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God of Cookery
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This is what happens when a man best known for martial arts comedies decides to make a cooking show.Stephen Chow plays "Stephen Chow" (the Chinese characters in his name are different from his actual name), the undisputed "God Of Cookery" (Chinese: 食神). His respect highly valued and his skills beyond compare, he's supported by The Triads and the Tongs and big businesses alike, making him untouchable, until all of a sudden his support dries up and he's cast aside for Bull Tong (Vincent Kok), who reveals Stephen can't actually cook. Thrown and beaten to the streets, he's helped by a disfigured noodle vendor named Turkey (singer/actress Karen Mok), until he's dead smack in the middle of brutal gang politics of street food vendors between Turkey and her rival Goosehead. Can Stephen find a way to regain his honor and title? | |
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| God of Cookery / int_1a01fd1c | type |
Kayfabe | |
| God of Cookery / int_1a01fd1c | comment |
Kayfabe: The first contest is entirely rigged to make Stephen look good. | |
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| God of Cookery / int_1c861760 | type |
The Wonka | |
| God of Cookery / int_1c861760 | comment |
The Wonka: Stephen, the CEO of the former Tang Dynasty food business empire. | |
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Chekhov's Gun | |
| God of Cookery / int_22cf536c | comment |
Chekhov's Gun: Stephen's comments about the fishball being "bouncy as a ping pong ball" is then applied to the making of "pissing beef balls", to the point of using said beef ball to play ping pong during the interview of the stall. The barbeque pork rice bowl Turkey made for Stephen during his Despair Event Horizon. Which is repurposed as the backup dish when Bull destroys his Buddha Jumps Over the Wall. | |
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| God of Cookery / int_2317bc85 | type |
Tampering with Food and Drink | |
| God of Cookery / int_2317bc85 | comment |
Tampering with Food and Drink: Done twice by the unnamed business partner - first with cheap beef sold in his restaurants, causing food poisoning, which gets Stephen arrested by the authorities and done a second time by placing a bomb in Stephen's container for his Buddha Jumps Over The Wall. | |
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| God of Cookery / int_237404cc | type |
Ironic Echo | |
| God of Cookery / int_237404cc | comment |
Ironic Echo: Bull Tong and Stephen’s former business partner let him buy locations from one of their men, as they're too far from urban centers to be useful as new restaurants. However, Stephen uses these locations to package the Pissing Beef Balls to be sold in supermarkets instead. Bull Tong remarks that he can’t predict Stephen’s actions, something the latter said near the beginning when he invites Tong to eat with and humiliate him after dropping his preferred wine. | |
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| God of Cookery / int_2534ee67 | type |
In Medias Res | |
| God of Cookery / int_2534ee67 | comment |
In Medias Res: God of Cookery starts after Stephen loses his business empire and is kicked to the streets. | |
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No-Holds-Barred Beatdown | |
| God of Cookery / int_25524784 | comment |
No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: Performed by the Eighteen Brassmen of Shaolin on Stephen, which always ends with his bloody carcass dragged back to the monastery. | |
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| God of Cookery / int_285060c1 | type |
Martial Arts and Crafts | |
| God of Cookery / int_285060c1 | comment |
Martial Arts and Crafts: Cooking has never been so dangerous! | |
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| God of Cookery / int_2af6bbeb | type |
Break the Haughty | |
| God of Cookery / int_2af6bbeb | comment |
Break the Haughty: Sort of; Stephen acts a bit nicer once he loses his empire, but as soon as he's on the track to getting in back, he returns to his old tricks. It's not towards the end he finally becomes a better person. | |
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| God of Cookery / int_2f57a4cb | type |
Divine Intervention | |
| God of Cookery / int_2f57a4cb | comment |
Divine Intervention: Counts as a Big-Lipped Alligator Moment. | |
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| God of Cookery / int_34dcfc96 | type |
Kick the Dog | |
| God of Cookery / int_34dcfc96 | comment |
Kick the Dog: Too many moments by both Stephen and the villains to count. | |
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Chekhov's Gift | |
