+Jeffrey Mboya I think the "dinner scene" simply refers to characters sitting and eating a meal together. Pulp Fiction didn't have dinner, but the characters were eating breakfast. Same as Reservoir Dogs (though that could be brunch as well...)
You forgot the scene from 'Citizen kane' where Kane and his wife start intimately having breakfast over a tiny table for two and end, completely astranged and hating each other, at opposite ends of a huge dinner table.
It's frustrating when almost in every dinner scene the food is never finished. Sometimes it's not even started before the dinner is already over. Also alcohol consumption in Hollywood pisses me off. A dude buys his friend a beer. The "friend" takes one sip and says "Thanks for the beer" and leaves the bar. "Yeah, you're welcome, asshole." The ONLY thing that is consumed throughout is whiskey which the characters take as a shot instead of savouring it. If you want to drink a shot, why not have a vodka instead? ...I have no life.
ikr? the worst is when they do the scene and it's not even lit all the way/at all. Can't think of much thats as obviously fake as watching someone take a drag on an unlit cigarette.
What about the food they eat and what they drink? I think the food and drink tells a lot about the person or the situation. For example in Little Miss Sunshine they were eating fried chicken. This may shows that they are not in a very good financial situation. Alan Arkin's character (forgot his name), who is not supposed to eat junk food anyway due to his age, even mention about the how they always eat the same food during the lunch/dinner scene. In Boyhood lunch/dinner scene, we can see the stepfather is drinking during family lunch. This shows that he is an irresponsible person and probably abusive. All in all, I agree with this video that dinner scene is very important to show the characters' personalities and their relationship to each other. Great video!
I just watched American Beauty for the first time. Holy shit what an amazing film. Stupid thing is, I always thought it was just some good romance film.. I mean the posters don't help :). But I was very happily surprised by the themes and characters, completely hooked from the first to the last second. Absolute must see.
Thomas C. Foster talked about this motif in Literature in his book "How to Read Literature Like a Professor." I'm so glad someone made an analysis about it in film. Great job!
the way you make your videos is brilliant .. no flashy transitions, no one liners to make people like you, no intro or outro .. no asking for subs ... and still they are captivating, informative and really a school of their own, and I always rewatch them before shoots. I know making these videos can be hectic .. but please don't stop.
i'm a little disappointed you left out the Eraserhead dinner scene since it is the perfect antithesis to what you just explained: Instead of making us feel comfortable, it makes us feel highly uncomfortable; instead of showing us the characters' human side it alienates them. to me it is the most memorable dinner scene in any movie, because there simply is no other like it.
YVNG CARL JVNG Definitely the best dinner scene for me. One of the best scenes in the film for me. It really drags you into the depressing world of the scene.
holy fuck this channel is the best film themed youtube channel i have seen!!! how the hell isn't this more popular? it is way more in depth than others of its kind, and others often have millions of subscribers, so why not this one?
I hope you see this comment but man yiu just won me over. I'm a film student and aspiring director, writer,actor or film critic/analyst if all else fails and I've LITERALLY have referenced so many of the points you've made in the past three hours of wtaching your videos in my everyday film discussion and this is seriously an amazing little cinema course with enough relativity and diversity to keep you entertained and it's such a relief to hear someone with this much knowledge and library of film in their mind sharing it like this . Every other minute its me smiling and saying yes! because these are exactly the points I make . So great job man you have earned yourself a sub !
One of my all time favorite dinner scenes which I wish you had included is the scene from Signs. The character development in that scene alone was amazing.
Great points! Dinner scenes can go wrong so many ways, and it's also a really effective way of conveying that something's missing, like when a character's shown eating alone at a table with more than one chair, or a family failing to communicate, because we are so familliar with the format.
One of the most effective possibilities of dinner scenes is that they allow you to display so many ways of character interaction and relationships in synchronicity. By body language, by facial expressions, by posture, placement, movement, gazes, by stealthy things happening under the table, by the way characters eat, by the way they pay or don't pay attention to the room, things on the table, the impression they make onto others, to other characters, to group dynamics, by who is left out or included in a group, tries to get in or out or stay out, how self-confident or timid they are, by whether they feel the need to be validated by others, how self-absorbed or open-minded they are, etc. You can also use all kinds of camera techniques in just one scene: totality and unedited one-takes like in a stage play, zooms, hard cuts and soft cuts, camera movement or static cam, counter-shots or perception shots following a character's direction of gaze - to immerse the audience, make them empathize with or restrict their perception to that of certain characters, or to have the camera/narrator be its own, voyeuristic character.
