Chef
I wound up watching CHEF this weekend.
I quite liked it! It’s about a chef named Carl Casper who’s increasingly unhappy with his work. After he gets fired over a Twitter war with a writer who criticized his cooking, Carl is out of options, so he starts a food truck, and has to both rediscover his love of cooking and reconnect with his ex-wife and ten year old son.
In STORYTELLING: HOW TO WRITE A NOVEL, I talked about the different kinds of conflict, and Carl’s conflict is an excellent example of an entirely internal conflict. The critic is an external enemy but he is basically the inciting incident – Carl’s real enemy is his own internal conflict about art vs commerce, and his strained relationship with his son.
I recommend the movie. It was rated R for bad language, but there’s no nudity or explicit sexual content, and honestly if you’ve ever worked in a restaurant kitchen or a warehouse, you’ve heard much worse. 🙂
The movie also has an extremely valuable lesson – stay off Twitter when you’re angry!:)
-JM
If you liked the movie Chef then you should watch the old Lenny Henry series called Chef as well, the scene where he goes mad at a customer for wanting to put salt on his smoked salmon dish is classic Gordon Ramsey
I’ll check that out. I do like having food shows on in the background while I’m writing.
I call “Chef,” the Marvell Reunion Tour! Lol Jon Favreau also has a Netflix cooking show where he and the chef that trained him for the movie, Roy Choi, cook with famous chefs. They even go to Austin for a little more BBQ, and one show in the kitchen at Skywalker Ranch! It’s called The Chef Show.