Welcome to “Cooking with Max, Mike; Movies,” and another in our culinary series “I Vant to Vatch Your Feelm!” You know, when preparing your favorite invertebrate dish, many people overlook the humble termite. Now, most of your haute cuisine recipes tend to focus on the more exotic insects, like the sago grub or the bamboo worm but we at this podcast think that the termite is a taste treat whose time has come. High in oil, they’re great for frying, with a delicately nutty taste. This batch we have here have been fed exclusively on Indian Snakewood, which gives them a marvelously complex flavor palate, and have spent their days bathing in a mild soy sauce/rice wine mixture. Today we’ll be frying them up in sesame oil for a tasty treat that can’t be beat! Ohohohoho, pardon my little quip. This dish should pair well with today’s movie, “Renfield”, whose protagonist prefers his arthropods and arachnids tartare, which is a perfectly acceptable way to enjoy them, other than the fact that they may tend to crawl off the plate, but to each their own! Yes, Mr. Renfield, played by Nicholas Holt, enjoys his six-legged friends as snacks, while his “master” Dracula, played by Nicholas Cage, prefers to spend his days munching on scenery. Enjoy, and bon appetit!
Poll question: what part, if any, of standard vampire lore strikes you as particularly silly/odd/dumb. Exemption: Stephanie Meyers’ sparkle ponies.
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In Stoker’s novel, Dracula can change his size. He can grow large are shrink to a tiny speck. He doesn’t seem to do any of this but he can… or so he says! Having studied vampire legends and folklore for most of my life you can find lore saying they can do almost anything but I have yet to see one in film get tiny to walk under a door or giant for some reason. Come on vampires! Use it or lose it!
Ok, that sounds like the Count got drunk one night and was bragging to the folks in the bar: “D’y’knowhut? D’y’knowhut? No, wait, shut up! I can totally, I can totally, I can, like, turn into a bat! Yeah, I can! I can shrink down to the size of, I dunno, a really tiny bat, an’ walk under doors! Or, wait, wait, wait, I can grow, like to be really super huge! I can! Shut up! YOU’RE drunk!”
What would happen to his clothes when he changed size? For that matter, what happens to his clothes when he changes into a bat? I like the idea that if you look closely, the bat is wearing tiny formalwear.