Films with vivid descriptions of eating

[MikeWaters]

Aaron Eckhart is always eating something in every one of his movies.

[Mormon Red Death]

Originally Posted by MikeWaters

Aaron Eckhart is always eating something in every one of his movies.

so is brad pitt...

[marsupial]

Originally Posted by Sleeping in EQ

Of course! I think I've heard of this. Doesn't it take place in Denmark or something?

Yes, it is a Danish movie. I just looked it up on Wikipedia and it listed several other food-themed movies so you could check there.

[MikeWaters]

One of the best food films is Ang Lee's "Eat Drink Man Woman"

[BigFatMeanie]

Seven - where the detectives realize that whoever was force feeding the fat dude made two additional trips to the grocery store and they find the word "gluttony" written on the wall behind the fridge in grease. Classic.

[TripletDaddy]

Woman on Top, with Penelope Cruz.

Nowhere near as bad as 9 1/2 Weeks, but lots of food. She has her own food TV show in the movie.

Plus, it has has Penelope Cruz.

[Mormon Red Death]

European vacation....

Plus you get to watch national lampoon's european vacation

[Jeff Lebowski]

Originally Posted by Mormon Red Death

so is brad pitt...

In each of the Coen Brothers' movies in which John Goodman has a role, at some point in the movie he puts an entire chicken leg in this mouth and eats it in one gulp.

[Solon]

Originally Posted by Sleeping in EQ

I'm looking for films that have vivid descriptions of eating. My students are trying to write video documentaries on the food at the Student Union and I'm hoping to show them examples of eating being described with active verbs and so on.

Backstory:

I asked a colleague this question and he recommended a scene in the film 9 1/2 weeks. I hadn't seen the film and knew basically nothing about it. Stupidly, I bought it for $4 when at the store.

All I can say is "oops."

Hey, in comms, you can consult all sorts of media in the name of "research."

It's kind of a cop-out, but Proust's description of eating madelines in Le Temps Retrouve is loaded with imagery. I remember it in the French film of 1999 (With Catherine Deneuve), but you'd probably just end up reading subtitles.

You could also check out the pie-eating contest in Stand By Me.

And then there's this (from the Cyclops' cave in the Odyssey):

Not a word in reply to that, the ruthless brute.
Lurching up, he lunged out with his hands toward my men
and snatching two at once, rapping them on the ground
he knocked them dead like pups -
their brains gushed out all over, soaked the floor -
and ripping them limb from limb to fix his meal
he bolted them down like a mountain-lion, left no scrap,
devoured entrails, flesh and bones, marrow and all!
We flung our arms to Zeus, we wept and cried aloud,
looking on at his grisly work - paralyzed, appalled.
But once the Cyclops had stuffed his enormous gut
with human flesh, washing it down with raw milk,
he slept in his cave, stretched out along his flocks.

From Homer's Odyssey, Book 9, lines 287-298 (Fagles' Translation):

[RC Vikings]

Monty Python's "The Meaning of Life"

"Part VI: The Autumn Years", is introduced with a Noel Cowardesque fop (Idle) performing the song "Isn't It Awfully Nice to Have a Penis?". Following this, Mr. Creosote, an impossibly fat man (Jones), waddles into a decorous restaurant, swears at the host (Cleese), and vomits copiously, into buckets if available. He eats an enormous meal, and finally, after delivering the immortal line "Fuck off, I'm full!", is persuaded to eat one last wafer-thin mint, whereupon he explodes, showering the restaurant with offal