Well for starters , how about the dining scene in Tom Jones?
Another dining scene, tho I do not know if it is top 10 worthy is the
first dinner in a movie called "The Last Supper"
Rosie
The eating scene in Tom Jones wins hands down, followed by, in no particular
order:
Babette's Feast.
Lamb and cherries in Le Boucher.
Eat Drink Man Woman (cooking, anyway)
The meal from hell in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
The perpetually interrupted dinner in Discreet Charm of the Bourgeosie
The diner scene in When Harry Met Sally
My Dinner with Andre (of course)
The glass of lemonade in Lawrence of Arabia (does that count?)
...having a hard time picking a tenth.
"Eating Raoul" and "Babette's Feast" and "Hello Dolly" and
"Ratatouille" - mostly the kitchen scenes with the rats.
But yes, Tom Jones is the best. Also good is Barbra Streisand in "On
a Clear Day You Can See Forever" but all she really does is drink one
glass of wine and chew on her pearls>
Lynn in Fargo
Good call! But I think my number 10 might be the seduction dinner with Omar
Sharif in Funny Girl.
Mrs. Doubtfire
In 1998 when this topic came up I wrote: "Tampopo, the quest for the
ultimate noodle. The Loved One, the scene where the fat woman pulls
the refrigerator down on herself trying to extract the turkey."
The first for conveying how important it is to get something just
right; the second for hilarity. -aem
> What such be?
Fresh in my mind from the holidays: "A Christmas Story" when the
Bumpass' dogs took the holiday bird and then the following scene at the
Chinese restaurant.
Fa-ra-ra-ra-ra,
--Lin
A Christmas Story - Chinese Restaurant.
Apart from the Tome Jones scene that everyone will mention
two of my favourites are
Ron Moody when he is famished and ends up at a banquet in the movie
the 12 Chairs
Blues Brothers where they threaten the maitre D that they will eat
there every night etc (throwing prawns at Belushi like he is a
seal )
Dirty rotten scoundrels with Ruprecht and the lady "why is there a
cork on his fork "? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P5qJAI9BIc
Stripes cooking the Aunt jemima way http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hOhhgrM3bs
thats about all I can think of at the moment .
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A favorite dining scene of mine was from The Birdcage. And Fargo
probably had more eating scenes or references to eating than any other
movie I've ever seen.
>The eating scene in Tom Jones wins hands down
LOL! I agree.
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I haven't seen the movie, but wasn't there at least one infamous
restaurant scene in "Shampoo"? (surprised no one has mentioned it yet)
Bob
- _Eraser Head_ [a chicken that *moves*!]
- _Faster, Pussycat, Kill, Kill!_ [the entire dinner scene is a double -
entrende feast, ending with Billie getting messy drunk]
- _The Honeymoon Killers_ [the cheap cafeteria in Albany where the hapless
Janet Fay takes Ray and Martha for a wedding 'celebration' dinner]
- _Female Trouble_ [Dawn Davenport has Donald and Donna Dasher over for
dinner..."Would you like cheese on your spaghetti?"]
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Best
Greg
How about "Pulp Fiction".
Setup with the discussion about a hamburger with cheese in the car, then
the eat scene in the apartment of the guy's Hawaiian burger & shake, and
the conversation....
Here's a link to jog your memory if you watched it...
http://www.uselessmoviequotes.com/umq_p014.htm
Bob
Some guy in a silent mooie eats his shoelaces as if they were
spaghetti. The same guy is force fed by an automated feeding machine
in another of his mooies. His mooies were funny. Almost as funny as
"mooie".
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I just watched the Mr. Creosote sketch on Youtube. I think it might be
the winner.
It's delightfully disgusting. ;-)
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Becca
Brando 'clearing' his place in "Streetcar".
"Home fo the Holkidays" has a great Tanksgiving dinner scene.
Lass
Demon Shrimps... <lol>
Then there is the classic scene in "When Harry met Sally":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-bsf2x-aeE
How about the seduction dinner scene from Tm Jones?
Alex
> Lady and the Tramp sharing a plate of spaghetti. :)
Nice. :-)
> In article <6sehvnF...@mid.individual.net>,
> zxcvbob <zxc...@charter.net> wrote:
>
>> Ronnie Bateman wrote:
>> > No mention of Mr. Creosote yet?
>>
>>
>> I just watched the Mr. Creosote sketch on Youtube. I think it might be
>> the winner.
>
> It's delightfully disgusting. ;-)
I wondered how long it would take before someone mentioned Mr. Creosote.
A real classic comes at breakfast, when Cagney squishes a grapefruit on
Mae Clark's face in "The Public Enemy" (1931).
http://www.morethings.com/fan/james_cagney/the_public_enemy/grapefruit-04.htm
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>What such be?
Well somebody has to mention young Michael perforating Sollozzo and
McCluskey in The Godfather. Runner up goes to John Hurt ruining lunch
for everyone in Alien.
Honorable mention to My Breakfast With Blassie, years ahead of its time.
A memorable, in that I couldn't forget it even if I wanted, is the
final scene in The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover.
