Our Diversions @shengsterino: 食神 The God of Cookery (1996 Star Overseas Ltd)

食神
The God of Cookery

《食神》是一部于1996年上映的香港电影，由周星驰和李力持共同执行导演职务（两人继1994年国产凌凌漆后又一力作），潘健君担任动作设计，本片是星辉海外有限公司成立后制作的第一部打响头炮创业作品。本片为周星驰重要的代表作之一，在中港台各地造成很大影响。周星驰在此片中使用其英文名与姓氏做为主角的名称，狂傲性格也是参照周星驰私下的脾气，故有指这位史提芬周是现实中周星驰的写照，在香港的票房收入4086万元，位列香港年度华语片第二位。此片是周星驰与吴孟达继《审死官》后再次扮演关系对立角色。

The God of Cookery (Chinese: 食神) is a 1996 Hong Kong comedy film produced, written, starring, and directed by Stephen Chow.

Starring演员
周星驰Stephen Chow, 莫文蔚Karen Mok, 薛家燕Nancy Sit, 吴孟达Ng Man-tat, 谷德昭Vincent Kok, 罗家英Law Kar-ying, 李兆基, 刘以达Tats Lau, 欧锦棠Stephen Au, 江希文, 苑琼丹Kingdom Yuen, 田启文Tin Kai-Man, 八两金(叶竞生)Bobby Yip, 徐志雄, 锺丽缇Christy Chung, 林雪Lam Suet, 祝文君, 李健仁, 罗雪玲, 戴龙, 刘三, 陈东, 陈志成, 郑文辉（又名甜筒哥、漫画家）, 黄锦燊

Plot
Stephen Chow (the Chinese characters used for Chow's name in the movie are different from Chow's actual name) is a corrupt celebrity chef who secretly knows very little about cooking, runs a successful business empire, and is willing to hawk any product for a price. Arrogant and cocky, Chow is dubbed the "God of Cookery" and appears as a judge for culinary competitions rigged to make him look good. Bull Tong (Vincent Kok), posing as an understudy and conspiring with Chow's business partner (Ng Man Tat) to overthrow him, exposes Chow as a fraud during the opening ceremony of Chow's 50th restaurant. Bull is declared the new "God of Cookery" and takes over Chow's corrupt empire. Ruined, Chow lives on the streets in an area known as Temple Street. He orders a bowl of "assorted noodles" from disfigured and uncouth food cart owner Turkey (Karen Mok) and criticizes it for its lack of taste, terrible preparation, and unsanitary ingredients. During a heated exchange, Chow demands respect and reveals himself to be the fallen "God of Cookery" but then begs her for some money. Thugs beat him for his panhandling, but Turkey orders them away, taking pity on Chow and giving him a bowl of barbecue pork on rice. Chow is moved and declares it delicious. Turkey and her rival street vendor, Goosehead (Lee Siu-Kei), conduct gang warfare to see which vendor can sell the two best-selling dishes: beef balls and "pissing" shrimp. Chow manages to unite the two rival vendors by combining the two dishes into a new dish, "Pissing Beef Balls", which the three of them could sell together. It becomes a huge success, and the vendors convince Chow to enroll in a culinary school in order to reclaim the title he lost, but not before he discovers that Turkey idolized Chow as the "God of Cookery" and received her scarred appearance after fighting a local gang leader who ruined her poster of Chow. The success of the "Pissing Beef Balls" alarms Bull, the new "God of Cookery", who arranges for Chow to be assassinated on the way to culinary school. While searching for the school, Chow finds that Turkey has followed him, asking him to complete a drawing of a romantic heart for her as a souvenir for her to remember him by. Knowing she is in love with him, Chow callously rebuffs her. Turkey reminds him of all she did for him, including her injuries, but Chow retorts that he never asked for her to do those things for him. As he tells her that he can never love her, Turkey notices the approaching assassin and takes the bullet for Chow. Chow, also presumed dead, disappears. One month later, Bull enters the "God of Cookery" competition (a parody of Iron Chef) as the heavy favorite to retain the title. Chow arrives at the competition at the last minute and reveals to Tong what had happened: Chow escaped the assassin's second bullet and found his way to a Shaolin Monastery, where head monk Wet Dream (a spoof on the Chinese word for nocturnal spermatorrhoea) nursed him back to health. However, Wet Dream would not allow Chow to leave the temple until he was well-versed in the ways of the Shaolin arts, a point made moot when it is revealed the culinary school he was going to attend was, in fact, the temple's kitchen—the same kitchen Bull had trained at for 10 years but subsequently dropped out of. While training, Chow continually mourned for Turkey and was overcome with grief and remorse over his careless treatment of her. The depth of his feeling, which caused his hair to grow white, convinced Wet Dream to allow him his departure from the monastery. The competition between Chow and Tong begins in earnest, with the two attempting to make identical "Buddha Jumping Wall" dishes. Each chef tries to sabotage the other's dish in a comedic wuxia fashion by attacking the other using their ingredients and kitchen implements, but Tong prevails when Chow's ex-business partner makes Chow's container explode with a bomb. With few materials and little time remaining, Chow prepares "Sorrowful Rice", a simple dish of barbecue pork rice, the same dish Turkey first gave to him while he was living on the streets. Although "Sorrowful Rice" is the better dish, Tong had already blackmailed the judge (Nancy Sit) into rigging the contest. As Bull is fraudulently crowned the winner, Chow remarks that there is no one "God of Cookery" and that anyone who cooks with heart can be the "God of Cookery". In the act of divine intervention, the Imperial Court of Heaven descends upon the competition and reveals that in another life, Chow was a heavenly assistant to the Kitchen God, before being sent to Earth to live as a human as punishment for revealing culinary secrets to mankind. Moved by his sorrow and his humbleness, they forgive him. They then transform Chow's former business partner into a bulldog and perforate Bull's chest with a large hole. After the competition, Chow celebrates Christmas with his vendor friends in Temple Street, where Goosehead reveals that Turkey survived the assassination. Having caught the bullet meant for Chow with her gold-plated teeth and reconstructed her face with plastic surgery and dental work, she appears before him and asks how she looks. Chow responds by throwing her the completed drawing of two arrow-pierced hearts.