| God of Cookery / int_371aec84 | comment |
Chekhov's Gift: Stephen’s business partner gives him a deal for bargain beef after a business meeting. It turns out this was a ploy to get Stephen’s restaurant shut down and destroy his culinary empire. | |
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| God of Cookery / int_39b8d3d6 | type |
Boring, but Practical | |
| God of Cookery / int_39b8d3d6 | comment |
Boring, but Practical: A folding chair; hilariously lampshaded by Nancy Sit as Stephen keeps beating Bull with it during the cook-off. | |
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| God of Cookery / int_3cb1d38d | type |
Bad Boss | |
| God of Cookery / int_3cb1d38d | comment |
Bad Boss: Stephen at first, later Bull. | |
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| God of Cookery / int_3fca462c | type |
Deus ex Machina | |
| God of Cookery / int_3fca462c | comment |
Deus ex Machina: One of the most egregious and literal examples in Chinese cinema, where Guanyin shows up to announce that Stephen has redeemed himself while punishing Bull and his business partner for their insolence. | |
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| God of Cookery / int_41dd77d | type |
Zerg Rush | |
| God of Cookery / int_41dd77d | comment |
Zerg Rush: The 18 Brassmen rushes and mercilessly beats up Stephen for trying to leave the monastery. | |
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Hostage Situation | |
| God of Cookery / int_44bed14c | comment |
Hostage Situation: Bull and his business partner have recruited Nancy's son into the triads, forcing her to call the competition in his favor. | |
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Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting | |
| God of Cookery / int_45332ff5 | comment |
Everybody Was Kung-Fu Fighting: Subversion - Nancy seems to know an awful lot about Shaolin martial arts, even though she doesn't partake in any fighting at all. | |
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| God of Cookery / int_48cbd223 | type |
Machete Mayhem | |
| God of Cookery / int_48cbd223 | comment |
Machete Mayhem: The favorite weapon of many a street thug; also one of the most unpleasant Bare Handed Blade Blocks you'll ever see. | |
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| God of Cookery / int_4f84b27a | type |
Suck Out the Poison | |
| God of Cookery / int_4f84b27a | comment |
Suck Out the Poison: Stephen by Wet Dream, though Played for Laughs; may count as Squick. | |
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| God of Cookery / int_50b05d30 | type |
Disproportionate Retribution | |
| God of Cookery / int_50b05d30 | comment |
Disproportionate Retribution: Bull beats and kicks an employee because the latter was concerned that the food offered to children might affect their health. | |
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| God of Cookery / int_50c3f978 | type |
Dressed in Layers | |
| God of Cookery / int_50c3f978 | comment |
Dressed in Layers: Bull, twice in the movie. | |
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| God of Cookery / int_5148024 | type |
Locked into Strangeness | |
| God of Cookery / int_5148024 | comment |
Locked into Strangeness: Stephen's hair turns white as a result of the Humiliation Conga and Training from Hell he endures in the Shaolin monastery and his mourning for Turkey's (apparent) death. | |
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| God of Cookery / int_560e8d61 | type |
Deceptive Disciple | |
| God of Cookery / int_560e8d61 | comment |
Deceptive Disciple: Bull to Stephen. | |
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| God of Cookery / int_58afe9f2 | type |
Torso with a View | |
| God of Cookery / int_58afe9f2 | comment |
Torso with a View: Bull's final fate after enraging Guanyin. | |
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| God of Cookery / int_5924454b | type |
Cerebus Call-Back | |
| God of Cookery / int_5924454b | comment |
Cerebus Call-Back: During the beginning of the film, Stephen orders assorted noodles, critiquing the dish while simultaneously slurping it down. Later in the movie, when we see the event that led to Stephen’s downfall, Bull Tong makes the same critiques of one of Stephen’s promotional dishes, an overpriced version of assorted noodles. After Turkey saves Stephen a second time, she starts spontaneously starts singing, which seems odd, even with how over-the-top the movie is. During the movie’s final act, Wet Dream explains the origin of Stephen’s Sorrowful Fist technique, leading to a flashback where Stephen sings a sadder version of Turkey’s song at the Shaolin temple, holding her heart drawing in his hand. His grief is enough to turn his hair gray. | |
