Food Stylist Reviews Food Scenes From Movies | Vanity Fair
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- Опубликовано: 17 май 2024
- Food stylist Susan Spungen reviews iconic food scenes from films like 'Matilda,' 'The Princess Diaries,' 'Inglourious Basterds,' 'Julie & Julia,' and more. Susan explains all the things we never think about when watching food scenes in movies, like how the food stays fresh between takes and how often the actors have to actually eat the food.
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Everyone who has ever watched Matilda will remember this chocolate cake for the rest of their lives. I always think of this chocolate cake as the standard for chocolate cake
I can’t eat chocolate cake at all because of it.
@@DaVeganZombie same!!!
Yes! It is THE chocolate cake. No chocolate cake will ever compare to my idea on how chocolatey and moist that chocolate looked.
It was disgusting
@@halatiny6537 That's like your opinion, man.
OK kids what did we learn today? There's two type of people: the ones who found Matilda's cake disgusting and the ones who don't
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I definitely did, much as I actually always loved chocolate cakes in real life, that scene always made me so uncomfortable! The general idea of someone pushed towards eating something they usually love when they don't want to and/or in excessive quantity, either as a form of punishment for their greed or as a gross form of competition/entertainment really extremely cringes me out. I can't understand how can someone find it funny. It feels so humiliating for the person and/or for the preciousness of food to me.
And then the third one like me that thought they made it look disgusting at times but still looked tasty other times
What if I am both?
i did, it made me gag
Vanity Fair really asked this professional food stylist to critique a food scene in Crazy Rich Asians and it _WASN’T_ the street food dinner scene??? Smh
kind of random but have you ever read the books? the movie follows the same line obviously but the books are still so different, i was shocked actually
Yes, they had that one, the dumpling making one, the cafe one even, but they chose one unrelated to food. Smhfr🤦🏻♀️
Exactly!!
I think they were focusing on how food playing a character in a scene, rather than just being a prop.
Thank you! I was like wtf!
"So it just seems kind of disgusting..." Oh, were we supposed to be disgusted? I dreamed about eating that cake as a child XD
Lol I still hope to one day find myself sitting in front of a whole cake to myself
Same lol.
@@SpeakinThaTruth69 Buy yourself a whole one and eat it lol.
I actually did find it disgusting:(
Same, she kept going on about how it was supposed to make the audience not want to eat it. But child me thought that looked so good
She’s reviewing that Emily In Paris scene like “I don’t know why you showed me this one.”
In “ Inglourious Basterds” the strudel scene wasn't about just build in scene. The whipped cream on the pastry was made with pig lard in WWII, so Landas choice of dessert is a test. So he would be forcing her to eat non-Kosher food. Therefore if she were to reject the food he would know she was Jewish, and kill her.
"Cows Don't Look Like Cows On Film. You gotta use horses."
"But what if you need a horse?"
"Usually we just tape a bunch of cats together."
Loved the subtle dig at _Emily in Paris_
That was a whole drag session 🤸🏿♀️
i didn’t think she meant it as a dig, i thought she was amused by it. like 😏 “the food is not the point” 😉
It was a well deserved dig
I remember when trunchbul said that cooks sweat and blood went into the cake, as a kid I thought that it literally had sweat and blood in it. That's what put me off
i thought she meant it literally, but i still thought the cake looked good, anyways. 😂
I thought the same thing lol, Matilda is such a nostalgic movie for me
Me too!
SAME
That was the point. 😅
wait.... there are people who found the Matilda chocolate cake disgusting??? that has been my chocolate cake standard. I am still unhappy that I have not found a chocolate cake as gooey as that one
It looks great! it just because the cook made it, that’s why people think it’s disgusting 😭
@@ketlenedestin8408 Actually, for me it's because it looks too chocolatey and sweet. That amount of chocolate and sugar just makes me feel nauseous tbh
I think the cake by itself looks DELICIOUS! But I agree with Ketlene Destin. The cook made it look gross because she was wiping her nose like that. Ugh, vomit.
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Fun fact: the tea cup Willy Wonks takes a bite out of is made of wax.
I wanna eat it
i always assumed that, totally makes sense. it reminded me of those wax bottles you get as candy w/ the juice inside.
Thought it was made out of a very thin layer of rock candy...
@@Cheddar_Shred I was watching the commentary version of the film where the director commented on what it was made of. Rock candy would have been a clever idea to use though!
I used to think it had the texture of uncooked pasta since it was pasta-colored. lol
This video is absolutely fascinating. It's so interesting to see how things the audience wouldn't think about require stylists or even effects teams.
