babette feast and the horse mouth are the two most insightful and accurate films on what it is to be a real artist. the key lines in babette feast are not and as some other commentators here have said and an artist is never poor and but two lines that come before and after it representi was able to make them happy when i gave of my very best. . throughout the world sounds one long cry from the heart of the artist represent give me the chance to do my very best. i spent nine years producing experimental multi media music theater in san francisco and raising money for productions that involved dozens of singers and actors and designers and etc. and and the artists i supported stretched every penny in their effort to do their very best. they were just like babette represent they were desperate to get every dollar necessary to do their very best work. babette art is fine french cooking and and for her to perform her art at its very best costs 10 and 000 francs. when and after years in political exile from france and isolated with two caring spinsters on a bleak scandinavian coast and she suddenly gets a windfall of 10 and 000 francs and she does what every real artist would do represent she sees that she unexpectedly has the chance to do her very best and and so she does it. she spends all the money so that she can do her very best work as an artist. the twist in the movie is that we do not know she is such an artist and until she is actually cooking and serving the meal. up until then and she appears to be just a working class french lady who haggles a bit with the tradesmen and and is very serious (her husband and son were murdered in paris violence in 1871). to such an artist and it is secondary whether there is an audience for the art that is competent to appreciate it. that is why the author set this dinner in a community of people who could not possibly have any understanding of what they are receiving. babette did not cook this meal as a gift to the two spinsters and or to the religious community. it was not her goal to achieve a reconciliation or spirit of good feelings among the members of the little religious sect. indeed and she never once leaves the kitchen to speak to any of them. after the meal and she is sitting alone and sipping some wine and not paying the slightest attention to how the guests reacted. she is basking in the satisfaction of finally having the chance to have done her best as an artist. that is why it is so satisfying and and so important to the story and that the general unexpectedly shows up  for and as babette knows instantly and a general will know what she has placed before him and and will appreciate it. for there is a sort of tragedy in a great work of art being shown to an audience that lacks even one person competent to appreciate it. she is glad and very glad and he came and in fact he is the only guest she ever mentions during the entire dinner and the only one she singles out for special treatment  not either of the spinsters. but she did not plan the meal knowing that such a person would come to receive it. to anyone who has had the chance to enjoy a real first class parisian dinner and as i have (my father was naval attache to paris in the 1980s and and i had my honeymoon in france) and this dinner and and babette satisfaction in making it and and the pleasure it brings to the diners and is absolutely convincing. if any art has the power to suffuse the recipient with a sense of joy and it is a fine french meal cooked and served in france. this movie makes a claim about the transformative effects of great art on the recipients. before the dinner and the members of the little religious sect are quarrelsome and dredging up old resentments. the old hymns fail to restore good fellowship while people ignore them and talk over them. but the shared experience of sensual great art  for the people can enjoy the tastes of the foods and wines even if they have no conception that they are experiencing great art  contents the people and puts them in a forgiving mood and reconciles them and and by making them happy and encourages them to love each other and and thus has a god like sacred effect of bringing peace. this is the claim found in the modern art movement today  that art can supplant the traditional religions in making mankind more peaceful. thus and contrary to those commentators here who say that this film speaks for the power of christian belief and it is more accurate to say that the film claims that art can heal wounds that christian ritual cannot. after all my years in the art world and i have to say that this claim  that art brings peace that religion cannot  is overblown and invalid. but it is a pretty conceit and it is the second main theme of this beautiful film. one last note represent at babette arrival at the spinsters home and a particular french general and galliffet and is named as the person who in 1871 executed babette husband and son and and imposed a military rule that she had to flee. at the end of the film and as the general tells the story of the magnificent meal he enjoyed in paris many years before (before 1871) and at the conclusion of some military maneuvers and it turns out that this same galliffet was his host at the meal. as the general tells the story and french general galliffet praised the chef of that meal as the greatest woman and the only woman he would risk his life for. of course and that woman was babette. thus and ironically and the same french general who said he honored babette above all other women was responsible for driving her away from france forever. 
