Happy New Year!

This has got to be a great year, since it is the year of the pig, the noble animal that is responsible for all that is fine and good in the culinary world.

Truffles?
Bacon?
Pork fat?

Need I go on?

So, here’s to a very treyf but very tasty year.

So far, it’s begun fairly well. The pilot finally came in for an awkward landing. But as they say, any landing you can walk away from is a good one. He’s gonna go back up in the air but for now, he’s safe on the ground as we pick apart and revise his flight pattern.

And my favorite story about a pig/boar/hog that has nothing to do with food is that while we were in Anderson Valley, trekking through some backwoods to find a pretty location to shoot a scene for the film, we happened upon a boar who had met an untimely death. It had been decapitated and its head was stuck on top of a gate post, like you’d imagine some barbarian sticking human heads on stakes. It was fresh too, it’s blood was still dripping down the sides of the post and not too many flies had gathered yet.

We were all grossed out but how do you pass up an opportunity to shoot that? I made one of our actors examine it and meditate on what seeing a dead boar meant to his character. Our DP did her best to shoot the scene without getting too close to the nastyness. Much to the actor’s credit, he got right up in the boar’s face. It ended up being the scene with the most production design.

Paired with the music and the voiceover, it’s one of my favorite moments in the film.

I leave you to celebrate Chinese New Year with some pork treats off the beaten track and some other tender vittles:

Pork Martinis!
Pig Candy!
Have a kid!
The future of entertainment!
Salumi
The Pork Chop Express

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