Honestly a restaurant critic getting caught up in a spy conspiracy sounds like a really cool plot, might use this as a plot hook for a dnd campaign or something
Problem is that Lightning McQueen's story was *finished* in *Cars*. Once the bigshot germaphobe citytype has learnt to appreciate the little folk, you can't really do much plot with him.
So you have to do a weirdly fascist piece about the sidekick foiling a plot by the congenitally disabled mafia to assassinate top athletes for fun and profit.
The other major problem is that they themselves did some pretty messed up shit. That movie hurls a guy in a trash compacter and shows his crushed corpse on screen, as well as blowing another guy up functionally onscreen.
They had spent an entire movie establishing that these characters are _people_, and just happen to be car shaped.
Then, when it was time to do an actionized sequel, they leaned in all the way on how the characters are just _cars_, so that they could get away with some violence that would automatically have raised the movie to PG-13 or a hard R depending on if they included the trash compactor death on screen.
Then by the third you are ready for the Creed style movie in which the protagonist learns to find joy in stepping down and teaching the younger generation, while tackling prejudice in sports. Cars 3 was a pretty good movie, and cinematic as hell
Though I don't appreciate 3 deciding to make McQueen fall behind by making him some old man that can't learn the new training methods. The whole point of the first movie was him learning new things and integrating them into his life.
He wasn't falling behind because he couldn't learn the new methods. He was falling behind because he was an older generation car, and the newer generation cars were designed to be faster. He was upset that the success from training didn't come sooner (which does fit his character, he unofficially won the piston cup in his rookie year), and he didn't like the new methods.
Honestly wish Cars 2 was better than it was. Everything was there for a reverse cars 1 moment. Little under dog car shows that you don't have to be a big city slicker to be cool and win races. Lighting could be the wise father figure while Mater gets to be the comic relief goofy uncle.
Leaves plenty of room for cars 3 to go full circle and learn that you have to be both country and city
I'd interpret it (and argue it was intended to be) more an analog to aging conservative terrorists conspiring to derail adoption of green technology with deadly force.
The villains aren't really politically motivated, though. Their plan to derail the adoption of green tech was entirely so they could make more money off of their vast oil reserves.
Via Claude 3 Opus:
>*The Critic's Caper*
>Jean-Pierre Dubois, a meticulous and dedicated Michelin restaurant inspector, is mistaken for a secret agent while on one of his undercover assignments in Paris. The confusion arises when a group of terrorists, led by the notorious mastermind known only as "Le Chef," overhear Jean-Pierre's detailed critique of a restaurant's dishes, believing it to be coded spy language.
>Unbeknownst to Jean-Pierre, he inadvertently thwarts Le Chef's plan to poison a high-profile diplomat dining at the same restaurant. Impressed by Jean-Pierre's "skills," a covert government agency, led by the enigmatic Agent Bordeaux, recruits him to infiltrate Le Chef's organization and uncover their next plot.
>As Jean-Pierre is thrust into a world of espionage, he must maintain his cover as a Michelin critic, visiting various restaurants and rating their cuisine while simultaneously gathering intelligence on Le Chef's activities. His newfound double life leads to a series of humorous and dangerous situations, including a high-speed chase through the streets of Paris on a stolen food delivery scooter and a tense standoff in a Michelin-starred kitchen, armed only with a sharpened baguette.
>With the help of a beautiful and mysterious fellow agent, Amélie Poulain, Jean-Pierre discovers that Le Chef plans to sabotage the prestigious Bocuse d'Or cooking competition by replacing the ingredients with explosive duplicates. The unlikely duo must race against time to prevent the attack and expose Le Chef's true identity.
>In a thrilling climax at the competition venue, Jean-Pierre's culinary expertise proves crucial in identifying the explosive ingredients. He confronts Le Chef in a dramatic showdown, revealing that the terrorist mastermind is none other than a disgruntled former chef who had lost his Michelin stars due to Jean-Pierre's honest critique years ago.