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A Pupil of Mine Until He Turned to Evil | |
| God of Cookery / int_598c4d8a | comment |
A Pupil of Mine Until He Turned to Evil: Bull is said to have never completed his training at the hidden monastery's kitchen. Though "evil" is a bit of a stretch, but given that he joins hands with a Corrupt Corporate Executive to use his culinary skills to oust Stephen as a fraud to take over the food business, as well as how he runs his newfound business empire afterwards... | |
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| God of Cookery / int_5a6c9d5c | type |
Combat Commentator | |
| God of Cookery / int_5a6c9d5c | comment |
Combat Commentator: Both Nancy and Wet Dream give commentary on the techniques used in the Cooking Duel. | |
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| God of Cookery / int_5b0323a5 | type |
Spontaneous Choreography | |
| God of Cookery / int_5b0323a5 | comment |
After Turkey saves Stephen from Goosehead and his vendors, she immediately starts singing. The song is the opening theme to the 1983 Live-Action Adaptation of The Legend of the Condor Heroes. | |
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| God of Cookery / int_5c91635a | type |
Bare-Handed Blade Block | |
| God of Cookery / int_5c91635a | comment |
Barehanded Blade Block: Deconstructed - Turkey's left hand is lacerated severely from grabbing Goosehead's machete. Still, she's just too angry to let that stop her, leading to an Oh, Crap! moment from Goosehead. | |
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| God of Cookery / int_617f0563 | type |
Heel–Face Turn | |
| God of Cookery / int_617f0563 | comment |
Heel–Face Turn: Goosehead and his food stall staff/gang joins with Turkey after Stephen convinces the two to band together to create the "pissing beef balls"note Mantis shrimp inside a beef ball. | |
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| God of Cookery / int_6220d661 | type |
Loony Fan | |
| God of Cookery / int_6220d661 | comment |
Loony Fan: Before departing for the culinary school, Turkey is revealed to be very obsessed towards Stephen, to the point the first thing he does after seeing Turkey is to immediately call a taxi and get away from her as far as possible. | |
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| God of Cookery / int_6289c429 | type |
Oven Logic | |
| God of Cookery / int_6289c429 | comment |
Oven Logic: Subverted by Rule of Cool when Bull cooks his Buddha Jumps Over the Wall that takes normally 49 hours in two minutes, powered by his internal chi. | |
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The Power of Love | |
| God of Cookery / int_6a696742 | comment |
The Power of Love: The winning dish "Sorrowful Rice". | |
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| God of Cookery / int_6b35bdff | type |
Serious Business | |
| God of Cookery / int_6b35bdff | comment |
Serious Business: Cooking; it's big business, as well. | |
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| God of Cookery / int_6bccf2ba | type |
Supreme Chef | |
| God of Cookery / int_6bccf2ba | comment |
Supreme Chef: Stephen, but subverted when he starts out pretending to be one. Played straight by the end of the movie. | |
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| God of Cookery / int_71bd62b9 | type |
Calling Your Attacks | |
| God of Cookery / int_71bd62b9 | comment |
Calling Your Attacks: Or in this case, calling your frying, chopping, etc. cooking techniques. | |
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| God of Cookery / int_7464705c | type |
Arc Words | |
| God of Cookery / int_7464705c | comment |
Arc Words: "Heart" (心). The best dishes, even if it is something as simple as a rice bowl, are made from putting your heart into cooking it. | |
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| God of Cookery / int_7ab81664 | type |
Kick Them While They Are Down | |
| God of Cookery / int_7ab81664 | comment |
Kick Them While They Are Down Bull does this once to show he's now the boss...an even more ruthless one than Stephen. The irony is Stephen still does this later while pretending to calm down a fight after regaining his wealth. | |
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| God of Cookery / int_7f9b12a6 | type |
Chairman of the Brawl | |
| God of Cookery / int_7f9b12a6 | comment |
Chairman of the Brawl: Being on the receiving end of this as a result of his continued beatdowns from the Eighteen Brassmen may have taught Stephen a thing or two about the use of furniture as weapons, as he brings out a folding chair to beat up Bull in the middle of their Cooking Duel. Nancy compliments his use of the chair in the same terms as she does the cooking. | |
