Memes on the Side: Bacon and Breakfast in Movies
Crispy and delicious, every movie tastes better with bacon.
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By Jordan Hoffman June 9, 2010 |
Pee-wee's Big Adventure
While many of us would simply sulk after discovering our victory at the Tour de France was just a dream, bowtied sociopath Pee-wee Herman doesn't play it that way.
He sets off his Rube Goldberg kitchen then makes his bacon-rife breakfast talk to him.
In a truly subversive moment he pours Mr. T. cereal in its mouth - effectively feeding breakfast to his breakfast.
The Island
The first evidence that Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci were writers we could trust was their "meat cute" between Jordan Two-Delta and Lincoln Six Echo in The Island.
Saucy Scarlett Johansson shows she can game the system of their summer camp/organ farm and get Ewan MacGregor what a man really needs: hardy slabs of bacon for breakfast.
Pulp Fiction
Swingers
Look closely, between the water glass and the syrup container.
Cured pork, you are so money!
Citizen Kane
Considered by many critics to be the finest film ever made (it's, like, the Citizen Kane of movies) Orson Wells' classic of power and greed features the celebrated "breakfast montage" that spot-checks a marriage from Honeymoon bliss to sour breakup.
How best to present the glory days? Look right next to Charles Foster Kane's silverware and there it is: bacon.
Bacon? It's terrific!
