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Ugo: Wanting to be Marlon Brando is vanity.
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Marcello: You should do a special menu. "A dinner offered by four Burgundian gentlemen to three nice Canterbury whores!"
Philippe: Ah, so they're whores, eh?
Michel: What did you expect?
Philippe: I've got a great menu idea. "The Whore Menu"! A sauté of fat and lean given by four gourmand gourmets, epicures for three young ladies, in twelve courses.
Marcello: That's it.
Philippe: Crayfish à la Mozart on a bed of rice à la Sully, with Sauce Aurora.
Marcello: Not bad.
La Grande Bouffe Quotes
Extended Reading
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Alberto 2022-03-25 09:01:23
Take my knee! Four male superstars from France and Italy compete to eat and die! Civil aviation pilot Mr. Ma tried to escape, but froze to death on a Bugatti that couldn't start; TV show director Michel Piccoli farted while talking on the piano, and died on the balcony with feces and urine; chef Ugo Tognazzi stuck to his post and ate at the last minute Jerking off, dying in the kitchen on launch; Judge Philippe Noiret thinking about his dead comrades, eating to death in the villa garden... As in Ferreri's other films, the women either leave early or live to the end, while the four men all died. The person who came to deliver a new batch of ingredients hung a pile of pork and beef in the garden, and the four dead men seemed to have become flesh corpses... France sent this film to Cannes back then, causing an uproar, but obviously this is not only an insult to the law Instead, it insults the entire capitalist consumer society... It's too cult, and there are too many classic episodes. As a man in a consumer society, I feel like I can revisit it regularly...
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Rylan 2022-03-21 09:03:26
Ecoeurant d'un mélange bon/mauvais goût, libre de d'esprit mais lourd de sens derrière le voile de la légéreté et du burlesque. Peut-être trop long & absurde- mais n'est-ce pas le but même de l' oeuvre que de nous faire suffoquer, spectateurs et personnages inclus
