![]() ![]() Apples are everywhere on both the big and small screen - just ask the movie-trashing minds behind the CinemaSins YouTube channel, who have a vendetta against them being eaten on film, as someone discovered when they started keeping a tally of all the hatred. There are tons of examples across animated works, from Family Guy to creepy anime series Death Note to Disney’s original Aladdin, where apples play a surprisingly big role, but are only eaten by certified bad guy Jafar. So unaffected is he by the spoils of war that the first thing on his mind post-battle is to crunch through a red beast.Īnd it’s not just live action. Or how about Gerard Butler’s absolute unit of a king in 300 : Leonidas isn’t the bad guy, but he sure is a violent fella - a badass, you might say. Maybe the fact that the apple was the size of a small melon goaded Farrell into tearing off as much as would fit into his vampirical face. Then there’s Colin Farrell’s bloodthirsty vampire, Jerry, taking perhaps the biggest bite of an apple in screen history in Fright Night. If you want to go deeper into this one, there’s a popular fan-fiction theory about the romantic closeness of Draco to his apple, termed “Drapple.” (Fun fact: When reading about Drapple on this Fandom page I had to look up four “new” words and felt older than I ever have before.) In a very different corner of the “film foes” world, Harry Potter’s arch-rival Draco Malfoy is seen variously holding, eating and just plain admiring an apple in several films. A straight-up sadistic brute of a heel, the British psychopath gnaws at an apple seconds before giving someone a casual throttling: textbook evil-apple-eating. In fact, this simple act is a big, screaming, neon signpost of significance, usually demonstrating that the eater is a card-carrying villain, maverick badass or just super -arrogant. It’s almost meaningless, as it is for most people who munch down the same damn fruits every single day.Īll of this makes it that much weirder for me when I see someone eating an apple on-screen, because it’s far from a throwaway gesture. It’s now such a pathetically ingrained part of my routine that I don’t really notice I’m eating it anymore. I guess it was an attempt to switch to a healthier afternoon snack - don’t even bother with your however-many-grams-of-sugar chat. Years ago, I somehow slipped into the habit of eating an apple every day.
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