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Ratatouille is a 2007 American computer-animated comedy-drama film produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The eighth film produced by Pixar, it was written and directed by Brad Bird, who took over from Jan Pinkava in 2005, and produced by Brad Lewis, from an original idea by Pinkava, who was credited for conceiving the film's story with Bird and Jim Capobianco. The title refers to the French dish ratatouille, which is served at the end of the film, and also references the species of the main character, a rat. Set in Paris, the plot follows a rat who dreams of becoming a chef and tries to achieve his goal by forming an unlikely alliance with a restaurant's garbage boy.
The film stars the voices of Patton Oswalt as Remy, an anthropomorphic rat who is interested in cooking; Lou Romano as Alfredo Linguini, a young garbage boy who befriends Remy; Ian Holm as Skinner, the head chef of Auguste Gusteau's restaurant; Janeane Garofalo as Colette Tatou, a rtisseur at Gusteau's restaurant and the staff's only female chef; Peter O'Toole as Anton Ego, a restaurant critic; Brian Dennehy as Django, Remy's father and leader of his clan; Peter Sohn as Emile, Remy's older brother; and Brad Garrett as Auguste Gusteau, a recently deceased chef.
Development for Ratatouille began in 2000 when Pinkava wrote the original concepts of the film, although he was never named the formerly director of the film. In 2005, following Pinkava's departure from Pixar for lacking confidence in the story development, Bird was approached to direct the film and revise the story. Bird and some of the film's crew members also visited Paris for inspiration. To create the food animation used in the film, the crew consulted chefs from both France and the United States. Lewis interned at Thomas Keller's The French Laundry restaurant, where Keller developed the confit byaldi, a dish used in the film. Michael Giacchino composed the Paris-inspired music for the film.
(English pronunciations of ratatouille from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus and from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary, both sources Cambridge University Press)
Linguini : Ratatouille. It's like a stew, right? Why do they call it that? If you're gonna name a food, you should give it a name that sounds delicious. Ratatouille doesn't sound delicious. It sounds like "rat" and "patootie." Rat patootie! Which does not sound delicious.
Skinner : [pause] Of course not! He just wants me to THINK that it is! O-ho, I see the theatricality of it! A rat appears on the boy's first night, I order him to kill it, and now he wants me to see it everywhere!
Skinner : [high voice] Ooooh! It's here! No it isn't it's here! Am I seeing things, am I crazy, is there a phantom rat or is there not, but oh, no! I refuse to be sucked into his little game... of...
Skinner : [seeing a ladle in Linguini's hand] You are COOKING? How DARE you cook in MY kitchen! Where do get the gall to attempt something so monumentally idiotic? I should have you drawn and quartered! I'll do it! I think the law is on my side! Larousse, draw and quarter this man! *After* you put him in the duck press to squeeze the fat out of his head!
Skinner : Oh, of course you don't. I wouldn't either if I was drinking *that*. But you would have to be an idiot of elephantine proportions not to appreciate this '61 Chteau Latour, and you, Monsieur Linguini, are no idiot. Let us toast your non-idiocy!
Skinner : There's NO resemblance at all! He's not Gusteau's son, Gusteau had no children! And what of the timing of all this? The deadline in the will expires in less than a month! Suddenly some boy arrives with a letter from his recently deceased mother claiming Gusteau is his father? Highly suspect!
Lawyer : Only a job? Well, then this is easy. If he works here, you can keep an eye on him while I do a little digging, find out how much of this is real. I'll need you to collect some DNA samples from the boy, hair maybe...
Skinner : You are COOKING? How DARE you cook in MY kitchen! Where do you get the gall to even attempt something so monumentally idiotic? I should have you drawn and quartered! I'll do it! I think the law is on my side! Larousse, draw and quarter this man - after you put him in the duck press to squeeze the fat out of his head!
Skinner : [to Linguini] You are either very lucky or very unlucky. You will make the soup again, and this time I'll be paying attention. Very close attention. They think you might be a cook. But you know what I think, Linguini? I think you're a sneaky, overreaching little...
Skinner : Perhaps I have been a bit harsh on our new garbage boy. He has taken a bold risk, and we should reward that, as Chef Gusteau would have. If he wishes to swim in dangerous waters, who are we to deny him?
Skinner : [to Linguini] Do you know what would happen if anyone knew we had a rat in our kitchen? They'd close us down. Our reputation is hanging as a thread as it is. Take it away from here. Far away. Kill it. Dispose of it. Go!
I love rich flavoured ratatouille. I love halloumi. One day when I was on assignment for creating a few recipes with Haloumi last year, it dawned on me: In the culinary world when you get it right, 1+1 = 3. That is to say, two things on their own that are yummy, brought together, end up being even more delicious than simply the adding of them together.
