Scene of the Week, 8 of 52 Bonding via food truck equipment – Chef (2014) – youtu.be/2hr6XSNsuiQ “Chef” has quickly become one of my favorite Jon Faverau films. It was a return to a much smaller scale of filmmaking, and it contains some of the best scenes involving cooking. - ThreadSky

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andrew.sibulskymusic.com • 77 days ago

Scene of the Week, 8 of 52

Bonding via food truck equipment – Chef (2014) – https://youtu.be/2hr6XSNsuiQ

“Chef” has quickly become one of my favorite Jon Faverau films. It was a return to a much smaller scale of filmmaking, and it contains some of the best scenes involving cooking.

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andrew.sibulskymusic.com•77 days ago

It’s also about fatherhood – told in a way that avoids falling into the traps that so many movies about fathers and sons get caught in.

andrew.sibulskymusic.com•77 days ago

The scene is about two-thirds of the way thru the movie. After having been kind of a dick to his kid, Percy, chef Carl is buying equipment for the food truck he’s just gotten, his son with him.

andrew.sibulskymusic.com•77 days ago

As Carl inspects the bill, he adds a chef’s knife to the order and gives it to Percy, telling him about the importance and serious responsibility that comes with it.

andrew.sibulskymusic.com•77 days ago

What makes this moment great in the context of the rest of the film is that the kid doesn’t lose the knife or cut himself with it like his dad warned him.

andrew.sibulskymusic.com•77 days ago

Either of these things happening is something that movies of the last 20-30 years have trained us to expect, supposedly so that the kid in the story would learn their lesson.

andrew.sibulskymusic.com•77 days ago

“Chef” makes Percy smart enough that he learns the lesson right here without having to fall into the lazy storytelling trap. Well done.

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