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balderdash111 11-23-2004 10:30 AM

Silly Subject: Tastiest depiction of food
 
This is an exceedingly silly discussion thread, but I was struck by a food-related movie moment the other day and wanted to share.

"Empire of the Sun," the much maligned Spielberg film about an English boy (a young Christian Bale) who is sent to a Japanese concentration camp in WWII, has what I think is among the best "oh my god I want to eat that food" moments I've seen.

The main character is abandoned by his parents (a Spielberg cliche) in Shanghai after the Japanese invasion. After surving in his parents' lavish house for months, he runs out of food and is left roaming the streets of Shanghai trying to survive. There, he is picked up by Joe Pantoliano (spelling?), who takes him to the hidden hideout of John Malcovitch.

When the little boy enters the hideout, the camera cuts to Malcovich frying some plain white rice in frying pan.

So help me, when you see the moment, you would swear that fried white rice is the greatest food on God's green earth. You want to grab handfuls of it and stuff it in your face.

Of course, that is the point. The little boy is starving and the rice looks like heaven to him (and when he gets some, he does indeed shovel it into his face like there is no tomorrow). Speilberg makes it seem more delicious by cranking up the volume on the frying crackle of the rice to make it even more appealing.

My mouth is watering just thinking about that scene.

Anyone else have food moments like this from a film?

(and FYI, no I do not have a food fetish, and no I am not obese. In short, I don't think this reflects a strange obsession with food on my behalf)

shakran 11-23-2004 05:09 PM

The only good scene in an otherwise horrible movie: The steak and eggs frying in Twister.


Also, the "Celie cooks breakfast after Mister fucks it up" scene from Color Purple.

Nothin' like good southern cooking.

yellowchef 11-23-2004 11:28 PM

mmmmmmmmmm steak n eggs from twister..

mmmm

Derwood 11-24-2004 05:39 AM

How good do ice cubes taste after "9 1/2 weeks"?

Nancy 11-24-2004 06:33 AM

Food always looks so fucking yummy in cartoon movies - even mushrooms which I hate IRL! :lol:

but as far as the tastiest depiction of food in a regular movie goes I dunno at the moment. I'm gonna have to think about that.

Fremen 11-26-2004 05:20 PM

Yeah, I always liked the look of those plate-sized steaks in "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valence".

Architeuthis 11-27-2004 04:29 AM

Babettes Feast .. Danish movie, reasonably easy to get hold on since it got an Oscar though. This movie is brilliant and it definitely proves that you dont have epic material ( Alexander ) to make an awesome movie..

The food in this is incredible. :)

Slightly OT, food in Robin Hobbs books always makes my mouth water...and it goes a long way towards creating the right atmosphere..

djflish 11-27-2004 04:50 AM

When Cypher is talking to Agent Smith in the restaurant in The Matrix, he is eating an amazing looking steak. mmmmmm...... steeeak......

Also, a scene that put me off fry-ups for a little while is the breakfast scene in Trainspotting when Spud fights over his dirty sheets and.....splat!

maleficent 11-27-2004 08:27 AM

Coffee and a Cinnamin bun, to go, from Breakfast at Tiffany's.
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Toast, or at least the way it is ordered from Five Easy Pieces

Bobby: I'd like an omelet, plain, and a chicken salad sandwich on wheat toast, no mayonnaise, no butter, no lettuce. And a cup of coffee.
Waitress: A #2, chicken salad sand. Hold the butter, the lettuce, the mayonnaise, and a cup of coffee. Anything else?
Bobby: Yeah, now all you have to do is hold the chicken, bring me the toast, give me a check for the chicken salad sandwich, and you haven't broken any rules.
Waitress: You want me to hold the chicken, huh?
Bobby: I want you to hold it between your knees.

indigochild111 11-28-2004 06:52 PM

Mmm Twister is a good choice. But I'd have to say the movie that never fails to make me hungry is....HOOK. I mean c'mon people when he actually imagines the food is there, it's a feast. Mmm turkey :)

Kostya 12-01-2004 04:12 AM

Look, hands down, it has got to be the credit sequence of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory...

I mean holy CRAP.

Also, Empire of the Sun is much maligned, which I never understood because it's so damn good!

Other highlights, the crazy spread in Goodfellas that all the wives cook, or the food in the prison scene where Paulie cuts the garlic with a razor blade.

When I was a kid, I thought that the food fight in Hook was the greatest...

Stug 12-01-2004 04:19 AM

That's a great shout Kostya, with the Willy Wonka credit sequence...

Personally, I love the opening breakfast sequence in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang!

There is a whole intricate breakfast machine frying off the bacon and cracking the eggs and then delivering it all to the table on a little train, complete with salt and pepper! YUM!

roachboy 12-01-2004 07:20 AM

the first half of the cook the thief his wife and her lover--the restaurant kitchen sequences--before you see the truck full of rotting meat, that is.


i am not much moved by images of food, for some reason. they end up reminding me of the shellac-coated dinners i remember seeing in a japanese resto window in boston before i got used to seeing that sort of thing. maybe it was the shellac. maybe it was that it was the dead of winter and i was looking through a window at a steak on a plastic plate that kind of glowed. maybe it was the absence of smell.

i find recipes the best descriptions of food.

Fremen 12-01-2004 11:53 AM

The sensual dinner scene in Lady Chatterly's Lover was pretty arousing to a few of my various senses. ;)

pocon1 12-02-2004 03:36 PM

The road to wellville, where john cusack is in that gritty restaurant and the cook is slapping down big pieces of fatty meat rough cut for steaks and the fire is sizzling.
hhmmm, meat.


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