Elc 231 - Oral Commentary

ELC231/230
INTEGRATED LANGUAGE SKILLS III /

INTEGRATED LANGUAGE SKILLS: WRITING
EVALUATIVE COMMENTARY DRAFT
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Prepared by:
MUHD MIRZA HIZAMI BIN RAJIEI

2019289394
PROGRAMME : AS115
GROUP : 3A
Prepared for:
(MS. VALERIE CHAN SUE LIN ABDULLAH)
Date of Submission: 10 DECEMBER 2020

ELC 231 - ORAL
COMMENTARY
NAME: MUHD MIRZA HIZAMI
BIN RAJIEI
GROUP: AS1153A
STUDENT ID: 2019289394
PREPARED FOR: VALERIE
CHAN SUE LIN ABDULLAH
INTRODUCTION
TITLE: CHEF
GENRE: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
SETTING: On 2014 and take place at United States

PLOT (OVERVIEW)
BEGINNING
Miami-born Carl Casper is the head chef of Gauloise in Brentwood, Los Angeles. While
popular with his kitchen staff and hostess Molly, Carl clashes with the restaurant's owner,
Riva, who wants him to stick to "classics" rather than innovative dishes. Carl has a strained
relationship with his tech-savvy preteen son, Percy, and rich ex-wife, Inez.
PLOT (OVERVIEW)
CONFLICTS
When Carl has the chance to serve prestigious food critic and blogger Ramsey Michel, Riva
demands he prepare old favorites at the last minute; Carl concedes, leading to a scathing review.
On Twitter, Carl insults Ramsey, not realizing that his reply is public, and gains a large online
following. Carl comes up with a new menu that his staff loves and invites Ramsey to a "rematch",
but leaves after confronting Riva, who wants the old menu again.
At home, Carl prepares the menu he wanted, while his sous-chef Tony serves Ramsey the same
dishes from his prior visit. Ramsey tweets negatively about Carl, causing Carl to confront him at
the restaurant and publicly berate him. Videos of Carl's meltdown go viral, leaving him humiliated
and unemployable.
PLOT (OVERVIEW)
RISING
Carl reluctantly accepts Inez's invitation to accompany her and Percy to Miami, where he
rediscovers his love for Cuban cuisine. At Inez's encouragement, her ex-husband Marvin offers
Carl a dilapidated food truck. Carl and Percy bond while restoring the truck and buying groceries,
and Carl gives him a chef's knife. Martin, Carl's friend and former line cook, turns down his
promotion at Gauloise to join Carl, who has reignited his passion as a chef.
PLOT (OVERVIEW)
CLIMAX
Carl, Martin, and Percy drive the truck across the country to Los Angeles, serving Cuban
sandwiches and yuca fries. Percy promotes them on social media, and they find success in New
Orleans and Austin, where their daily specials include po' boys and barbecued brisket, made with
local ingredients.
Back in Los Angeles, having strengthened his relationship with Percy, Carl accepts his son's offer
to help with the food truck. Ramsey visits the truck to explain his bad review: though an early fan
of Carl, he was disappointed by a meal he felt was beneath Carl's skills. Impressed with the chef's
return to form, Ramsey offers to bankroll a new restaurant where Carl will have full creative
control.
PLOT (OVERVIEW)
ENDING
Six months later, the successful new restaurant is closed for a private event: Carl and Inez's
remarriage ceremony.
CHARACTERS
Carl Casper is an acclaimed chef with a family life that
seems as decaying as his artistic freedom. Those
frustrations boil over into a raucous viral-videoed public
confrontation against a restaurant critic who panned his
cooking of food that his boss ordered him to make against
his instincts.
Throughout the movie, the main character, Chef Carl