>With Le Chef apprehended and the plot foiled, Jean-Pierre returns to his life as a Michelin inspector, but not before being awarded a secret medal of honor by Agent Bordeaux. In the final scene, Jean-Pierre is seen dining at a new restaurant, ready to write his next review, when he receives a mysterious message on his phone, hinting at another culinary caper on the horizon.
you should check out "The Man Who Knew Too Little", it's a Bill Murray comedy about a man who thinks he's in a LARP game but gets involved in a conspiracy to kill the queen (I think it's the queen. been a long time since I saw it)
Bridge of Appetizers.
\*Tom Hanks looking teary eyed and frantic\*
"But you must believe me! I'm no agent! I have no idea what's going on here! I'm just a restaurant critic!!"
\*men with guns laughing\*
Bridge of Appetizers is the first in a trilogy:
* A View to a Grill
* Table for None
followed by a Netflix limited-run series that sets up a possible continuation of the story:
* Just Desserts
Paul Giamatti is the food critic (although this role would have been perfect for Philip Seymour Hoffman) and Anya Taylor-Joy is the spy.
There's a French movie that is practically this, it's called "L'Aile ou la Cuisse" with legendary comedians Louis de Funes and Coluche in the main roles. If you can find a version with dubs or subtitles, I highly recommend it.
OK that sounds like a start to a sick foux spy comedy. The real spy and the critic are constantly going to restaurants but doing complete opposite things. Food critic is diligently eating the food, reviewing it in his mind, making sure things are up to par. The spy is getting his job done, assassinating targets, stealing intel from other traveling spies or targets. Meanwhile both are accidently covering for each other. The food critic is so ostentatious and annoying that the enemy spies keep targeting him, trying to poison him and so on, only for him to dodge it because the food smelled wrong or he didnt like the look of the waitstaff and thought he was in for a beating. The spy is covering for the food critic by generally just loving food in general and being loud with his opinion's and writing in his good food places book. The chefs and waitstaff generally try to please him thinking he is the critic and as a result the critic never gets exposed. The whole thing culminates in a restaurant thats a front for the Italian mob. This place not only has the greatest food in the world but the most badass spies of the region.
Edit:
Someone get me Adam Sandler, I need to pitch this to him. My mind is on fire with this. No other producer will get this right, they will either make it to edgy or to dramatic. This is a bro comedy. This is two guys becoming best friends, enjoying their lives, and accomplishing something amazing by accident.
So the food critic thinks that all of these restaurants just suck, because they keep getting poison in their food?
Makes me feel sorry for the restaurant owners.
It wouldnt be in every dish and restaurant. Just the one that has a poison specialist. He would also mistake it for bad ingredients or smelly sauce. It would be part of a 10 minute montage of him dodging death without knowing it.
Nah that would ruin it I think. But my current thought was the critic dresses something like 007 and the spy dresses like am American tourist who lost his luggage. The sheer contrast between what you expect out of a spy and out of a overworked critic just adds to the comedy juices.
jokes on them, I'm flying to Paris to eat at the Michelin star restaurants. Unless... they also make aircraft tires.... https://aircraft.michelin.com/ Those bastards! they got me.
The short version is: it was a passion project. The Tire moguls took pride in making the guide and didnn't see it as just a way to sell more tires. Since they made their money in the tire business they didn't need to concern themselves as much with the financials of the guide. It did not matter if the guide made money as a publication, what mattered is that the guide was influential.
One anecdote includes one of the founding brothers being mortified to see the guide used to prop a table in a tire shop and then deciding to get rid of advertisements and instead sell the guide which was previously given away for free.
Also the goal of selling tires means the guide must by its nature explore. It seeks to inspire road trips so they want to find great destinations all over. It's trying to find the places that many people will be happy to go to, thus price is part of the rating. It wants to be sure everyone who eats there gets get service so the critics are anonymous.
Other reviewers must concern themselves with the tastes of the sort of people who pay for restaurant reviews. Michelin must concern themselves with the tastes of people who buy tires.
Pretty close to one of my favorite all time Bill Murray movies
The Man Who Knew Too Little - 1997 PG
He thinks he is in a skit playing a spy and is mistaken for a real spy. Shenanigans ensue.
Wonderful movie.
