Tortilla Soup Lecture and Film Series

Tortilla Soup (USA), 2001

Synopsis: This tremendously entertaining, funny family drama is based on Director Ang Lee’s film, "Eat, Drink, Man, Woman," which appeared in 1994. "Tortilla Soup" stays within the boundaries of the original screenplay.

The differences between the two films are palpable and obvious.

First, "Tortilla Soup" is set in Los Angeles, California, and the cultural background of the family is Mexican-American. Martin Naranjo is a retired chef and widowed father who chops, cooks, and creates the most magnificent, delicious Mexican meals this side of the Rio Grande.

He is the loving father of three adult daughters whom he single-handedly raised after his wife died fifteen years before. Carmen, his oldest daughter, wanted to walk in her father's footsteps and become a chef, but ended up earning an MBA in order to please him (secretly she loves to create new meals and dishes). Leticia ("Letty"), the middle daughter, is more of a “plain-Jane” and a high school teacher whose subject is chemistry. She teaches uneventfully at a public high school. Maribella, the youngest daughter, is more modern and has been accepted to the local university but is contemplating "finding herself" and discovering her interests, especially after she meets André, a handsome young Brazilian.

The Mexican food scenes are beautifully filmed and will leave your mouth watering! Each meal presented looks more scrumptious than the last!

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHHYbkPuYm4&feature=related

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Library, Kapi'olani Community College

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Louise Yamamoto, 734-9513, yamamotl@hawaii.edu, http://www.kcc.hawaii.edu/object/keyingredients.html

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