The Menu (Cheeseburger Scene) 2022
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He looked so happy making this burger and he actually stayed to see her reaction after eating it. Such a sweet moment.
Reminded him of when he worked at the fast food restaurant back in the day
@@Blackphillipsupporter I think it was more of diner but it also brought him back to a time when he was truly happy.
I never noticed it before, but he is trying to keep up his hard lined cooking with obsession, but his love of cooking starts to show again by the brief glimpses of a smile that comes through before being buried again.
I gotta ask though... What the hell were the rest of the cooks doing during all this? Seriously look at them. What the hell are they actually doing? They aren't helping make the burger and the final course was smores which were already prepared so what the hell were they actually doing beyond LOOKING like they were doing something?
so apparently in reviews, observations and maybe even the script. They're apparently looking in awe partially because the Hawthorn kitchen has become very cultlike but also this is perhaps the first time in a long while that the Head Chef is personally cooking. @@Kamina.D.Fierce
People arguing if american cheese is real cheese-- like you are literally the people in the movie the chef wants to murder
Haha well said.
😂😂😂
Not true. It's how you use it. Hell I bet if all you had was canned cheese product, and you used creativity and love to transform into a delicious meal, he'd let you live, prolly give you a good review.
True! It’s not about whether american cheese is real
It’s just inferior
@@GhANeC But it melts without splitting, which makes it good in a cheeseburger. Higher quality cheeses from Europe may be superior in other settings, but would make an inferior cheeseburger.
"The cheap one your parents could barely afford." That's when you know it'll be a damn good cheeseburger.
Nothing will beat being 8, coming home after school on a Friday, and smelling burgers...
I hope I can provide that feeling to my kids.
If it were truly a cheap one my parents couldn't afford it would have bread mixed in the meat...
$9.95 for that double cheese burger and fries in this economy? She got a hell of a deal on that one.
Yeah and it saved her life, so it's a lot more valuable than that too!
And from a Michelin chef at that!
At Five Guys a double cheeseburger basically costs you $18.95 plus you have to cut out a pound of your own flesh while they watch, which they grill up and serve to future customers to keep the cycle going.
Better deal than Mc Donald's in France, for sure.
It’s not as much as you think, you can get a nice big burger and a good portion of fries for less than $9
At first, when she's tearing apart his craft, telling him how obsessive he is and how he has failed, he looks so broken and upset. He spends the whole movie knowing she's different and maybe even feeling a kinship with her. He's so distraught until she says cheeseburger. At that point a switch goes off. He knows exactly what she's doing for him and plays into it, allowing himself one last moment of pure joy in his work before death and at the sane time admiring Margot for appreciating what cooking and food really means.
He even had the heart to let her go cuz he knew that her "Boyfriend" tricked her knowing that she would die. And although I thought he was gonna kill her cuz she was "ruining everything," i think he ultimately spared her cuz of that cheeseburger.
She asks for a cheeseburger because that was the breakthrough meal of his early career.
As an escort, her expertise wasn’t just sex - she provided experiences that made men happy. When looking through his office the only photo he was truly happy was when he was a kid flipping burgers. She was able to give the chef an experience that brought him true joy using her smarts and skills…and he let her live.
Loved how the character saved herself in a way that only she could’ve figured out.
That’s a good insight
Well “just sex” does make men pretty damn happy lol
The girl who lived, come to dine...
This needs more likes 😂😂😂😂
Bro XD
Holy shit. Lol
"Can I have lettuce on that cheeseburger?"
"Nevermind, you're dying."
Would be funny if, at the end, as she is eating the cheeseburger, she commented on how she actually didn't lie it
like*
what's wrong with lettuce?
everyone left the theater and wanted cheeseburger for dinner that night
I wonder what percentage went to a fast food chain, or a local pub or diner?
@@TheWorldsOkayestUSMarineI ordered from one of my favorite local spots immediately afterwards lol
Ironically I had a burger right before seeing the movie.