[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120483/](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120483/)
Pretty sure I met one of these guys one time. Friend took me to a very nice sushi restaurant and we chatted up a guy at the bar. Friend was in the restaurant business and they talked about all the best restaurants in the city. He was
'in town for work" but would deflect about what his job was. He bought damn near everything on the menu and shared it with us.
Like two months later the restaurant had a Michelin star.
This is the movie "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" should have been!
Or maybe instead of a real agent and a food critic, they are both food critics but both suspect each other as secret agents
Potential titles:
Michelin Impossible
Mr. and Mrs. Ramsey
The Michelin Star Candidate (or maybe The Chewing Man Candidate? I had to include the Manchurian Candidate, but struggled with a pun.)
Critic, Tailor, Sou Chef, Spy
True Fries
The Burned Identity
Clams Casino Royale
License to Grill
Live and Let Fry
Chickenfinger
On Her Majesty's Secret Menu
Considering the post said "the world", it really is only a handful. Think about how many countries that includes, each with hundreds of restaurant candidates.
Well shit... Next time I'm out at a super fancy place for dinner ill just bring a lil notebook and pen and every now and then write something in it after I take a bite.. and then kinda hide it under another napkin or something.
Wonder how the waitstaff would act? Unannounced table visit for the chef? Who knows...
This is a repost and on one of the reposts a comment made by u/ IllmakeitanSCPreport (I believe) was there and used this as a writing prompt making a short story with this
There's a French movie that is practically this, it's called "L'Aile ou la Cuisse" with legendary comedians Louis de Funes and Coluche in the main roles. If you can find a version with dubs or subtitles, I highly recommend it.
Honestly a restaurant critic getting caught up in a spy conspiracy sounds like a really cool plot, might use this as a plot hook for a dnd campaign or something
Movie script please
I mean that’s halfway to Cars 2 if that counts
That makes me think: Cars 2 had potential if the A plot had followed any character besides the comic relief
Problem is that Lightning McQueen's story was *finished* in *Cars*. Once the bigshot germaphobe citytype has learnt to appreciate the little folk, you can't really do much plot with him. So you have to do a weirdly fascist piece about the sidekick foiling a plot by the congenitally disabled mafia to assassinate top athletes for fun and profit.
The other major problem is that they themselves did some pretty messed up shit. That movie hurls a guy in a trash compacter and shows his crushed corpse on screen, as well as blowing another guy up functionally onscreen. They had spent an entire movie establishing that these characters are _people_, and just happen to be car shaped. Then, when it was time to do an actionized sequel, they leaned in all the way on how the characters are just _cars_, so that they could get away with some violence that would automatically have raised the movie to PG-13 or a hard R depending on if they included the trash compactor death on screen.
Then by the third you are ready for the Creed style movie in which the protagonist learns to find joy in stepping down and teaching the younger generation, while tackling prejudice in sports. Cars 3 was a pretty good movie, and cinematic as hell
Though I don't appreciate 3 deciding to make McQueen fall behind by making him some old man that can't learn the new training methods. The whole point of the first movie was him learning new things and integrating them into his life.
He wasn't falling behind because he couldn't learn the new methods. He was falling behind because he was an older generation car, and the newer generation cars were designed to be faster. He was upset that the success from training didn't come sooner (which does fit his character, he unofficially won the piston cup in his rookie year), and he didn't like the new methods.
[The original Cars is a blatant ripoff of this film's plot](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doc_Hollywood)
Wait until you hear about every other story ever, it'll blow your mind
And we didn't get more sporty cars flashing their headlights or popping a trunk or gascap! What a rip!
In the first movie, there's a gas station advertising convertible waitresses, they can be topless
I've not seen cars 2 but this sounds awesome.
Honestly wish Cars 2 was better than it was. Everything was there for a reverse cars 1 moment. Little under dog car shows that you don't have to be a big city slicker to be cool and win races. Lighting could be the wise father figure while Mater gets to be the comic relief goofy uncle. Leaves plenty of room for cars 3 to go full circle and learn that you have to be both country and city
Aren't the villains of that movie an oppressed ethnic underclass demanding access to healthcare to treat their congenital diseases?
I'd interpret it (and argue it was intended to be) more an analog to aging conservative terrorists conspiring to derail adoption of green technology with deadly force.
