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Zazie dans le Métro
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Zazie dans le Métro (which translates as Zazie in the Subway, sometimes simply called Zazie) is a 1960 French film directed by Louis Malle. It is based on the Raymond Queneau novel of the same name.A middle-aged man named Gabriel (Philippe Noiret) comes to the train station in Paris. His sister Jeanne is visiting the city from somewhere else to have a weekend of sex with her lover, so she dumps her daughter Zazie (Charlotte Demongeot), approximately ten years old, in Gabriel's care for the weekend. Zazie, as it turns, out, is a proto-Bart Simpson from France, with a foul mouth and a highspirited attitude who delights in insulting her neighbors. Her one goal in her weekend visit with her uncle is to ride the Paris Metro...but it's on strike.A weekend of comic adventures ensues. The wacky plot incidents that occur over Zazie's madcap visit include: a horde of German groupies who chase after Gabriel, a comically ineffectual pedophile (really), a chase scene that's essentially a live-action Tex Avery cartoon, and a bar brawl. The entire film is nonstop surrealism. | |
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Facecam | |
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Facecam: There are several shots of Gabriel's absurdly beautiful wife Albertine framed this way. First, there are multiple shots of her walking down the hallway of the apartment, face held still in the picture Facecam style. Then when she rides her moped to the dance hall where Gabriel performs, she's framed this way again. | |
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Ash Face | |
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Ash Face: During the Live-Action Cartoon Zazie whips out a gun and pulls the trigger, leaving the pedophile covered completely in ash. | |
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Undercrank | |
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Undercrank: Done repeatedly to reinforce the mood of bizarre surrealism, as people move around erratically. For one particular scene, the actors playing Gabriel and Zazie walked very slowly in a crowd scene while the camera was turned at 12 fps. So when the film was sped up to normal speed of 24 fps, they appeared to be walking normally while everyone else appeared to be zooming around them. | |
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Extremely Short Timespan | |
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Extremely Short Timespan: One very wacky weekend. | |
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| Zazie dans le Métro / int_2a6a8e89 | type |
Sadist Teacher | |
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Sadist Teacher: Discussed Trope, as Zazie says she wants to be a teacher specifically so she can be this. She proclaims that she'll jab her students in the butt with a compass and fill their mouths with chalk. | |
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Hammerspace | |
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Hammerspace: Where Zazie must have gotten the gigantic magnet—it's at least three feet long—that she uses against the pedophile, who is on roller skates. | |
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Groupie Brigade | |
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Groupie Brigade: For no obvious reason, four very good-looking young German women (the bus driver calls them "Gretchens") on the Paris tour bus attach themselves to Gabriel at the Eiffel Tower, swooning over him, cuddling with him and touching him. They follow him around for the rest of the movie, despite his occasional efforts to ditch them. | |
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Pie in the Face | |
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Pie in the Face: People fling pies at each other during the wild, chaotic brawl that ends the film—except that they aren't pies, they're plates of pasta and sausage. | |
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Trash the Set | |
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Trash the Set: It doesn't really count as Proscenium Reveal because the movie has obviously been presented as a movie earlier—the cafe set keeps getting remade from scene to scene to scene. But the bar brawl that ends the film totally destroys the restaurant set that it's being filmed in, then destroys another set apparently built around that one. Before it's over cameramen and boom mic operators are getting swallowed up in the chaos. | |
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Childish Tooth Gap | |
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Childish Tooth Gap: Zazie has a gap between her front teeth. | |
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Bookends | |
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Book Ends: Opens with a POV shot of a train pulling into Paris. Closes with the exact same POV shot, except the reverse, of a train pulling out of Paris. | |
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Blind Mistake | |
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Blind Mistake: A woman is reading a magazine on a park bench—upside down. Gabriel's eyeglasses fall all the way from the top of the Eiffel Tower and land right on her nose. With Gabriel's glasses on, she flips the magazine right-side up. | |
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Even the Girls Want Her | |
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Even the Girls Want Her: How gorgeous is Albertine? Mado, the waitress in the cafe downstairs, tells her she's hot and urges her to change into something more revealing. | |
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Comedic Lolicon | |
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Vittorio Caprioli who first appears as the Comedic Lolicon, and then keeps appearing in different roles—he's a policeman, he's a fascist general, he's a ticket taker on the train. | |
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Balloonacy | |
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Balloonacy: Gabriel's four German groupies each grab one balloon from the guy who is releasing them from the top of the Eiffel Tower, apparently to study the wind. All four of the girls gently descend to the ground. | |
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Jump Cut | |
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Jump Cut: Used many times to reinforce the surrealist mood. In many scenes characters simply pop in and out of different places in a room, sometimes in the middle of a conversation, like the cafe owner downstairs who materializes in three different places as he complains about Zazie's bad manners. | |