I love your videos! Great explanation of new things I could have never thought of myself. New ways to look at movies, thanks! PS: Really like the captions too so I can add some to my to-watch-list.
David Lynch/Mark Frost put on a master class on dinner scenes in Twin Peaks, as there are so many of them and they all mean so much. Defining a vast number of characters while never getting boring.
That montage in Citizen Kane did a pretty good job of showing a deteriorating marriage through multiple dinner scenes. It was quite funny seeing Emily reading newspapers from Kane's competition
The Bear S02 E06 is proof how accurate this video is. It perfectly summed up why every character is the way that they are and gave us so much as whole in the story. Every character got their moment and it helped us understand them more.
Well that could apply to any scene where characters are all sitting at a table. I took some filmmaking classes in college and one of our assignments was to break down a scene in Twelve Angry Men, which you could argue is one long dinner scene without any food.
In general, this video felt rushed. But I agree, at least one scene from BB should have been included. I expecially love the one where Jesse eats dinner together with Walt and Skylar. It's so awkward and funny at the same time. ruclips.net/video/mXB4F4FJTGM/видео.html
the way the table is set, what they’re eating, et cetera tells you a lot as well like financial status, the dynamic of the meal (casual, formal) and the dynamic of the group of characters. if a table is set with crystal and china for a regular dinner, it can say that the group is very traditional, perhaps uptight or overdoing it.
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This explains why I love the dinner scene in the play Macbeth so much. It's supposed to be a happy celebration of Macbeth's coronation, but it is interrupted by assassins and his own delusions that he is seeing banquo's ghost, and it's made all the more intense by Lady Macbeth trying to keep the situation under control. Great video!
I love that part in the American Beauty dinner scene where the daughter is not completely on the chair and she is farther away from her dad. It made me feel the on edge intensity of the scene.
Nah, not just Sicario Hell or High Water too Hell, practically almost everything Taylor has directed so far, outside of Wind River Think Wind River doesn't even have a dinner scene if I remember correctly
There is an Italian film which is all focused on a dinner scene. It's called "perfetti sconosciuti" in English it translates to "perfect strangers" a really good movie and as I said the dinner table is the focus of the film
could someone please tell me which movies were shown in this video, i've seen a few of them and know what they are but there were a few that looked super familiar but i can't remember what they're called
tabitha Well, I notices Fargo, American Beauty, Meet the Parents, Little Miss Sunshine, Mulan, Titanic, Pulp Fiction, Beetlejuice, Elf, Boyhood, Reservoir Dogs, Thor, The Incredibles and Alien.
How much time did you spend on the three accomplishments texts? Having Humans Eat being wiped away by the waitress, adding a shadow to The Incredibles for Conflict, and putting The Unexpected behind the props on the table.
I hate when youtubers advertise themselves with the usual "comment, like and subscribe", but these videos are so great and attention-grabbing that I guess I could use a reminder, since I usually find myself going back on my browser just to like the videos I had previously watched. I actually feel guilty for not liking such good content.
I remember a dinner scene on this tv show once which was kinda funny. It was unintentionally funny. It was like a 5 min scene and the thing was every time they cut to the main actor all we would ever see him doing was cutting his steak and talking; never using a spoon, never putting food in his mouth, never getting a drink... just cutting his steak. They would cut away to the other person at the table but when they would cut back to him, there he would be still cutting his steak.
Very well put. I really wish you'd used the dinner scene at the end of Godfather 2. Where Michael gets vocal about his differences with his father. He gets condescending, when Tom says he cares about Michael. Through the scene, while everyone else at the table are being jovial, Michael simply sits there as though he's not part of the conversation. At the end of the scene everyone will have left the table to wish his father on his birthday which we hear in the background. While Michael continues smoking like nothing happened.
