab immigrant with a dream to run a floating restaurant...the glorious family feast.
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Post by palesa on Feb 12, 2009 16:43:39 GMT
The one I have been trying to remember all day
Tortilla Soup
Don't remember much about the movie though.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2009 20:54:10 GMT
Tampopo is hysterical! I had forgotten about that movie. How to make the perfect noodle! Who is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (mystery,black comedy) based on book of similar name Too many Chefs or something like that.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2009 21:05:46 GMT
Tampopo is one of the major food movies that I always wanted to see and always missed.
But if we're going to talk about food in Asian cinema, we can always discuss the use of the hard boiled egg in Oshima's "In the Realm of the Senses."
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2009 21:39:04 GMT
I heard of it,isn't pretty violent? Mr. C knows alot of these movies and I remember him telling me about it.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2009 21:52:33 GMT
Well, there is not much graphic violence, although the customer of the geisha comes to no good at the end. But in terms of hard boiled eggs, it was just rather unconventional -- because the eggs were inserted in a private area of the lady before being removed and savored.
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Post by palesa on Feb 13, 2009 4:30:55 GMT
Well, there is not much graphic violence, although the customer of the geisha comes to no good at the end. But in terms of hard boiled eggs, it was just rather unconventional -- because the eggs were inserted in a private area of the lady before being removed and savored. Eugh! For both lady and consumer of said egg.
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Post by happytraveller on Feb 13, 2009 10:13:57 GMT
Who is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (mystery,black comedy) based on book of similar name Too many Chefs or something like that. Excellent movie ! Really funny !
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Post by livaco on Feb 13, 2009 18:07:07 GMT
The Rocky Horror Picture Show has quite a good dinner scene.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2009 21:35:32 GMT
Mr. C. tells me about another one (I have to delve into that with him at some point) he remembers ,also French,Deli or Delicatessan? During a famine(?) in Paris a butchershop beneath an apartment building has an abundance of meat while the tenants are disappearing?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 13, 2009 21:37:06 GMT
The title is indeed Delicatessen. But I can't really recall much about the dinner scenes in it.
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Post by Don Cuevas on Feb 26, 2009 22:18:33 GMT
The diner scene in Five Easy Pieces, where Jack Nicholson and the waitress vie for control of his breakfast order. (I don't know how to embed a video, but you can see it on YouTube.)
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Post by Wizard on Feb 27, 2009 1:22:17 GMT
Don C, to embed a youtube video you have to use 'reply' instead of 'quick reply'.
Copy the url from your selected video, paste it in the message box, highlight it, then click on the youtube button. It's the first one on the left, bottom row.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 27, 2009 23:51:57 GMT
With all the hoopla over Mickey Rourke's "comeback" wasn't there a food scene in 91/2 Weeks? I'm not sure, it's fuzzy but I think there was. Would someone remember. I couldn't bring myself to watch it again I don't think.
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Post by auntieannie on Feb 28, 2009 20:02:34 GMT
ahem... I seem to remember something with an ice cube. can this be considered food?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2009 22:06:28 GMT
The Big Easy had some good food scenes.
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Post by bixaorellana on Feb 28, 2009 23:17:53 GMT
All I remember is an outdoor barbeque or something. What I mostly remember is Ellen Barkin losing her food while kneeling & touching the toilet in a murder scene house. Eeeeeeeeeeeuuuwwww.
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