How about in _Rocky Horror Picture Show_ when Dr. Frankenfurter carved
the meatloaf?
Bob
LOL That was my first thought.
But on a more serious note..... I would suggest "Babette's Feast".
I vote for the restaurant scene in "Splash" where Madison, the mermaid
(Daryl Hannah), is showing Tom Hanks how her people eat lobster.
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only a tiny little thin one
And the movie was "Meaning of Life" by Monty Python. It won a Cannes film
festival award. That renewed my faith in awards.
Was it the movie "Shampoo" where someone got a little something special
under the table in a restaurant one evening?
How about when the lead character got hungry in O Lucky Man! ?
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than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace
to the legislature, and not to the executive department."
- James Madison
*** No Question .. Nicholson at Dennys Near Barstow in FIVE EASY
PIECES
*** Then The scene in the Godfather when Michael comes out of the
men's room
*** Any Dining Scene in a Movie involoved with folks eating
dinner in Prison
The final, ah, self-referential dining scene in "Hannibal."
Well, a tad short of final if you count his brown-bag
lunch on the plane.
The diner scenes in Pulp Fiction!
> What such be?
My favorite restaurant dining scene is from Bob Giraldi's "Dinner Rush".
Danny Aiello plays Louis, the owner of a NYC Italian restaurant started
by his mother but with the kitchen now run by his son who has become a
great success with the yuppie/fashionista crowd with his tres foux-foux
creations. So, when Louis, sitting at a table with one of his old bookie
colleagues, gets served something very creative and unidentifiable, is
asked how he likes it. In his wonderful, native New York Italian
accent, he turns and says, "It tastes like shit!".
This is probably my favorite restaurant flick- for reasons to numerous
to mention here. I also liked "The Big Night". Rent 'em both!
D.M.
I was thinking about the cafe scene in that! An old favorite movie of mine.
Ack, wrong movie. I was thinking of If....
Dis' is de best damn bahhbeecue ............
aaaaaaaaah forgot that one good call
One Ugly Baby in that movie.
Best regards,
Bob
I love the scene in "Bugsy," just after Annette Bening has watched
Warren Beatty terrorize a mob underling in his living room. He sits
down to eat and tears into his food with equal relish, while Annette
tears into him.
Tom Nawrocki
"Godfather" scene, until Pacino pulls the gun.
# 1 in my book for sensuality.
:-)
Dimitri
Are we talking about eating or fornicating? Or did someone confuse the
two?
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> "Gregory Morrow" <wtt...@zzzz.se>
> news:uJidneTaod9yEfzU...@earthlink.com: in rec.food.cooking
>
> >
> > - _Female Trouble_ [Dawn Davenport has Donald and Donna Dasher over
> > for dinner..."Would you like cheese on your spaghetti?"]
>
> What a blast from the past! Loved 'em both. When I lived in the CWE there
> was a couple whose first names were Don and Donna. They owned a chain of
> pizza parlors as well as a couple of bistro type restaurants. They were a
> hoot. Very flashy people and at the time, good friends. We good naturedly
> nicknamed them, "The Dashers" and it stuck. They sold all their holdings
> and last I heard they lived in Palm Beach and were hitting South Beach on
a
> regular basis. Thanks for the memories ;-)
Hard to believe that it's 35 years old this year! A friend and I used to
watch it so much when it first came out on DVD that we became certifiably
*insane*...many I know can rattle off the lines, it's a "gay classic".
Before it became officially released on video we had to make do with kruddy
hand - me - down VHS copies...before that it was definitely a "Midnight
Movie" thang you'd have to see at a revival house.
Now it's shown on cable (Independent Film Channel...) as a matter of
routine, something that still amazes John Waters...back in the day when he'd
show it in certain places he had to make sure he kept moving two steps ahead
of the law, they'd shut it down for obscenity.
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Greg
>
>
> --
> "He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your
> words."
> ~Elbert Hubbard
>
> You can find me at: - michael at lonergan dot us dot com
Spit take. "Saute of unborn octopus?? Nuttin' here's fit to eat!"
Frank Maloney would agree. :(
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> Anim8rFSK <ANIM...@cox.net> news:ANIM8Rfsk-5D36D0.17371507012009
> @news.west.cox.net: in rec.food.cooking
>
> > I haven't seen it since it was first run, but there must be something to
> > nominate in "Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe"
> >
>
> I haven't seen it in years. I enjoyed the movie IIRC. Jacqueline Bisset
> (sp) was excellent if memory serves. I love her movies. She's always
> played the classy slut roles to the T. This thread has been great. I'm
> going shopping for the DVD copies of these movies if I can find them.
I remember Morely had that sweater with knives and forks embroidered
around the waist like the band on Charlie Brown's one shirt. My viewing
accomplice was shooting a film on anorexia and I whispered that she
should get Morely to host it wearing that sweater and we both got the
giggles, just a little too loud for the people around us . . .
Babette's Feast, Like Water for Chocolate, When Harry Met Sally (you
know which scene), Lady and the Tramp (Disney), Blazing Saddles (bean
scene), Cool Hand Luke, The Gold Rush (Chaplin eating a shoe).
