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Les SpÃ©cialistes

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Les SpÃ©cialistes	label	Les SpÃ©cialistes
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Les SpÃ©cialistes	comment	Les SpÃ©cialistes (The Specialists) is a 1985 French action/heist film directed by Patrice Leconte.In South-East France, StÃ©phane Carella (GÃ©rard Lanvin) is a bank robber who's being transferred to another prison. During the transfer, he is handcuffed to Paul Brandon (Bernard Giraudeau), another outlaw. Brandon uses a pause of their transfer convoy to make a run for it dragging Carella with him, which the handcuff makes quite difficult. They manage to escape the manhunt by the police and meet Laura (Christiane Jean), a widow living in an isolated house. Brandon reveals to Carella that he has planned to rob the vault of a mafia-owned casino in Nice, and the two set out to pull it off, with Laura helping them as it turns out the police shot her husband dead.
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Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_1b65eaf3	type	The Caper
Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_1b65eaf3	comment	The Caper: The two protagonists plan an elaborate bank heist.
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Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_1c5002bc	type	The Stoic
Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_1c5002bc	comment	The Stoic: Laura doesn't talk much and doesn't show much emotions.
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Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_1ec8456b	type	Vulnerable Convoy
Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_1ec8456b	comment	Vulnerable Convoy: Carella and Brandon find an opportunity to escape when the convoy is stopped and there's only one cop to watch over them.
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Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_23f4d9bd	type	Buddy Picture
Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_23f4d9bd	comment	Buddy Picture: Brandon and Carella are not friends initially but they grow into this over the course of the story.
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Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_26e749fc	type	Garbage Hideout
Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_26e749fc	comment	Garbage Hideout: After Brandon and Carella enter the casino through the underground car park, they hide in a garbage container till the guard leaves the car park, then get in the vault's area through the garbage chute.
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Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_2be271c7	type	Hollywood Hacking
Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_2be271c7	comment	Hollywood Hacking: A 1980s version of it when Carella hacks into the casino's frequency as Mazetti types the vault's door's code, which Carella then has printed from a distance.
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Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_2d3f662b	type	Chained Heat
Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_2d3f662b	comment	Chained Heat: Carella and Brandon are handcuffed together when escaping from their transfer convoy and must work together to have a chance of staying free and surviving. It's particularly tricky when they have to climb a cliff. It turns out Brandon was actually an undercover cop, chained to Carella on purpose so he'd gain his trust and convince him to work on the robbery, although the gendarmes didn't know it.
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Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_364b9be6	type	Flipping the Bird
Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_364b9be6	comment	Flipping the Bird: Carella flips the bird to Brandon after leaving the car over their argument pertaining to the "impossible" nature of the heist.
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Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_3ec7c277	type	Every Car Is a Pinto
Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_3ec7c277	comment	Every Car Is a Pinto: One of the two cars of the mobsters who came at Carella to get the money back ends up in a sand ravine and explodes.
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Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_441ced7	type	Surprise Inspection Ruse
Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_441ced7	comment	Surprise Inspection Ruse: Brandon and Carella pretend to be insurance agents at Mazetti's casino so they can "inspect" the vault to plan the heist accordingly.
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Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_474e3977	type	You Have Failed Me
Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_474e3977	comment	You Have Failed Me: Mazetti is executed while his car is stuck in a very narrow alley, by another prominent mobster whose money he had to keep in the safe.
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Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_513dd915	type	LiteralCliffHanger
Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_513dd915	comment	Literal Cliff Hanger: During their escape, Brandon and Carella have to climb some pretty high cliffs in the Verdon Gorge. In one instance, Brandon finds himself dangling on the handcuff over the gorge, and his weight is quite painful for Carella's arm.
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Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_5158df81	type	The Casino
Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_5158df81	comment	The Casino: The robbers' target is the vault of the mafia-owned Mazetti Casino in Nice.
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Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_52ae74d	type	Undercover Cop Reveal
Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_52ae74d	comment	Undercover Cop Reveal: Brandon is revealed to be a cop.
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Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_607d4ada	type	Run for the Border
Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_607d4ada	comment	Run for the Border: Brandon and Carella cross the border into nearby Italy at the end.
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Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_72c07237	type	Swiss-Cheese Security
Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_72c07237	comment	Swiss-Cheese Security: The door system of the vault and the safe room's pressure-sensitive ground are top notch for their time, but the access to the vault is relatively easy through the garbage chute from the underground car park.
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Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_86252e1d	type	The Ground Is Lava
Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_86252e1d	comment	The Ground Is Lava: The safe room's ground is pressure-sensitive, so Brandon and Carella must navigate in it without their feet ever touching the ground (or anything falling on it) to avoid triggering the alarm.
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Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_862ea4c1	type	Easily-Overheard Conversation
Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_862ea4c1	comment	Easily-Overheard Conversation: Laura reveals to Brandon and Carella that she easily heard them talk about the heist through the door of their room.
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Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_8966382e	type	Bank Robbery
Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_8966382e	comment	Bank Robbery: What Carella has been condemned for, initially. Then Brandon and him set out to rob a Mafia-owned casino.
