Blog Post 4: Food Fight
The internet can be a great source of all kinds of interesting video’s including many animations. Occasionally one can comes acoss something particularly remarkable such as the stop motion video Food Fight. Food Fight more specifically is an animation using the stop motion technique to provide an entertaining showcase of recent wars using food.
One of the most ineresting aspects of the video is the choice of foods to represent each nation. Each nation is represented by foods stereotypical of that region of the world such as Sausages and Pretzels for Germany and Hamburgers and Hot Dogs for the U.S. One of the most interesting parts of watching the video is trying to tie in the various foods with real wars. There are flaws with this approach however as later in the animation the various nations of the middle east end up all being represented by the same foods causing some confusion. While the animation isn’t particularly amazing (It’s hard to animate actual food) it is quite entertaining to watch food explode and actual events from the conflicts being refrenced are fairly well represented.
Food Wars is an interesting showcase of stop motion animation with it’s use of inaminate objects to represent real world events.
This week I commented on Hayleigh M. Anningham and Michael J. Morse’s Blogs.
Ian, I agree that the animation of Food Wars isn’t very remarkable. Conversely, the concept of Food Wars is fascinating. It is interesting to watch animated food attempt to portray events in history. I found the storyline hard to follow. Viewing this animation was a two step process. First, figuring out what food was representative of which county. Second, figuring out the historical context. I felt sound was essential to this animation. It supplemented the action and helped move the story along. I enjoyed watching this “edible” approach to history.
This is a pretty clever animation depicting the wars of various nations being represented by the food. The stop motion animation works well with this sort of presentation. Although it can be sometimes confusing as to which nation is being represented by a food item. This is a very clever animation though. I liked the symbolism of the cold war with hamburgers and the beef strogunov.
While unremarkable, it does provide a rather interesting take of world events since the second world war. I agree that there are times where it gets confusing on what foods is what country, but past the second world war, I started to understand.
I rather enjoyed this, and would love to see how a history professor would incorporate this video to provide a rather…delectable view of post-world war two history.