Guest guest Posted May 4, 2008 Report Share Posted May 4, 2008 The sort of off-topic movie discussion that I had with Jim about K-PAX gave him a great idea that he shared with me off-list yesterday. Jim proposed we should start a new file folder for the group to list movies we have seen that have a vegetarian mention in the dialog [either possitive or negative], a vegetarian main character, vegetarian supporting character, or anything that mentions vegetarianism. It is a pretty broad based, but we thought it might be fun. Please post the movie titles and maybe the actor's name, if you can remember it here, and I will add them [or you can] to the file folder Jim created: Movies/ It will be fun to see what we can come up with. I have a few in mind: 1. Gosford Park (2001) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0280707/ ~ This film has a character that is an American that claims to be a vegetarian but he " will eat fish " , so he is really a pescatarian. His announcement causes the host of this gathering a hardship because now they have to re-think the menu to accomodate his diet. The actor that plays the vegetarian is Bob Balaban. 2. K-PAX (2001) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0272152/ ~ In this film Kevin Spacey plays a man that believes he is a visiting alien from the planet K-PAX. He is a vegetarian and loves our planet's variety of fruits the best. 3. Everything Is Illuminated (2005) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0404030/ ~ In this film Elijah Wood plays a vegetarian that takes a trip to the Ukrain to find a woman that saved his grandfather during WWII. Elijah's character finds it difficult to be a vegetarian on his journey and his diet perplexes his travel guides. 4. Babe (1995) and also Babe: Pig in the City (1998) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112431/ //www.imdb.com/title/tt0120595/ ~ These films didn't have a self-proclaimed vegetarian character, though maybe the hotel owner in the second film was one, but the over-all animal friendly theme really does make this film a vegetarian treat. Actor James Cromwell became a vegetarian because of his role in this film, so that in itself makes these films worthy of mention. " If any kid ever realized what was involved in factory farming they would never touch meat again. I was so moved by the intelligence, sense of fun and personalities of the animals I worked with on 'Babe' that by the end of the film I was a vegetarian. " ~ James Cromwell, actor (1940- ) 5. Super Size Me (2004) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0390521/ ~ This commentary/editorial-style film featured a proclaimed vegan, Morgan Spurlock, that went off his chosen vegan diet to illustrate " obesity in America and one of its sources - fast food corporations " by eating nothing but McDonalds for one month. These are all I can think of off hand. Please add some more if you can think of some! ~ PT ~ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 4, 2008 Report Share Posted May 4, 2008 i found this from an old message board via google search... Go Trainspotting A Civil Action Jurassic Park Green Card Julia Roberts character in Notting Hill is a vegetarian (there is also a fruitarian character in the movie) *My Big Fat Greek Wedding*: Toula's Aunt Voula to Ian: " You're a vegetarian? That's OK. I'll make lamb. " *Pulp fiction*: JULES Well, if you like hamburgers give 'em a try sometime. Me, I can't usually eat 'em 'cause my girlfriend's a vegetarian. Which more or less makes me a vegetarian, but I sure love the taste of a good burger. *Friday The 13th*: BRENDA is making a salad for herself. She is a vegetarian. * " The Great Bamboosical " *: World's First Vegetarian Musical Comedy Film www.TheGreatBamboosical.com. <http://www.thegreatbamboosical.com./> *Maybe Baby*: Emma Thompson does a short turn as a benign vegetarian nut *Shallow Grave*: JULIET (VO) Alex is a vegetarian. Do you know why? *Blood Diner*: Flash forward twenty years. The boys have opened a diner in which they serve the best vegetarian food in town. To prepare this vegetarian food the brothers ruthlessly kill vegetarians, dismember and disembowel vegetarians and cook the various vegetarians remains up to be served to their vegetarian clientele. It's a viscious cycle but it makes for cheap overhead in the operation of their restaurant business. *The Bridges of Madison County*: The hero of the best-selling book, The Bridges of Madison County, is a muscular, sexy cowboy photographer who shocks chubby small-town farmers because he won't eat the animals they raise. In the movie version, Clint Eastwood cooks a meal with Meryl Streep, but any reference to his vegetarianism is missing from the screenplay. *Green Card*: The other stereotype is exemplified by Andie MacDowell's mousy boyfriend, who loses her to Gerard Depardieu in Green Card. Depardieu's appeal, in contrast to the pale, skinny aesthete with whom MacDowell had been wasting her time, apparently comes from his insistence on preparing her a beefy dinner over her objections. Depardieu disparages his rival as " that vegetarian " and teaches MacDowell a lesson of carpe diem expressed through the holy trinity of sex, wine, and meat, as if the three were somehow connected. *Stray Voltage*: MTV Films has purchased Patrick Ranahan and Todd Johnson's strange comedy STRAY VOLTAGE about the true story of reports that dairy cows were contaminated by stray voltage from power lines. The story follows a vegetarian environmentalist who works for a power company and has been assigned to a small Texas town to investigate these brownouts. This