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Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_8b4f2a4f	type	'80s Hair
Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_8b4f2a4f	comment	'80s Hair: Laura's long and curly perm.
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Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_8e7835b3	type	Wunza Plot
Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_8e7835b3	comment	Wunza Plot: One's a bank robber, the other's a maverick cop. They rob the mob's bank.
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Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_90ff49cb	type	Robbing the Mob Bank
Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_90ff49cb	comment	Robbing the Mob Bank: In that case, the protagonists plan to rob the high security vault of a mafia-owned Casino in Nice. Brandon ends up admitting he's doing it as part of his job in order to cause the downfall of Mazetti, first and foremost.
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Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_985e118a	type	Odd Couple
Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_985e118a	comment	Odd Couple: At first, Carella (who just wanted to finish his prison sentence without a fuss) and Brandon (a daredevil who wants to rob the most secure vault in all of Southern France) really can't stand each other.
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Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_9f6479f2	type	Impossible Mission
Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_9f6479f2	comment	Impossible Mission: The heist itself has very few chances of success, and the protagonists have an argument over it after visiting the vault disguised as insurance agents. The film's tagline plays this up with "It was impossible. They did it!".
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Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_aa245ded	type	Mob War
Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_aa245ded	comment	Mob War: The true goal of the heist is to cause a gang war to cause the downfall of Mazetti.
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Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_ab1659d5	type	Hero Stole My Bike
Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_ab1659d5	comment	Hero Stole My Bike: Brandon and Carella steal a 1960s Volkswagen Beetle to a family on vacation in order to move faster during their escape.
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Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_ab686f50	type	You All Meet in a Cell
Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_ab686f50	comment	You All Meet in a Cell: Carella and Brandon meet in captivity, although Brandon's actually an undercover cop.
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Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_b5b4bd37	type	The Don
Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_b5b4bd37	comment	The Don: Mazetti is a powerful leader in The Mafia. Apparently, he's Italian-American considering he speaks English with an American accent.
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Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_bd196e3c	type	No Escape but Down
Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_bd196e3c	comment	No Escape but Down: Upon being Pinned Down in a cave on the cliff they just climbed, Brandon and Carella end up jumping in the river below.
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Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_c189bd85	type	Friendly, Playful Dolphin
Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_c189bd85	comment	Friendly, Playful Dolphin: Laura is a doplhin trainer at a marine mammal park (the Marineland in Antibes, more specifically) and her dolphins behave accordingly.
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Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_c2d978fe	type	Car Fu
Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_c2d978fe	comment	Car Fu: At the end, Brandon charges the mobsters in a big dump truck, crushing one of their cars under its wheels and pushing another in a sand ravine where it explodes.
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Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: StÃ©phane Carella's name is a reference to a similarly named character played by Jean-Louis Trintignant in the 1971 film Sans mobile apparent, which also takes place in Nice.
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Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_d05102c7	type	Getaway Driver
Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_d05102c7	comment	Getaway Driver: Carella is at the wheel when he and Brandon make their escape after successfully robbing the casino's vault.
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Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_d9cf40fa	type	Screw This, I'm Outta Here
Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_d9cf40fa	comment	Screw This, I'm Outta Here: After both Carella and Brandon visited the vault, Carella is discouraged from attempting the heist and leaves. A False Flag Operation from cops passing as Mazetti's men brings him back to the heist team.
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Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_dfbf8667	type	Right Under Their Noses
Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_dfbf8667	comment	Right Under Their Noses: While driving in the Volkswagen Beetle they stole, Carella and Brandon see the gendarmerie convoy that's looking for them pass by them without a reaction.
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Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_eb251937	type	Dirty Cop
Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_eb251937	comment	Dirty Cop: At the end, Commissioner Kovacs, in addition to being a jerkass, sells Carella and Brandon off to the mobsters whose money was in Mazetti's safe.
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Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_f1e68523	type	The Not-Love Interest
Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_f1e68523	comment	The Not-Love Interest: Despite the setup, Laura never gets romantically involved with either Brandon or Carella.
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Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_f51f4509	type	Tagline
Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_f51f4509	comment	Tagline: "It was impossible. They did it!"
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Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_f7602ddc	type	Handy Cuffs
Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_f7602ddc	comment	Handy Cuffs: Brandon uses the handcuff to strangle (although non-fatally) the cop watching over both he and Carella when the convoy is stopped, then they escape.
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Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_fd76df83	type	Artistic License â€“ Economics
Les SpÃ©cialistes / int_fd76df83	comment	Artistic License â€“ Economics: There's 3 billion francs inside the safe. There's no way such an amount (in bank notes) could fit in a bag like it does in the film.
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The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.

Les SpÃ©cialistes	hasFeature	Action Genre / int_1cf161f
Les SpÃ©cialistes	hasFeature	Chained Heat / int_1cf161f
Les SpÃ©cialistes	hasFeature	Impossible Mission / int_1cf161f
Les SpÃ©cialistes	hasFeature	Robbing the Mob Bank / int_1cf161f
Les SpÃ©cialistes	hasFeature	Surprise Inspection Ruse / int_1cf161f
Les SpÃ©cialistes	hasFeature	The Caper / int_1cf161f
Les SpÃ©cialistes	hasFeature	The Ground Is Lava / int_1cf161f

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