剧情

名声响亮的大厨史提芬周获得法国厨艺学会所颁发的“食神”荣誉，并身为唐朝饮食集团主席，但目中无人的他忽视用心待人及真材实料的料理本质，时常对周遭的人大呼小叫，态度嚣张跋扈，其饮食集团使用的食材也经常偷工减料。大快乐集团老板为了达成独霸饮食界的野心，处心积虑要将合作伙伴史提芬周斗垮。大快乐集团利用史提芬周目中无人的态度，成功将具有中国厨艺训练学院第105届毕业生资历的大快乐大厨唐牛安插到唐朝饮食集团，还成为史提芬周的部下，之后趁唐朝饮食集团第50家分店开张典礼展开暗算，唐牛表露真正身份并发起竞技制作车仔面，史提芬周不但被当众击败，还被告发使用不合规的食材，结果不但“食神”之位被唐牛夺去，史提芬周也因为大快乐集团老板的陷害而身败名裂，旗下唐朝饮食集团宣布破产，之后下落不明。史提芬周破产后流落九龙庙街街头，幸得火鸡和鹅头等江湖人物的相助，创造出“爆浆濑尿牛丸”成功翻身，并且计划上市集资，不过史提芬周不满足于眼前的成功，为了夺回食神之位重现昔日辉煌，他决意到中国湖南寻找唐牛所说的中国厨艺训练学院深造。火鸡对史提芬周早有好感，于是明目张胆的跟随他。唐牛等人恐防史提芬周东山再起，于是雇用杀手杀害他。在乡郊的小路上，史提芬周遭唐牛等人雇用的杀手跟踪，从后赶上的火鸡虽然已经数次被史提芬周拒绝，但当杀手向史提芬周开枪时，火鸡在危急关头仍然奋身为史提芬周挡下杀手的子弹，火鸡中枪倒地后，杀手举枪指向史提芬周，但在杀手将要开枪时有一辆货车疾驶而来，杀手被逼闪避，而史提芬周趁机爬上货车，但在货车驶过崎岖路面时史提芬周被甩开及滚落山坡，之后负伤爬到少林寺外面，幸得少林方丈梦遗大师所救。史提芬周发现中国厨艺训练学院实为少林寺的厨房，当初唐牛花了十年时间才学成的本领，天赋异禀的史提芬周只用了一个月的时间便习得一身武功，超越了唐牛的厨艺，又从中领悟到要对火鸡心存感激。史提芬周完成学艺后赶回香港，在食神大赛截止前一刻赶到太白海鲜舫跟唐牛较量。两人在食神大赛中都制作佛跳墙，并运用内功大大缩短炖煮的时间，但史提芬周制作的佛跳墙却在开始炖煮时，遭财团老板暗中放置的炸弹破坏。比赛时限只剩下两分钟，史提芬与少林寺梦遗大师心灵相通下得到提示，回忆起自己当日流落街头时，火鸡为他做了一碗叉烧饭充饥，从而在比赛的最后关头以自创的招式煮出感人至深的“黯然销魂饭”。大会评判“味公主”试食后心中认定史提芬周胜出比赛，但她无奈有太多把柄在财团老板手上，最后不得不宣布唐牛为食神。然而此时天现异象，观音菩萨在太白海鲜舫的天花板显现，原来史提芬周的确是在天庭掌管烹饪的神仙，但因为触犯天条而被贬落凡间，他历经了劫难后，领悟到“只要用心，人人皆能做食神”的真谛，而且他所煮的饭还感动了玉皇大帝，故此赦免他的过失。大快乐财团老板以为人们看到的观音菩萨是假的，先揶揄史提芬周下足本钱造假，再使用从保安员手上抢夺的散弹枪向观音菩萨扫射，观音此时看穿财团老板的原形是狗，怒斥他贪吃又不守门口，于是施法将他打回原形，财团老板被变成一只狗，唐牛趁乱抢得财团老板遗下的枪，企图将观音菩萨打下来，但立即引起观音的注视，唐牛谎称自己不是要向观音开枪，并撇清自己与财团老板的关系，但还是被观音菩萨怒斥连狗都不如并且向他施法，观音之后消失，大家发现财团老板已经变成一只狗，唐牛则以为全部只是幻觉，直至听到众人尖叫，唐牛才发现自己的胸口被击穿一个洞，当场放声大叫。同年圣诞节，史提芬周回到庙街（喜姑也回到庙街帮人算命），发财后盛装打扮的鹅头称火鸡并没有死，子弹打中她的假牙，她整容后回复以前的美貌并来到史提芬周的身边，两个人最后有情人终成眷属。

Cast and Character 演员阵容与角色

火鸡食神

周星驰Stephen Chow 饰演史提芬周

食神；唐朝饮食集团主席