In January 2004, Alain Chabat offered us a completely crazy comedy, Rrrrrr. After the mission triumph Cléopatra two years earlier, the director operated a 180 degree turn with this absolutely delusional proposal.
Prehistoric comedy
The filmmaker transported us 37,000 years ago, in the heart of two neighboring tribes who lived in peace … near a hair. While the clean hair tribe flowed peaceful days while keeping for itself the secret of the shampoo formula, the dirty hair tribe was lamented.
His chief decided to send a spy to steal the recipe. But a much more serious event was to upset the life of clean hair: for the first time in the history of humanity, a crime had just been committed. How to discover its author? In the time of mammoths and the Moumoutes begins the first police investigation in history.
Unfortunately, if Mission Cleopatra was a huge success with 14.5 million admissions, RRRRR suffers from an icy reception on the critical side at the time. The comedy, carried by a skewer of stars, still succeeds in attracting 1.7 million spectators; However, it took time for the public to rediscover it on video and make a cult work.
“We don’t all lived it as the same. In fact, the one who took expensive, it was Alain Chabat, because he came out of asterix, and it was necessary to make him pay asterix. So the Parisian had titled: ‘No!’”said Jean-Paul Rouve said on the set of C the weekly.
“Alain lived it badly. Yes, we all lived it badly, and I have a little less because I was lucky, at the same time as it came out, I was released podium which was a big success. Sight, you are in this mixture, so you suffer less than your friends. I know that PEF has suffered a lot. It is the life of cinema. And we found him funny, our film, and he became cult “said the actor.
A replica that has become cult
Indeed, the public took hold of Rrrrrr, in particular thanks to the memorable replicas punctuating the film, some of which have since passed in everyday language. For example, for 21 years now, when the light is turned off, that the sun is falling, or that you are about to go to bed, you love charting the following sentence: “It’s going to be all black!” There, if we are in the company of a person who has the reference, she will necessarily answer: “Shut up !”
This delusional little dialogue returns several times in Rrrrrr. Pierre, the night preventor, delivers this reply to the inhabitants of the village, signaling the sunset. Embodied by Pascal Vincent, he shouts “It’s going to be all black” By wandering in the alleys. His fellows then replied one by one with a “Shut up” Well felt!
This rehearsal comic was the prerogative of the Robin des Bois troupe, formed at the time by Marina Foïs, Jean-Paul Rouve, Pierre-François Martin Laval, Maurice Barthélémy and Elise Larnicol. Alongside Alain Chabat, the troubles injected their wacky humor, very focused on word games and ubiquitous and offbeat situations.
If you want to (re) see this delirious comedy, you can go to the Prime Video and Disney+platforms.
Original article published on Allociné
