A Matter of Loaf and Death
Wallace & Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death is a 2008 British stop-motion animated short film created by Nick Park, and the fourth of his shorts to star his characters Wallace and Gromit. It is the first Wallace and Gromit short since A Close Shave in 1995.
Wallace & Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death is a murder mystery, with Wallace and Gromit starting a new bakery business. With an unknown assailant murdering bakers, Gromit tries to solve the case before Wallace ends up a victim himself. It was the last Wallace and Gromit film before the retirement of Wallace's voice actor Peter Sallis in 2010.
Dialogue
[edit]- Wallace: [after a flour bag hits Piella and knocks her down the stairs] Oh! Are you all right, my flower? [laughs] Flour! [flower] Get it? "Flower"?
- Piella Bakewell: [furiously] GET YOUR HANDS OFF ME!!! I HATE flour...I HATE bread...and I HATE BAKERS, YOU UTTER AND COMPLETE FRUITCAKE!!!!!!!! [takes the ring off her finger and flings it at Wallace]
- Wallace: OH! [chuckles nervously] That's a bit steep, isn't it, my sweet?
- Piella Bakewell: [picks up Fluffles] Fluffles? I want a word with you: Back home. [closes the door offscreen]
- Wallace: Gromit, it's a bomb! The cake's a bomb! Wait a minute. You don't think Piella could be…?
- Piella Bakewell: [puts her feet on the bomb as she holds a rolling pin in one hand and Fluffles in the other] The Cereal [serial] Killer? Well done, Wallace, sharp as a brick. Now do exactly as I say, or Fluffles gets snuffled! [Fluffles bites her hand] OW!!! [Gromit takes the bomb, and Piella drops Fluffles, releasing her] You've crossed me once too often, you treacherous little…! [slaps Fluffles in the face as she yelps]
- Piella Bakewell: That has put a spanner in the works. [Picks up a wrench]
- Wallace: But, Piella, you're the Bake-O-Lite Girl!
- Piella Bakewell: WAS the Bake-O-Lite Girl! I ate too much, you see?
- Wallace: Oh, really?
- Piella Bakewell: I couldn't ride the balloon anymore!
- Wallace: Oh dear!
- Piella Bakewell: So they DROPPED me!!
- Wallace: What a blow. [hits his head on the pipe] Ooh!
- Piella Bakewell: ME! And curse on bakers and their loathsome confections!!!
- Wallace: GROMIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
- Piella Bakewell: Bomb [bon] Voyage, Wallace! [jumps from the edge and lands into the balloon] Your buns are as good as toasted! [she turns up the hot air from the balloon, causing the fire to ignite]
- Wallace: [notices the bomb in the back of his pants, then starts panicking] GROMIT!!! I've got a bomb in me pants!!!
- Piella Bakewell: [vowing in regret] I will be back to get you, Wallace! I WILL HAVE MY BAKER'S DOZEN!!
- Wallace: But Piella, the balloon won't hold you!
- Piella Bakewell: [last words, redeemed] They can't just drop me, I'm as light as a feather. [As the hot air balloon floats down into a crocodile pit at the zoo] I'M THE BAKE-O-LITE GIRL...!!!!!
- Wallace: NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
- [The balloon splashes into the crocodile pit and the crocodiles eat Piella alive off-screen]
- Wallace: Farewell, my angel cake... You'll always be my Bake-O-Lite Girl. [suddenly relieved] Ha! I think I need a cup of tea after all that. Care to join me, you two?
Cast
[edit]- Peter Sallis as Wallace
- Sally Lindsay as Piella Bakewell
- Melissa Collier as Fluffles
- Sarah Laborde as Bake-O-Lite singer
- Ben Whitehead as Baker Bob
- Geraldine McEwan as Miss Thripp