I’d be very curious to know the percentage of burger volume increase during this movies run in theatres. I saw this when it hit the steams, and grilled us up some cheeseburgers for dinner that night… that’s how good this scene is I guess! 😅
@@teejaydee85 me too considering the sales of Merlot dropped 20% after the movie Sideways came out. We know cinema has a real effect on commodity sales.
$9.95 for a cheeseburger and being able to live? That's a great deal
Brother that's a double. Take my money
You can tell he’s a professional because he’s doing it bare-handed. If he can’t trust the cleanliness of his hands, he can’t trust the quality of his food
He even brought her burger on a cheap paper plate to complete the vibe check.
That was a porcelain dinner plate. watch it again.
@toshikotanaka3249 you're right. It still LOOKED like a cheap paper plate. The point is that he tried to go for that overall aesthetic.
@@evillink1 He succeeded too. I've eaten some spectacular meals in my time but diner fare holds a special place in my heart. I'd happily trade anything made in Ramsay's Hell's Kitchen for a good patty melt.
He was happier making that Cheese Burger, than he was doing anything else in YEARS.
Because, for once....................he was doing actual food.
"how much will that set me back?"
"9.95"
Literally this is the point.
A lot of people think it’s the fact she said can I get this to go or the fact he enjoyed cooking for the first time in years being the reason he spared her life. But in my opinion it’s the second she said the words: “a cheeseburger”. You see Ralph’s face almost in shock and joy, because the dish is so simple yet it’s a joy. He realised she wasn’t the same as the pompous others who gathered there and she knew what good food actually meant with love and care put into it, hence why he enjoyed making the dish because it felt like he was finally cooking for someone who understood the point.
I thought it was because she saw an old photo of him in his room that were cooking the burger smiling, it could have been his face in shock and joy that flashed back to that moment.
You’re adding another component to his comment, his comment is correct but you’re inspired her reasoning to ask for a burger
@@RatioVII yeah that's what gave her the idea. When she saw that photo of him being a young cook who is passionate with cooking cheeseburgers
Never before noticed that he delivered it on a paper plate.
as babish said during the "garbage plate" episode, "fine china only cheapens the experience."
Raise your hand if you had a craving for a well done cheeseburger after watching that clip
🙋♂️
Medium
Yes ✋
Man i'm fucking hungry
Maybe im overanalyzing but i love the symbolism in the cheeseburger. The fact its the brightest and tastiest looking dish in the whole movie, while being classified as a "peasant dish" in the culinary world, when compared to the outlandish fancy dishes. How Chef Slowik cooks this dish himself without any help and genuinely smiles for the first time in the movie. The description of the dish being "just an ordinary cheeseburger" without any complicated ingredient listing like the other dishes. And the lighting on it and music showing this ordinary cheeseburger was made with actual love and care, while all the fancy dishes were mute in color and looked rather sad for fine dining. Its just amazing how it looks so delicious and blows all the fancier dishes out of the water. Really shows that if theres no soul in your craft, it will feel and look soulless as well
That's not overanalyzing, your on point.
the movie is a criticism of consumerism (and also criticizing the criticism of consumerism itself lol). julian began to hate cooking because people stole his passion from him, expecting more, reading into everything he did.
but on the flip side, nobody forced him into doing that. he chose to commit to that lifestyle
Your not. That was the whole point. It brought him back to a time when he was truly happy and he was cooking something for someone they truly wanted. He even served it himself because he wanted to see her reaction and by asking for it to go it was the greatest compliment she could give him hence why he let her go.
She puts it simply. People want to sit down and enjoy the food. Not a culinary exercise. People enjoy cheeseburgers not avant bullshit. He made fancy foods but his audience deconstructed it till there was no fun or love.
kind of you stressed some things and left out somethings but yes especially when u think ur watching the cheeseburger be made by the chef out of his eyes the love and all that
It’s touching the way he smiles when he says that cheeseburger is 9.95.
