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The Intouchables
Intouchables
2011 · Film · 113 min
Directed by Éric Toledano, Olivier Nakache
A true story of two men who should never have met – a quadriplegic aristocrat who was injured in a paragliding accident and a young man from the projects.
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Hard to say 500 years out. 500 years ago takes us to before Bach's time. If we instead focus on the next 100 or so years:
- The Ministry for The Future, Kim Stanley Robinson (might be seen as an important historical marker of the spread of knowledge about climate change.)
- On the Nature of Daylight, by Max Richter?
- Coco (Pixar Film.)
- The Intouchables (Film)
- Possibly some of Brother Ali's recent discography? (Not sure if will be well known, but I predict a long shelf-life.)
TV/film - is there something new even remotely popular across the world that's French?
Indian here who doesn't know French - just finished watching all four seasons of Dix Pour Cent (Call My Agent) and really enjoyed it. I also watched Lupin (after learning that it stars Omar Sy who I loved in the movie The Intouchables).
I don't buy this article's premise (that there is too much recycled, unoriginal content).
You could make this same argument for all forms of art (music, TV, theater). They can all be explained the same way: the barrier for entry has decreased.
Anyone can upload music to Soundcloud or a video to Youtube. Now there are whole albums/TV series/movies being produced on these content networks as a result of a kind of indie discovery that never existed before. This is wonderful!
The benefit of all of that discovery is the same drawback: that anyone (good or bad) can enter the market. That means in order to capture the "average" audience you have to water down and dilute what is popular to appease everyone. Most pop music is unmemorable. Most pop movies are unmemorable. BUT, they are good enough to capture a wide enough audience to convince them to pay for it.
That doesn't mean there isn't great film to be found. Or music. It just requires a bit more discovery than your local pop Top 40 radio station or whatever they're peddling in the box office.
There have been so many great films in the last 20 years with original stories. Here's a bunch that I just rattled off the top of my head without much thought:
Boyhood, Interstellar, Inception, Spirited Away, Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind, Wall-E, The Intouchables (now called The Upside), Pan's Labyrinth, No Country for Old Men, There Will Be Blood, Amelie, Slumdog Millionaire
Intouchables is definitely an Afrostream movie. We want to show some positive characters who are Afro-descendants and it's definitely a movie which shows that
Hi, just a small question. Is "Intouchables" a film you would carry or does the majority of the cast need to be "African-American" (or Afro-French, Afro-Brazilian, etc etc)?