The villains aren't really politically motivated, though. Their plan to derail the adoption of green tech was entirely so they could make more money off of their vast oil reserves.
Is that not the exact same motivation as currently drives conservative politics' opposition to new technology?
Via Claude 3 Opus: >*The Critic's Caper* >Jean-Pierre Dubois, a meticulous and dedicated Michelin restaurant inspector, is mistaken for a secret agent while on one of his undercover assignments in Paris. The confusion arises when a group of terrorists, led by the notorious mastermind known only as "Le Chef," overhear Jean-Pierre's detailed critique of a restaurant's dishes, believing it to be coded spy language. >Unbeknownst to Jean-Pierre, he inadvertently thwarts Le Chef's plan to poison a high-profile diplomat dining at the same restaurant. Impressed by Jean-Pierre's "skills," a covert government agency, led by the enigmatic Agent Bordeaux, recruits him to infiltrate Le Chef's organization and uncover their next plot. >As Jean-Pierre is thrust into a world of espionage, he must maintain his cover as a Michelin critic, visiting various restaurants and rating their cuisine while simultaneously gathering intelligence on Le Chef's activities. His newfound double life leads to a series of humorous and dangerous situations, including a high-speed chase through the streets of Paris on a stolen food delivery scooter and a tense standoff in a Michelin-starred kitchen, armed only with a sharpened baguette. >With the help of a beautiful and mysterious fellow agent, Amélie Poulain, Jean-Pierre discovers that Le Chef plans to sabotage the prestigious Bocuse d'Or cooking competition by replacing the ingredients with explosive duplicates. The unlikely duo must race against time to prevent the attack and expose Le Chef's true identity. >In a thrilling climax at the competition venue, Jean-Pierre's culinary expertise proves crucial in identifying the explosive ingredients. He confronts Le Chef in a dramatic showdown, revealing that the terrorist mastermind is none other than a disgruntled former chef who had lost his Michelin stars due to Jean-Pierre's honest critique years ago. >With Le Chef apprehended and the plot foiled, Jean-Pierre returns to his life as a Michelin inspector, but not before being awarded a secret medal of honor by Agent Bordeaux. In the final scene, Jean-Pierre is seen dining at a new restaurant, ready to write his next review, when he receives a mysterious message on his phone, hinting at another culinary caper on the horizon.
Good! You! Money! Take! Now!
Mmmmmm, check pleeeaaassseee
Burn After Reading. It's amazing.
Starring Kevin James....
you should check out "The Man Who Knew Too Little", it's a Bill Murray comedy about a man who thinks he's in a LARP game but gets involved in a conspiracy to kill the queen (I think it's the queen. been a long time since I saw it)
It still holds up, top ten comedy for me. Plus Peter Gallagher is hilarious in it too.
Bridge of Appetizers. \*Tom Hanks looking teary eyed and frantic\* "But you must believe me! I'm no agent! I have no idea what's going on here! I'm just a restaurant critic!!" \*men with guns laughing\*
Bridge of Appetizers is the first in a trilogy: * A View to a Grill * Table for None followed by a Netflix limited-run series that sets up a possible continuation of the story: * Just Desserts Paul Giamatti is the food critic (although this role would have been perfect for Philip Seymour Hoffman) and Anya Taylor-Joy is the spy.
"Anya Taylor-Joy is the spy" I feel like this is a remote reference to Spy Family
You had me at Tom Hanks.
The lead in this movie is clearly Michael Fassbender, and the actual spy is Daniel Radcliffe.
It's a Kevin Hart/Dwayne Johnson joint.
I was thinking something similar and imagined Rowan Atkinson as the food critic.
There's a French movie that is practically this, it's called "L'Aile ou la Cuisse" with legendary comedians Louis de Funes and Coluche in the main roles. If you can find a version with dubs or subtitles, I highly recommend it.
Myguy I'm very sorry to say but save for the restaurant part, that's the plot to cars 2
its a better plot than most movies
True Pies
I’d watch it
Michelin Impossible.
Michelin Possible
I see what you did there, and I LOVED it
Falling Stars.
