Succession director Mark Mylod’s The Menu trailer serves up a delicious spin on The Most Dangerous Game
Anya Taylor Joy, Nicholas Hoult, Ralph Fiennes, and more are all on The Menu, literally.
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Rich people are back on the menu. Yesterday, we shared the trailer for Ruben Östlund’s Palm d’Or-winner, Triangle Of Sadness, a movie where a bunch of rich, beautiful people can’t stop shitting their brains out. And considering the food they eat, those are some expensive bowel movements.
Turns out Triangle Of Sadness was an amuse-bouches.
Responsible for directing some of the best episodes of Succession, director Mark Mylod is staying the course and hammering home the “rich people suck” message he’s been so effective at delivering. The Menu, his new film starring Anya Taylor-Joy, Nicholas Hoult, and Ralph Fiennes, however, harkens back to that seminal piece of class satire, The Most Dangerous Game. You see because rich people are on The Menu.
The Menu follows a popular theme of hunting and eating people that’s been cropping in the last few years of a late-capitalist hellscape. The Hunt, infamously, grabbed headlines a few years ago with a group of liberal elites hunting “normal folks” for sport. The movie became an instant controversy, with Universal pulling distribution, fearing some sort of backlash over the film’s weak bothsideism.
There was also the enjoyably stylish Ready Or Not, which reframed the class war as a horrible dinner game, which The Menu appears to be taking to the next level. Rather than the rich hunting the poor to see if they’re worthy of joining the family, it appears the cooks in The Menu are just looking for the most ethically sourced meat they can find, which happens to be the über rich.
Mylod’s got a delicious cast lined up for this one that should have hungry viewers chomping at the bit to taste the likes of Fiennes, Taylor-Joy, Hoult, as well as John Leguizamo, Hong Chau, Arturo Castro, and Judith Light. You’ll be able to say “yes, chef” on November 18 when The Menu hits theaters.
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Turns out Triangle Of Sadness was an amuse-bouches.
*amuse-bouche
The movie became an instant controversy, with Universal pulling
distribution, fearing some sort of backlash over the film’s weak
bothsideism.
You probably mean bothsidesism.
So we’ve moved out of the mindless zombies eating people phase into simply eating people phase of our evolution? This, the movies the article referenced, Fresh, Yellowjackets… ummm, are we sure this is the direction we should be moving?
Are there any other sustainable catches to be had, in 2022?
The horrifying context if you please bröther
“ This, the movies the article referenced, Fresh, Yellowjackets…”Don’t forget the Armie Hammer documentary.
Hannibal. The Hunt. The season 3 finale of Atlanta. Intersections of class and cannibalism are having a big year. Is it because cannibalism has been a metaphor for economic exploitation since “A Modest Proposal” (1729). Or maybe it has to do with the way changing models of land ownership changed perceptions of hunting in the middle ages?No reason to drag “The Most Dangerous Game” into this; didn’t even know the first movie adaptation had an additional layer of class symbolism until some Googling tonight.
i will see this, but nothing will ever beat Surviving the Game
Responsible for directing some of the best episodes of Bang Bang It’s Reeves and Mortimer, director Mark Mylod…Fixed it for you.
Ralph Fiennes looks like he’s playing the head chef. If the head chef is joing the other rich people on “the menu,” he clearly didn’t think this through.
Ralph Fiennes looks like he’s playing the head chef.If the head chef is joing the other rich people on “the menu,” he clearly didn’t think this through.