Blog Entry 10

The final scene of Campbell Scott and Stanley Tucci's Big Night is a 5 minute is a meal between Primo, Secondo, and Cristiano. There's no dialogue between the characters, and the only sounds in the room come from Secondo making an omelette on the stove which he then cuts up and divides between the three of them. I feel like this scene could be interpreted two different ways. The first way: this meal and the silence represents disappointment. The second way: this meal and the silence between Primo and Secondo represents the strong bond between the brothers and getting back up after a loss. (Alton Brown writes " “ Big Night is about getting up in the morning after you’ve gotten your ass kicked and making breakfast,” in the Metrograph, which I think rings true.) I think this scene shows that despite everything that happened over the course of the film, the brothers still have each other and they still have their kitchen. I also think the quiet way they wrap their ...