Casper’s passion for cooking is clearly evident. He’s
passionate to add new, innovative dishes on the menu of
the restaurant he works at. In spite of getting fired from his
job, he rekindles his passion for cooking and starts a food
truck business. His love for food also wins him financial
support that helps him to create his new restaurant where
he gets full creative control.
CHARACTERS
Percy learns life lessons within the whole move, he learns how to make
decisions - the right and wrong way, and problem solving. He watches his
dad get fired then solve the problem with getting a food truck and following
his dreams. Also after his father started having problems online, Percy
watched as he tried to solve them on his own and helped him along the
way.
Percy definitely shows psychosocial development with his father and

mother. Hope, will, and purpose show within the movie. It's hard for him to
trust his father and everything has happened in his life. He hopes his father
spends time with him, succeeds at work, cooking and life, and has the will
to help his father and fight to be there with him. Finding his purpose in his
parents and his life.
Percy learns is moral development from his parents on standards of

behavior and beliefs concerning what is and is not acceptable for them to
do. In the beginning of the movie there are internal issues between him and
his father such as abandonment fears typically stemmed from divorce, him
moving out and his father working all the time. Situational stress with him
working on the food truck, and interpersonal stress with him being young
and finding out his purpose in life.
CHARACTERS
Inez was Carl ex-wife and the mother of his only son,
Percy got divorced but never tell us why only hint at it
being because of work, she is also very wealthy, she is
originally from Miami. Inez has a issue with Carl over not
being a good father and her son feeling like well unloved.
She has a very big promise with broken promises by Carl
because all she wants is for Percy to be happy though out
the movie you can see Inez growing closer and closer to
Carl. In a moment of weakness, she hints to still having
feelings for Carl. At the ending of the movie the get
remarried
CHARACTERS
Martin was the 3 in command of the kitchen before Carl
got fired once afterward he got promoted to 2nd. He was
one of the first people to try to make Carl feel better about
the bad review.
Martin also has some conflict with staying at the kitchen

but stay because Carl told him to stay but once Carl get
his food truck he got on a flight to help him renovate and
sell food.
As the movie progresses, you can see martin become the

cool uncle figure to Percy and a good role model
MEMORABLE SCENE
Carl Casper: "I get to touch people's lives

with what I do and I love it and I want to
share this with you.“
Carl has an intense amount of pride in his

profession as a chef and wants his son,
Percy, to feel that same level of
awesomeness in his life as well.
OPINION
Yes, I do like the movie and would convince my friend to watch it. Chef is the
best kitchen movie I have ever seen because the movie gets the kitchen culture
right. Jon Favreau creates not just an accurate physical environment, but the
world is accurate. The idea of loyalty to the chef above the owner, who is paying
everyone’s salary, is displayed wonderfully in an early scene. Over on the El
Jefe truck, we watch as Percy goes to serve a burnt sandwich during the hectic
first service to the workers who helped them load the kitchen equipment. Carl
explains to his son that what’s happening in the kitchen is not about who pays,
but about taking pride and loving what you do. Films about kitchens always want
us to believe the worst about what the cooks are willing to do the customer. It’s
refreshing that we get to see the truth - the chef and his team are devoted to the
food they serve.
CONCLUSION
In a nutshell, this movie is very good especially for the young generation. There is a lot
of lesson that should be learned in life. Other than that, it also inspires people that
work hard can lead to success.

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INTEGRATED LANGUAGE SKILLS III /

EVALUATIVE COMMENTARY DRAFT

MUHD MIRZA HIZAMI BIN RAJIEI

(MS. VALERIE CHAN SUE LIN ABDULLAH)

Date of Submission: 10 DECEMBER 2020

GENRE: Adventure, Comedy, Drama

SETTING: On 2014 and take place at United States

Throughout the movie, the main character, Chef Carl

Percy definitely shows psychosocial development with his father and

Percy learns is moral development from his parents on standards of

Martin also has some conflict with staying at the kitchen

As the movie progresses, you can see martin become the

Carl Casper: "I get to touch people's lives

Carl has an intense amount of pride in his

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