The One About Francois Truffaut
So while I enjoy my undefined workplace interregnum, I've been watching famous movies on Netflix. Francois Truffaut's "The 400 Blows", however, is not available in Netflix's catalog, and I wanted to see what all the fuss was about fifty years back, so I drove my physical form, away from the computer, to the library, and checked out the DVD. Daily human interaction complete.
What's the movie about? A misunderstood adolescent who steals a typewriter and stirs up trouble (faire les quatre cents coups, sacrebleu!) in working-class France.
There's plenty of cursing, emotional abuse, and tomfoolery, which was supposed to reflect the director's real life. I hope he at least had that sweet plaid jacket the kid wears in the movie.
After scrolling through the "French New Wave" section of Wikipedia, I discovered that this was a pretty big deal in a France where only established directors made films, which had to be drawn from "important" (famous literature, Greek stuff) themes. So Truffaut helped popularize a genre that introduced scruffy teens, cheap film equipment (like sticking a camera in a shopping cart for a tracking shot), and non-linear narrative. I'm generalizing, and apparently all these New Wavers stole lovingly from Jean Vigo, who lived in the 30s and had great hair... but don't we always steal from people with great hair?
What's the movie about? A misunderstood adolescent who steals a typewriter and stirs up trouble (faire les quatre cents coups, sacrebleu!) in working-class France.
There's plenty of cursing, emotional abuse, and tomfoolery, which was supposed to reflect the director's real life. I hope he at least had that sweet plaid jacket the kid wears in the movie.
After scrolling through the "French New Wave" section of Wikipedia, I discovered that this was a pretty big deal in a France where only established directors made films, which had to be drawn from "important" (famous literature, Greek stuff) themes. So Truffaut helped popularize a genre that introduced scruffy teens, cheap film equipment (like sticking a camera in a shopping cart for a tracking shot), and non-linear narrative. I'm generalizing, and apparently all these New Wavers stole lovingly from Jean Vigo, who lived in the 30s and had great hair... but don't we always steal from people with great hair?
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