babette feast and the horse mouth are the two most insightful and accurate films on what it is to be a real artist. the key lines in babette feast are not and as some other commentators here have said and an artist is never poor and but two lines that come before and after it representi was able to make them happy when i gave of my very best. . throughout the world sounds one long cry from the heart of the artist represent give me the chance to do my very best. i spent nine years producing experimental multi media music theater in san francisco and raising money for productions that involved dozens of singers and actors and designers and etc. and and the artists i supported stretched every penny in their effort to do their very best. they were just like babette represent they were desperate to get every dollar necessary to do their very best work. babette art is fine french cooking and and for her to perform her art at its very best costs 10 and 000 francs. when and after years in political exile from france and isolated with two caring spinsters on a bleak scandinavian coast and she suddenly gets a windfall of 10 and 000 francs and she does what every real artist would do represent she sees that she unexpectedly has the chance to do her very best and and so she does it. she spends all the money so that she can do her very best work as an artist. the twist in the movie is that we do not know she is such an artist and until she is actually cooking and serving the meal. up until then and she appears to be just a working class french lady who haggles a bit with the tradesmen and and is very serious (her husband and son were murdered in paris violence in 1871). to such an artist and it is secondary whether there is an audience for the art that is competent to appreciate it. that is why the author set this dinner in a community of people who could not possibly have any understanding of what they are receiving. babette did not cook this meal as a gift to the two spinsters and or to the religious community. it was not her goal to achieve a reconciliation or spirit of good feelings among the members of the little religious sect. indeed and she never once leaves the kitchen to speak to any of them. after the meal and she is sitting alone and sipping some wine and not paying the slightest attention to how the guests reacted. she is basking in the satisfaction of finally having the chance to have done her best as an artist. that is why it is so satisfying and and so important to the story and that the general unexpectedly shows up  for and as babette knows instantly and a general will know what she has placed before him and and will appreciate it. for there is a sort of tragedy in a great work of art being shown to an audience that lacks even one person competent to appreciate it. she is glad and very glad and he came and in fact he is the only guest she ever mentions during the entire dinner and the only one she singles out for special treatment  not either of the spinsters. but she did not plan the meal knowing that such a person would come to receive it. to anyone who has had the chance to enjoy a real first class parisian dinner and as i have (my father was naval attache to paris in the 1980s and and i had my honeymoon in france) and this dinner and and babette satisfaction in making it and and the pleasure it brings to the diners and is absolutely convincing. if any art has the power to suffuse the recipient with a sense of joy and it is a fine french meal cooked and served in france. this movie makes a claim about the transformative effects of great art on the recipients. before the dinner and the members of the little religious sect are quarrelsome and dredging up old resentments. the old hymns fail to restore good fellowship while people ignore them and talk over them. but the shared experience of sensual great art  for the people can enjoy the tastes of the foods and wines even if they have no conception that they are experiencing great art  contents the people and puts them in a forgiving mood and reconciles them and and by making them happy and encourages them to love each other and and thus has a god like sacred effect of bringing peace. this is the claim found in the modern art movement today  that art can supplant the traditional religions in making mankind more peaceful. thus and contrary to those commentators here who say that this film speaks for the power of christian belief and it is more accurate to say that the film claims that art can heal wounds that christian ritual cannot. after all my years in the art world and i have to say that this claim  that art brings peace that religion cannot  is overblown and invalid. but it is a pretty conceit and it is the second main theme of this beautiful film. one last note represent at babette arrival at the spinsters home and a particular french general and galliffet and is named as the person who in 1871 executed babette husband and son and and imposed a military rule that she had to flee. at the end of the film and as the general tells the story of the magnificent meal he enjoyed in paris many years before (before 1871) and at the conclusion of some military maneuvers and it turns out that this same galliffet was his host at the meal. as the general tells the story and french general galliffet praised the chef of that meal as the greatest woman and the only woman he would risk his life for. of course and that woman was babette. thus and ironically and the same french general who said he honored babette above all other women was responsible for driving her away from france forever. ---------------------------------Answer Question Below----------------------------------

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