It’s like he’s discarding all of his fancy chef trappings and enjoying a simple interaction with a customer
He wants someone that enjoys cooking for what it is. Not what high end dining has twisted it to be.
When he says “the cheap ones your parents could barely afford”, I imagine he must’ve seen that for real when he was young and happy working at the burger place, watching blue collar parents come by to treat their kids with a simple burger yet everyone full of love.
that is what they are trying to say
As soon as she says a cheeseburger you tell how excited he is even though he keeps his cool. Such beautiful scene. And acting.
"American cheese is the best cheese for a cheeseburger because it melts without splitting."
I don't think the chef was telling her that.
I think he was remembering his old boss - his teacher - saying those exact words to him when the younger chef suggested switching to a 'fancier', or 'proper' cheese.
What does "melt without splitting" mean?
@@tortenschachtel9498basically means melts without breaking apart from the heat of a grill
He's not wrong american cheese melts all gooey over the burger and grts in every nook snd cranny of the patty.
@@tortenschachtel9498Splitting means the solid and moisture parts of the cheese separate. It happens when a cheese is heated past its melting point, creating a mix of rubbery cheese chunks and cheese oil instead of nice smooth melty cheese.
So glad Voldemort found employment after failing to take over the wizarding world
🤣🤣🤣🤣
He did this before he went to Albania, you can tell because he still has a nose
I heard he done it because he is on the run after become a serial killer who ate a painting on america,
This is the first time I've noticed he even served it on a paper plate like in his old burger joint when he was a kid.
Good eye!
I think it's an actual plate, it just looks like a paper one (I believe it's on purpose).
The tragedy that if he had JUST been left alone when he disappeared and went to work for a food truck. If the foodie world had jsut let him disappear and make food he was happy to make... so much pain would have never occured.
"At the end of the day, it's about eating. It's not about impressing your customers, it's about feeding them. And feeding them well." -Marco Pierre White
The only meal the chef cooked himself. The only one he enjoyed making.
The subtle changes in his facial expressions are expert level acting. No major shift, just an increase in his emotional state that is shown through tiny, but visible, changes to his smile and his eyes becoming more alive. It is just a fantastic scene.
The way his face lights up when she says the word cheeseburger is divine. He’s happy.
She was on his mind all day. Thinking how to spare her, later how to justify her death, and then dang...
I love how they served it in a cheap paper platter. That kitchen really has everything
But it isn't, it's a porcelain plate made to look like a cheap paper one.
@@RebelSoul2010 Yeah, it's a very cool design. Nothing I'd like to have at my home, but it's still neat.
The psychological horror in this movie looks incredible. Honestly, the actors did an incredible job portraying and describing, satirizing how important simplicity is in the dining experience. It’s not about “art”. It’s about eating. If you can make it fun and filling, good! But still, don’t waste a single bite of food for the sake of so-called “art”. Sometimes all you need is… a cheeseburger. And maybe some fries.
Also, OUCH. That chick is super duper savage 😂
I love the way his eyes light up when she says she wants a cheeseburger. Something so simple, but so wholly satisfying.
She saw a picture of him in his house earlier, where he was a happy young chef working in a burger restaurant, so she connected him with his love of cooking that he lost with all the high class snobs who never appreciated his food.
The Queens Gambit sure took a weird turn when she went out for food.
is that you lord Voldemort? I didn’t know you cooked!?!?!
And then she was locked up for days by that crazy dude, then went home to her molesting uncle. Geez this poor girl has been through enough trauma. At least she got a really good cheeseburger
“The cheap kind you could barely afford”
*makes the most posh cheeseburger ever*
2:13 - Ralph is such a good actor, so many emotions conveyed in a look and a delayed response. He's touched, he's actually delighted. He can't show it, but can't hide it either.
As a pro cook, i know its theatrics but theres a special kind of happy that I feel watching a burned out miserable chef cook something that makes them happy again
That's great acting for ya!
I think the chief chef is a singular "him,": not a "them." Unless of course he specifies otherwise.
