How many times do you watch a movie and see a bottle of wine you recognize, or better yet try to figure out what they are drinking?
This happens so often now and I get a kick out of seeing it in older movies.
Yesterday I was watching Scarface on one of the Encore movie channels and early in the movie there is a dinner scene at The Babylon Club when they order a bottle of 1964 Dom Perignon and on the table is a bottle that looks like Lafite… couldn’t quite recognize it but I sure tried.
More recently, Angelus on the table in the train in Casino Royale.
I wonder sometimes about the opinions of the actors in the film as well.
For example, Glenn Close is supposedly quite a wine nut herself and often in the TV series “Damages” they show her drinking wine in her apartment and once in a while you can glimpse that it is a pretty good bottle of Bordeaux (if in fact it is real). Also in a scene where she is meeting someone for a drink, she asks what wine was ordered and the response is “I dunno, I just got the most expensive one on the list, Lafite something or other”…
Can’t say I do this with wine (yet), but I’m sure I will. I’m used to doing it with eyeglasses because I grew up in the business and can usually tell what they’re wearing.
The great movie “Thank You For Smoking” mentioned 82 Margaux a few times. I’d have to go back and see if they actually drank any though.
Mr and Mrs Smith (the new one with BPitt)… the dinner scene before they destroyed the house also featured a bottle. Again - need to go back and see if I can tell what it was.
I also tend to look at the actors and how they hold a glass of wine. If it is by the bowl, I assume they don’t really drink wine. If it is by the stem, I assume they at least have some idea of what they’re doing.
I’m def guilty of this.
Watched ‘3 Men & a Baby’ a few weeks ago for the first time in probably 20 yrs and got a kick out of this scene:
The guys have a wood wine rack on the kitchen counter and Ted Danson looks it over and asks the other 2 guys “What’s a good wine for pronging chicks ?” Tom Selleck replies “The '82 Bordeaux works every time”
There’s a scene with Bruce Willis and Alec Baldwin in Mercury Rising where Willis is popping bottles in Baldwin’s cellar, taking a swig, then throwing them on the floor until he finds one that he likes. Anyone seen this recently to see if any of that wine is identifiable?
Fantastic Four - Reed Richards discovers his elongation power by catching a bottle of white wine, its either a Robert Mondavi or Cakebread, can’t remember.
The TV show the Unit - lead character played by Dennis Haysbert gets close to a suspect by having his wife back into their car and apologizes by giving him a bottle of Sine Qua Non and a promise to get him on the list.
