"Chef" by Jon Favreau is the only movie I've seen where all of the conflict is at the beginning of the movie and it slowly gets more and more lighthearted. It's like a backwards movie.

Towards the beginning of the movie, the main character has a ton of conflict, with his boss for creativity, with the food critic for just being insulting, with the internet because he's kind of clueless, and with his son because he is always so busy.

Pretty much all of these are solved within the first third of the movie. He quits his job after his boss douses his creativity, things with the food critic kind of get forgotten about because he starts to do his own thing with the food truck, things on the internet get better because his son creates such a good image for them, and things with his son get better because they start hanging out.

This is the only movie I've ever seen where almost all of the conflict is resolved by the first third of the movie, and it just generally gets more and more "feel good" as it goes along. This is kind of backwards in comparison with the structure of many other movies, where it can be said that they get less and less feel good, and most of the conflict is in the last third of the movie. I thought it was an interesting thing that I really liked about Chef.

Submitted October 30, 2017 at 02:02AM by Transmogrify_My_Goat http://ift.tt/2ydYfJH