So I was trying to come up with a good topic for my latest blog when it hit me, not only should I tie it into something I love, movies, but make it interactive, so everyone can chime in and add to it.
So, here’s the question: Have you ever noticed an espresso machine in a movie or TV show?
And I don’t mean the couple is out for the night and they stop into a café and there’s a La Marzoco or some multi group machine turning out shots for them. Or a Starbucks gets ‘featured’ at some point and there’s a machine in it.
What I’m talking about is in the movie, there is a home based espresso machine in it. Either in the background, or outright used in a scene.
I’ll start you off with 7 that spring to mind, and let’s see a bunch more posted after this.
Are you ready to wow everyone with your keen eyes?
- Iron Man – In Tony Stark’s garage/lab in the background is a Jura Capresso Z Series machine. (Can’t specify if it’s Z5 or Z6, as it’s not shown up close) And he does drink a shot of espresso, although it is brewed off screen.
- The Sopranos - in the first season, there is an episode with a shower, and one gift given a Jura Capresso machine. The ladies all rave about it in the scene.
- Ransom – this is a bit more obscure, and the machine is never featured. But in the Mel Gibson thriller, there is a La Pavoni EPG8 or 16. The Gold manual beauty is on their kitchen counter in the background.
- House – I don’t remember the season or episode, but there was one when the cantankerous doctor we love actually breaks into one of the hospital coffee nooks to have a cup of coffee to finish the case he’s working on. Being a small setting, they actually had a Jura Capresso machine in the coffee spot. Looked to be an F Series machine, it wasn’t on long enough for me to discern.
- Will & Grace – this is the easy one, that I want to make sure I cover, before everyone else jumps in with it. They had a Francis Francis X1 in their kitchen, and I’m certain at some point it was used and likely involved somehow in some scheme of Jack & Karen, or Grace & Karen.
- Running Scared – In this very dark movie starring Paul Walker (with a solid twist in it) there is a Gaggia Syncrony in the apartment of some extremely bad people. Hey, even villains like coffee. Bad taste in morals doesn’t mean bad taste buds.
(Advisory: unless you enjoy this genre of movie, don’t scour it for the machine. If you like gritty crime flicks, dig in, it got onto a weird tangent storyline in the middle, but delivered solid at the end.) - Kicking and Screaming – this entry from Will Ferrell is basically Little Giants or Bad News Bears for soccer. But featured in the middle of the movie is an Expobar Athenea Control. The machine actually is downright abused, in one of the funnier parts of the movie. Well, if you can forgive the abuse of a beautiful espresso machine for comedy.
So, who has more? Screenshots aren’t necessary, but keep it to espresso machines. We don’t need to show off knowing that Ben offered Kate some coffee from a Bonjour French Press in an episode of Lost.
Mike
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