The most ruthless time for the director to criticize himself
Hello everyone, I'm Daxianer.
Yesterday, Da Xian'er went to the cinema to brush "Roma" again.
When Cleo and the scumbag Fermin were lingering in the theater, the theater played "Escape from the Tiger's Mouth".
Released in France in 1966, "Escape from the Tiger's Mouth" was still so popular in Mexico in 1970.
There is no way that "Escape from the Tiger's Mouth" is so popular. Who would have thought that it stayed at the number one position in the French film box office for 42 years.
It was only broken by "Welcome to the North" in 2008, which had a total of 20.49 million viewers in 2008. At that time, the total population of France was just over 60 million, which was basically equal to one in three French people who had seen it.
Director Danny Byrne is now the C position among French comedy directors. He has released three films in China, "Elopement Plan B" (2013), "Volcano Clash" (2014), "Crazy SWAT" Team” (2017).
Today, let's talk about his latest work.
"Welcome to the North 2"
After all, "Welcome to the North 2" is already the sixth work written, directed, and acted by French Xu Zheng.
Although it has nothing to do with the previous one in terms of plot, the sequel is still a story about "map guns".
The protagonist Valentine is a well-known Parisian furniture designer who was born in the north of France.
If you read the last one, you will understand that the French southerners look down on the northerners, and treat the northerners as impolite village guns.
Valentine came to Paris to study, and after he became famous, in order not to be found out that he was a northerner, he cut off ties with his family and lied that he was an orphan.
And one day, on his birthday, his mother brought his brother and his sister-in-law to Paris to surprise him.
Valentine then had a car accident and lost her memory.
How he can get back his innocent self is the theme of the sequel.
Everyone always thinks that Paris is a city of art. The air you breathe in your nose is full of art, and the movies you watch must be art movies.
In fact, it's not. When "Avengers 4" was on, it was hard to get a ticket in Paris theaters. Not to mention Paris, the whole of France loved to watch it.
Not everyone in France is artistic, and French comedy is their favorite.
Taking last year as an example, the domestic box office champion in France was "The Duchess 3" (5.7 million viewers), and "Welcome to the North 2" (5.6 million viewers) came in second.
However, compared with the first part of "Welcome to the North", the number of moviegoers dropped significantly.
Let's take a look at the literary films. Last year's highest was "The Hillster Brothers", with 840,000 viewers.
This comparison shows the status of French comedy films.
As a C position, Danny Byrne needs to give a brief introduction.
"Welcome to the North" series is actually his personal experience, he is a Yankee.
When I was a child, I could only speak dialects. If we were to compare it horizontally according to the level of our Putonghua exam, it would be a level of 3rd and 2nd class, and people from other places could not understand what he said at all.
He was a monk halfway through his career in comedy, and he studied art at that time.
If you change Valentine's career in Welcome to the North 2 to a film director, you're basically talking about Burnburn.
If Welcome to the North is from south to north, this movie is from north to south.
I hacked all those "Ba Piao" people who had forgotten their roots, including himself.
Then look at how he is self-defeating.
As mentioned above, if a northern Frenchman wants to make a name for himself in Paris, his origins cannot be known.
Valentin is already a well-known furniture designer in France. At this time, he has already changed from an innocent country boy to a cold man.
In his own company, his subordinates greeted him without raising his eyelids.
Like himself, his works are becoming less and less pyrotechnic, emphasizing only the concept of design without considering practicality.
To put it more simply, the furniture he designed is just to look good, and it is useless at all.
For example, the four-legged chair was designed with three legs, and the rich woman who bought this "artwork" was almost smashed to her waist.
The design of his bathroom is even more anti-human. Put your hand under the faucet on the left, and the water will come out on the right; put your hand under the faucet on the right, and the water will come out on the left.
Those customers who bought his works, even if they fell into the mud, couldn't complain everywhere, for fear of being regarded as uneducated.