If you haven't seen it, take a look at the various dinner/eating scenes in "Edward Scissorhands" and how they progress the movie. Thanks for the exploration and break down.
great episode but I would have touched on the dinner scene in Signs. The complexity of grieving and anger and love resolved in under a couple of minutes while eating is something to note.
Nice Analysis, really interesting stuff. Hey could list the films you used for this in the description, I wanna know what film that Kevin spacey scene is from.
Another great one is in Silver Linings Playbook where Pat orders Raisin Bran so Tiffany orders tea which matches their thematic relationship and sets the tone for the "un-date".
One thing that I think you missed was how people are often forced to be there. We need to eat and therefore we need to go to the dinner even though a conflict may arise. It makes you fear hunger in a way, or that may just be me
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The apple strudel scene in Inglourious Basterds is so filled with tension and ambiguity, it's amazing.
+SparrowRJ Also, the Strudels looked so tasty...
+Michel Kuhn ha ha haaa ! You must wait for the cream ! ... (Attendez la crème ! )
+SparrowRJ that wasn't dinner though
+Jeffrey Mboya I think the "dinner scene" simply refers to characters sitting and eating a meal together. Pulp Fiction didn't have dinner, but the characters were eating breakfast. Same as Reservoir Dogs (though that could be brunch as well...)
I totally agree with you SparrowRJ! I love Inglorious Bastards, but that scene is probably my favorite scene from the whole movie! 🙌
You forgot the scene from 'Citizen kane' where Kane and his wife start intimately having breakfast over a tiny table for two and end, completely astranged and hating each other, at opposite ends of a huge dinner table.
+Mistermaarten150 That pull-out at the end of the sequence was so magnificent. Undoubtedly one of the best shots in cinema.
Yeah one of the best in the history of cinema!
It's frustrating when almost in every dinner scene the food is never finished. Sometimes it's not even started before the dinner is already over. Also alcohol consumption in Hollywood pisses me off. A dude buys his friend a beer. The "friend" takes one sip and says "Thanks for the beer" and leaves the bar. "Yeah, you're welcome, asshole." The ONLY thing that is consumed throughout is whiskey which the characters take as a shot instead of savouring it. If you want to drink a shot, why not have a vodka instead?
...I have no life.
HAHAHAHA
film these days is very focused on realism so it ruins it a little when stuff like that happens.. just finish the fucking food/drink..
Might be in part because the actors have to do several takes which would lead to eating lots of food
Or when a character lights a cigarette and puts it out after one puff.
ikr? the worst is when they do the scene and it's not even lit all the way/at all. Can't think of much thats as obviously fake as watching someone take a drag on an unlit cigarette.
What about the food they eat and what they drink? I think the food and drink tells a lot about the person or the situation. For example in Little Miss Sunshine they were eating fried chicken. This may shows that they are not in a very good financial situation. Alan Arkin's character (forgot his name), who is not supposed to eat junk food anyway due to his age, even mention about the how they always eat the same food during the lunch/dinner scene.
In Boyhood lunch/dinner scene, we can see the stepfather is drinking during family lunch. This shows that he is an irresponsible person and probably abusive.
All in all, I agree with this video that dinner scene is very important to show the characters' personalities and their relationship to each other. Great video!
This comment has educated me more than the entire video.
Drinking during family lunch could also just mean he’s British
The first thing that came to mind wasThe Darko Family at dinner. It perfectly shows the family dynamics.
Agreed
How exactly does one suck a fuck?
did you just call me a fuckass?
+Sven van Leeuwen especially bc the actors are in reality also brother and sister :D
Great. My favorite movie just got even better. Also what's a fuckass?
What film dinner scene is your favorite??
Now You See It I thought the one in FURY was pretty good.
Pond Scum good call
I like the dinner scene in Elf
American Beauty
My Dinner with Andre, then again, that's my favourite dinner film than scene.
Man I love American beauty...
It's the first film I thought of when I clicked the video.
Obr Kenobi Well it's in the thumbnail lol
I was hoping it was an analysis of that scene. I was disappointed, but it was still a fairly decent, if overly generic, video.
