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7 Appetizing Uses Of Food In Movies

Much gets made about the role violence plays in movies and culture, and to what extent violence in movies is related to the perceived increase in violence in society. Most of the time I agree with Quentin Tarantino, that people are able to distinguish fantasy from reality and while movies may inform people’s perceptions of violence, very rarely do they beget violence itself, if it can be said that they do at all. Django Unchained did not make me want to go on a killing spree. It did, however, make me want to eat handfuls of candy. So perhaps the question should be: to what extent does food in movies contribute to our society’s culinary addictions and dependency??

[h2]3) The imaginary feast in Hook[/h2]

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So maybe the entire movie isn’t that good, but the scene where Rufio and Peter are squaring off at the dinner table where everyone’s eating imaginary food has a pretty scrumptious twist. It’s actually a decent scene, visualizing for the audience the moment Peter starts to use his old Pannish imagination, when he develops some of his old swagger, and fires the imaginary spoon of something or other at Rufio’s stupid face. The big reveal of the food everyone’s been imagining up to that point is pretty nice. You see everything they were miming before: the cream pies, the fruit, the burgers, the cheese, the roast birds. And then of course they all start throwing it at each other, which seems so wasteful.

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