@rcnelson I was talking about chefs in general, besides "Them" is not a recent way of gendering someone, its a generic word to refer to someone.
"Where did they go?"
"Jim is doing well, they are just busy"
I am pro pronoun but they and them are just neutral words for people
I really did love this scene. It was the first time in years he enjoyed cooking again and that's why he let her live. She allowed him to experience happiness in his final moments which is all he wanted.
This movie has nearly the same moral as Ratatouille… but with a lot more death.
R rated Ratatouille
You could see the life come back to him when she said cheeseburger
Not gonna lie that burger, simple as it may be, looks magical
I think it's cool how the entire kitchen staff leave but stay to watch their head chef cook. It's like they want to witness him happily cooking something with love again, using his amazing talents. Almost like watching a movie or a play, just for them. Just kind of cool
I don't know how he did it, but you can see the chef's eyes change when she says she wants a cheeseburger. It's like the young chef managed to break through the jaded shell of who he is now
That is what she realized. She first criticized the food he had been cooking/serving most of his adult life, how hard he worked, with only 1 day off a week, and it brought him no joy. And people didn't appreciate it. She made him realize that it left her - and others - wanting, still hungry. All that work for nothing. Then she says cheeseburger, and he IS brought back to when he was a new cook, making cheeseburgers, when his life was young and had all sorts of possibilities. People love cheeseburgers, they bought/ate them even if they could hardly afford to do so.
She told him she didn't think he could cook it, and at this point he now wanted to cook it. He had to cook it. Finally, after decades, cooking would be fun for him again. You can also see his face while cooking the cheeseburger, after he puts the cheese on, he is experiencing joy again. In the end, he knows what she did, that she had reminded him that there was once joy and happiness in his life, and she got him to feel it one last time before the end. He paid her back by allowing her to live.
The acting here is so subtle and amazing. A truly great scene.
@@johndunn6917 Margot's burger is also the ONLY meal the entire night that the Chef actually had any hand whatsoever in preparing. All the other meals were fully prepared and conceptualized by his sous chefs.
This is such a great yet simple scene. She calls him out for his mad obsession while reminding him why he became a chief in the first place. Then, offering him a light at the end of his dark tunnel by giving him the chance to go back to where he first began by making something truly simple that someone else would enjoy.
Quite honestly, the first time I saw this film, I thought he was going to straight up attack her as she berated him.
I swear I could see it in his eyes. Just a little bit, just him thinking "Guess I'm adding one more dish to tonight's menu."
"they must be so free".....stole an entire movie with ONE line once. He's incredible.
The Cheeseburger Gambit.
My least dramatic McDonalds order.
I like to watch this scene as I eat McDonalds
Colin Stetson had no right making a soundtrack that slaps this hard.
I really love the fact she realise the only way to get out of there was playing the chef's game, then she is surprise it actually works.
Its like she earned his respect, no fakeness
Y'all....he gave her bread. No one else. Just her.
Because she convinced him that she belonged to the “common man” group
It is such a good cap off to the film. The chef hates everything and is disillusioned. He is willing to kill himself and others for how much he has been robbed of the simple joy he had of cooking that made him become a chef in the first place. To see have a slight friendly banter with Anya, and then to have the hint of joy as he makes the burger. Ugh so good.
A microwaved chicken tendie. A REAL microwaved chicken tendie.
That's hilarious
I'll make you one just like your parents used to make, slightly burnt because they were talking on the phone for too long.
What are you hungry for?
That facade was completely gone at that point. For the first and only time in the whole movie we see him actually have a conversation as a human being with another human being
If this scene doesn’t make you want a cheeseburger after watching it, then you’re either full or your a vegan
Just seen it and don’t want a cheeseburger……only because I literally ate a cheeseburger 5mins ago and I’m full 😂
@@discodave8412 Then you were prepared
I was full, then shortly after seeing this video, I had a phone in my hand the next minute with the mcdonald's app on with an order placed for a quarter pounder. D:@@harrytyrrell2124
This movie was a huge example of "just enjoy life without complicating matters"
I watched this amazing film with my whole family. No one understood it. I need a new family.
