10 Movies That Aren't About What You Think

10. It's About Jon Favreau's Disappointment With Iron Man 2 - Chef

Jon Favreau's Chef may seem like a pretty surface-level movie about an elite chef, Carl Casper (Favreau), who builds his own food truck business after growing frustrated with cynical restaurant owners and obnoxious critics. But look beyond the admittedly gorgeous food porn and Favreau's film is really a thinly-veiled reflection of his own time directing 2010's superhero blockbuster Iron Man 2. 

The sequel to the hit superhero flick received middling notices from critics and reportedly suffered from serious executive interference behind-the-scenes, in turn stymying Favreau's creative vision for the project. And so, Chef was a pure reaction to this - using food as a tight allegory for Favreau's attempts to "cook" in Hollywood.

The food truck is really a metaphor for Chef, the movie, itself - a comparatively inexpensive enterprise full of heart, following on from a soulless big-money exercise that left the creative in question feeling burnt out.