I just watched American Beauty for the first time. Holy shit what an amazing film. Stupid thing is, I always thought it was just some good romance film.. I mean the posters don't help :). But I was very happily surprised by the themes and characters, completely hooked from the first to the last second. Absolute must see.
Breaking bad, Dinner and Breakfast scenes
I was about to comment how painfully awkward and tense those scenes are throughout the series. Great choice!
robert daniel was thinking the same thing
that "click this to subscribe, I wont dissappoint" thing doesn"t lie.
1:53 "We can't relate to stealing diamonds or getting shot"
speak for yourself
Speaking for normal fucks
Plus, you should be in jail
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great lasagne mrs white
Thomas C. Foster talked about this motif in Literature in his book "How to Read Literature Like a Professor." I'm so glad someone made an analysis about it in film. Great job!
Man you reference Little Miss Sunshine a lot
Is that a bad thing?
+DailyLGS well they eat a lot
Because it uses a number of common movie techniques cleverly
I'm so glad i found ur channel. i love ur videos. so freakin interesting. you're just making me more and more interested in film.
the way you make your videos is brilliant .. no flashy transitions, no one liners to make people like you, no intro or outro .. no asking for subs ... and still they are captivating, informative and really a school of their own, and I always rewatch them before shoots. I know making these videos can be hectic .. but please don't stop.
i'm a little disappointed you left out the Eraserhead dinner scene since it is the perfect antithesis to what you just explained: Instead of making us feel comfortable, it makes us feel highly uncomfortable; instead of showing us the characters' human side it alienates them. to me it is the most memorable dinner scene in any movie, because there simply is no other like it.
YVNG CARL JVNG That scene is so effective that it is a big part of me not wanting to have kids, ever.
YVNG CARL JVNG Definitely the best dinner scene for me. One of the best scenes in the film for me. It really drags you into the depressing world of the scene.
I hope your channel keeps growing - it's absolutely fantastic, definitely my favorite cinema related channel on youtube.
holy fuck this channel is the best film themed youtube channel i have seen!!! how the hell isn't this more popular? it is way more in depth than others of its kind, and others often have millions of subscribers, so why not this one?
I hope you see this comment but man yiu just won me over. I'm a film student and aspiring director, writer,actor or film critic/analyst if all else fails and I've LITERALLY have referenced so many of the points you've made in the past three hours of wtaching your videos in my everyday film discussion and this is seriously an amazing little cinema course with enough relativity and diversity to keep you entertained and it's such a relief to hear someone with this much knowledge and library of film in their mind sharing it like this . Every other minute its me smiling and saying yes! because these are exactly the points I make . So great job man you have earned yourself a sub !
best Channel on RUclips keep it up. Most people don't know how powerful movies really are.
The first thing that came to mind are all the Friday Night Dinner scenes from Gilmore Girls
Abram in Wonderland Same! Especially the one from "Friday Night's Alright for Fighting"
The dinner scene in FURY is a perfect example, best scene in the movie in my opinion.
One of my all time favorite dinner scenes which I wish you had included is the scene from Signs. The character development in that scene alone was amazing.
Great points! Dinner scenes can go wrong so many ways, and it's also a really effective way of conveying that something's missing, like when a character's shown eating alone at a table with more than one chair, or a family failing to communicate, because we are so familliar with the format.
One of the most effective possibilities of dinner scenes is that they allow you to display so many ways of character interaction and relationships in synchronicity. By body language, by facial expressions, by posture, placement, movement, gazes, by stealthy things happening under the table, by the way characters eat, by the way they pay or don't pay attention to the room, things on the table, the impression they make onto others, to other characters, to group dynamics, by who is left out or included in a group, tries to get in or out or stay out, how self-confident or timid they are, by whether they feel the need to be validated by others, how self-absorbed or open-minded they are, etc. You can also use all kinds of camera techniques in just one scene: totality and unedited one-takes like in a stage play, zooms, hard cuts and soft cuts, camera movement or static cam, counter-shots or perception shots following a character's direction of gaze - to immerse the audience, make them empathize with or restrict their perception to that of certain characters, or to have the camera/narrator be its own, voyeuristic character.