She is so so so knowledgeable and comes across so humble. I was engaged the whole time!
she’s nothing like her sister Nancy ! They both are beyond smart but Susan choose a very different path that was uplifting not destructive ❤️
@@melyndabott7444 I read the book their mother wrote and Nancy. She had a 162 IQ, but unfortunately, she was also schizophrenic which probably had a lot to do with the poor choices she made, and health care system did f*** all for them.
Really? I had just finished watching Vanity Fairs other food stylist video and was very impressed. This video the insight she provided seemed very common sense, wasn't as interesting to me.
Stating that the chef coming out to flirt with a guest isn't realistic, they wouldn't want to use real fish because of the smell, that actors spit food out during scenes. Most of it didn't seem very informative.
Idk I'm having a hard time describing what I mean, its coming across judgmental. Check out Vanity Fairs other video about "Secret Food Commercial Styling". The amount of information she's able to share is amazing, very technical and interesting.
Then again, I'm not familiar with the host of the this episode. So maybe having known who she is has an impact.
Julie and Julia is the only movie I know of where the actors were actually encouraged to eat while filming, and to play up their reactions to how it tasted.
I think a lot of what makes the chocolate cake seem gross is how shiny and dense they make it. It really gives the impression that there’s a lot of oil/butter in the cake which would make it even harder to eat the whole thing since fat is so filling.
I always thought it was weird that in Eat Pray Love she eats such an American dish in such an iconic scene in Italy.
YES this is the appreciation that Eat Drink Man Woman deserves. the food in that film is masterfully done and shot.
Now looking to watch the film
Everything in the movie is masterfully done!
YESSS!! such a wonderful film, so happy it was mentioned
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I was so upset when his daughters didn’t even eat all his cooking after that scene 😂 I wanted to reach out into the TV and eat the yummy food lol
Eat Pray Man Woman is such a beautifully made movie. Food plays such a large part in the story. So, I’m happy to see her praise it because it deserves all the recognition.
Seeing Christoph Waltz having conversations while eating in Inglorious Basterds is one of the most satisfying scenes in Movie History
A lot of people talk about the cake in Matilda, which I never felt strongly about. For me it was always those little chocolates that Miss Honey had💕
Yeah!!! Those little pralines always looked SO GOOD
omg yes, the whole cake scene irks me out but i would spend a lot of time just thinking abt and imagining the taste of those chocolates, the satisfaction must be unmatched
I wanted to eat the cake and the chocolates. 🤤
I don’t know about anyone else but I’ve ALWAYS wanted to eat a cake that looks like the Matilda cake!! Lollll
You can find the recipe in Roald Dahl's book "Revolting Recipes" ;).
and then regretting after knowing its taste like diabetes.
Ew 😭😭😭
I’m 30 years old and I try to make that exact chocolate cake one a year, every year still
She's amazing, I could listen to her talk about it for hours
Amazing that she's Nancy's sister 🖤
That "Emily in Paris" scene was frustrating.🤯🤦🏻♀️
the whole series was frustrating, to say the least.
I think about the Matilda cake probably once every few weeks haha- comes up in conversation surprisingly a lot
I wish someone would do this for Japanese shows. The food shots are so long and detailed
I was thinking that, especially Samurai Gourmet
This small character analysis she makes about the 'Inglorious Bastards' scene is lowkey kinda genius. Like, THAT'S how you read and look into fiction.
They might've used colored mashed potatoes for The Princess Diaries.
Potatoes don’t melt tho. It looks like it’s melting a bit
@@folklore_of_beth they could’ve used real ice cream just for that one shot
Or coloured white choc mousse. But to be fair you can see the condensation beginning to appear on some of the glasses.
@@folklore_of_beth Also if you look closely it looks like the glasses that they serve the ice cream in were kind of frosty with condensation. They look like they were cold.
@@anava7030 which is exactly what the lady said. It’s not potatoes
"the cake looks really unappealing" ma'am I would smash that entire cake inside me. It looks wonderful
To this day, the Matilda scene with that cake is why I can’t eat chocolate cake.
I start to feel sick any time I am in front of around one.
I watched that as a kid in the 90s and it’s stuck with me for decades.
That screen presence was insane. They truly ruined chocolate cake for me.
But dang I love that movie.
Same here!
Am I the only one to have had the opposite effect happen to me? I have never wanted a cake as much as I wanted that chocolate cake🙈😩
I feel the exact same way🤣 that cake to me was🤢
@@NN-zf6zu no me too I was so excited 💀💀💅🏿
Ikr.. I wanna puke seeing that clip and I pity the kid.
