Tom Jones (1963, UK)
In director Tony Richardson's Best Picture-winning,
costumed historical adaptation of Henry Fielding's bawdy novel:
- the numerous inventive cinematographic tricks (old-time
movie techniques such as a silent opening with titles, sped-up
sequences, freeze-frames, screen wipes, jump cuts, actors making
asides to the audience, titles over dialogue scenes, etc.)
- the film's notable, much-imitated, bawdy, extended-foreplay,
primal food-eating dining sequence - a gluttonous multi-course dinner
meal with erotically sexual overtones between lusty boyish rogue
Tom Jones (Albert Finney) and Jenny Jones/Mrs. Waters (Joyce Redman)
who was rumored to be his mother! - with meat, fruit, and
oysters providing the aphrodisiac - it was a perfect combination
of carnal sexual lust and food consumption
- their multi-course dinner meal consisted of soup,
drafts of ale, turkey, oysters, pears, and wine which they slurped,
sucked, and tore into with gleeful and pleasurable abandon