The french revolution

Part 2


The french are Angry

And we all know why, or don´t we?

Well let me give you my toughts of why the french movie makers are so angry, frustrated and make their movies like they do.







Phan Thị Kim Phúc was 9 years old when her skin burned far beyond imagination, she cried and screamed for help.


She ran naked across the Vietnam village Trang Bang the 8th of June 1972 after the american napalm bombed her village..







In 2008, Jessie Pham runs away.



Broken, beaten, blody in her underwear, away from her torturere.
Phan Thi Kim Phúc did ran for real.
Jessie Pham did run in the movie Martyrs. See the similarity in the pictures?















Pascual Laugier created a monster with his Martyrs.



”In the midst of a tense period and following a shooting that killed an 11-year-old boy in the banlieue (suburb) of La Courneuve in June 2005, Sarkozy quoted a local resident and vowed to clean the area out "with a Kärcher" (nettoyer la cité au Kärcher, referring to a well-known German brand of pressure cleaning equipment), and two days before the 2005 Paris riots he referred to the criminal youth of the housing projects as voyous (thugs) and racaille, a slang term which can be translated into English as rabble, scum or riff-raff;[94] this was criticised as being inappropriate language by the French Communist Party's L'Humanité.[95]”
Read more under Controversies
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Sarkozy














In 2007, Xavier Gens made a movie about the frustration and anger during the Paris riot. Frontier(s) had hit the big screen.



Frontier(s) starts as the Paris riots and burns after an right wing party (nazi party) has won the election.
So Alex, Tom, Farid and Yasmine flee the city (yes they are all muslims) and they somehow think that they are safe - but, they meet up with a group of Neo Nazis and gets tortured and beaten way beyond your wildest nightmares.
























The French Revolution (1789–1799) was made and the french king was killed.

Now, the french horror/extreme movie filmmakers such as Xavier Gens, Pascual Laugier, Alexandre Bustillo/Julien Maury makers of À l'intérieur a.k.a. Inside, David Moreau and Xavier Palud makers of Ils (Them, who actually also is based on a true story), Alexandre Aja ( Haute tension a.k.a. High tension or Switchblade romance)
and Gaspar Noe´ (Irréversible) tries to make their own french revolution.

Are you brave enough to join the revolution?
Or will we not learn anything this time either?

















Sidenote:
Morjana El Alaoui


(who plays Anna in Martyrs) is a muslim (born in Casablanca, Marocco. And in Casablanca, the 1942 movie with Humprey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. Humprey and Ingrid are meeting eachother and Nazis aswell - them sick fockers are everywhere).









More about Phan Thị Kim Phúc and her foundation.
http://www.kimfoundation.com/

Also another foundation worth mentioning; The Hiroshima foundation. Edita Morris was born in Örebro Sweden.
http://www.hiroshimafoundation.net/IeIndexE.asp

....and, the horrors of the Hiroshima bombing. Of course there are movies about that also.
Hadashi no Gen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lDFLLKSkUg
Hotaru no haka
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RbEyjUsWKZA

Hotaru no haka is based on the real events. It is an adaptation of the semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by Akiyuki Nosaka, intended as a personal apology to the author's own sister who lost her life during the Hiroshima bomb.

Isao Takahata was the only living animator involved on the project (Hotaru no haka) who had survived bomb blasts.