SilverWook said:
The banquet scene still freaks me out more than anything else.
You'd think they would have a stand next to the Indy ride at Disneyland selling chilled monkey brains!
This is another aspect of the film I find repulsive (in the wrong way).
India has possibly the best cuisine on the planet and yet they have a running gag about how not only is the food of the evil palace court insanely disgusting but the poor villagers too.
There was the potential for a very clever gag (no pun intended) there.
Willie could turn her nose up at the villager's food but actually find it delicious and she could then sit down to a delicious looking banquet which has been drugged (in readiness for her sacrifice) and start to see snakes coming out cakes and eyeballs in the soup which weren't really there.
Nobody notices because they just think she is an hysterical American, she is trying to pretend not to care because of her earlier embarrassment in the village but it sets up that something odd is happening to the people at the palace.
It would turn a rather racist joke into a Lynchian nightmare.