山田維史の遊卵画廊

　そして、私は昨日の日記に『ハスラー』について書いたが、その作品とは何の脈絡もないのだが、ふいにカトリーヌ・ドヌーヴが主演した『赤いブーツの女』のシーンを思い出した。
　名匠ブニュエル監督の息子ファン・ルイス・ブニュエル監督の1974年の映画である。アメリカ映画『ロッキー』の２年前に公開されたフランス・スペイン合作映画だ。

　・・・映画が始まって間もなく、ドヌーブが初めて登場するシーン。街の高台からつづら折れに下る石段。食料品配達の若い男が途中で休憩している。傍らには食料品の入ったバスケット。背後からドヌーヴが降りて来て何のためらいもなく若者のバスケットから卵を二つ盗む。あっけにとられて呼び止める若者をドヌーヴは振向きもせずに立去る。
　ドヌーヴ（フランソワズという役名）は奔放な小説家である。つづくシーンで彼女は広いホールでエイジェント（だったように記憶している）と話している。
　話しながら彼女は、ポケットから先ほど盗んだ卵を取り出す。着ている厚手のハイネック・セーターの襟首の折り返しの陰からピンを抜き取って、卵に穴をあける。あおむけになって生卵を呑む！

　・・・と、私がふいに思い出したのは、その「生卵を呑む」ということ。
　ほかにも生卵を呑むシーンがある映画作品はないだろうかと、記憶の頭陀袋をさぐてみたが・・・ちょいと思い当たらない。とにかく海外でも生卵を食べないわけではないのである。

【追記】日本映画には伊丹十三監督『タンポポ』の一挿話で、役所広司（ヤクザ者）と黒田福美（その情婦）とが生卵の黄身を互いの口に行き来させる。食とエロティズムとの関係性を描いてまことに秀逸なシーン。

   It seems that Japanese raw egg on boiled rice is often
seen by foreigners with strange eyes. I myself have
never been in such a situation, but in short, foreigners
seem to be worried that raw eggs may be contaminated
with Salmonella.
   However, apart from the usual eating habits, it does
not mean that they do not eat raw eggs overseas.
   The movie "Rocky" starring Sylvester Stallone (directed
by John G. Avildsen, 1976) had that famous scene.
   When Rocky returns from training, he takes out an
egg from the refrigerator and swallows it.

   And I wrote about "Hustler" in yesterday's diary, but it
has nothing to do with that work, but I suddenly re-
mebered the scene of "The Woman with Red Boots (La
Femme aux bottes rouges)" starring Catherine Deneuve.
   It is a 1974 movie directed by Juan Luis Buñuel, the
son of master Buñuel. It is a French-Spanish collabo-
ration movie released two years before the American
movie "Rocky".
   
   ... A scene where Deneuve first appeared shortly after
the movie started. A stone staircase that winds down
from a hill in the city. A young grocery delivery man is
taking a break on the way. A basket with groceries
beside him. Deneuve comes down from behind and
steals two eggs from the youth's basket without any
hesitation. Deneuve leaves without turning around the
young man who is taken away and stopped.
   Deneuve (role name Françoise) is a free-spirited
novelist. In the following scene, she talks to an agent
(I remember it as it was) in a large hall.
   While talking, she takes the egg she stole from her
pocket. She pulls a pin out of the shade of the collar
neck of the thick high-necked sweater she wears and
punctures her egg. Turn over and swallow raw egg!

   I suddenly remembered that "swallowing raw egg".
   I wondered if there was another movie work that had
a scene of swallowing or eating a raw egg, but I
searched for a memory bag in my head, but I could't
think of it. Anyway, it doesn't mean that foreigners
don't eat raw eggs.


【Addition】In a Japanese movie, in a episode of
"Tanpopo (Dandelion)" directed Juzo Itami, Koji
Yakusho (yakuza) and Fukumi Kuroda (the mistress)
move raw egg yolks back and forth between each
other's mouths. A truly excellent scene depicting
the relationship between food and eroticism.

Tadami Yamada