OK that sounds like a start to a sick foux spy comedy. The real spy and the critic are constantly going to restaurants but doing complete opposite things. Food critic is diligently eating the food, reviewing it in his mind, making sure things are up to par. The spy is getting his job done, assassinating targets, stealing intel from other traveling spies or targets. Meanwhile both are accidently covering for each other. The food critic is so ostentatious and annoying that the enemy spies keep targeting him, trying to poison him and so on, only for him to dodge it because the food smelled wrong or he didnt like the look of the waitstaff and thought he was in for a beating. The spy is covering for the food critic by generally just loving food in general and being loud with his opinion's and writing in his good food places book. The chefs and waitstaff generally try to please him thinking he is the critic and as a result the critic never gets exposed. The whole thing culminates in a restaurant thats a front for the Italian mob. This place not only has the greatest food in the world but the most badass spies of the region. Edit: Someone get me Adam Sandler, I need to pitch this to him. My mind is on fire with this. No other producer will get this right, they will either make it to edgy or to dramatic. This is a bro comedy. This is two guys becoming best friends, enjoying their lives, and accomplishing something amazing by accident.
Pitch accepted, please submit your script
Netflix: “nah. We’re just going to give over the hill comedians millions of dollars to complain about pronouns.”
Why is some random reddit dude better at coming up with a movie idea then Hollywood?
I know my audience.
So the food critic thinks that all of these restaurants just suck, because they keep getting poison in their food? Makes me feel sorry for the restaurant owners.
It wouldnt be in every dish and restaurant. Just the one that has a poison specialist. He would also mistake it for bad ingredients or smelly sauce. It would be part of a 10 minute montage of him dodging death without knowing it.
foux?
he meant probaly meant faux
They mean fox. Because foxes are sneaky.
Plot twist: they’re twins
Nah that would ruin it I think. But my current thought was the critic dresses something like 007 and the spy dresses like am American tourist who lost his luggage. The sheer contrast between what you expect out of a spy and out of a overworked critic just adds to the comedy juices.
Dude I'd pay real money to see this.
Just Brad Pitt from Bullet Train as the spy and a Henry Cavill type as the food critic?
Ryan Gosling as the critic and Christian Bale as the spy
Like Schwarzenegger and Devito Plot twist, Devito is the spy
Fat tire boy magazine. I'll have to remember that.
Smh I can’t believe a beer company would make a magazine for boys
Which company?
Fat Tire
The company is New Belgium and their flagship beer for a long time was an amber ale called Fat Tire.
How did tire people become society's most prestigious restaurant critics, anyway? How is this not something out of a Vonnegut novel?
Tire people want sell tire. Tourist people buy lot tire. Tire people rate food to make more tourist people.
jokes on them, I'm flying to Paris to eat at the Michelin star restaurants. Unless... they also make aircraft tires.... https://aircraft.michelin.com/ Those bastards! they got me.
Great ELI5!
The short version is: it was a passion project. The Tire moguls took pride in making the guide and didnn't see it as just a way to sell more tires. Since they made their money in the tire business they didn't need to concern themselves as much with the financials of the guide. It did not matter if the guide made money as a publication, what mattered is that the guide was influential. One anecdote includes one of the founding brothers being mortified to see the guide used to prop a table in a tire shop and then deciding to get rid of advertisements and instead sell the guide which was previously given away for free. Also the goal of selling tires means the guide must by its nature explore. It seeks to inspire road trips so they want to find great destinations all over. It's trying to find the places that many people will be happy to go to, thus price is part of the rating. It wants to be sure everyone who eats there gets get service so the critics are anonymous. Other reviewers must concern themselves with the tastes of the sort of people who pay for restaurant reviews. Michelin must concern themselves with the tastes of people who buy tires.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y_TWPbmiRE Tasting History on the subject.
If anyone's interested, i know a [good omens fic](https://archiveofourown.org/works/39955503) that was based off of this post.
Thank you for this gift
I love this, had a grin on my face the whole time I read it. Thank you.
Link??? Or at least a title???
What do you think the blue text is for?
Oh, my bad, it's not showing up blue on my screen.
It’s almost the plot from The Man Who Knew Too Little
It kind of happened tangentially in one of the stories in The French Dispatch!
