A magnificent example to illustrate this… In 1960, Steve McQueen was a rising young actor. He’s made a few films but it’s not yet the headliner he’ll soon become. He then landed a role in the blockbuster The Seven Mercenaries . The star of the film is Yul Brynner. Huge star at the time. Steve McQueen is […]

Here are two examples: The late French stuntman Antoine Baud (see above) declared in an interview that he “above all keeps a painful memory of Louis de Funès”, who had worked with him in Le Capitaine Fracasse (1961), Fantômas se dédélés (1965). ), Fantômas contre Scotland Yard and Les Grandes Vacances (both released in 1967). And by painful, he does not mean that they had serious arguments […]

In 1937, Jean Renoir filmed La grande illusion , which would become his masterpiece and one of the greatest films in history. The film tells the adventure of prisoners of war during the First World War. To play the role of the prison camp commander, Jean Renoir hired Eric von Stroheim, a great silent film director and […]

The bathroom scene in Mission Impossible: Fall Out is one of the most memorable in the film. Originally, it was supposed to be shot in four days, but it ended up taking several weeks because it was so complex to produce. During this sequence, there is a memorable shot where Henry Cavill, after taking a blow, stands […]

We have become accustomed to seeing entire worlds created from scratch in computer-generated images in the cinema. In these conditions, it is difficult to be ecstatic about a trick. However, I will cite two examples of breathtaking tricks that amazed me. The first is from the film “Captain America: The First Avenger”. The film itself […]

In 1956, Howard Hughes began producing an epic fresco centered on the character of Genghis Khan. The film is called The Conqueror and it will become one of the worst turnips in history, in particular because of the casting of John Wayne in the main role, more credible in the role of the cowboy than the Mongolian […]

Sigourney Weaver She’s a great actress, literally and figuratively. Tall in size (1m82) and tall in talent (awarded at the Oscars, Golden Globes, BAFTAs, etc.). The first time I saw her was in the cult Alien, the eighth passenger by Ridley Scott. And it is in particular thanks to her size that she was chosen to play […]

During the filming of his first scene in Django Unchained , Leonardo DiCaprio had to throw a bunch of “nigger” in the faces of the black actors present. In France, it is difficult to imagine the power of this word. No one was upset about a white actor using racist slurs in a movie. But in the […]

Let’s pay tribute to the writers of LOST, who had the genius to transform a problem they were facing into a magnificent storytelling trick. At the end of season 3, after having written 60 episodes built on the same model, namely the story of the adventures of the castaways on the island, interspersed with flashbacks […]