And then there's a short film, Werner Herzog Eats His Shoe, in which
Herzog really cooks and eats his shoe because he lost a bet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Werner_Herzog_Eats_His_Shoe
Here's a really obscure selection: Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy. The film
is about a misogynistic serial killer, but it has a funny subplot about
the detective trying to catch him. There is a series of scenes showing
the detective talking about the case over dinners with his wife. She is
trying out fancy recipes, but she's a terrible cook, and he is
struggling to swallow the products of her work without offending her.
More opinions:
http://www.chow.com/stories/10454
http://poll.amctv.com/voting.jsp?pollId=35
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A clockwork orange: "I'm glad you appreciate fine wine!"
Animal House: "Food Fight!"
Batman: Bruce Wayne and his date sitting about 80' apart at the heads of an
enormous table.
BeetleJuice: Day-O!
Monty Python's Meaning of Life: The salmon mousse!
Hey I didn't even eat the mousse...
Blues Brothers: How much for the little girl?!
That's going back! I guess the butter scene in "Last Tango in Paris" doesn't
count.
How about the Indiana Jones monkey brains scene?
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> On Sun, 4 Jan 2009 18:18:42 -0800 (PST), The Sun Tribe
> <and-...@live.com> wrote:
>>What such be?
>
> A clockwork orange: "I'm glad you appreciate fine wine!"
"I never drink wine." Dracula (1931), (1992)
Del Stanley
Hitchcock's SABOTAGE, although they never actually get down to eating.
NORTH BY NORTHWEST. "I wouldn't order any desert if I were you." "I
get the message."
Its not so much a 'dining room' scene as it is a Royal Kitchens scene
but the 'pie throwing' scene in the Tony Curtis, Natalie Woods, Jack
Lemon film "The Great Race" ("all the men are hairy chested and all the
women double breasted") is hilarious.
I accidentally got to watching an 20 hour made for Korean television
drama called "Dae Jang Geum" (Jewel in the Palace) and got hooked, much
of it takes place in the Royal Kitchens of the 1500's Royal Court in
Korea. In Chinese with English subtitles.
It is where i got the idea of combining ground chicken and shrimp, and
some of the formal dining scenes in the film are choreographed as a
dance, the serving of the food to the court on formal occasions was as
much an artistic expression of a Korean aesthetic as it was a way to put
food on a table.
In literature, in a written, text based format, the description of the
Tea Ceremony (Cha no ya) in Clavells book "Shogun" is, imo, exquisite.
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> trea...@aol.com wrote:
> > On Jan 8, 3:23?pm, "Del" <delnew...@att.net> wrote:
> >
> >>--"AZ Nomad" <aznoma...@PremoveOBthisOX.COM> wrote in message
> >>
> >>news:slrngmcjjs.b...@ip70-176-155-130.ph.ph.cox.net...
> >>
> >>
> >>>On Sun, 4 Jan 2009 18:18:42 -0800 (PST), The Sun Tribe
> >>><and-r...@live.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>What such be?
> >>
> >>>A clockwork orange: ?"I'm glad you appreciate fine wine!"
> >>
> >>"I never drink wine." Dracula (1931), (1992)
> >>
> >>Del Stanley
> >
> >
> > Hitchcock's SABOTAGE, although they never actually get down to eating.
> >
> > NORTH BY NORTHWEST. "I wouldn't order any desert if I were you." "I
> > get the message."
>
> Its not so much a 'dining room' scene as it is a Royal Kitchens scene
> but the 'pie throwing' scene in the Tony Curtis, Natalie Woods, Jack
> Lemon film "The Great Race" ("all the men are hairy chested and all the
> women double breasted") is hilarious.
Yeah, I almost said that. But there *is* a dining room scene earlier in
the film where Jack Lemmon as Professor Fate attempts to eat with his
thumbs bandaged, and wackiness ensues. :)
>NORTH BY NORTHWEST. "I wouldn't order any desert if I were you." "I
>get the message."
What was it that Eva Marie Saint's character over-dubbed in the dining
car?
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than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace
to the legislature, and not to the executive department."
- James Madison
> On Thu, 8 Jan 2009 13:00:17 -0800 (PST), trea...@aol.com wrote:
>
> >NORTH BY NORTHWEST. "I wouldn't order any desert if I were you." "I
> >get the message."
>
> What was it that Eva Marie Saint's character over-dubbed in the dining
> car?
"I never make love on an empty stomach" is overdubbed with "I never
discuss love on an empty stomach".
No one has yet mentioned arsenic & old lace ? A classic within the
subject question and many other reasons
The Party (Peter Sellers)
The Breakfast Club (Ally Sheedy making a sandwich, and the late Paul Gleason
spilling his coffee)
2001: A Space Odyssey (The apes at the beginning when they first eat meat,
love those close-ups!!)
Indiana Jones & TTOD (Meal in the palace, especially the monkey heads!)
The Untouchables mob dinner. (aka batting practice)
ALIEN (birth sequence or Kane's last supper)
Are you sure there is a difference?????
;-)
Dimitri
Now that you mention it, no, I'm not sure. :-)
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