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This film used sound effects from Don Bluth Sound Animation, Skywalker Sound, Hacienda Post, 20th Century Fox, Hanna-Barbera, Warner Bros., BBC Sound Effects Library - Original Series, Cartoon Trax Volume 1, The Premiere Edition Volume 1, Rocky and Bullwinkle and Friends, Animal Trax, Series 1000, Series 2000, Series 4000, The General Series 6000, The Edge Edition Volume 1 and Signature Series - Peter Michael Sullivan.
FRENCH COUNTRYSIDE - LATE AFTERNOON A light rain falls on a SMALL FARMHOUSE. The last remaining dead leaves tremble in the gusts. The quiet is shattered by a LOUD GUNSHOT that lights up the inside of the cottage. CAMERA pushes down and in toward a single window.
Assured the coast is clear, the SINISTER RAT scampers out into the yard, followed by DOZENS MORE RATS. The RATS move across the expanse of grass toward a COMPOST HEAP, which sits in the middle of a field under the darkening sky. Resourceful and well coordinated, the rats grab bits of decomposing food and carry it off. REMY is among them, drearily going through garbage.
KRAAAK!!! A BOLT OF LIGHTNING hits the TV antennae-- knockingboth rats off the rooftop. They make a LONG FALL, landingwith a THUD into a the soft dirt.Miraculously, Remy and Emile are alive, their smoking fursticks out in an electrified frazzle. Remy holds the rod up,keeping the cheesy mushroom-- now transformed by lightninginto an amazing, puffed out shape-- completely clean.
GUSTEAU (TV)Great cooking is not for the faintof heart. You must be imaginative,strong-hearted, you must try thingsthat may not work. And you must notlet anyone define your limitsbecause of where you come from.Your only limit is your soul. WhatI say is true, anyone can cook...but only the fearless can be great.
The Lady BLASTS huge holes in the ceiling just behind thescrambling Emile. He LEAPS CLEAR-- and lands on the end of aHANGING LIGHT FIXTURE. The old lady has him. She levels thegun barrel at the helplessly dangling Emile--12.REMY hides his eyes. EMILE braces for the end-- CLICK.The shotgun is EMPTY.
The OLD LADY curses, ejecting the shells.EMILE SEES his opportunity, starts SCRAMBLING to pull himselfup onto the light. THE OLD LADY SEES THIS and rushes for moreshells. REMY sees an opening and takes off to help Emile.Rifling through her desk drawers, the OLD LADY SPIES REMYcoming out of hiding to help EMILE. She REDOUBLES HER EFFORTSto find a box of shells--EMILE struggles his fat body up to the precarious LIGHTFIXTURE.
OLD LADY hears Remy calling for Emile, but from her POV allwe hear is a SQUEAKING SOUND. OLD LADY finds a SHELL BOX:EMPTY. She YANKS OPEN another desk drawer.REMY arrives at the light fixture, reaches out for EMILE--
--a massive CHUNK OF CEILING breaks free and comes crashingdown-- bringing with it the FLOOR of the ATTIC above, itsfurniture, and HUNDREDS OF SURPRISED RATS.The Old Lady FREAKS! She runs from the room.
In the next room A PARTY is in progress. Remy spies a loaf ofBREAD. Famished, he grabs it, prepares to take a bite when---a SPRITE in the form of GUSTEAU appears, smaller than Remy,glowing and semi-transparent.
Losing interest, Remy moves on. A BULLET splinters the floorin front of him. Remy rushes back to the crack and SEES----the couple struggling with the smoking gun. The MANwrenches it free, it clatters to the floor. They glare ateach other, blood in their eyes----and KISS. Remy rolls his eyes and moves on, through dark,tight spaces... into a pipe and emerges onto--
--the POT is being carried away by one of the COOKS. The chefsets the pot down near a stove and exits. As Remy heads backtoward the window, a wonderful SCENT hits his nose. HeSNIFFS, following it to a PAN filled with vegetables.Enticed, he crawls inside, and it is only then that henotices the LARGE TURKEY-- moments before a COOK picks up thepan and slides it into the oven!Remy barely escapes before the oven door CLOSES, SPRINGINGfrom the oven to another passing trolley, which bursts into--
Remy is wheeled into the plush hush of the restaurant, andpulls up to a table of well-dressed DINERS. A WAITERS HANDreaches down for a peppermill, grabbing REMY instead----which startles both of them. The HAND instantly RELEASESRemy, who quickly leaps on to another passing trolley, theone heading back to the kitchen.
Remy considers this. Then, filled with purpose, he jumps tothe stove top, turns the burner down, hops up to the spigotto add water to the soup.Quickly losing himself, Remy proceeds to remake the soup,alternately smelling, tasting and adding ingredients to it.He grabs a pawful of spices to toss in and SUDDENLY SEES----LINGUINI, wide-eyed and brandishing a ladle. They STARE ateach other for a long moment, deer caught in each othersheadlights. Remy drops the spices into the soup.
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