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Large Ham | |
| God of Cookery / int_823c6e3e | comment |
Large Ham: Bull takes the cake by laughing evilly while cooking. | |
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Bad Moon Rising | |
| God of Cookery / int_82a51bc7 | comment |
Bad Moon Rising: Bull gets worried when he sees nine stars in alignment during the final competition. | |
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| God of Cookery / int_82b4f38e | type |
Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist | |
| God of Cookery / int_82b4f38e | comment |
Unsympathetic Comedy Protagonist: Stephen is a serious asshole for 2/3 of the movie. | |
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Conservation of Ninjutsu | |
| God of Cookery / int_82f5ced1 | comment |
Conservation of Ninjutsu: Parodied with the Eighteen Brassmen giving Stephen a major beatdown. A joke that's lost to most people unfamiliar with martial arts films is in the film Eighteen Bronzemen (see Shout-Out below), a student may not leave until they have defeated the titular Eighteen Bronzemen meaning that they defeated the best of the best. Here, the joke is if eighteen Brassmen beat the crap out of you, it's not because they're better than you but because they outnumbered you 18 to 1. | |
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Three-Act Structure | |
| God of Cookery / int_8386a7a | comment |
Three-Act Structure: Each roughly 30 minutes or so. | |
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| God of Cookery / int_88cee6e2 | type |
Abhorrent Admirer | |
| God of Cookery / int_88cee6e2 | comment |
Abhorrent Admirer: The "fangirl" who brings flowers. Also, Turkey; she becomes less abhorrent after some plastic surgery in the ending. | |
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Deconstruction | |
| God of Cookery / int_8ae880f7 | comment |
Stephen himself as well, especially during the contest at the beginning and even after he was kicked to the streets. Doubles as a Deconstruction, as it shows that getting so used to being judgmental of others cooking is definitely not helping your case when you're reduced to a nobody on the streets. | |
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Bullet Time | |
| God of Cookery / int_8af25294 | comment |
Bullet Time: Preparing ingredients while they are in the air. | |
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Bloody Handprint | |
| God of Cookery / int_8fed141a | comment |
Bloody Handprint: Turkey puts a friendly hand on Stephen's shoulder after saving his life, but to his disgust it leaves a bloody handprint on his shirt. | |
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Transformation Sequence | |
| God of Cookery / int_9657fe0f | comment |
Transformation Sequence: Try to say "Magical Chef Transformation Sequence" with a straight face. | |
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Big Bad Duumvirate | |
| God of Cookery / int_978a82e6 | comment |
Big Bad Duumvirate: Bull Tong and the unnamed business partner take over Stephen's food business after instigating a scandal and will do anything to keep Stephen out of the culinary-slash-corporate world to the point of sending an assassin in an attempt to stop him from reaching the fabled culinary school. | |
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Took a Level in Badass | |
| God of Cookery / int_9bcd82c0 | comment |
Took a Level in Badass: Stephen after training in the hidden monastery. | |
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Taking the Bullet | |
| God of Cookery / int_9ce6492a | comment |
Taking the Bullet: Turkey does this to foil the assassin's attempt on Stephen's life, point blank no less. Fortunately, it is revealed at the end that the bullet only hit her prosthetic tooth, which at worst necessitates some plastic surgery. | |
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Foreshadowing | |
| God of Cookery / int_9d12bbc1 | comment |
Foreshadowing: The proposed promo delivered by the MC of the first competition includes a question of whether Stephen is a god from the Heavens or a devil from Hell because of his cooking abilities. The Deus ex Machina reveals Stephen is a Reincarnation of the Kitchen God's assistant, exiled from Heaven for having spilled culinary secrets to mankind. | |
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The Cat Came Back | |
| God of Cookery / int_a5e77a67 | comment |
The Cat Came Back: When Stephen runs off to mainland China to look for the fabled culinary school in order to get away from Turkey. | |
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Cutting Back to Reality | |
