{"id":341,"date":"2016-03-30T10:19:47","date_gmt":"2016-03-30T10:19:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lifeatthemovies\/?p=341"},"modified":"2016-12-16T04:17:03","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T04:17:03","slug":"a-celebration-of-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/lifeatthemovies\/2016\/03\/a-celebration-of-food.html","title":{"rendered":"A celebration of food"},"content":{"rendered":"

Star Wars has moments of pure food joy, perhaps meaning something extra.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In The Empire Strikes Back (1980), eating at the swamp planet of Dagobah offers the most obvious food joy because in swamp planets you may find some exotic food pleasure and the food there is a specialty.<\/p>\n

Swamp planets are bound to come up with only great food, at least from Yoda’s eyes.<\/p>\n

The Jedi Master Yoda tells Luke Skywalker, who has food from another planet, \u201cWhy do you eat food of this kind?\u201d<\/p>\n

Yoda, about the meal he has prepared, asks Luke: \u201cFood\u2026Good?\u201d<\/p>\n

Luke hates it, but agrees.<\/p>\n

Yoda also knows the specialness of eating times for guardians of justice and peace.<\/p>\n

Yoda: \u201cFor a Jedi it is also time to eat\u201d<\/p>\n

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For Yoda (Pictured) it is also time to eat. Image sourced via google images (Flickr).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In Star Wars: A New Hope (1977), Aunt Beru is preparing food in her homestead. At the table, Uncle Owen and Luke Skywalker come together with Beru and talk about serious matters while eating. Not the ideal combination, but they enjoyed the food, which is the food joy in that scene and probably a typical night in the middle class, somewhere, perhaps.<\/p>\n

The Cantina scene is a drinking paradise, but there is no eating in the ominous, grey Death Star\u2014all work and no play there\u2026<\/p>\n

The bright throne room scene is luminous and about the heroes just rewards\u2014no eating there unless they bite on their medals. Lesson: Food must be well prepared.<\/p>\n

In Return of the Jedi (1983), space pirate Han Solo is in a spot of bother and says to the instigator of the problem, \u201cGreat, Chewie, always thinking with your stomach.\u201d<\/p>\n

Food can get you into trouble, but is still enjoyable (perhaps only to Chewie in this case)<\/p>\n

Outside a gangster\u2019s palace, a creature burps after eating a morsel! Food is good indeed.<\/p>\n

R2-D2 serves drinks and Jabba the Hut dunks morsels down his throat, and Princess Leia offers the Ewok appeasement with some munchies<\/p>\n

Food has its own place, perhaps a revered place, at the movies. Just like life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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