Well this is a pleasant surprise.
You may have missed it if you’re currently waking up from a coma but Western culture is having something of a moment with regards to how it portrays law enforcement in fiction. A moment that’s come about for no particular reason (incidentally #Blacklivesmatter) but has nonetheless made writers question if too often they portray the police in a positive light. Be it as hypercompetent sleuths, brutal anti-heroes or just lovable goofballs.
So, imagine what it felt like to watch 1998’s Taxi. A timely reminder that what we think of as ‘Western culture’ is not a monolithic entity. That there are in fact entire countries happy to portray the police as incompetent, over-militarised authority figures and the public as just the good-natured bystanders caught up in their antics.
Appropriately then Taxi positions as its hero a cocky young cab driver named Daniel Morales...
You may have missed it if you’re currently waking up from a coma but Western culture is having something of a moment with regards to how it portrays law enforcement in fiction. A moment that’s come about for no particular reason (incidentally #Blacklivesmatter) but has nonetheless made writers question if too often they portray the police in a positive light. Be it as hypercompetent sleuths, brutal anti-heroes or just lovable goofballs.
So, imagine what it felt like to watch 1998’s Taxi. A timely reminder that what we think of as ‘Western culture’ is not a monolithic entity. That there are in fact entire countries happy to portray the police as incompetent, over-militarised authority figures and the public as just the good-natured bystanders caught up in their antics.
Appropriately then Taxi positions as its hero a cocky young cab driver named Daniel Morales...
- 7/15/2020
- by Liam Macleod
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Preliminary figures show admissions were down 1.9% for first six months of 2018.
A heatwave and World Cup fever, as the French team secured its place in the semi-finals of the World Cup, taking place in Russia throughout June and July, have dented France’s box office for the first half of 2018.
Preliminary figures released by the Cnc on July 6 showed admissions were down 1.9% for first six months of the year, coming in at 103m entries against 105m in the same period for 2017. On a sliding year basis, admissions for the 12-month period to end-June stood at 207.4m against 211m for the period in the previous year,...
A heatwave and World Cup fever, as the French team secured its place in the semi-finals of the World Cup, taking place in Russia throughout June and July, have dented France’s box office for the first half of 2018.
Preliminary figures released by the Cnc on July 6 showed admissions were down 1.9% for first six months of the year, coming in at 103m entries against 105m in the same period for 2017. On a sliding year basis, admissions for the 12-month period to end-June stood at 207.4m against 211m for the period in the previous year,...
- 7/9/2018
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
Stars: Samy Naceri, Frédéric Diefenthal, Marion Cotillard, Manuela Gourary, Emma Sjöberg, Bernard Farcy, Georges Neri, Dan Herzberg, Sébastien Thiery, Philippe du Janerand | Written by Luc Besson | Directed by Gérard Pirès
Classic high-octane car chase thriller Taxi, created by renowned writer/director/producer Luc Besson, is cult action comedy about a speed freak taxi driver who is forced to make a deal with the police or lose his licence. The film has spawned three sequels, an American remake and a TV series which has sadly not found a UK broadcaster as yet. Now the original film, which introduced the world to high speed car chases and gallic action, hits Blu-ray courtesy of Second Sight, in a new high-def transfer that makes the film look as fresh and exciting today as it did on its debut in 1998.
Like a lot of more modern Besson movies, the plot of Taxi is relatively simple:...
Classic high-octane car chase thriller Taxi, created by renowned writer/director/producer Luc Besson, is cult action comedy about a speed freak taxi driver who is forced to make a deal with the police or lose his licence. The film has spawned three sequels, an American remake and a TV series which has sadly not found a UK broadcaster as yet. Now the original film, which introduced the world to high speed car chases and gallic action, hits Blu-ray courtesy of Second Sight, in a new high-def transfer that makes the film look as fresh and exciting today as it did on its debut in 1998.
Like a lot of more modern Besson movies, the plot of Taxi is relatively simple:...
- 11/6/2014
- by Phil Wheat
- Nerdly
Andy Serkis (Captain Haddock), Jamie Bell (Tintin), The Adventures of Tintin Peter Jackson will direct the sequel to The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn. We'll see if Jackson gets to beat the solid (early) box-office results of Steven Spielberg's first film in the planned trilogy. Partly assisted by costlier 3D tickets, The Adventures of Tintin earned $8.6 million in Belgium, France and the UK, where it opened on Wednesday (Oct. 26), following previews on Monday and Tuesday. In France, The Adventures of Tintin fared better than Toy Story 3 and the Shrek movies, and as per The Hollywood Reporter is expected to surpass $18 million by next Monday — reportedly placing its debut behind only James Cameron's Avatar among non-sequels. Perhaps — if one chooses to ignore inflation and higher 3D ticket prices. For in terms of ticket sales in France, Tintin is trailing no less than 22 movies according to Cbo-Box office (via excessif.
- 10/28/2011
- by Zac Gille
- Alt Film Guide
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