Recently, Enjoy your meal interviewed the screenwriters behind MenuWill Tracy (from the HBO hit Subrogation) and old Onion colleague Seth Reiss. During the chat, Tracy explained that the inspiration for the movie came from a real upscale restaurant she visited on a remote Norwegian island. He described the dining experience as claustrophobic as storytelling and said that customers “held hostage” for hours. Read the full excerpt below:
[The restaurant was not Fäviken, but like Fäviken.] There’s something brutal about all these tasting menus. You cannot leave You are a prisoner of a story they tell for hours.
In his heart, his story Menu It is about the clash of commerce and art. Fiennes’ character clashes with the fact that his art has become a product of the upper class as a status symbol rather than an expression of his purest self; However, the fact that the film takes place in the world of food culture is important in terms of humor as well as creating fear in the audience.
Even if your experience with fancy restaurants is limited, most are familiar with the concept enough to realize that the portion sizes are small as well as the long list of expensive ingredients. This sometimes deliberately alienating presentation is now iconic”we gelSung by Hong Chau in T’s trailer”Menu. Margot’s discomfort in such an environment allows her to be an entry point for the audience; this means that when he notices various repulsive details during a meal, his feathers will fluff along with his.
Menu It makes excellent use of this unusual feeling that this type of restaurant will automatically evoke in someone unaccustomed to them. However, Chef Julian’s restaurant also takes humor from characters who feel extremely comfortable in their restaurant and showcases how they can sometimes bend over backwards to artistically justify something they don’t quite understand. By the end of the film, Tracy and Reiss were able to incorporate many different elements of this culture into a slow-boiling thriller that has already garnered two Golden Globe nominations and awards.
Source: Bon Appetit