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What Happened to the Eating Scene?

posted 18 years ago by oleh77
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If you liked the eroticism of the chess game, you should see the original eating scene -- much sexier, much more powerful and still sophisticated.

I just saw the film on TV and WHERE WAS THE EATING SCENE? It's one of the best parts of the film. Surely TV can handle subtlety? Or can it?

I am one of those "adherents" who love this film -- saw it 6 times when it came out. I grew up in Boston, flew gliders at that time (but wasn't rich), watched the polo games at Myopia Hunt Club on the North Shore. So the film was a natural for me. (By the way, the glider landed at a field right beside Rockingham Raceway in southern New Hampshire. It was sold to become a golf club a few years ago.)

Final note: Steve McQueen was truly "the real thing". There's a website that has mugshots of various personalities (especially actors & actresses) who got arrested, typically for drunk driving. They all look terrible -- except Steve McQueen!! Check out http://www.thesmokinggun.com/mugshots/index.html and see that his screen persona and his real self were the same thing. I love that guy!

oleh77

[–] layton59 17 years ago

Quote from above poster:

If you liked the eroticism of the chess game, you should see the original eating scene -- much sexier, much more powerful and still sophisticated.

I just saw the film on TV and WHERE WAS THE EATING SCENE? It's one of the best parts of the film. Surely TV can handle subtlety? Or can it?

Poster oleh77, was the eating scene you remember in the remake with RENE RUSSO and PIERCE BROSNAN?

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[–] keith81 17 years ago

That's not in this film, it's in Tom Jones.