...Eat Drink Man Woman Anthony Bourdain, an American chef and author of the book Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, displays that food is a way of ceasing haggard and pessimistic feelings, and bringing forth true and real emotions through his following quote; “For a moment, or a second, the pinched expressions of the cynical, world-weary, throat-cutting, miserable bastards we've all had to become disappears, when we're confronted with something as simple as a plate of food” (Bourdain, A, 2000). From the viewpoint of communication studies, food has been, and remains to be, a significant representation in our foundation of meaning. Food, as an everyday necessity of social life, is an important aspect to study as it expresses current social studies through distinct relationships of class, education, gender, and sexuality. In addition, the customs of sharing foods and meals have been key in communicative practices in cultures all over the world. In the following paragraphs, the Taiwanese feature film Eat Drink Man Woman, managed and written by well-known director Ang Lee, who also successfully directed movies such as Brokeback Mountain and Hulk, will be analyzed to see how food is constructed and represented in the movie. In the film it is stated by character Jia-Chien that they “communicate by eating” (Lee, A, 1994). This is important because it displays that food is a form of expression and communication, a form that is commonly misunderstood or avoided...
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...Film Analysis 1 -Eat, Drink, Man, Woman Eat, Drink, Man, Woman reminds us of universal wants and needs through the lives' of a father and his three daughters. The family struggles to keep their bond while dealing with individual challenges and hardships. In the end, these struggles are worked out with the help of family, as we see each character grow and develop; which causes the family to be redefined all together. Interesting to me, was the theme of tradition versus modernization. This was central to Eat, Drink, Man, Woman, and it is shown in the development of the characters, in the symbols and motifs, and even in the use of light and sound. I would like to further explore this theme and the implications. The characters develop through conflict resolution, and each conflict presented shows some spectrum of tradition versus modernization. Let's begin with the conflict between Senior Master Chef Chu (Chu) and his middle daughter Jia-Chien (Chien). Chu is traditional in his ways -he prepares food traditionally, he was matched with his wife traditionally, he was faithful and committed to his wife, and even after her death, he is incredibly slow to remarry,he provides and cares for his family, he values family tradition, and he does not talk about his feelings. Chien is a representation of modernization -she is a powerful woman in the workplace who seemingly does not place high esteem on family values. She is not committed to any one man, even though she longs to be wanted...
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...A Reflection on the two Chinese films ‘Together’ and ‘Eat, Drink, Man, Woman’ Mainland China’s Together tells the story of a young boy named Xiaochun who happens to be a brilliant violinist, and the sacrifices that he and his father had to make in pursuit of his musical success. On the other hand, Taiwan’s Eat, Drink, Man, Woman revolves on the relationship of an elderly master chef with his three grown-up daughters. These are two films which tackle how Chinese people interact and relate to one another as members of one family while pursuing their own personal goals in life. Both films exhibit the Chinese people’s love for the arts, such as music and cuisine, and their usually unspoken concern for their loved ones. Such emotions are contained by the person because expressing them may be taken as a sign of exposing or revealing one’s vulnerable side; basically, a sign of weakness. Eat, Drink, Man, Woman has a delightful take on the dynamics of a modern-day Chinese family. Despite having three daughters, the aging master chef Tao Chu finds himself managing a household that’s anything but submissive. The three women have developed very different personalities, and all are pursuing different careers in the industry – the only time that they will all come together is during the Sunday ritual dinner wherein their father will prepare several dishes for them to share. During the first half of the movie, Chu was portrayed to have lost his sense of taste, thus resulting in very...
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...The role of the man was mostly hunting. Most men also fought for their tribe in wars. Warrior societies governed the tribe and protected women, children and elderly from tribal enemies. Most common tribal enemies were the Arikara, the Blackfeet and the Crow. War to the Plains Indians was more like a sport than mortal combat. Men also protected the tribe´s ground and taught boys at a young age the ways of a man. The role of the women was mostly to keep the household. They prepared meat after a hunt and made clothing the family wore. They were in charge of taking down and setting up the tipis after a trip. Besides cooking and keeping their household, women dragged the heavy sticks of the tipi wherever they traveled. Several women could take a tipi down in minutes. Women also taught girls the skill they would need when they get married. Children...
