To celebrate the UK Blu-ray release of The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, food artist Carl Warner has fashioned a unique tribute to the film made entirely from pasta! We'll admit it looks magnificent, Carl-- but we're still waiting for that King Kong tribute made from bananas. Here is the official press release:
World renowned food artist Carl Warner has produced
his culinary interpretation of the classic ‘Spaghetti Western’ film trilogy,
made entirely from spaghetti and other Italian ingredients.
In his film foodscape debut, Warner has brought
Sergio Leone’s masterpiece The Good, The Bad and The Ugly to
life using traditional Italian ingredients from pasta to pancetta, to celebrate
the re-mastered Blu-ray release of the and to mark the 90th
Anniversary of the studio MGM.
Warner, who was born in Liverpool, produced the
foodscape in his studio down the road from Borough market, where he sourced a
lot of the authentic Italian ingredients.
“Over my 25 year career this is the first time I
have brought a film scene to life,†said Warner. “Having grown up with the Spaghetti Western
trilogy, the imagery and music from those films are indelibly printed in my
childhood memories and lent themselves so perfectly to my style that it was the
perfect canvas for my film foodscape debut.â€
“The term Spaghetti Western was coined because of
the films’ Italian origins, and I have been inspired by Italian ingredients
throughout my career, but was surprised how well they lent themselves to Sergio
Leone’s stunning vistas and the central figure of The Man With No Name,
portrayed so brilliantly by Clint Eastwood.â€
Warner produced the foodscape following a trip to
Turin, where he sourced a lot of the ingredients and found much inspiration. The iconic scene in which the mysterious
figure of The Man With No Name stands among a bleak graveyard in the dessert
was created using over twenty different Italian ingredients, including gnocchi,
various pastas, risotto, dried herbs, parma ham, bresaola beef, parmesan,
polenta, olives, Italian breads and, of course, spaghetti.
“Pasta is very much the Lego of the food world and
I find these fantastic Italian ingredients really lend themselves to natural
looking desert and Mediterranean landscapes,†added Warner. “There is a real organic element to the
compositional values of the food – from pasta shells forming rocks to dried
spaghetti making perfect tumbleweed, through to the swirling layers of white
cooked spaghetti bringing the skies to life, partly inspired by Van Gogh’s work.â€
“These films were very off the wall and really
broke the mould for westerns, so this slightly surreal nature really
compliments the surreal nature of my art. To bring to life this trilogy as part of my ongoing Foodscape is not
only a great privilege but has been such a joy to create.â€
The image took weeks of planning and was created by
Carl in his Borough studio over two days.
(The Good, The Bad & The Ugly Re-mastered
Edition is available on Blu-ray now from MGM and Twentieth Century Fox Home
Entertainment.)