Oh would love to see her back with more scenes. There's just so many in movies
I want to see her review/react/breakdown Harry Potter food scenes
My childhood dream was to eat that Matilda cake it remains an unfulfilled dream till today 😂😂
I actually made a replica for a friends birthday. Its a standard fudge cake on a larger scale. I love baking though.
Binging with Babish made it
:D
yes!!, right!!, THE NEXT BEST CAKE....OLIVE GARDENS chocolate cake
The opening of Eat Drink Man Woman, my goodness.. It's far and away the greatest cooking scene I've ever had the pleasure of viewing. It's so real and beautiful, just masterfully shot, absolutely incredible and so soothing to watch.
No Hannibal? What a wasted opportunity.
"Hmmm. The brains aren't fooling anyone."
Lmaoo
I know right?
I was kinda hoping for more insight. Like - what would be used instead of sorbet if it had to be eaten but needed to keep? I've heard about mashed potatoes being used but I was very curious about her knowledge.
Yes same
I’m sure there are RUclips videos about it if you’re interested. I think I’ve seen one or two actually
"Eat Drink Man Woman" is a wonderful story, nicely written and beautifully shot. I highly recommend it to everyone!
I’m pretty sure I have a subconscious bias against chocolate cake because of that Matilda scene. My appetite immediately vanishes whenever I see that cake so it’s funny to see people here say that they wanted to eat it
I was hoping they would have the Jurassic park buffet scene.
The cake in Matilda “unappealing or unappetizing”? Okay, I’ll give you the cook part, but otherwise I disagree.
me: emm...emmm... (while slurping and chewing my instant noodles + air-fried nuggets in front of my pc monitor)
Julie and Julia my favorite food movie next is chef can't believe she's the stylist that beef bourginion lives rent free in my head.
I drank heavily one night at my moms house with some family. Everyone was outside and I came inside to use the restroom. I saw the most magnificent chocolate cake. It reminded me of Matilda and I needed to reenact my favorite childhood scene. It was a very fulfilling moment for me. Best chocolate cake I had ever had.
This was so interesting. I hope they bring her on again and she talks about Last Holiday and Pretty Woman!
Loved every second of this!! Please have Susan review more food scenes in films!
Apparently the chocolate river in Willy Wonka was real chocolate and also had cream in it which spoiled over time and made the set smell horrible. So maybe they should have just gone with brown water 🤷
Oh wow lol.
no, thats not true. i watched a bts and it said they used brown water.
Nope, there's a 2015 interview with the original "Wonka" cast, and they emphatically say the chocolate river was composed of brown water. Why did you spin this yarn lol? ruclips.net/video/IMlZJlw9Cck/видео.html
@@hellobecky84 Oh I'm sorry, it IS brown water.... Made brown by using CHOCOLATE. So get off your high horse, what she was saying was water just colored brown. The production actually used chocolate powder and a bunch of other stuff, hence why it smelled bad. So my comment still stands; you can go spin your own yarn.
@@32fps ha, your comment says the production “should have just gone with brown water.” Just pointing out what I read. I honestly don’t care that much but your comment was so detailed lol. good day! 👋🏽
I love food styling😭😭it’s always so beautiful and intricate or just super cool to watch on screen and pause and take a minute to stare😩💕
Me too, I always appreciate how fabulous they make the food look on screen! 😍🤤
Would love to see her talk about the pasta making scene in Goodfellas
I can't believe they didn't review the food styling in Hannibal!
Omg all of these comments about doing Hannibal makes me want to watch the show even more-
To be honest, I feel like the food scenes where it was realistic food being cooked instead of made perfect, looks so much better than the dolled up stuff you normally see in commercials.
I really missed Hannibal in there :'D
Nothing about that cake looks disgustingly made! It's the most delicious cake I've ever seen.
Very interesting, I liked how the Strudel in Inglorious Basterds plays a key role in that scene it just makes you feel very uncomfortable.
Another great movies with a lot of food in them I'd recommend are:
•Babette's Feast
•Tampopo
•The Cook, the thief, His Wife and Her Lover
I thought the whole point of the cream was due to the fact that the pastry would be made with pig lard and he’s testing if she keeps kosher. Not really related to the cigarette, the cigarette would signify his frustration.
Me, age 25: Mom, I want to be a food stylist when I grow up
Same haha
Well ok, yet another fantastic entry into this expert series! Please bring her back for more videos! It was perfectly explained and very insightful
Would have loved her reacting to the food in Hannibal. That was really epic food styling.
