Best Food / Cooking Scene in A Movie.

[N_igma]

Peter Pan with the invisible food and food fight.

 

[Kanda]

Bugsy Malone

 

[Pieface]

OBJECTION.

No cooking there.

 

[Pie 1]

Withnail and I: Chicken on a brick.

"How do we make it dead"?

Damn you Groke, that was mine I say, mine!

And anyway it's
"Lets get its feet off"
"No, it's going to need it's feet"

 

[lighterthief]

Cool Hand Luke eating all the eggs.

 

[goldenecitrone]

Woody Allen as the fake robot butler battling gamely with the giant cake that's chasing him round the kitchen.

 

[Kanda]

OBJECTION.

No cooking there.

There's cooking in The Lady and the Tramp?

 

[Pieface]

As soon as I posted that I realised it was a shonky argument and hoped you wouldn't notice.

Overruled

Can I nominate the suggestive hotdog being coaxed into its "bun" in the background of John Travolta singing "Sandy" in Grease. I never spotted how rude it was for years!

 

[joevsimp]

As soon as I posted that I realised it was a shonky argument and hoped you wouldn't notice.

Overruled

Can I nominate the suggestive hotdog being coaxed into its "bun" in the background of John Travolta singing "Sandy" in Grease. I never spotted how rude it was for years!

i've never spotted that either

 

[Biddlybee]

I like the breakfast scene in Uncle Buck

 

[Dubversion]

I like the breakfast scene in Uncle Buck

i knew SOMEBODY went to see that movie, i just never worked out who

 

[Biddlybee]

It's only because I had pancakes for breakfast this morning... jogged my memory

 

[trabuquera]

Dramatically speaking Big Night IS the best sequence (thinking about that simple omelette that says so much, still brings a tear to my eye).

artistically, I'd go more for "Scent of Green Papaya" where the young woman uses some amazingly nifty cleaver-work to finely shred the green papaya, or even better, the scenes from "Eat Drink Man Woman" where the movie's patriarch, a stubborn and perfectionist old git who's also a professional chinese chef, makes Peking duck from scratch (including inflating the duck like a balloon) and despatches a couple of live carp by ramming a chopstick through their entire bodies....

for girlie soppiness maybe the bit in 'like water for chocolate' where our oppressed heroine makes quails in rose-petal sauce.

 

[Errol's son]

I like the quiche that Roger Moore knocks up as Bond in a View to a Kill.

 

[DJ Squelch]

The Deer Hunter -

The movie shifts abruptly back to the funeral for Nick back in Pennsylvania. After the funeral, Nick's friends gather at John's restaurant for breakfast. They are somber and out of sorts. John goes off to the kitchen to cook eggs and begins to sing. When he returns to the table, Linda begins to sing "God Bless America" and the others join in a ghostly, but sweet and soft chorus. The movie ends.

 

[nick1181]

The first one that springs to mind is Aliens with John Hurt.

 

[Orangesanlemons]

No argument about 'Big Night' here. 'Goodfellas' and 'The Cook, the Thief...' have already been mentioned.

Axel's 'Babette's Feast' is interesting, and I'd add Michael Caine knocking up an omlette and fresh coffee for his latest conquest in 'The Ipcress File' to the list (real men just didn't cook back then, goddamit!).

But how can anyone forget the cooking scenes in 'Life Is Sweet'? Timothy Spall rushes around the kitchen of Regret Rien (Tres Exclusive) creating such delights as black pudding soup, saveloy on lychees, clams in ham, and liver and lager to an empty, failing restaurant. An eighties classic.

 

[Salo]

Hey, look at that. Two for Big Night. I thought I was the only one that saw that.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

The new Willy Wonka, with Depp. The fat german kid eating up the scenery, literally.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Hook, with Robin Williams. The Lost Boys feast scene.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

When Harry Met Sally, the food/fake orgasm scene.

 

[Dubversion]

just watched Tampopo again - first time in years. What a LOVELY movie

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Like Water for Chocolate

 

[Juice Terry]

Anyon mention "Alive" yet?

and I'm only half joking, thats a great film.

"My name is Federico Aranda, and I will return"

 

[tim]

Micheal Caine making an omelette in "The Ipcress Files".

Couldn't find a picture of this but here he is preparing breakfast

 

[mousey]

Goodfellas has a couple of good ones (although Paully's wrong on the best way to fry garlic).

yeah, definitely, that was the first film i thought of... mmmmmmeatballs

 

[Ms T]

When I saw this thread, I immediately thought "Big Night".

Dub got there first.

I love that film.

 

[Errol's son]

Although he doesn't cook much, Steven Seagal is pretty good as the chef, Casey Rybeck, in Under Siege.

 

[Tricky Mickey]

Dustin Hoffman trying and failing to open a coconut with a rusty tool, in a leaky, freezing tenement in Midnight Cowboy.

Ratso: "The two basic items necessary to sustain life are sunshine and coconut milk. That's a known fact. If I can find the goddam hole the milk squirts out."

 

[Maggot]

Mr Creosote.