To be honest I watched the movie and I don't understand it either. I get being mad at the customers and losing his passion for cooking but I don't understand how we go from "I don't like to cook anymore" to "let me kill myself, my entire staff, and even my own mother, that'll solve everything" just retire. Or if he still wants to cook, just go back to making simple foods like cheeseburgers. There are so many options he could've taken all of which make more sense than committing mass homocide.
@@starchild3215 Well, in all seriousness, I don't look down on people who didn't get it because I assume the reason has to do with inner differences that aren't often communicated. For some artists, their art is their answer to the meaning of life. It's the challenge they've imposed on themselves to pursue truth, beauty and purpose, and sometimes, nothing is more terrifying and destructive than success - especially if that success involves placating careless non-dreamers who can't grasp the concept of achieving anything beyond the material. The chef can't retire. His soul has been ended before his physical form, leaving nothing but empty revenge.
In my case, it was the words "Why write if you're not going to publish and make money?" which made me dread the possibility of success. Did you follow in the footsteps of Tolkien and Hemmingway and Fitzgerald? Or, are you simply the king of the cultural wasteland? IMO, I think the greatest artists in the world forever lose sleep over that kind of question, published or unpublished, successful or not. The overall message, I think, is don't mess with someone's journey towards finding purpose.
@@starchild3215 I didn't like it at first - I don't like depressing or mean movies. But my friend liked it a lot, so I went looking for meaning. This review (w/slight spoilers) actually changed my mind, & explained it in a way I liked. It's still depressing, but now I get the thought & the care behind it. Skip the review's 1st 55 seconds of vulgar in-jokes.
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@@PaladinSaris I just lost it & snort-laughed aloud. GREAT comment!!!!!
Make them cheeseburgers instead.
How exciting it is to see Voldemort cooking a Cheeseburger for Beth Harmon.
I loved how she actually asks if the burger comes with fries. It's like she thinking "Geez I know this is a farce but $9.95? better comes with fries"
“I'll take a Double Triple Bossy Deluxe on a raft, four by four, animal-style, extra shingles with a shimmy and a squeeze, light axle grease, make it cry, burn it, and let it swim.”
We serve food here sir.
Love how he made it a double cheeseburger
In this moment, Head Chef Slowik became burger cook Julian. Every other meal in the film is created with only his oversight. This he created with his own hands.
The last meal he would truly cook, for someone who appreciated a good meal.
I don't know if this was the intent of the screenplay writers or the movie producers, but somebody should say the thing: the only person to leave this horror show, is the es worker
It's pretty much intentional. Margot has the most down to earth job compared to the rest of the guests. She is just a common person who likes food for food and taste, not idea and meaning behind the dish. The latter of which chef is sick for. That's why he is arguably the happiest at the moment Margot says "now that's is a cheeseburger". Someone appreciated his food as, well, food
this scene hits different if you've worked a soul killing kitchen job and forgot the passion you had for your work in the beginning lmao
Hits dofferent when you remember the feeling of your first earned "compliments to the chef." I damn near cried it was such an uplifting feeling.
Just from this clip, when she said, "A cheeseburger" I was expecting to hear at least one gasp from the other diners, or to have the kitchen staff all pause in shock at her audacity of asking Chef for a mere cheeseburger. That's really good acting, to convey the essence of the characters with less than a minute of dialog. I'll definitely find the movie and watch the whole thing. Probably with fries.
Even though it's a mere cheeseburger, it's incredible how hard it is to find a place that makes an actual good cheeseburger.
The live-action adaptation of Ratatouille looks weird, but I'll allow it
that looked really really delicious. the partial squashing of the burger once constructed just to release some of the juices onto the partly crust burnt cheese... i know that would be flavorful.
