Tyler Kilby
Film is lit
Mr. Rivers
The movie i will be talking about is called ¨Burnt¨ Directed by John Wells, starring Bradley cooper who plays a a top chef in paris but loses his mojo to drugs and alcohol. He then has been living in New orleans after his incident, shucking oysters in a small seafood shop. After his 1 millionth oyster he quits his job and moves to London determined to get 3rd star (which is very hard to do for any chef) cooper goes to his old friend who hires him in his restaurant, Cooper then goes around London looking for a kitchen of chefs to help him get his 3rd star. He has trouble with everyone thinking he will go back to his old self and ruin their own reps. Once he gets a team he demands perfection from everybody and will accept nothing else, he even takes it so far that when one of the other chefs over cook a food they have to apologize to the food itself and then eat it. Cooper also on top of receiving his 3rd star has to worry about his former drug dealers keep returning trying to collect his outstanding debt. Also his rival chef is in the running for his 3rd star as well and they are in the race for the perfect chef.
I would say this movie is a ¨Good Good¨ the plot is a very good one which interests me. In the end
Cooper ends up using drugs and alcohol again because of the stress of getting his 3rd star, but the person he goes to for help is the chef that he is up against. I really liked how the writer did that because from their acting in previous scenes you can tell that the two chefs have a lot of history together, good and bad. But the other chef helps him out and was very caring for him. I also like how the director john wells, takes detail in the kitchen scenes by showing the food before hand and then it will cut to when it's fully cooked, its a minor detail but it looks very fascinating if you think about it. In the end he ends up getting his 3rd star with the help of his rival chef and they go right back to being rivals, which i really did not understand, you would think they would just stay friends, but in the end bradley cooper gives a quote about how a chefs day is never over and no matter what you do you go on to work the next day no matter how bad the last day was, and that cleared things up for me.
Lots of information in here about your movie, Tyler, but we lose a lot of the evaluation because it falls into summary. Plot may be a helpful way to organize your evaluation, but it needs to be evaluative. In other words, don't just tell us what happens neutrally, but explain it in a way that reveals that the movie is effective or ineffectively made. Your subjective stuff comes in at the end of your second paragraph, but much of that paragraph is still devoted to summarizing and describing the film. Push your language further by diving into the language of evaluation and analysis instead of summary and description. Title should also give us a sense of what you are arguing.
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