"Welcome to the North": How the box office miracle was made

Toby 2022-01-08 08:04:07

As a French film with strong local elements, the biggest ridicule is the difference between north and south, allowing the audience to see unexpected piles of embarrassment in the misleading expectations at the beginning. Northerners are rude, uncivilized, backward, cold... The real reality is not the case. As a result, such a small-cost production has become the most popular film in French film history, even surpassing "Escape from the Tiger's Mouth". If you don't understand the various French slang terms and have no sense of the difference between the north and the south of the French style, the audience may not watch it as happy as expected. This also has to be reminiscent of the box office miracle of the controversial comedy film "Tai囧" that has just been controversial in China. Compared with the two films, there are more or less similarities, although "Tai囧" is not known for its north-south differences.

Both are local movies, both are low-cost, and both are embarrassing things, and both have also created box office miracles. Judging from so many common points, it may give our filmmakers a little inspiration and re-certify the well-known saying: art originates from life and is higher than life. As long as it is living, it will resonate and resonate with the audience. As long as it is live, the fake can be true. What is out of life is true and false. Let us who are outsiders appreciate their unique comedy features, even if we can't fully understand it, we can understand what the hilarious jokes mean. Thus, a good understanding of the various humanistic contradictions and common emotions that are irreconcilable between French regional differences.

Of course, don’t mistake it for the family-friendly atmosphere of this film is the real French atmosphere. In this multi-ethnic French Republic that advocates freedom, all kinds of discrimination and racial conflicts are still relatively fierce. It is this kind of "fierce" foundation that has become the biggest attraction of the film. Attracted most of the French with "prejudice" psychology to see the explosion of all contradictions. At this point, as a member of the celestial dynasty, I have to flaunt how a country with a border of 9.6 million square kilometers merged the contradictions between ethnic groups. This is also worth learning from France, which has only 550,000 square kilometers.

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  • Johnathan 2022-04-21 09:02:59

    I really love French humor. I'm dying of laughter. Hahaha, the subtitles of eDonkey are even more funny. Hahaha! ! !

  • Liana 2022-03-17 09:01:06

    It’s weirdly difficult to understand humor in dialects like this, thanks to the good translation.