I love your videos! Great explanation of new things I could have never thought of myself. New ways to look at movies, thanks! PS: Really like the captions too so I can add some to my to-watch-list.
i love the hannah and her sisters lunch scene, where the camera is going around the 3 sisters and tension is quickly building.
I look forward to the upcoming stuff you put out. It's very reminiscent of Every Frame A Painting which I am a big fan of.
David Lynch/Mark Frost put on a master class on dinner scenes in Twin Peaks, as there are so many of them and they all mean so much. Defining a vast number of characters while never getting boring.
That montage in Citizen Kane did a pretty good job of showing a deteriorating marriage through multiple dinner scenes. It was quite funny seeing Emily reading newspapers from Kane's competition
The Bear S02 E06 is proof how accurate this video is. It perfectly summed up why every character is the way that they are and gave us so much as whole in the story. Every character got their moment and it helped us understand them more.
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre dinner scene is one of the most important and terrifying scenes in horror and film history.
Holy crap these videos are GREAT.
Although, I expected to see the most incredibly tense eating scenes in Inglorious Basterds...all of them haha
I'm surprised you didn't mention character placement
Well that could apply to any scene where characters are all sitting at a table. I took some filmmaking classes in college and one of our assignments was to break down a scene in Twelve Angry Men, which you could argue is one long dinner scene without any food.
man Im so glad this channel exists, now we are going to have at least 172,645 more great movie directors on the business, hollywood beware..
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i cant believe u didnt use that breaking bad scene w jesse sky n walt..so awkward omg but great video
I wish you had included some of the dinner scenes from Breaking Bad. Those were great and would have also supported your points very well.
+oodjee Agreed. All the Dinner & Breakfast Scenes are well directed
The one with Walt and Gus
In general, this video felt rushed. But I agree, at least one scene from BB should have been included. I expecially love the one where Jesse eats dinner together with Walt and Skylar. It's so awkward and funny at the same time. ruclips.net/video/mXB4F4FJTGM/видео.html
What, not mentioning of Temple of Doom? I think that's almost the ultimate Dinner Scene going wrong.
goodfellas dinner scene where they're at tommy's mother's house is my favorite
"Can I borrow this knife ? "
Keep it up! I loved this, I'm looking forward to see what you'll bring up next
the way the table is set, what they’re eating, et cetera tells you a lot as well like financial status, the dynamic of the meal (casual, formal) and the dynamic of the group of characters. if a table is set with crystal and china for a regular dinner, it can say that the group is very traditional, perhaps uptight or overdoing it.
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Amazing videos, dude. I'm loving it :)
Its 2 in the morning and now I'm hungry.
I like that editing you did with the subtitles
How has no one mentioned American History X. One of the most unsettling dinner scenes of all time.
Donnie Darko's dinner scene...
Oh, please tell me Elizabeth. How exactly does one suck a f&*%?
that's technically breakfast
Keyser Soze you're technically right
Such an underrated Channel
I love the dinner scene in August: Osage County!
Breaking Bad dinner scene
You mean breakfast
This explains why I love the dinner scene in the play Macbeth so much. It's supposed to be a happy celebration of Macbeth's coronation, but it is interrupted by assassins and his own delusions that he is seeing banquo's ghost, and it's made all the more intense by Lady Macbeth trying to keep the situation under control. Great video!
Carols dinner scenes are great , but there are so many great ones i could never remember them all
I love that part in the American Beauty dinner scene where the daughter is not completely on the chair and she is farther away from her dad. It made me feel the on edge intensity of the scene.
your videos are very entertaining i must admit
I love this channel
I throughly enjoy your videos
Man, I love your channel! :D
I LOVE YOUR EDITING STYLE
Nice video, man! Subscribed.
Dinner scene in Sicario.....
Nah, not just Sicario
Hell or High Water too
Hell, practically almost everything Taylor has directed so far, outside of Wind River
Think Wind River doesn't even have a dinner scene if I remember correctly
And every meal of my life from now on I am gonna notice this thing....thank you for your amazing analysis.
Thanks for this. It's a nice, concise eye-opener.
I like the words wiping off the screen as the waitress walks through them.
Such great insights. Keep up the good work!
