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DEL.ICIO.USLive free or Die (Without a Snicker Bar)
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Just got in from seeing Live Free or Die Hard. Aside from being a Brucefest (which I have no issue with — all guys should be that bald with those pecs, and I love that smirky look he always has on his face), Justin Long (equally as cute, but with hair) rants for the first hour about how hungry he is, but when a Snicker bar shows up in the glove box of the car he and Brucey (as John McClane) are stealing, he doesn’t even go for it. I would eat a Snicker even if I wasn’t hungry. It got me to thinking about how effective eating —especially dining — is in film, and I don’t just mean the obvious such as Babette’s Feast or Eat Drink Man Woman. Actually my favorite is Meryl Streep in Postcards from the Edge taking a Tupperware container of spaghetti from her mother’s fridge, sniffing it to make sure it’s still good, then proceeding to devour the contents with her fingers — still standing and in her “police uniform” costume. Chocolat has its praline-making party and 9 and1/2 weeks has that thing with the strawberry (and the ice cube, and the …) What’s the best eating/dining scene in a film?
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