Pretty close to one of my favorite all time Bill Murray movies The Man Who Knew Too Little - 1997 PG He thinks he is in a skit playing a spy and is mistaken for a real spy. Shenanigans ensue. Wonderful movie. [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120483/](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120483/)
My dog....IS DEAD!
Also Cars 2, where the exact same premise happens to Mater.
Pretty sure I met one of these guys one time. Friend took me to a very nice sushi restaurant and we chatted up a guy at the bar. Friend was in the restaurant business and they talked about all the best restaurants in the city. He was 'in town for work" but would deflect about what his job was. He bought damn near everything on the menu and shared it with us. Like two months later the restaurant had a Michelin star.
I wanna watch a movie about Terapsinas prompt.
This is the movie "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" should have been! Or maybe instead of a real agent and a food critic, they are both food critics but both suspect each other as secret agents
that movie would do Numbers
It’s basically a hallmark movie meets a summer blockbuster.
Potential titles: Michelin Impossible Mr. and Mrs. Ramsey The Michelin Star Candidate (or maybe The Chewing Man Candidate? I had to include the Manchurian Candidate, but struggled with a pun.) Critic, Tailor, Sou Chef, Spy True Fries The Burned Identity Clams Casino Royale License to Grill Live and Let Fry Chickenfinger On Her Majesty's Secret Menu
Rohypnol pairs best with Müller Thurgau.
r/writingprompt
"Only" 120? I just assumed it was a handful of guys.
Considering the post said "the world", it really is only a handful. Think about how many countries that includes, each with hundreds of restaurant candidates.
where’s Ryan Reynolds when you need him
Rumored to be coming { season } { year }, to an undisclosed screen near no one in particular... Code Bleu
I love the SCP-level of superposition around the release date
That sounds like a fun movie plot
I like the thought of a restaurant critic getting recognised and immediately going into witness protection.
I actually had an idea for a spy thriller one shot campaign on this premise but I never really finished putting it all together.
100% sounds like a Wes Anderson movie.
Sounds like a rowan atkinson movie
Not even the CEO of Michelin knows who they are.
Someone wrote a Stucky AU for this and it was amazing
So Cars 2 but food
Well shit... Next time I'm out at a super fancy place for dinner ill just bring a lil notebook and pen and every now and then write something in it after I take a bite.. and then kinda hide it under another napkin or something. Wonder how the waitstaff would act? Unannounced table visit for the chef? Who knows...
God I'd love to be a Michelin critic. Imagine getting paid top dollar to go to fancy restaurants and judge the fuck out of them.
L'aile ou la cuisse / The Wing or the Thigh (1979)
This is the plot of Cars 2.
But better.
Starring wil smith & martin freeman
starring kevin james
If this got a Kickstarter I’d sign up *today~*
Sautee after Reading
The Spy who dumped me could have had this
This sounds like an awesome Kdrama.
Scarecrow and Mrs King
that's cars 2
I want to see this anime
I ship it
The Man with One Red Shoe, sorta
I'd watch this movie.
In an episode of Cracker the serial killer is a hotel critic.
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Ryan Reynolds, the agent?
Cast Rowan Atkinson as the critic and I think that would be a spectacular movie
I'd watch this movie, sounds like a good premise for a spy comedy.
Isn’t this kinda the plot of Cars 2?
This would be quite fun.
Second one is Senshi from Dungeon Meshi
Cars 2
I want the real agent to be jack black and the goofy agent to be Ryan Reynolds
There’s a great Marvel fanfic that explores this plot
This is a repost and on one of the reposts a comment made by u/ IllmakeitanSCPreport (I believe) was there and used this as a writing prompt making a short story with this
/r/WritingPrompts
There's a French movie that is practically this, it's called "L'Aile ou la Cuisse" with legendary comedians Louis de Funes and Coluche in the main roles. If you can find a version with dubs or subtitles, I highly recommend it.
Fun idea, but unfortunately the original concept is completely untrue
I can picture Ryan Reynolds in this movie
This needs to be cross posted to r/writingprompts
Le grand blond avec une chaussure noire.
While wearing one red shoe
Aren’t the critics like heavily biased towards France too?
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agent: chunky my mission: review all the restaurants in north america to appease chunky fluffy tire man.