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...basically a story of a man meeting a very beautiful Filipina woman by the well in a sizzling summer day. It starts off with the man and his cart tied to his bull on a long dry road when he suddenly sees a woman who stood unmoving watching the man come towards her. The woman was described from head to toe with such detail as the man looked from a distance. The man followed the woman to the where she went and led him to the well under a big mango tree. He watched her as she filled the jar and placed it on top of her head. The woman leaves and the man goes to the well and gathers water for his bull and himself while still thinking of the woman. The man then eats his dinner under the shade of the tree when the woman comes back to refill her jar. As she fills her jar the man invites the woman referring to her as Ading, to eat with her. The woman then addresses the man as Manong and thankfully refuses his invitation to eat as she herself just ate. They converse and suddenly the woman spills water all over the food and apologizes by getting him water but the Manong insists that he fetch it from the well. Ading notices Manong’s well built muscles and body as he fetches water, showing her how strong he is. He drinks his water as Ading lifts the bucket for him. The story ends with Ading inviting her to their home and Manong follows her with his cart and bull. The setting of the story was just appropriate showing the intense sexual heat and tension between the man and the woman. It was evident...
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... | |It was twenty years ago and I was living in Paris. I had a tiny apartment in the Latin quarter overlooking a cemetery, and I | |was earning barely enough money to keep body and soul together. She had read a book of mine and had written to me about it. I | |answered, thanking her, and presently I received from her another letter saying that she was passing through Paris and would | |like to have a chat with me; but her time was limited, and the only free moment she had was on the following Thursday; she was | |spending the morning at the Luxembourg and would I give her a little luncheon at Foyot's afterwards? Foyot's is a restaurant at| |which the French senators eat, and it was so far...
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...will not undertake a journey if they stumble at the start, someone beckons from behind, a house-lizard calls out, a message is delivered about someone's death, a corpse appears on the way, a crow caws on a dry twig, or an empty pitcher comes in view. When oraons start tilling the field, they will do so from the east. They will wait for an auspicious day to begin building a house. They believe that it is inauspicious to comb hair at night, to throw women's hair outside, to sweep a house at sunset, to give something to someone after dusk, to hear an owl hooting, or a dog weeping at night. Oraons also have certain superstitions about cows. Thus they give away the first yield of milk from a lactating cow, and will not let a menstruating woman or a woman who has not completed the period...
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...What did the passage John 4.1-42 say? The passage of John 4.1-42 begins with Jesus talking with a Samaritan woman. She is surprised that a Jew is talking to a Samaritan. Jesus was alone because his disciples had gone into the village to buy some food. He proceeds to ask the woman for a “drink of water.” She is confused and says, “you are a Jew and I am a Samaritan woman, why are you asking me for a drink?” Jesus proceeds to tell her “if only you knew the gift God has for you and whom you are speaking to, you would ask me, and I would give you living water.” The Samaritan woman proceeds to explain how Jesus has no bucket and the well is deep and questions where the living water would come from. Jesus continues to explain and soon the woman begins to see just what Jesus means and what he is saying, She actually goes into the village to get others. Other Samaritans come back to see what Jesus...
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...THE PLAY *Old man shuffles in,coughing and ill looking* Old Man:*smiles tiredly* Well,it looks like it’s almost time,but not quite.*looks thoughtfully* How about I talk for a bit,then? Keep you all a bit entertained before I have to leave. *walks around* Old Man:I have seen a lot of things in my time but my most dreadful memory was the time when I was forced the flower. #FLASHBACK# * A couple of dudes surround this one dude* Kid in the periphery(1): Well look at what the cat just dragged in. Kid in the periphery(2): Yeah, a humongous cat. Kid in the periphery(1): Exactly. Look at what this feline monstrosity brought in. Kid in the periphery(1): Ah,yes. Catasaurus now what do we do with you?*evil smirk* Kid in the periphery(2):Eat the flower! Kid in the periphery(1):Yeah. Eat the flower! Old Man Now Young Man: But why should I? Kid in the periphery(1): Because, I said so. That’s why. Old Man Now Young Man:Frankly speaking,that does not fit in my ‘Good reasons to eat flowers’ policy. Kid in the periphery(2):Eat the flower! Eat the flower! Eat the flower! Kid in the periphery(1): Eat.The.Flower. Old Man Now Young Man: But really what use is it?i mean- Kid in the periphery(1),Kid in the periphery(2) & Kid in the periphery(3):*move around the kid in a circle with menacing looks* Eat the flower! Eat the flower! Eat the flower! #end of flashback# Old Man Now Young Man: As you may have guessed, I ate the flower....
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...night where two friends meet for dinner with their wives. Jack and Fran are childless because they in the beginning of the story think that they do not want children. Jack and Fran go to Bud and Olla’s house for dinner. Bud and Olla have an infant and a peacock. Bud and Olla live in the country and drink beer, but Jack and Fran live in the city and drink wine. Bud and Jack begin to realize their friendship is one of convenience and they don’t have that much in common. But after the dinner Jack and Fran realize they want a child of their own. After the dinner their perspectives change probably because they think a baby may make them happier. Carver notes that “The change came later” (Carver 25),...