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Surrealism | |
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Surrealism: Many many examples from beginning to end. During the scene where the pedophile is strolling around with Zazie, there are repeated shots of a man playing an air violin, as violin music is heard on the soundtrack. There's a guy in a polar bear suit at the top of the Eiffel Tower. Also at the top is a sea captain—who is splashed by a wave. At the flea market where the pedophile buys Zazie blue jeans, someone is selling a child. The child is wearing a sign that says "SECONDHAND". Only vaguely registering the "secondhand" baby for sale, Zazie picks up a boot from a display and is startled when it begins playing a music box tune. When the pedophile takes Zazie for moules frites, half of her dialogue when she is telling him her life story is played in reverse. The entire Live-Action Cartoon chase sequence, which is just that, a long sequence of the film shot to closely mimic an old Tex Avery cartoon. At one point in the scene Zazie turns into two different Zazies, one of which throws the blue jeans over the pedophile's head to another one. Vittorio Caprioli who first appears as the Comedic Lolicon, and then keeps appearing in different roles—he's a policeman, he's a fascist general, he's a ticket taker on the train. At one point during the climactic Bar Brawl, the cobbler produces a shoe gun, and shoots somebody. The bird in the cage gets hit with a spray of water, and turns into a dog. In a scene where the pedophile is talking to the cobbler downstairs, the cobbler suddenly turns into a black man, and then turns right back. | |
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Bar Brawl | |
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At one point during the climactic Bar Brawl, the cobbler produces a shoe gun, and shoots somebody. | |
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Bar Slide | |
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Bar Slide: The pedophile orders a glass of white wine; one instantly appears and slides across the table to him. | |
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Free-Range Children | |
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Free-Range Children: When told that Zazie is escaped and is running around Paris all by herself, all Gabriel does is go to bed. | |
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Drag Queen | |
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Drag Queen: Gabriel's job, as a drag queen performer in a late night review. Unfortunately we never get to see him do it, but we do see the gigantic dress that he wears for the performance. | |
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Bait-and-Switch | |
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Bait-and-Switch: A smiling Gabriel waits for Jeanne as she dashes to him...and right past him and into the arms of her boyfriend. | |
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Sir Swears-a-Lot | |
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Sir Swears-a-Lot: Zazie curses a lot. When she is told that the Metro is closed for a strike, she says "Damn and shit!" | |
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Live-Action Cartoon | |
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The entire Live-Action Cartoon chase sequence, which is just that, a long sequence of the film shot to closely mimic an old Tex Avery cartoon. At one point in the scene Zazie turns into two different Zazies, one of which throws the blue jeans over the pedophile's head to another one. | |
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Karma Houdini | |
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Karma Houdini: It may be Unreliable Narrator, but Zazie claims that her mother chopped up her father with an ax, and was acquitted. In fact, everyone congratulated her after. | |
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Video Credits | |
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Video Credits: Film clips of all the main characters appear along with their names at the end. | |
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RoofHopping | |
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Roof Hopping: The pedophile chases Zazie over some roofs during the Live-Action Cartoon sequence. | |
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Fauxlosophic Narration | |
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Fauxlosophic Narration: Gabriel's ridiculous monologue atop the Eiffel Tower, made doubly ridiculous by the over-the-top Large Ham way he delivers it. | |
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Nobody Here but Us Statues | |
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Nobody Here but Us Statues: At one point in the Live-Action Cartoon sequence, Zazie has the good luck to encounter some statues that are the same size as her and dressed identically to her. She hides among them while the puzzled pedophile tries to figure out which one is her. | |
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Mouthy Kid | |
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Mouthy Kid: Zazie is very mouthy, complaining loudly about the Metro being closed, pestering Gabriel about whether or not he's a homosexual, and generally being a pest. | |
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Conversation Cut | |
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Conversation Cut: The pedophile has finally cornered Zazie in a crowd of people by pretending to be a shopkeeper that she stole the blue jeans from. The crowd is jabbering excitedly, some disapprovingly about wayward youth, some urging the shopkeeper to have sympathy—and suddenly the whole crowd is at the front door to Gabriel's apartment. | |
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Running Gag | |
| Zazie dans le Métro / int_f9f2c33 | comment |
Running Gag The bumbling pickpocket. He tries to pick Gabriel's pocket and pulls out an alarm clock. He gets his hand stuck in Mme. Mouaque's purse. Gabriel and Charles continually misidentifying the same church as different buildings - Panthéon, La Madeleine, Caserne de Reuilly... And then it is misidentfied by the official Paris guiding tour as the medieval Sainte-Chapelle! (It is in fact the 19-century church of Vincent de Paul.) The cafe below the apartment where Gabriel lives is revealed to be a set. It's continually being redecorated and changed to a different set. | |
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