If we associate a plate with each of the 8 films nominated for the 2019 Oscars, a complete lunch would come out. Here's the menu
A first course, a second course, a side dish, a dessert and even the ammazzacaffè. There are many stories that compete for the most coveted statuette and tell of ancient recipes, real must-haves of the local cuisine. Here then that if we associate a plate with each of the 8 films nominated for the Oscars 2019 a complete lunch would come out.
Green book
A bit like Green book, the film by Peter Farrelly that tells of the true friendship between the black musician Don Shirley and the white driver Tony Vallelonga. In a scene that is already cult, Don and Tony are in the car, the wind coming through the dusty windows and the free, uncontaminated expanses of field. Tony, who is good-mouthed, sticks a chicken leg fried in his mouth between turns and the other: food that Don, to the detriment of what the popular belief said, has never tasted in his life. Hence Viggo Mortensen's insistence on taking Mahershala Ali to recover the gap. The musician is skeptical, takes the chicken with his fingertips, careful not to get dirty, but then bite and recognize that, yes, living all that time without the joy of crispy breading was a great pity.
A star is born
Truly true, but not for this less tasty, is the icy steak that Bradley Cooper lays on Lady Gaga's knuckles in A star is born. They know each other just when she attacks a molester in a bar. Together they go to a night market and, in the absence of a medical aid kit, here comes the steak to reduce the swelling. We would like to wish that, immediately after the clapperboard, the troupe cooked it on the grill: it was still the steak placed on Lady Gaga's little hand.
Blackkklansman
Traditional, however, is the stew that Mrs. Kendrickson cooks in Blackkklansman by Spike Lee. A dish of the South, which warms the already inflamed souls of those who would like the Ku Klux Klan back into the limelight to punish all the blacks who are free, who fight for their rights and organize riots to make the government understand that in America there are they too.
Rome
The traditional dishes are also those that you breathe in Rome, a small masterpiece by Alfonso Cuarón and super-favorite for the win. Cleo, for the middle-bourgeois family of Mexico City he works for, is much more than a housekeeper. It takes care of the needs of the dog, lava, cleans, cares for children and prepares them the dishes they prefer. Those who, as the director at the Venice Film Festival had pointed out, smell like home, all over the film.
Vice and Bohemian Rhapsody
If spaghetti, the favorite food of former US Vice President Dick Cheney, in Vice they are almost never seen, Bohemian Rhapsody reveals something more than Freddie Mercury's eating habits that, as we know, went crazy for the spices that he could no longer send down once he discovered the disease that would have turned him off slowly, day after day.
The favorite
Remaining in the realm of characters really existed, along with Cheney and Mercury, here is also Queen Anne of England, the despotic and capricious protagonist of The favorite. She suffers from colitis and the most delicate foods cause cramps and pains. Too bad that they are also his favorite: like hot chocolate, that the lady companion Sarah advises her not to sip because of its intestinal problems, or the green cake that Anne of England sends down bite after bite to vomit, dry your mouth and start again.
Black Panther
Very little, however, we know about the food that is consumed in Wakanda, the imaginary land in the heart of the Black Continent where he lives Black Panther. Given the comforts and luxuries of the palaces and squares, something tells us that the palates of the royal family of T'Challa are anything but common. And who knows that during the ceremony of delivery of the Oscars do not find a menu up to par.
