User:10000BL/H2-Film & Food: How food is use to convey a message

I never realised that the use of food in films was such embedded that it is a study on itself or I never watched films in such a way that I was paying attention to a point that I would make notes when food was present in a film and where it stance for/actually conveyed. When I started with my project Nr. 39 with Rice it was initially not my intention to work with moving image. Only in a later stage I realised that the inclusion of my father, whom is a chef from origin would be an interesting yet logical choice to make. When I started my journey to learn more about how food is depicted in films, how it is presented in films or where it actually stands for, I was looking for films that were culturally close to me. Films like Tampopo (Itami, 1985), Eat Drink Man Woman (Lee, 1994) and Jiro Dreams of Sushi (Gelg, 2011), which is technically a documentary are striking examples of Asian culture in many facets. In my private DVD collection I posses already for many years Kebab Connection (Saul, 2004), a film which tells the story about a Turkish young man Ibo, grown up in Germany out of a traditional turkish family, that is in love with German girl Titzi, whom are awaiting their first child. The upcoming birth of the child puts things on the edge (spanning) in the traditional Turkish family of Ibo. The unfolding of this cultural clash together with the fight between a Greek and Turkish restaurant holder about who has the best eatery of Hamburg with lots of scenes were food is key is a film when looking back falls into the genre of films about food. One of the first movies I watched for my current research was The Ramen Girl (Ackerman, 2008). This film, which story is somehow similar to that of the Karate kid (Avildsen, 1984), tells the story about Abby who moves to Tokyo to be with her boyfriend. This relationship ends at an early stage in the film and as a consequence she starts to build a love(?) for Ramen noodles and insists sensei Maezumi to learn her to cook Ramen. The story unfolds that in order to make good Ramen you have to cook with the heart.

There are many good movies that covered in a layer of food, but for my research I choose not to use them...

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