Tasty Pics for Food Flix

LeeEsq says:

Movies about chefs seem to be like movies about other artists but safer for the producers. The big problem about making movies about fictional artists is that your going to have to demonstrate some of the artist’s work to the audience. Creating something that could pass as a masterpiece, especially a musical composition, is difficult work and the person responsible often fails in such a spectacular manner that even lay people can recognize how bad or trite the fictional masterpiece is. The titular opus in Mr. Holland’s Opus comes to mind. Movie audiences can not taste the meals created by a fictional chef so the creative staff only needs to make sure that the meals look good and appropriately impressive kitchen and food lingo is used.

We also need to define what constitutes a food movie. I’d argue that simply being a movie about a chef or heavily featuring food in some way is not enough to make a movie a food movie. Tampopo, a truly wonderful film, is a true food movie because people’s relationship to food, in particular ramen, takes center stage more than any other relationship in the movie. Learning how to become a master ramen chef is so important for the main female character that it over shadows the budding romantic relationship with the trucker. Eat, Drink, Man, Woman might feature a chef as the main character and food might feature a prominent place in the movie but the various familial and romantic relationships are much more prominent than the relationship to food. For something to be a true food movie, food and human’s relationship to it must be paramont.Report