spec script was purchased for the low-against mid-six figures and has Paul Rosenberg lined up to produce. *Death To Smoochy*: It is the story of children's TV star Smoochy the Rhino -- think Barney the Dinosaur -- whose alter ego is Sheldon Mopes (Edward Norton), an endlessly polite vegetarian who has no idea what a dork he is. *The Brothers McMullen* One of his girl friends keeps wanting him to convert to Judaism and the other describes herself as a pro-life, vegetarian, ex-Catholic. *The Doors*: They start getting rowdy and the Captain comes down and threatens them that he'll have them arrested when they land. When he asks them if they have any questions, Dog asks, " Who's flying the plane? " (verry funny scene). Also we see Jim consoling a child who's crying. We see them getting arrested when the plane lands at Miami. Cuts to the Dinner Key Auditorium where we see the vegetarian guy with the lamb pleading with the crowd not to eat meat. This entire scene was brilliant. *Gosford Park*: Bob Balaban plays a sensitive American vegetarian who winces and ducks during the hunting party — all while wearing a garish fur coat. *About A Boy*: As an actress, Toni is also a very fine singer. She gets to sing but is required to sing very badly, which she does very well, in her other latest film About a Boy. In the movie, Toni plays a depressed, vegetarian, new age hippy, single mum. *Scooby Doo*: As smoke rolls out of the sunroof of the Mystery Mobile and the words " primo stuff " are uttered by a major character, finally, we're led to think, someone is coming clean about Scooby-Doo's psychedelic roots. It would explain a lot, from Shaggy's reefer-smoking demeanor to the talking dog. Of course, no explanations are offered, only flirted with, as the next shot reveals an in-van barbecue of vegetarian burgers shared by a boy and his dog. *The Van*: Larry pushes his daughter's services into the business while Bimbo pleads that he should have been consulted. When Larry's daughter must quit, Larry blithely pulls his vegetarian son (who refuses to work with meat) into the operation. *Return of The Living Dead*: Tagline:They're Back...They're Hungry....And They're NOT Vegetarian! " * Wallace and Gromit: The Great Vegetable Plot* Nick Park has been talking about the in development Wallace and Gromit movie and specifically The Great Vegetable Plot subtitle " That was the working title of the Wallace and Gromit feature. I can tell you that in the way we often borrow movie references (Ealing comedies, Hitchcock, etc.), this one borrows most from B-movie horror and British horror. But it's also about vegetables, so we often describe it as a vegetarian horror movie. The rest you'll have to imagine. " *Ice Age*: One of the vegetarian beasties says to the other, " You can't get fat on a Vegan diet. " *Dinosaur*: " One day we'll turn our backs, " he warns, " and the next thing we know, he'll be picking us out of his teeth. " *Face Off*: When Archer (as Troy) tells his wife about their first date, he remembers that she's a vegetarian. Earlier in the film, though, she didn't say anything about Troy (as Archer) cooking her lobster. But the baby grows up to be a vegetarian iguanodon, which they name Aladar (D.B. Sweeney). *Burn, Hollywood, Burn*: Producers James Edmunds (Ryan O'Neal) and Jerry Glover (Richard Jeni) want to get their hands on Smithee and the master cut. Edmunds is a short-fused, vegetarian bully, who calls blacks " shvartzer " and has a reputation for causing mayhem wherever he goes. *Hannibal*: Most of the truly gruesome is implied, at least early on. When the gore takes center stage, " Hannibal " takes the final plunge into ludicrousness. By that point, everything is a joke, even the vegetarian cookbook prominently displayed as Hannibal and Clarice dance a deadly tango. *The Animal*: His antics get the attention of Rianna (Colleen Haskell) a volunteer at a local animal shelter. A hardcore vegetarian, Rianna finds Marvin's ability to catch a Frisbee with his mouth and regurgitate a worm for a motherless baby turkey endearing. *Shooting Vegetarians*: His next film, Shooting Vegetarians with Didi Conn, is just starting to make the festival rounds. According to Guillermo Diaz, " It's about this punk-rock vegetarian who kills his father, chops him up, and sells the meat in his butcher shop. " *High Fidelity*: Tim Robbins' cameo as Laura's new love interest- a new age, vegetarian Fabio *Toil and Trouble With Fries on the Side*: Of Walken's comic turn as the vegetarian detective, McDuff, Tierney quips, " I don't know what drew him to the material. But I'm glad something did. " *Citizen Ruth*: But as this film moves up the economic ladder--first to the home of a middle-class lesbian pro-choice couple (Swoosie Kurtz and Kelly Preston) plastered with leftist and vegetarian slogans and filled with dresses from Guatemala, then to the hotel room (and boy masseur) of a wealthy pro-life minister (Burt Reynolds) and the helicopter of a wealthy pro-choice celebrity (Tippi Hedren)--its derision never varies. The Night We Never Met It's about people who are time-sharing the same apartment and are assigned different days. Sam Lester (Matthew Broderick) has a date with a militant vegetarian (Brooke Smith) and she's portrayed as a wacky, new-age-y, sort of disgusted, angry, holier-than-thou character. She won't drink the wine because of the yeast, she divines that she's been in the apartment before but not in this lifetime and says that her chiropractor feels it has something to do with her alignment, and then flips out when Sam offers her the veal he's made for dinner. I think he