I really feel like she gave him quite a gift here. Like the only thing that could have made his whole night more perfect than everything he had planned was her showing up and him getting to cook one final meal for someone who is actually going to enjoy it without trying to pay a million dollars... Which is all he ever wanted.. I think that is what is going through her head when she takes that final bite of the burger sitting on the boat in the end scene.
I just love the way he talks about cheeseburgers. How often you'd hear someone taling about fast food by saying "very good, very traditional" or commenting on why a certain topping is perfect than others? Makes it seem like they're talking about other gourmet dishes
Any dish can be gourmet
And any dish can be simple
Does really matter anyway
Exclusivity doesn’t belong to food
Tbh, he would’ve been much happier if instead of becoming this famous chef that only caters to the rich, he opened up his own diner or even a food truck. It’s obvious how nostalgic this was for him. There was actual love in this dish.
The point of the movie is that he can't. He literally tried to, he has gone undercover in the past just to serve simple burgers in a truck when Lillian found him and "put him back into the spotlight".
Voldemort's side gig.
This is the best scene of the movie when she asks for that cheese burger his whole demeanor changes and it's like he comes to life while cooking that burger and it saves her life.
That look on his face when she makes her request. “I’ve been waiting for this”
The whole dinner and its menu seems like a suicide note full of spite. The cheeseburger moment made the chef leave with a moment of joy for his work that the rest of the customers toke from him.
That's literally what the movie is about.
9.95 for such a Cheeseburger WITH excellent fries? That's a bargain!
Part of me hoped that the fryer wasn't on and chef just nonchalantly say, like, 7.95
@@ryutheslayer123
Well to be honest the scene is very unrealistic. Unless Slowik and his team enjoy a burger sometimes it is highly unlikely that he has Burger buns prepared. Of course he could make them from stretch but with the resting time of the dough it would takes hours! In his restaurant people don't order ala carte but eat his specially prepared menus and unless some over the top burger is on the menu he wouldn't need buns. Some commercial buns that are full of preservatives would never be up to his standard and as seen the buns were very high quality. So I think Slowik doesn't just eat his fancy over the top food all the time but enjoys burgers regularly in the remembrance of the time he was really happy as a simple burger flipper.
Frfr. You can't even get that at fucking McDonald's anymore and that's one of the worst cheeseburgers on Earth
I know right? I just paid like 18 for my burger and fries at Shari’s and it was just ok
I'll have two number 9s, a number 9 large, a number 6 with extra dip, a number 7, two number 45s, one with cheese, and a large soda.
The transition of the emotion on his face when she asked for a cheeseburger was so captivating, he became that happy chef again. Ralph Fiennes is freaking awesome.
Fienes should have gotten an Oscar just for this scene. Masterfull. Not many words, but his expressions and the way they change during the confrontation and afterwards are pure perfectionism. Masterclass acting.
You can tell by his smile while flipping the cheeseburger he enjoyed every moment of it made him feel whole one last time
2:09 the way his eyes light up, for the first time in the entire movie, when she mentions she would like a cheeseburger.
Those glimpses of nostalgic smile. Ralph Fiennes is such an underrated actor
I knew she would say crinkle cut fries. Julienne is my favorite, but everyone is nostalgic for crinkle cuts.
I can literally FEEL the love going into that burger, it reminds me of my late father in law who was a great chef but considered himself just a cook and did so with great love for his trade. He taught me how to make sausage gravy and biscuits and every time I make it I think of him
"American cheese is the best cheese for a cheese burger because it melts with out splitting."
This scene is a masterclass in acting. Their faces tell volumes more about who they really are than do all their words. The loving care he puts into the creation of his burger lets us peer into his soul. The fact that he waits for her reaction and receives what he knows is coming is priceless. Bravo!
This simple dish sent him back to when he enjoyed cooking. The reason he allowed her to leave with a to go bag.
I love how they all still paid for their meals at the end
"Even your hot dishes are cold" is the best line.
And thats how the first ever Krabby Patty was created...
