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A fictional depiction of the consumption of monkey brains is shown in the 1978 [[mondo film]] ''[[Faces of Death]]'', directed by John Alan Schwartz.<ref name=faces/><ref name=hickey/> The scene depicts an [[Eastern world|Eastern-themed]] restaurant with patrons seated around a table watching a [[belly dance]]. A narrator explains that these are tourists who have come to this location to consume "the house specialty."<ref>{{cite AV media |people=|date=10 November 1978 |title=Faces of Death |title-link=Faces of Death |type=Motion picture |publisher=Aquarius Releasing| author=John Alan Schwartz, director (credited as 'Conan LeCilaire').|others=Written by John Alan Schwartz (credited as 'Alan Black'). Cinematography by Michael Golden. Edited by James Roy. Music by Gene Kauer. Produced by William B. James, Herbie Lee and Rosilyn T. Scott.|isbn=9780788609329|oclc=432163437|quote=Feeling that the foreigners were comfortable within his domain, the waiter signals for the house specialty.}}</ref> The proprietor signals for a server to bring out a monkey, which is then secured inside a [[pen (enclosure)|pen]] built into the table. The tourists are given hammers, and they proceed to hit the monkey on the head until it is killed.<ref name=faces/> The server then cuts open the skull and removes the monkey's brains onto a plate for the patrons to sample. The film's director acknowledged that the scene, like much of the film, is fiction.<ref name=faces>{{cite book|last1=Carter|first1=David Ray|editor1-last=Cline|editor1-first=John|editor2-last=Weiner|editor2-first=Robert J.|title=From the Arthouse to the Grindhouse: Highbrow and Lowbrow Transgression in Cinema's First Century|date=2010|publisher=Scarecrow Press|chapter=It's Only A Movie? Reality as Transgression in Exploitation Cinema|isbn=9780810876552|oclc=659730064|page=307|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VKhqh3HFH8AC&pg=PA307|language=en}}</ref><ref name=hickey/> The hammers were made of foam while the 'monkey's head' was a prop filled with gelatin, red food coloring, and cauliflower to simulate brain matter.<ref name=hickey>{{cite web|url=http://deadspin.com/5855402/cut-back-to-a-wide-shot-open-the-skull-the-faces-of-death-guy-looks-back|title=Open The Skull: The Faces Of Death Guy Looks Back|author=Hickey, Brian|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180424194241/https://deadspin.com/5855402/cut-back-to-a-wide-shot-open-the-skull-the-faces-of-death-guy-looks-back|archive-date=24 April 2018|work=Deadspin|year=2012}}</ref>
Additional depictions in the decade following the release of ''Faces of Death'' contain scenes which reference the practice of eating monkey brains, including one from the 1984 film ''[[Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom]]'',<ref name=rode>{{cite thesis|last1=Rodewald|first1=Lucas Alan|title=Misrepresentation at the Movies: Film, Pedagogy, and Postcolonial Theory in the Secondary English Classroom|chapter=The Adventures of Teaching ''Indiana Jones'' in the World of the Other|publisher=[[Iowa State University]]|id=Document No. 10126564|pages=22–34|date=2016|degree=Masters|via=ProQuest Dissertations Publishing|location=Ames, Iowa|chapter-url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1797613897/}}</ref> the 1981 Japanese crime film ''[[Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (film)|Sailor Suit and Machine Gun]]'',<ref>{{cite AV media |author=Shinji Sōmai, director.|title=Sailor Suit and Machine Gun |title-link=Sailor Suit and Machine Gun (film)|date=1981|type=Motion picture|others=Written by Yōzō Tanaka. Produced by Kei Ijichi. Arrow Films |oclc=1274168469}}</ref> as well as dialogue from the 1985 comedy ''[[Clue (film)|Clue]]''.<ref>{{cite AV media |date=13 December 1985 |title=Clue|title-link=Clue (film) |type=Motion picture |publisher=Paramount / PolyGram|author=Jonathan Lynn, director.| others=Story by John Landis and Jonathan Lynn. Screenplay by Jonathan Lynn. Cinematography by Victor J. Kemper. Edited by David Bretherton and Richard Haines. Music by John Morris. Produced by Debra Hill.|isbn=9780792166214 |oclc=1004377222|quote=Monkey's brains, though popular in Cantonese cuisine, are not often to be found in Washington, D.C.}}</ref>{{better source needed|date=June 2022}} In addition to their shock value, what these scenes have in common are their representations of [[Orientalism]], which according to one author, Sophia Rose Arjana, work as [[Trope (cinema)|cinematic tropes]] used to "conflate bizarre and vulgarized representations of the Far East".<ref name=arjana>{{cite book|last1=Arjana|first1=Sophia Rose|title=Muslims in the Western Imagination|date=2015|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=9780199324927|pages=142–145|chapter=The Monsters of Orientalism|oclc=899007876|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gHWbBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA143|language=en}}</ref>
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