| God of Cookery / int_ad5c0143 | comment |
Cutting Back to Reality: The taste of a Pissing Beef Ball sends Goosehead into a blissful daydream, with his henchmen waking him up after he starts to touch himself. | |
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Caustic Critic | |
| God of Cookery / int_ae4b1ce1 | comment |
Caustic Critic: Judge Nancy Sit, playing as herself, seems this way until she finishes winnowing down the competition to the only two characters that matter, only to breathlessly invert this trope. Stephen himself as well, especially during the contest at the beginning and even after he was kicked to the streets. Doubles as a Deconstruction, as it shows that getting so used to being judgmental of others cooking is definitely not helping your case when you're reduced to a nobody on the streets. | |
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Fate Worse than Death | |
| God of Cookery / int_b1346878 | comment |
Fate Worse than Death: Bull's business partner is reverted to his "true" form of a dog via Divine Intervention. | |
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Berserk Button | |
| God of Cookery / int_bc74ef27 | comment |
Berserk Button: Turkey is quiet about it, but she loves Stephen and if you attempt to harm him, literally or figuratively, you'll need more than machetes to stop her. | |
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Chef of Iron | |
| God of Cookery / int_bcdfbe4a | comment |
Chef of Iron: Starts with Bull and escalates steadily from there. | |
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Irony | |
| God of Cookery / int_c335b9ec | comment |
The irony is Stephen still does this later while pretending to calm down a fight after regaining his wealth. | |
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Wuxia | |
| God of Cookery / int_c3fc812d | comment |
Stephen's final dish after his ex-business partner ruins his Buddha Jumps Over The Wall is a simple rice-vegetable-barbeque pork bowl Turkey made for him when they first meet each other. It's dubbed "Sorrowful Rice" (黯然銷é‚飯, "Rice Which Causes the Soul to Depart from Sadness"); the strongest technique used by Yang Guo in The Return of the Condor Heroes is the "Melancholic Palms". | |
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Shout-Out | |
| God of Cookery / int_c75df49a | comment |
Shout-Out The Eighteen Brassmen of Shaolin are a reference to the 1976 Chinese film 18 Bronzemen (少林寺å��八銅人, Shaolin Si Shi Ba Tong Ren). In one scene, Stephen states "I don't mean to show others I'm capable: I just want to tell others that I can get back what I've lost". This dialogue is similar to the one used by Mark Lee in A Better Tomorrow. Furthermore, another reference to the film is used when Stephen lights his cigar using a Hong Kong bank note. There are multiple references to Jin Yong: Stephen's final dish after his ex-business partner ruins his Buddha Jumps Over The Wall is a simple rice-vegetable-barbeque pork bowl Turkey made for him when they first meet each other. It's dubbed "Sorrowful Rice" (黯然銷é‚飯, "Rice Which Causes the Soul to Depart from Sadness"); the strongest technique used by Yang Guo in The Return of the Condor Heroes is the "Melancholic Palms". After Turkey saves Stephen from Goosehead and his vendors, she immediately starts singing. The song is the opening theme to the 1983 Live-Action Adaptation of The Legend of the Condor Heroes. Certain techniques used by Stephen and Bull in their cooking duel are named after techniques from Heaven Sword and Dragon Sabre. | |
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No Name Given | |
| God of Cookery / int_ca87e3ec | comment |
No Name Given: Despite playing an important role, Ng Man Tat's character of Stephen and Bull's business partner/triad boss is never named. | |
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The Man Makes the Weapon | |
| God of Cookery / int_cb12c416 | comment |
The Man Makes the Weapon: Stephen finds out the hard way from Bull that if you can be disarmed with a simple teaspoon, you probably haven't been spending enough time behind a chopping block. | |
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Cooking Duel | |
| God of Cookery / int_cdc710ad | comment |
Cooking Duel: Begins with one, ends with one. | |
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Mundane Made Awesome | |
| God of Cookery / int_d148b019 | comment |
Mundane Made Awesome: The last third of the film makes cooking awesome. And somehow finds a way to make the ordinary barbeque pork rice bowl awesome... enter the "Sorrowful Rice"! | |
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Contrived Coincidence | |