She forgot to also mention that in Ingloriouz, the food scene was actually supposed to be a character hint that Lanser knows who she is, hence the dessert he ordered. Which at the time, was made using pig parts, including the milk, I believe.
Pig milk? What do you think cows are for?
This is one of my all time favorite breakdowns I think
I think I was 3 or 4 years old when I've watched the Chocolate Cake scene and I couldn't take that off my mind that I asked my dad to buy me one, but the choco cake that I ate seems lacking something because the chocolate cake in Matilda is more delicious.
VF we need a part 2 on this. Excellent clips and commentary
she’s so well spoken this was so nice to watch
Susan Spungen is amazing. Who remembers her iconic holiday cookies for NYT a few years back? 😍
Google time👀
Wow, thank you for shouting out that mouth-watering video. Found it, and she's essentially an artist.
Wow, very interesting! Please do a part 2 and review other iconic food scenes in movies! How about Chocolat and The hundred-foot journey, or food-centered scenes in non-food-centered movies, like The experiment?
This was great! Also I miss the movie "Chef" the food scenes in that movie were great!
i'm pleasantly surprised at how many movies i recognized in this video! i never thought about how food plays such an integral role in film. very cool stuff!
Part II, please!!!
Oh Samantha Jones!! Such a fab character and I loved that scene!
it never even crossed my mind that the cake was supposed to be disgusting lmao,it just looks so good but obviously seeing the child being forced to eat it made me feel bad for him
Beautiful! I absolutely love this Vanity Fair - thank you for showing an industry that is so important! More like this is needed!!!!
That was fascinating to watch and loved her critiques, very enjoyable and interesting
Please do Hannibal next time, that show makes cannibalism look good
I wish she had talked about the cake scene in Meet Joe Black
It’s weird because we all definitively saw the filthy looking cook set the cake down yet that is still the most delicious looking cake we’ve all ever seen…
There's this one scene in Fantastic Beasts, where Queenie is making strudel and it's one of my favourite food moments in the Harry Potter/FB series.
i really enjoy this series and this was definitely a stand out episode! really interesting.
The chocolate cake actually made me drool the first time I saw it. It's all chocolate and cake, what's not to like? Hahahah
I love this type of video so much!
Now, this, this is the content I love watching. 👍🏼👍🏼
Fun to watch and learn some of the backstories!
didn't even knew there is something called a "food stylish"'
There isn't.
@@veemacks7255 There is.
@@veemacks7255 so you've never heard of a cookbook?
@@joshuagrotheer3589 What have cookbooks got to do with anything?
@@veemacks7255 usually it’s a food stylist that takes the photos for the cookbook
She really knows her stuff! I enjoyed this! I also realize that there’s many food movies I haven’t watched yet
Super interesting! I've always wondered how food was prepared for tv and movies and it's fun to learn more about it. Like apparently in The Good Place, Kristen Bell is allergic to shrimp so they had to make fake shrimp. That kind of thing is so fun to think about.
Julie and Julia is such a visual treat!
4:30 that was a iconic scene
I wish No Reservations and the baking scenes in A Perfect Man was added to the list to be reviewed too. But all in all, loved your take on it!
There is a restaurant in Dubai (Parker’s) that serves the “Matilda Cake.” Even though it’s filmed to look disgusting, it still holds a certain appeal!
I'd read somewhere that the chocolate river and waterfall were either chocolate that was greatly diluted or just water coloured to look like thin chocolate.
I remember the original paper wrappings of McDonald's. I liked them better than the boxes of today.
You should get Janice Poon's opinion on movie/TV food! She's not just a food stylist, she's can turn food into art.
Unappealing??????? I've always dreamed of eating that cake!!!! I'm spiritually the chubby boy in Matilda.
What about the movie “waitress”? I just remember this movie for its scenes filled with pies and food, I loved those scenes. I love seeing food in movies
We will NEVER be able to know what the Matilda chocolate cake tasted like, it's a flavor that lives only in our childlike imagination, that's why any attempt just doesn't do it.
That was so interesting!!
The Monty Python film "The Meaning Of Life" would have been a good one to get a food stylist to break down :-)
They showed a pheasant in one of the movie shots. My favorite food!
Our family calls our favorite chocolate cake recipe for birthdays "Bruce Bogtrotter Cake". :)
omg i love saorise ronan and the grand budapest hotel!!
The way they handle the cake with the hands made me blergherghergh
This was such a cool video!
This is interesting Thank you Ms. Spungen.
The fact that they did not include Hannibal??? A crime
I wish you reacted to Hannibal the series. The cooking is glorious
That chocolate cake looks so effin amazing