Feast Your Eyes is a regular feature run by the Roxy cinema in Wellington. We’ve been to a couple of similar events before – Sweet Bean and Hunt For The Wilderpeople. Like many of their now-regular programmes, it started as a WOAP event, but is now run throughout the year. The idea is to take a classic film and create a dish and a cocktail to accompany it. It’s not as full-on as the Eat The Film events that they also run – most recently, with Flash Gordon as the film.
This time around it was The Princess Bride. This is a film now considered a cult classic, but at the time of its release it wasn’t particularly successful. Most people have never seen it on the big screen (including me) so this was an opportunity to watch it in all its glory, and also to quote all the most recognisable lines.
We turned up early, and after a short wait queued to get our cocktail – the Dread Pirate Roberts’ rum & coke, made with both light and dark rums, lime, cola, and gunpowder. I’m not much of a cola drinker, but managed to force it down without too much difficulty. The food offering was a dessert – A Dweam Wivvin A Dweam. It was a Whittaker’s chocolate mousse mixed with hazelnut cream, meringue and strawberries – a kind of Eton mess with added chocolate, if you like.
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| Note the cocktail is wearing a black mask |
And so to the film: I assume you’ve seen it, and know all
the key points – “as you wish”; shrieking eels; “inconceivable!”; “nobody can survive the fire
swamp!” “You only say that because no-one ever has!”; rodents
of unusual size; and of course “My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father.
Prepare to die.” It was a rollicking good laugh, and we all called out the
lines at the right moments.
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