The+God+Of+Cookery

__**The God Of Cookery**__


 * Plot:** The God Of Cookery lost his title as the God Of Cookery, and wants to regain the title of The God Of Cookery.
 * Theme:** The God Of Cookery needs to realize how important Turkey is to him, how much Turkey loved him and how much he actually loved Turkey.

This theme fits into the body of themes of Stephen Chow's work because with Stephen Chow's movies, a lot of the themes have to do with love, how the main character has to realize that they need love. Examples of the theme of love in his movies include, but are not limited to, ShaoLin Soccer, Kung Fu Hustle, and Journey To The West: Conquering The Demons.


 * 1) The first scene of the film is Stephen eating a bowl of street noodles at Turkey's stall and being critical of her food, saying stuff like how the soup tastes like bleach, the fish balls have no fish taste, and the pig intestines still have poop in it. This scene provides insight to the theme of the film because this is the scene where Stephen meets Turkey. Flashbacks are used in this act to show how this was not the first time that Turkey had an encounter with Stephen before, and will probably have more encounters with him in the future that helps develop the love between her and Stephen. Close-up shots are used to show clearly the expressions of the characters, especially that of Turkey's when she found out that her customer was Stephen, and that expression helps in the development of the theme of love.
 * 2) The inciting incident is when Stephen as The God Of Cookery judges and fails all of the dishes of the participating chefs.
 * 3) Act 1: Stephen judges and fails all of the of the dishes of the participating chefs. It was revealed to the viewers of the movie that Stephen's title of The God Of Cookery was all just a fraud; the chefs in the competitions were all just actors. Bull Tong is introduced to the story as an understudy of Stephen's. The balance of Stephen's world is upset when Bull Tong reveals to everyone inside the movie that Stephen was a fraud and did not even know how to cook as Stephen was opening his 50th restaurant.
 * 4) The setup for Act 2 is the scene mentioned before when Bull Tong exposed Stephen as a fraud, and Stephen gets arrested.
 * 5) Threshold guardians for the first half of act 2: Bull Tong, Goose Head. Bull Tong sabotages Stephen's career and makes him become homeless. Goose Head being Turkey's rival at first impedes Stephen's progress to reclaiming the title of the God Of Cookery, but soon was defeated by and became allies with Stephen and Turkey to create the Pissing Beef Balls.
 * 6) A lot of time, money, and resources were spent by Stephen, Turkey, and Goose Head to make a Pissing Beef Ball shop and a lot of Pissing Beef Balls, but no one comes to buy any of the Pissing Beef Balls, and starts to lower the price until ultimately they changed to price to free.
 * 7) A nurse comes along and takes one order of Pissing Beef Balls and takes it back to the hospital, where a patient who hadn't eaten anything in ages ate the Pissing Beef Balls. The nurse then brings all the patients to the Pissing Beef Ball shop to get more of them, and suddenly Stephen, Turkey, and Goose Head started to raise the price of the Pissing Beef Balls as more and more people start to buy it. Their shop gets famous and got featured on television, which made them very rich.
 * 8) Bull Tong and Stephen's old manager tease and insult Stephen and tries to prevent him from joining the God of Cookery contestto reclaim his title. As well as that, Stephen learns that the wounds on Turkey were all gained through Turkey trying to protect a simple flag with a picture of Stephen as the God Of Cookery on it, showing how she loves him. Stephen does not know what to feel so he speeds off into a taxi and heads off to a culinary school in China, where on the way, Turkey catches up to him and takes a bullet for him when an assassin tried to assassinate Stephen.
 * 9) The event that starts Act 3 is the beginning of the God Of Cookery contest. This is where Stephen has to face his greatest challenge yet; to defeat Bull Tong's cooking skills with the cooking skills he acquired from the Chinese culinary school he attended.
 * 10) The rising action of Act 3 is when Stephen burst into the contest "arena" just as the deadline for participants to enter was about to end.
 * 11) How does the climax of the film define the choice that the character must make between what they **want** and what they **need**? The climax of the film is when the God Of Cookery contest was only left with two contestants; Bull Tong and Stephen. The two have a cooking showdown, and both **wants** to win the contest so they could get the title of the God Of Cookery. Stephen did not necessarily have to choose between what he wanted and what he needed in this climax, because in previously realizing want he **needed**, which was Turkey and her love, he gained the cooking skills he wanted to cook up the perfect dish to defeat Bull Tong and get what he truly wanted.
 * 12) The falling action for Act 3 was when the Angels came down from the skies and turned Stephen's old boss into a bulldog and killed Bull Tong. The world in which Stephen lived in changed for the better and he re-earned his title of the God Of Cookery.
 * 13) The denouement was when Goose Head revealed to Stephen that Turkey was not in fact killed during the assassination attempt as the bullet got lodged in Turkey's golden teeth, and that Turkey got her teeth fixed along with a free plastic surgery on her face which made her look beautiful again.