Cinematic Analysis Of 'Ratatouille': Can Ratatoree COOK?

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Kundana Jonnagadla Prof. Angela Giron MLS 598: Food Cinema June 5, 2015 RATATOUILLE: CAN EVERYONE COOK? A Cinematic Analysis 1. INTRODUCTION Considering the Disney Empire was created on a mouse, it would be hasty to terminate Ratatouille simply on the basis that it's about a rat as even the most zealous rodent-phobe will be enamored by this charming dish. This film is only Pixar's second collaboration with Disney, but it's clearly business as usual for the animation company whose line of winners remains with Ratatouille. Much of the credit lays at the feet of its writer and director Brad Bird, whose past credits include ‘The Iron Giant’ and ‘The Incredibles’. And while Ratatouille may lack the pioneering invention and sardonic wit of some …show more content…

CINEMATIC ANALYSIS 2.1 Mise-en-scene As a film student, I personally believe that mise-en-scene plays the major part of any films success. And speaking about the film Ratatouille, this concept has been taken care very well. When given a clear observation through the film, the structuring of the kitchen is aesthetic around a simple French culinary concept, the mis-en-place (translated to everything in its place). The mis-en-place is specifically this; for whatever dish is being prepared all of the ingredients and tools are pre-measured, arranged, collected and located in a common place before cooking begins. This facilitates being able to find all the necessary components as the intensity and the pressure of cooking gets into full swing. This concept is simple, elegant, and functional and provides a grounding sense of relationship between the chef, the kitchen and his food. Visually, this translates into some specific structural rules that the film makers have implemented in the dressing of the Ratatouille kitchen and technically the kitchen becomes organized spatially as to what occurs in each location (like in the soup area, meat grill, fish grill and etc.) which creates a sense of visual understanding in the audience while watching the

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