A work is impersonal, and the person who designed it is even less impersonal.
For this "emperor's new clothes", he lied that when he was very young, he was sent to an orphanage by his mother.
He defended his success by rejecting the existence of his family.
When his family showed up at an exhibition of his work, his first reaction was not to hug his mother, but to hide.
When the lie was exposed, his mother was heartbroken and cut ties with him.
In fact, people like Valentine do not only exist in movies. Such examples are not uncommon in reality.
Some young people from fifth-, sixth-, seventh-, and eighth-tier cities deliberately conceal their origins for fear of being looked down upon when they come to big cities.
He does not speak in dialect in public, brainwashes himself from the inside out, and says he is an urbanite.
Remember Zhang Zixuan in "33 Days of Broken Love", who is obviously from Henan, but speaks a fluent Taiwanese accent.
Just like in the film, after Valentine lost his memory, his wife took him to correct his accent. At least a pure Parisian accent would not be regarded as a country bumpkin.
Just like people who live in big cities, they have to hypnotize themselves to be city people more or less, and some living habits in their hometown cannot be brought to big cities.
Valentin is like this. When he goes out in suits and shoes, he eats spirulina and asparagus salad.
He worked hard to manage his image and not let the bubble wrapping him burst.
So how did he get his original intention back?
This type of film generally has these kinds of routines, amnesia type, time and space travel type, and return to the pre-liberation type overnight.
The first one was used in the movie. As soon as he opened his eyes from the hospital bed, he returned to when he was 17 years old, letting him face the already greasy self when he was still innocent.
In this way, the director reflects on the influence of city and class on a person.
But the director avoided a question in the film, why did Valentine not contact his family for more than ten years?
Problems can never be dealt with from the perspective of dualism, and such a French version of the Northeastern Family can also apply the concept of the family of origin.
The director glossed over the problems of Valentine's hometown in a playful and cursing way.
He identified the difference between North and South in a simple way, comparing the Valentine's family to his father-in-law's.
Valentine's memory loss was caused by being hit by his father-in-law backing up, but his father-in-law lied that someone else had hit him. In the eyes of his father-in-law, Valentine was just a cash cow.
As for Valentine's hometown, even if his older brother was a scumbag and his father was an oily salad slacker, this is home, and it must be "good".
One "bad", one "good", no matter how old a person is, he cannot escape the influence of his family.
The stalk of the map gun runs through the two "Welcome to the North". In fact, in China, everyone is driving the map gun anytime, anywhere.
Daxian Er had read an article before, which summed up the characteristics of all parts of the country, saying that the Northeast only exported gangsters and prostitutes to the outside world.
Even the input method can open the map cannon.
Da Xianer used the Sogou input method to type "Northeast People", and the following situation appeared.
Even in movies and TV dramas, the image of Northeasterners is a big golden chain and a small golden watch.
This map cannon is equivalent to a large-scale indiscriminate weapon of destruction.
People in XX place are all virtuous, so everyone can hear this from time to time.
To put it mildly, it is called a map gun. To put it more seriously, it is geographical discrimination.
For example, northerners despise southerners, southerners despise northerners, imperial capitals despise magic capitals, and demonic capitals despise imperial capitals.
Even the sketches on the Spring Festival Evening, as long as they are migrant workers, they must speak Henan dialect.
Henan people have always been the key targets of map artillery.
The map cannon has been around since ancient times. Liu Zongyuan, one of the Eight Great Masters of the Tang and Song Dynasties, was a map cannon.
The first shot, Cantonese dogs bark snow, Cantonese dogs bark when they see snow, black Cantonese.
The second shot, the dog of Shu barks the sun, the dog of Sichuan will bark when it sees the sun, black Sichuan.
The third artillery, the poor skills of the donkeys in Guizhou, this story need not be explained, black Guizhou.
The map cannon is just a joke. I hope you don't always use it as a label and stick it on others.
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