| God of Cookery / int_dc579c91 | comment |
Contrived Coincidence: How Stephen found the fabled culinary school, which actually a kitchen in the Shaolin monastery. | |
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Despair Event Horizon | |
| God of Cookery / int_dda99fa8 | comment |
The barbeque pork rice bowl Turkey made for Stephen during his Despair Event Horizon. Which is repurposed as the backup dish when Bull destroys his Buddha Jumps Over the Wall. | |
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| God of Cookery / int_e0c00a95 | type |
Absurdly Sharp Blade | |
| God of Cookery / int_e0c00a95 | comment |
Absurdly Sharp Blade: Kitchen knives that can slice through falling ingredients without knocking them to the side. | |
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| God of Cookery / int_e2e80e71 | type |
Ass-Kicking Pose | |
| God of Cookery / int_e2e80e71 | comment |
Ass Kicking Pose: The Eighteen Brassmen of Shaolin, before and during Stephen's subsequent ass-kicking. | |
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Lotus Position | |
| God of Cookery / int_e3432a33 | comment |
Lotus Position: With subverted levitation - Headmaster Wet Dream sits down like this in the middle of the last contest and appears to be levitating, until the camera moves and reveals he's being carried out by security. | |
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Not Quite Dead | |
| God of Cookery / int_e431c24c | comment |
Not Quite Dead: Turkey returns and cleans up nicely thanks to Magic Plastic Surgery. | |
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The Triads and the Tongs | |
| God of Cookery / int_e4ce314 | comment |
The Triads and the Tongs: The entire cooking association led by Steven's right-hand man. | |
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Gonk | |
| God of Cookery / int_e542d80a | comment |
Gonk: Turkey until the end of the movie and the "fangirl"; this is but one of Stephen Chow's numerous Signature Styles. | |
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Jerkass | |
| God of Cookery / int_eb8ec7c8 | comment |
Jerkass: Stephen, who raises pettiness almost to the point of outright evil. | |
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| God of Cookery / int_eff83d77 | type |
Mundane Utility | |
| God of Cookery / int_eff83d77 | comment |
Mundane Utility: Chi blasts to cook food, among others. | |
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| God of Cookery / int_f10d3363 | type |
Distracted by the Sexy | |
| God of Cookery / int_f10d3363 | comment |
Distracted by the Sexy: Subverted; Nancy does an extended dance sequence while walking back and forth along the row of competitors, then promptly eliminates the contestants for watching her instead of cooking. Subverted because it's humorously bizarre rather than alluring. | |
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Food Porn | |
| God of Cookery / int_f23ad6de | comment |
Food Porn: Due to the culinary theme of the movie, much of the dishes were presented in mouth-watering detail. "Buddha Jumps Over the Wall" is a Real Life Fujian dish containing dozens of meats, fish, and shellfish in a stew taking two days to prepare due to the need to let some of the ingredients to sit overnight. It was named by a scholar who thought it was so delicious that Buddha himself would give up vegetarianism to try it. In the opposing dish, the simple Chinese Barbeque Pork rice bowl was presented as a contrast via its mundane delicacy that comforts the palate of everyone, including the judge herself in the initial moment. | |
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Dark Reprise | |
| God of Cookery / int_f3fd818b | comment |
After Turkey saves Stephen a second time, she starts spontaneously starts singing, which seems odd, even with how over-the-top the movie is. During the movie’s final act, Wet Dream explains the origin of Stephen’s Sorrowful Fist technique, leading to a flashback where Stephen sings a sadder version of Turkey’s song at the Shaolin temple, holding her heart drawing in his hand. His grief is enough to turn his hair gray. | |
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Impossibly Delicious Food | |
| God of Cookery / int_f8fe0279 | comment |
Impossibly Delicious Food/Orgasmically Delicious: This causes an Imagine Spot twice. | |
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Brick Joke | |
| God of Cookery / int_fe0330fb | comment |
Stephen's comments about the fishball being "bouncy as a ping pong ball" is then applied to the making of "pissing beef balls", to the point of using said beef ball to play ping pong during the interview of the stall. | |
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