offers her something with eggs and she says, " Eggs don't combine. I'm combining now. " I can see the humor in blowing this stereotype out of proportion but the screenwriter managed to offend me on just about every level (being the vegetarian, spiritual, chiropractor-going person that I am)! The Road to Wellville, about early (and rather famous) vegetarian Dr. John Harvey Kellogg But I'm a Cheerleader <http://us.imdb.com/Title?0179116> Natasha Lyonne's character is suspected of being a lesbian in part because she's a vegetarian. Claire Danes' character in " Igby Goes Down " is a vegetarian home for the holidays holly hunter's charactor is vegetarian " i dont eat meat mother " " heart breakers " starring jennifer loove hewlit her mom is veg and makes comments about jennifer eating meat , mom also has to eat meat in one scene April Burns from *Pieces of April* is a vegetarian, but still cooks a turkey for her family. There's also a pretty crazy vegan lady in the movie too. Harvey Pekar from *American Splendor* says " there's an awfully a lot of meat on this menu " and that " because he's so close to his cat, he finds it hard to eat other kinds of meat. " Don't forget Bruce the great white shark from *Finding Nemo*. ;P Albert Brooks' character in " Mother " was vegetarian. There is some good interaction on the topic, along the lines of 'just pick the meat out' comments which we all can relate to, I'm sure. Pecker's little sister, in *Pecker*, went from being a " sugarholic " to being a vegan. " sweet november " i think it was called with charlize theron and keanu reeves, she plays a vegan. Lenny the shark in *Shark Tales* " Legally Blonde " . Both Elle Woods AND Bruiser are Gemini vegetarians (she says so herself during campus orientation). Josh Hartnett's character, as well as in life, is a vegetarian in Hollywood Homicide. The whole movie is quite funny actually with tons of reference to it, plus you get to see him do yoga on the table while being interrogated. Daddy's Dyin - Who's Got the Will? Judge Reinhold's character says that he " doesn't eat anything with a face " . *Delicatessen*, a French comedy about a future world where meat is scarce, and meat eaters resort to cannibalism (in a morbidly funny way... you gotta see it). Anyway, the main character is a vegetarian who stumbles into this bizarro apartment complex full of carnivores Japanese director Hideaki Anno. He did the anime series " Evangelion " , and it had a vegetarian character on it (as well as an annoying omni who would always give her grief). The main character and hero (Jay Hernandez) in " Hostel " was a vegetarian. " Hostel " being, of course, a movie about crazy Europeans who pay money to hunt *humans*. Roger Corman's " The Raven " in which Vincent Price portrays the vegetarian and pacifist sorceror Doctor Erasmus Craven. Doctor Bedlo (Peter Lorre): " Do you have any bat's blood, jellied spiders, dead man's hair? " Doctor Craven: " We don't need any of those things! We're vegetarians! " The " hitchhiker " character in *Transamerica* describes himself as a " level 4 vegan " and refuses the meat-laden food offered him, saying, " I only eat things that don't cast a shadow. " Tara Reid in Josie and the Pussycats. Do not ask me why I find her so amusing in that movie, I think the character's name is Mel. I haven't watched the movie in years. I just like the part where the pussycats first watch the commercials with the subliminal advertising and afterwards Tara Reid goes: " I want a big mac! " and Rosario Dawson's character is like: " Mel...you're a vegetarian... " *Barnyard* - in the film, the farmer is a vegan. The animals argue about the definition of " vegan " , some confusing the term with with vegetarian, and also vampire. -- HAIKU --- Drag queens are the rea- Son I pluck my eyebrows. It's The least I can do. On Sun, May 4, 2008 at 12:54 PM, ~ PT ~ <patchouli_troll wrote: > The sort of off-topic movie discussion that > I had with Jim about K-PAX gave him a great > idea that he shared with me off-list yesterday. > Jim proposed we should start a new file folder > for the group to list movies we have seen that > have a vegetarian mention in the dialog [either > possitive or negative], a vegetarian main character, > vegetarian supporting character, or anything that > mentions vegetarianism. It is a pretty broad based, > but we thought it might be fun. > > Please post the movie titles and maybe the actor's > name, if you can remember it here, and I will add > them [or you can] to the file folder Jim created: > Movies/ > It will be fun to see what we can come up with. > > ~ PT ~ > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted May 4, 2008 Report Share Posted May 4, 2008 > Please post the movie titles and maybe the actor's > name, if you can remember it here, and I will add > them [or you can] to the file folder Jim created: > Movies/ > It will be fun to see what we can come up with. Here is another one I remembered: Doctor Dolittle (1967) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061584/ Doctor Dolittle is a world-renowned veterinarian who speaks a wide array of animal languages. He sets off from his home in Puddleby-on-the- Marsh, England, in search of the Great Pink Sea Snail. In so doing, he and his friends meet such exotic creatures as the Pushme-Pullyu and the Giant Moon Moth. This musical is the source of the hit song, " If I Could Talk To The Animals. " Written by Randy Goldberg. Also a funny song Rex Harrison sings about being a reluctant vegetarian! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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