There is an Italian film which is all focused on a dinner scene. It's called "perfetti sconosciuti" in English it translates to "perfect strangers" a really good movie and as I said the dinner table is the focus of the film
could someone please tell me which movies were shown in this video, i've seen a few of them and know what they are but there were a few that looked super familiar but i can't remember what they're called
tabitha Well, I notices Fargo, American Beauty, Meet the Parents, Little Miss Sunshine, Mulan, Titanic, Pulp Fiction, Beetlejuice, Elf, Boyhood, Reservoir Dogs, Thor, The Incredibles and Alien.
A Streetcar Named Desire, has one of the best dinner scenes of all time.
this channel is amazing
I'm glad I saw this. I'm in pre-production on a dinner scene short film right now.
2 dinners table scenes that are uproariously funny: "Another Stakeout" and "Bringing Up Baby". Both are laugh out load funny.
How much time did you spend on the three accomplishments texts? Having Humans Eat being wiped away by the waitress, adding a shadow to The Incredibles for Conflict, and putting The Unexpected behind the props on the table.
I hate when youtubers advertise themselves with the usual "comment, like and subscribe", but these videos are so great and attention-grabbing that I guess I could use a reminder, since I usually find myself going back on my browser just to like the videos I had previously watched. I actually feel guilty for not liking such good content.
I remember a dinner scene on this tv show once which was kinda funny. It was unintentionally funny. It was like a 5 min scene and the thing was every time they cut to the main actor all we would ever see him doing was cutting his steak and talking; never using a spoon, never putting food in his mouth, never getting a drink... just cutting his steak. They would cut away to the other person at the table but when they would cut back to him, there he would be still cutting his steak.
Don't stop what you're doing. You got a big future ahead of you
August: Osage County lunch scene is fantastic
Great channel! Keep it up!
Very well put. I really wish you'd used the dinner scene at the end of Godfather 2. Where Michael gets vocal about his differences with his father. He gets condescending, when Tom says he cares about Michael. Through the scene, while everyone else at the table are being jovial, Michael simply sits there as though he's not part of the conversation. At the end of the scene everyone will have left the table to wish his father on his birthday which we hear in the background. While Michael continues smoking like nothing happened.
Though not technically from a film, the spicy curry dinner scene from FLCL holds a special place in my heart.
Please, What is the movie at 1:28? (with Patricia arquette i guess)
The dinner scene in August: Osange County is absolutely amazing. Honestly, it's beyond unbelievable.
If you haven't seen it, take a look at the various dinner/eating scenes in "Edward Scissorhands" and how they progress the movie. Thanks for the exploration and break down.
The dinner scene in 10 Cloverfield Lane is incredible!
great episode but I would have touched on the dinner scene in Signs. The complexity of grieving and anger and love resolved in under a couple of minutes while eating is something to note.
Great breakdown - Legend!
Nice Analysis, really interesting stuff. Hey could list the films you used for this in the description, I wanna know what film that Kevin spacey scene is from.
American Beauty
Cool, thanks man.
Another great one is in Silver Linings Playbook where Pat orders Raisin Bran so Tiffany orders tea which matches their thematic relationship and sets the tone for the "un-date".
Every time I see Kevin Spacey in a movie or a TV show, for some reason I just can't stop laughing. He's just such a funny guy
Movie list pleasee?
Caption doesn't work, right?
Oh god the dinner in Eraserhead.
You have earned a subscriber.
A really good dinner scene is the opening scene of "Misunderstood" it really sets the mood for the entire film.
I love your videos
Dinner scenes = the best
Recently saw Black Mass, can you guess what the best scene is?
I WAS JUST THINKING OF THAT!!
In "Gilmore Girls" the many dinner scenes with Lorelais and her parents are also of great significance.
1:39 yes, rightfully making us watch that beautiful transition
Time to update this video and add the dinner scene from Hereditary.. an amazing scene by the way
3 years later dinner scene in hereditary still haunts me
One thing that I think you missed was how people are often forced to be there. We need to eat and therefore we need to go to the dinner even though a conflict may arise. It makes you fear hunger in a way, or that may just be me
What 2 songs are used at 03:25 and 00:27 ?
Please help