On January 12, 2024, the movie "The Story of a Flying Fly", which was featured on the cover of "Cahiers du Cinema" and premiered at the Venice International Film Festival, was exclusively broadcast online on "Huanxi Premiere", a streaming media platform owned by Huanxi Media. When you see the big fly on the poster, you may have a lot of questions above your head, but as long as you follow the camera, I believe this movie will bring you a lot of happiness.
Speaking of Quentin, the world may know the American Quentin from "Pulp Fiction", but in fact, in France, there is another French "Quentin" who is famous for his weirdness and is often compared with David Lynch - he is Quentin Dupieux.
Dupieux is a director who is "not doing his job properly", more like a "slash youth". His other two identities are electronic musician and DJ. When he was young, he was obsessed with watching video tapes, which inspired his dream of directing. Since he wanted to score movies, he also started making music by the way.
When it comes to Dupieux, absurd, nihilistic and nonsensical are definitely unavoidable adjectives. His movies always have a weird setting: how car tires turn into cold-faced killers, and the uncle who wears deerskin becomes obsessed with leather and starts killing people.
Dupieux rebels against convention, satirizes reality, and occasionally mocks the audience. His works do not follow film rules and are very productive. He takes turns filming in the United States and France, and is also a screenwriter, editor, and photographer. He has completed more than ten "feature films" so far.
Generally speaking, most of the "nonsensical" and "short, flat and fast" products have mediocre qualifications, but Dupieux's path as a director has been particularly smooth. In "Rubber Tire Killer", Quentin made a name for himself in the film industry by his tricks. His films have received good reviews and he has a loyal following of fans.
Little flies are of great use, a weird and interesting story caused by flies
In "The Story of Fly Breeding", the protagonists Manu and Jean-Gabe are two young men. They have nothing to do and wander around, somewhat like the "recalcitrants" in citizen comedies.
At the end of the rope, Manu received a delivery business worth 500 euros. During the delivery, the brothers discovered a giant fly that no one had ever seen lying in the trunk of the car.
Jean-Gabe came up with a crazy idea. If flies could be trained to be thieves, the two would never have to deliver goods again. So the two brothers robbed an RV to use as a training ground for the flies. They trained flies during the day, slept with the flies at night, cooked and burned the RV, and were unexpectedly invited into the mansion. They staged a ridiculous farce for several days.
Starting from the sunny tune at the beginning, "The Story of Breeding Flyes" demonstrates its "playful" nature. The film was shot in Southern France, where Dupieux spent his childhood, and the filming process was quite casual. The plot of the movie is simple, everything is in the service of relaxation, the low-saturated picture is full of dreaminess, and even the bicycle has unicorn wings.
If this movie has any "meaning", it is that this movie allows people to experience the luxury of squandering time in a fast-paced, high-pressure life. It feels like having an afternoon party with friends. No one knows what will happen in the planned adventure, but the happy feeling at that time can be remembered for many years.
Dupieux, who is good at spoofing Hollywood genre films, pays homage to the disappearing "idiot comedy" in "The Story of a Breeder." It combines classic ingredients such as brotherly loyalty and nonsensical jokes with Dupieux's weird settings to create a hodgepodge.
Around the turn of the millennium, the emergence of works such as "Miss White", "The Adventures of Bill and Ted", and "The Jackass Show" made this kind of "dumb buddy" comedy very popular. However, in recent years, American comedies have been dismal at the box office, and political correctness has gradually replaced offensive culture. Comedies may not be able to regain their former glory.
Unlike structural comedy, this type of silly comedy relies heavily on actor performance. Dupieux found comedy partners Grégoire Rudiger and David Marseille. Manu and Jean-Gabe, one is an empty-headed fool and the other is a strategist who makes suggestions. The two collided and created an excellent chemical reaction.
The most surprising thing is the stunning French beauty Adele Exalhouboulos. 11 years ago, a film "Adele's Life" turned out, in which the 15-year-old girl Adele and the blue-haired girl Emma's Story won the Palme d'Or at the 66th Cannes Film Festival.
In "The Story of the Breeder", Adele "disfigured" played a neurotic, brain-damaged rich girl. She had doubts about her brother's motives for living in the mansion from the beginning. What is she? Sick or not, let’s watch the hilarious rendition of the movie.
Of course, the big star of the movie - "The Fly" also has a big background, because it is either a special effect or a "real" fly. After studying a lot of information about flies, the puppeteer and a dog who was willing to devote himself to art jointly completed the gorgeous transformation of the character "fly".
Du Piao "has exhausted his talent"? He doesn't care at all
Because of Dupuy's high-yield style of one film a year, many fans who have followed him since the "Rubber Tire Killer" and "Deerskin" days have gradually developed aesthetic fatigue. If it breaks away from the hunting style of killing and death, and does not have structural tricks such as "real" and "unbelievable but true", Dupuyo's film relies only on setting, like a short-lived fast-moving consumer goods.
In Dupuillot's recent film reviews, although there are many praises, there are also common remarks that Dupuillot has exhausted his talent. Coupled with the "French David Lynch" analogy, it will inevitably disappoint many movie fans.
At this point, Dupuillo himself thinks very clearly: he just wants to make interesting movies. The source of Dupieux's high productivity is not that he shoots casually, but that he has too many ideas. Often, by the time a movie is finished, Dupieux still has two scripts in hand.
Of course, grasping the boundaries of how to be "interesting" without being offensive is what Dupieux thinks the most about movies. This is also the reason why many people love and hate him. You know you are facing a plate of strange-flavored beans, but you still can't help but want to taste them. This is the magic of Dupuyo's movies.
What is very commendable about Dupieux is that he started out in films with weird ideas. After becoming famous, he still made these weird, unconstrained and illogical stories, and did not get involved in unfamiliar genres.
"The Story of a Fly Breeder" is actually an organic combination of the worlds of adults and children, giving adults a chance to dream about adventure. The same is true for the "special photography" tribute "Smoking Makes a Cough" screened at the Beijing Film Festival.
He has a strong ability to integrate genre films and deconstruct reality for his own use, and gradually formed his own style. In addition to ridicule, the works are not all grotesque sketches that are forgettable after reading them. They all reflect and satirize the current society to a certain extent.
"The Bad Cop" describes an "alternative bad policeman" who destroys corpses and bullies people, raising a sense of moral crisis and existential crisis. "Yannick" is hailed as Dupieux's best work in recent years. The film reflects the prevalence of anti-elitism and was nominated for the Best Film Golden Leopard Award at the 76th Locarno International Film Festival.
In Dupuillot's latest work "Dada dada dadali!" In the comment area of ", people who like him said enthusiastically: If you work harder, you will definitely be able to make a five-star movie! Audiences who like Dupieux love him more and hate him more. The movie is like a piece of plasticine in his hand, kneading and creating at will, without following any rules.
There is no road in the world. When more people walk, it becomes a road. But there are also people who open up new paths beyond the existing ones. Maybe Dupieux, who made his fortune from weird rubber tires, will actually win a grand prize one day? As long as he kept creating, anything was possible.
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