2023-11-28 14:45:25
By BG
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The film Les Tontons flingueurs by Georges Lautner was released in theaters in November 1963. Leemage/ Bridgeman Images
Georges Lautner’s parody thriller, with dialogue by Michel Audiard, continues to delight countless “tontonmaniacs”.
«Brutal, a blonde comac, a gogousse from Montauban, grisbi, the apple juice guy”… The fans Uncle gunslingers know by heart and repeat over and over again the stylized outbursts and other slang expressions from the film directed by Georges Lautner. On November 27, this cult parody thriller, inspired by the novel by Albert Simonin Grisbi or not grisbicelebrated its sixtieth birthday, without a wrinkle.
If the film owes a lot to the tight and rhythmic direction of Lautner – who loved to bring to life the lines said by actors as exceptional as Lino Ventura, Francis Blanche, Bernard Blier and others – it also owes a large part of its success to the devotion of “tontonmaniaques» admirers of the dialogues of Michel Audiard, who succeeded in making thugs speak almost like men of the world. With him “the man from the Pampas knew (sometimes) how to remain courteous».
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The phrasing of “little cyclist» did not always please the critics, especially when the film was released in 1963. But for several years, faced with undeniable success, the most distinguished French academics, those from the Sorbonne, ended up trying to analyze the secrets of these Audiardian replicas distilled with speckled foils or not according to the needs of the scene. We know, for example, that Michel Audiard chose to write short dialogues, “joker» to Lino Ventura, while he preferred to give long tirades to Bernard Blier, “the puzzle-style scatterer».
It would be impossible to go into detail about the often lively debates of the Sorbonne professors who fiercely dissected everything that made this very free adaptation of Albert Simonin’s novel Grisbi or not Grisbi has become in six decades the cult film par excellence. But to summarize, we can say that The Gunslingers are the sum of the talent as a cameraman and director of Georges Lautner, the linguistic discoveries of Michel Audiard, and the musical setting of a prince of sound, the imaginative Michel Magne. To paraphrase Fernand Naudin, alias Lino Ventura, we can conclude that “ the aces of the aces of cinema dare everything, and that’s even how we recognize them».
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