World Vegetarian Day is coming up this October 1st and what better way to commemorate it than with movies showing vegetables in various ways? In movies vegetables are used in a number of ways, from the simple and edible manner they’re meant for to the ridiculous and outrageous. It’s amazing really how many different uses vegetables can be made to fulfill, but when you look at their form and their function it’s kind of easy to really get into the whole at of using them for both food and comedic implements. They can also be used as plot points or something just to throw out there and be part of the story in a very nondescript way that’s useful but not overly important. Vegetables have just as much of a place in films as anything else, though unless they’re to be used for some distinct purpose they usually take a back seat and are just, well, there.
Here are a few movies that show vegetables in a few interesting ways.
5. Sausage Party
Talk about a messed-up film. It’s funny and it’s interesting enough to keep watching, but at the same time it makes you look at your food a lot differently since everything in this film is alive and has the same kind of humanized emotions and reactions that you would never want your food to exhibit. The baby carrots in this particular scene are pretty tragic since they’re actually given the identity of children and are being served up for guests presumably as they’re tossed into a bowl. When two of them try to ‘run’ they’re scooped up by the hostess and chomped on mercilessly as the rest of the horrified foodstuffs look on.
4. Frozen
Carrots seem to be one of the most favored vegetables to use in movies for a few reasons. One of them has to be their form and shape since they’re very suggestive and tend to be used in more lewd ways. In this film however the animators thankfully stick to the time-honored use of the carrot as the nose for the film’s living snowman, Olaf. Unfortunately for Olaf, Sven, Kristoff’s reindeer companion, is very fond of carrots and attempts to take Olaf’s nose throughout the entire movie. By the time the film is over however the two have become such good friends that upon taking it Sven gives it right back.
3. Secondhand Lions
It takes Walter a bit of time to really get used to his great-uncles and their strange ways but when they finally open up and start spending some of the money they’ve squirreled away for so long things start to change for the better. The only thing about this is that both men have been out of the loop for so long when it comes to society that they don’t seem to know what they’re buying from the traveling salesmen that continue to show up in the front drive. It would seem that it’d be easy to tell seeds apart, but given that they’re planting corn and thinking that each row is something different it would argue that Uncle Garth got taken by the salesman.
2. Kung Fu Panda 2
Po has some serious issues with his past since he can’t remember all of it. But being that he wasn’t much more than a baby when his parents had to hide him so that he wouldn’t be killed it’s understandable. Still, his fears of being replaced by a radish in a nightmare seem a bit out there, but for this film it seems on par for what’s already occurred. Being that he’s been raised by a goose and was found in a box of radishes it would definitely put a lot more emphasis on why he dreams that his parents replaced him with a kung fu radish that promptly delivers a beatdown in his nightmare.
1. Animal House
Did you think this one wasn’t going to make the list? If so then you might have never seen Animal House or this particular scene in which Otter and Mrs. Wermer meet awkwardly in the produce aisle and then begin talking about cucumbers and…well, you get the idea. Otter is perhaps one of the most outgoing and therefore most troublesome of the Delta’s, but he’s also one of the most fun in the fraternity. Hitting on Mrs. Wermer is at first something he’s probably figuring will be easy and land him an easy date or something more, but when she mentions that she’s MRS. Wermer then he kind of deflates a bit. But despite this he still keeps talking to her and eventually ends up inviting her to the toga party that’s going down not too far after this scene. The most amazing and funny thing about it is that she shows up.
Vegetables are great for comedic relief, just ask any movie buff.
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