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The Trip Across Paris
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La Traversée de Paris (The trip across Paris) is a 1956 French film directed by Claude Autant-Lara and written by Jean Aurenche, Pierre Bost and Michel Audiard. It stars Bourvil, Jean Gabin and Louis de Funès, and is based on the short story La traversée de Paris by Marcel Aymé.The film is set in Paris in 1942, during the German Occupation. Two men, Marcel Martin (Bourvil), a former taxi driver, and Grandgil (Gabin), an eccentric loud-mouth, defy the curfew to deliver an important load of pork meat across the city by foot in the dead of the night, on behalf of Black Market grocer Monsieur Jambier (De Funès), though not before Grandgil extorts a lot of money from the greedy Jambier. Over the course of the night, the smuggling operation will not go as smoothly as Marcel had hoped.The film competed at the 17th Venice International Film Festival, where Bourvil won the Volpi Cup for Best Actor. The cynical portrayal of the Occupation was very unconventional for the time and made the film controversial upon initial release a mere decade after the war. | |
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Extremely Short Timespan: Besides the epilogue, the events of the film happen during one single night. | |
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State Sec: Marcel asks Grandgil to help him because his partner just got arrested by The Gestapo. | |
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Hidden Depths: When Grandgil meant "painter", Marcel thought he was a house painter. Turns out he's an artist. | |
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Black Market: The war and Occupation have caused a shortage of goods in big cities such as Parisnote countryside villages were better off for obvious reasons (farming), although Germans tended to ransack them, and meat in particular. It's a heyday for clandestine grocers such as Jambier, and smuggling goods is extremely dangerous due to both the French police and patrols of German soldiers. | |
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Gratuitous German: As Marcel and Grandgil have to cross over a place with two French policemen, Grandgil starts speaking in German to Marcel (reciting Heinrich Heine's 1827 poem "Mir träumt’: ich bin der liebe Gott") so the French policemen will think they're Germans (not knowing what Grandgil says) and leave them alone. It works like a charm. | |
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Properly Paranoid: Since he is selling food in complete illegality, Jambier has every right to be very suspicious of Grandgil when he comes to his secret cave: | |
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Deus ex Machina: In the end, Marcel and other prisoners are taken off by the Germans because a German colonel was murdered by La Résistance. He thinks that he will be summarily executed in retaliation for the murder. The epilogue shows that he survives and does not tell us how. | |
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Bittersweet Ending | |
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Bittersweet Ending: Marcel survives the war, but gets small jobs and still carries the others' suitcases. | |
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Only One Name: Grandgil is only known by this name. | |
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Coffin Contraband: A coffin is used to smuggle a black market pig past the checkpoints in German-occupied Paris. | |
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Slobs Versus Snobs | |
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Slobs Versus Snobs: Marcel, an unemployed taxi driver who resorts to dangerous odd jobs to survive, constantly quarrel with Grandgil, a rich and famous painter. In particular, Marcel is outraged when he realizes that Grandgil is rich and that he carried the meat with him just because it amused him. | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech | |
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"The Reason You Suck" Speech: Grandgil throws an epic one to a couple of unpleasant bartenders after he finds out they both can potentially denounce he and Marcel to the police and they employ a Jewish girl as a house slave of sorts. His rant extends to the bar's patrons, whom he famously calls "Salauds de pauvres!" ("bastard poor persons", literally). | |
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It Amused Me | |
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It Amused Me: Grandgil is a rich painter to begin with. He involved himself in this whole black market smuggling operation just for kicks. | |
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Large Ham | |
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Large Ham: Jean Gabin's presence in a movie is already impressive in itself, but here he really hammed it up. | |
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Fascists' Bed Time | |
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Fascists' Bed Time: Due to the curfew, imposed from midnight to 6am by German occupiers, Marcel and Grandgil often have to hide from patrols. | |
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Cultured Badass | |
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Cultured Badass: Grandgil surely can throw a punch and deliver badass The Reason You Suck Speeches, but he is also a painter and is knowledgeable about German poetry. | |
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Get Out! | |
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Get Out!: After the famous Ham-to-Ham Combat scene, Jambier is practically kicking out Martin and Grandgil out of his cave. | |
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Nervous Wreck | |
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Nervous Wreck: Jambier, though he has reasons to be nervous given how dangerous for his business Grandgil turns out to be. It helps that he was played by Louis de Funès, who would grow into a master of this trope for French cinema in the following years. | |
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Obfuscating Stupidity | |
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Obfuscating Stupidity: Grandgil passes for a naive man towards Marcel to get involved in Jambier's smuggling operation. It turns out he is not, and he's even smarter than pretty much everyone else in the movie. | |
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Cacophony Cover-Up | |
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Cacophony Cover Up: Marcel has to play accordion to cover the screams of the pig being slaughtered by Jambier, since Jambier is a Black Market butcher who wants to avoid attracting attention. | |
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Cunning Linguist | |
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Cunning Linguist: Grandgil is fluent in German. | |
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Hypocrite | |
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Hypocrite: Jambier is outraged when Martin demands 600 Francs for the ham delivery and accuses him of taking advantage of him. And this coming from someone who owns a lot of food and is pretty active on the black market. | |
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Mistaken for Destitute | |
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Mistaken for Destitute: Marcel thinks Grandgil is a humble painter (as in "house painter") who needs as much money as he does. Turns out Grandgil is a well off artist. | |
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Ham-to-Ham Combat | |
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Ham-to-Ham Combat: Bonus point for involving literal ham. In Jambier's basement storehouse, Grandgil finds out the load of pork he and Marcel have to smuggle throughout Paris is quite heavy and thus demands a substantial increase of his salary to Jambier, who refuses categorically. Grandgil then starts shouting Jambier's name and his address loudly and repeatedly, which makes everyone freak out as it could attract French police or German patrols. Jambier keeps refusing as loud as he can before giving up. Jean Gabin probably never went hammier than this, and Louis de Funès didn't have much trouble keeping up. | |
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Chubby Mama, Skinny Papa: The couple of bartenders. The husband is skinny, and his wife is chubby. | |
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