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...a loving and caring woman, named Mary, who is asked for a divorce by her husband. Ironically, she kills her husband with a leg of lamb, and makes up a story to protect her baby, who she is pregnant with. Police Officials and detectives come, but they are unable to find the murderer, or the weapon. Irony impacts this story because it creates the suspense and adds a twist/turn to the story. Roald Dahl uses Irony in this short story for that reason. First, Mary’s husband, Patrick, comes home from work, asks for a divorce, and will not cooperate with Mary. Since she is caring and loving, Mary goes downstairs and grabs a leg of lamb to cook for dinner. Mary Maloney walks up behind her husband and “ without any pause,” she swings the big, frozen leg of lamb high in the air and brings it down as hard as she can on the back of his head. This is Ironic because before she murdered her husband, she loved him, cared for him, and did everything for him. “She took his coat and hung it in the closet. Then she walked over and made the drinks, a strongish one for him, a weak one for herself,” (Dahl, 1). This establishes situational irony because it...
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...crystals. The music at the beginning is slow and calm, but after a few second song became faster and rhythmic, like in a dangerous moment. There is also a noise from bus and motorcycle and camel with horse. This is adventure song, when all these groups of people arrived to Coca-Cola sigh; they found that there is a 50 miles to get to Coke. They are all so thirsty, but they get another challenge to get to Coke. This represents that people want and like Coca-Cola that encourage people to buy coke. Coca-Cola is the most popular product in the world. People are buying it because it is delicious and sweet. Some people use Coke as a medicine, when they eat Fast food it is good to drink Coke because it digests food faster. In every events, people buy Coke and put it on the table. If on the table will be Coke, Sprite and Fanta, people will finish drink Coke the first one. You have to buy Coke because everyone is drinking it and you want to be cool as...
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...spent her money on their funerals and she ended up losing her home. Blanche losing her home can be compared to a princess losing her castle and money but in this story she didn’t have a handsome prince rescue her. She gained a bad yet truthful reputation for sleeping around with different men. She wanted to escape this so she went to visit her sister Stella. When she came to Stella’s house she acted as if everything in Laurel didn’t actually happen. This is when her fantasy began, in Stella’s town she acted as an old-fashioned woman who was proper and modest, this was not true. Her past revealed that she is not what she claimed to be. While in Stella’s town Blanche met a man named Mitch who is a friend of Stella’s husband. Blanche and Mitch’s relationship has a lot of Blanche’s fantasy in it. She lies to Mitch to seem more appealing and she hides in the darkness so that he won’t see her clearly. She lies because she thinks that he wants a perfect woman and she hides in the dark because she doesn’t want him to see that she isn’t young. She wants him to want her and for this...
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...has no problem feeding her dogs flesh, therefor her weeping over the trapped mouse is probably like a habit or affectation. Chaucer says her forehead is a full hand-span broad and that “for certainly she was not undersized” (line 156). She tries to seem dainty, but she is a large woman. She is not underfed, so she might be glutton. The author is describing what she is wearing, “a lovely golden brooch on which was written first a crowned A, and then, Amor vincit omnia” (line 160-162). The brooch has "Love conquers all" inscribed in Latin. A nun is expected not to love any man yet she wears his brooch. The Nun should only love god, but she is faking her feelings. “Her table manners were admirable: she never let a morsel fall from her lips” (line 127-128). She has precise manners and eats as an noblewomen would. She tries to seem dainty to attract attention. She tries hard to be admired by others. She has pride in her manners. A nun only needs basics and nothing more but the Nun likes to eat good food and wear fancy...
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...gravedigger answers that it must be the gallows-maker, for his frame outlasts a thousand tenants. The first gravedigger corrects him, saying that it is the gravedigger, for his “houses”will last until Doomsday.- Hamlet looks with wonder at the skulls they excavate to make room for the fresh grave and speculates darkly about what occupations the owners of these skulls served in life: “Why may not that be the skull of a lawyer? Where be his quiddities now . . . ?” (V.i.90–91). Hamlet asks the gravedigger whose grave he digs, and the gravedigger spars with him verbally, first claiming that the grave is his own, since he is digging it, then that the grave belongs to no man and no woman, because men and women are living things and the occupant of the grave will be dead. At last he admits that it belongs to one “that was a woman sir; but, rest her soul, she’s dead” (V.i.146). - Suddenly, the funeral procession for Ophelia enters the churchyard, including Claudius, Gertrude, Laertes, and many mourning courtiers. He and Horatio hide as the procession approaches the grave. As Ophelia is laid in the earth, Hamlet realizes it is she who has died. Laertes leaps into Ophelia’s grave to hold her once again in his arms. Grief-stricken and outraged, Hamlet bursts upon the company, declaring in agonized fury his own love for Ophelia. He leaps into the grave and fights with Laertes, saying that “forty thousand brothers / Could not, with all their quantity of love, / make up my sum”...
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