That's a badass looking burger. Double cheese on both patties, done medium (perfect choice by her) and with the onions? I'm hungry now.
There shouldn't 4:05 be sesame seeds on the bottom bun and those fries 4:08 don't look seasoned at all
$9.95
Something about this simple detail seems like it packs the most meaning to me.
This is in my mind is what the price of an an actual, quality, cheeseburger would/should be. A part of Chef's life where he found joy in his customers enjoyment of a good burger.
Her: you'd know what i really like
Chef: tell me...
Her: a beefchurger
Chef:
Her: 🍫🥵🔥🔥🎆🎇
Chef: We can do a beefchurger.
Ngl burger does look damn good lol
Yeh it look likes the type your parents could barely afford.
I'm still mad the chef offered everything except the 1 damn ingredient that truly makes a burger: the bacon. How DARE he not even offer bacon and yet call it a true "cheeseburger"?!
That cheese burger is made with so much love, it reaches Sponge Bob levels of love lol
Not gonna lie, Ralph Fiennes made me hungry with that cooking segment
I still want a double cheeseburger like that weeks after watching this
that is an amazing burger, god time to go get one.
Ahhh, the blissful simplicity of the Cheeseburger. That elegant, angelic music couldn't fit more. it is a classic meal, hearty and rich but it holds endless possibilities between those two buns. I dare say narry a more perfect dish exists than the humble Cheeseburger.
As somebody who struggles with depression and burnout, this is a touching and relatable scene for me. We all want to do things we love to do, and we strive to get better at them. You start off very small, doing what you do for very few people and not being particularly great at it. A lot of times, months or years down the line, you look back at those early attempts with embarrassment. You can't believe you used to be so slow, or so amateur, or so cringy, or whatever. You use that to fuel your growth and your drive to improve, but it's a really, *really* fine line. If you aren't careful, that criticism you look at your past endeavors with can become poisonous. You start seeing mistakes in not only everything you did, but everything you do, even in the present. You become fixated on getting better, no matter how much other people say they enjoy or appreciate what you do. That thing you loved to do now fills you with ennui, if not dread or even resentment. You don't do it because you want to anymore. You do it because you feel like you have to. You go from embracing your talent - your creativity, your passion, your soul's way of expressing itself - to strangling it.
It isn't just what you do that's important; it's _why_ you do it. The former is a lot easier for a creator to recognize than the latter. Sometimes... a lot of the time, actually... it takes an outside perspective to remind you of how important that that 'why' is. Even if you don't totally understand how they can prefer scribbly shit doodles from a decade ago over colorful, rigidly-practiced portraits today - or how they can enjoy a lopsided double cheeseburger served on a bent paper plate over a 140-calorie tapas served on a trapezoidal plate that costs $900 - it doesn't always matter. Sometimes what's logical can feel wrong, and sometimes what's simple or casual can be right.
This is just ratatouille with death
You know how they made a horror film based on Winnie-the-Pooh? Well, I bet that same idiot will one day make a horror film based on Ratatouille that follows this exact same storyline. Remy loses his passion for cooking for people who see him as just a rat, so he basically becomes a rat version of Slowik.
Watching this made me think about my father, he wasn’t a chef or anything but was a great cook. Despite all the different kinds of dishes he made, the food that really was special was when he would just whip together whatever was in the fridge into a quesadilla or make a deli sandwich with simple toppings on it. He always knew how to make us feel good through his food❤️
He made an Oklahoma onion burger. Best burger on the planet and the simplest to make
So the burger was OK?
Nah nah nah. A true Oklahoma onion burger has onion powder and chopped onions mixed with the meat, raw onions pressed into the patty while cooking, sauteed onions across the top, a bun covered in dry onions, onions crips on top of the sauteed onions, a container of onion salt served alongside another order of crispy onion strips, half a raw onions handed to you across the counter at time of order and when you get back out to your car the tailpipe has been stuffed with an onion and a bag of them poured into the window you left down when you parked.
aka....The perfect burger.
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