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??

Darren Ruecker

Published: Apr 29, 2013 06:07 pm

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[h2]2) Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory[/h2]

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I remember less about the chocolate factory in the Tim Burton version of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and more about Johnny Depp’s channeling of Michael Jackson. The version that gave me, and I suspect most everyone else, a reaction of “I want to go to there!!” was the 1971 Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory Gene Wilder adaptation.

The whole of the movie is filled with edible delights, but the big moment comes during Gene Wilder’s famous song and dance routine where the children and adults are first exposed to the paradise that is the inside of the chocolate factory. Maybe it’s the adults running around trying to eat everything at the same pace as the kids, but any world where everything is edible seems pretty awesome on its own. The chocolate waterfall is pretty tasty-looking, but if it was me running around in this weird room, I’d go straight for the weird icing-covered giant mushrooms and/or Wonka’s umbrella.

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