Daily Dialogue — October 5, 2016

LINGUINI: Colette! You came back. Colette, I — COLETTE: DON’T say a word. If I think about it I might change my mind. Just tell me what the rat wants to cook.

MOMENTS LATER

Remy flips through Gusteau’s recipe box, finds a certain card and pulls it, showing it to Colette. She frowns.

COLETTE: Ratatouille? It’s a peasant dish. Are you sure you want to serve this to Ego?

Remy NODS. Colette shrugs and starts to prepare the dish.

A TIRE SCREECH is followed by a LOUD CRASH outside. COLETTE looks up as the back door bangs open: the HEALTH INSPECTOR, bound and gagged, floats across the floor on a cushion of RATS, who quickly dump him in the food safe.

Colette shrugs, going with the strange night, and goes to add the first spice to the ratatouille, but is blocked by a WOODEN SPOON. She looks up: sees it’s held by Remy.

COLETTE: What. I’m making the ratatouille…

He looks at the her ingredients and makes a face.

COLETTE: Well, how would you prepare it?

Remy PAUSES, considering this.

Remy REIMAGINING the ratatouille; re-inventing it step by step and demonstrating what he wants to Colette, who expertly follows through.

— Ratatouille (2007), written by Brad Bird, original Story by Jan Pinkava, Jim Capobianco, Brad Bird

The Daily Dialogue theme for the week: Cooking, suggested by Katha who also recommended today’s post.

Trivia: The room that Anton Ego writes his review in is shaped like a coffin; in addition the back of his typewriter resembles a skull face — appropriate, because he writes “killer” reviews.

Dialogue On Dialogue: Commentary by Katha: “As Remy cannot talk to the humans, he keeps silent throughout the whole scene. It‘s Colette giving her side of the conversation, though she has came back to help Linguini and Remy she still cannot believe in Remy‘s abilities in cooking. But she gives in and let Remy does what he wants. Without dialogue the scene keeps it totally to the images how Remy cooks and gains mastership — as later on, how his food drives critic Ego back to his childhood memories.”