When coffee meets pop culture : four unforgettable coffee moments in cinema and TV !
Coffee, being the most popular beverage in the world, is ubiquitous in everyday life. There are many popular movies or TV series that include scenes in which coffee steals the show!
Coffee is a favorite habit, an important part of everyday life for millions of people around the world. Naturally, it would not be difficult for the world’s most popular drink to find its way into cinema and television. There are many television series and movies that have given us memorable scenes in which coffee has a leading role. It would not be an exaggeration to claim that in many cases coffee has become a part of pop culture as there are moments in the history of cinema and television that cannot even be imagined without the decisive presence of coffee.
Here are four movies and TV series that would not be the same without coffee - some of them might not even exist!
Pulp Fiction (1994): Quentin Tarantino has a habit of incorporating many elements of his characters' daily habits, such as eating and drinking, into the witty dialogue of his films. In 1994's blood-soaked Pulp Fiction, after John Travolta and Samuel Jackson discuss fries and hamburgers, the director gives Jimmy Dimmick's character (played by himself) a delightful monologue about the importance of a proper prepared cup of coffee, and even coffee that belongs to the "expensive, gourmet category". That at the same time, the movie heroes have to get rid of a... corpse, is a detail for Quentin Tarantino's universe.
Coffee and Cigarettes (2003): The modular film by the American Jim Jarmus would not have been made without coffee, since the only element that unites the different stories that make it up are coffee and cigarettes. Leaving aside the harmful habit of smoking, to focus on coffee (which, after all, is beneficial for health, unlike nicotine): Jarmus structures his film by connecting small modular stories, in which the diverse cast ( from Roberto Benigni and Cate Blanchett to the Wu-Tang Clan rappers) discusses all things science over coffee. As one of the characters in the film says, coffee is perhaps "the nectar of the gods".
Friends (1994 - 2004): One of the most popular series of American television, Friends, depicted, among other things, in a very realistic way the coffee culture in the United States. The six friends who make up the main group of the series meet on a daily basis in their neighborhood cafe, "Central Perk", always holding a cup of coffee. "Central Perk" is so identified with the series that for a number of years there were quite a few tourists visiting New York who sought it out, thinking it was a real location (it was, after all, a studio shot). Fanatics of the series know exactly how much coffee each of the gang consumed during the ten years of broadcasting: the record is held by Phoebe, with 227 cups of coffee, while Rachel seems to have fallen far behind, as she has been recorded drinking coffee only 138 times!
Thor (2011): 2011's Thor may not be as intellectually classic or as popular as the rest of the films listed here, but the use of coffee in this particular film is absolutely indicative of the importance of coffee to humanity. When Thor, coming from the world of Asgard, slowly learns what it means to be human, one of the first things that excites him is a mug of hot, steaming coffee. "This drink is very tasty! I want another one!” shouts Chris Hemsworth excitedly, before smashing his mug on the ground, showing how much he likes it in accordance with the Viking customs of his hero's homeland.
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961): Based on Truman Capote's novel of the same name, the 1961 film Breakfast at Tiffany's that established Audrey Hepburn not only as a high-profile actress but also as a style icon of the 1960s has already been written into film history. The film's opening scene, in which Hepburn shop-windows in a desolate, early-morning New York, would have been very different if she hadn't been holding a paper coffee cup. The scene visualizes what, for millions of people, signifies waking up in the morning: a small snack and a coffee, even while walking, are linked to the beginning of the new day, and have never been captured in such style as in "Breakfast at Tiffany's".
