Anthony Bourdain on Brad Bird’s Ratatouille:
“I think it’s quite simply the best food movie ever made. The best restaurant movie ever made. Best chef movie.
The tiny details are astonishing: The faded burns on the cooks’ wrists. The ‘personal histories’ of the cooks. The attention paid to the food.
And the Anton Ego Ratatouille epiphany hit me like a punch in the chest. Literally breathtaking.
I saw it in a theater entirely full with adults and the reaction to that moment was what movie making was once — a long time ago — all about: Audible surprise, delight, awe, and even a measure of enlightenment.
I am hugely and disproportionately proud that my minuscule contribution (if any) early, early in the project’s development led to a ‘thank you’ in the credits. Amazing how much they got ‘right’.”
Bourdain even visited Pixar HQ to give a chat during the film’s production.
Glorious shoutout in the film credits.
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The Ringer has good history on film: https://t.co/E3UrhO86LO
The text above is an email he sent to another chef: https://t.co/mMKQqU6Fj9
Btw in your 20’s and 30’s you’ll start rediscovering the niche interests and hobbies you had as a kid. It’s very important you revisit them. Your younger self was actually on to something
@petalreads The Alchemist.
Forcefully read through the first half trying to like it.
Neither motivated nor found much of a meaning.
There are better books by the author than this.
It’s kind of weird how everyone in the family randomly picks where they sit around the table and then proceeds to sit in those exact spots for every meal for the rest of their lives.