The magazine “8:30 p.m. on Saturday” (Twitter), presented live by Laurent Delahousse just after the 8 p.m. news on France 2, reveals the small story in the big one, to leaf through like a family album. This new issue of season 5 tells the fairy tale of Julia Roberts with the film Pretty Woman and wonders: is French cinema afraid of happiness?
The day when > Julia Roberts makes her debut in ‘Pretty Woman’
She is one of the biggest stars in Hollywood. The love story that binds her to her audience hasn’t aged a bit since the release of the film Garry Marshall Pretty Woman (1990) which made her an icon. She has since won an Oscar for her role in Erin Brockovich and been voted “the most beautiful woman in the world” five times. Originally, his role in Pretty Woman wasn’t quite that one… The script was called 3,000 and was to end very badly for the actress. The young woman, almost unknown, was to die of an overdose… but another studio bought the script and radically changed the ending. “8:30 p.m. on Saturday” tells the fairy tale of Julia Roberts…
And also, happiness on screen, and in words…
Actu > Is French cinema afraid of happiness?
American directors excel in the art of happy endings. Their heroes save the world, find love, and often both. In France, there are significantly fewer “feelgood movies“, these films that do good. And yet, when there are some on the screens, they are a hit like Untouchables by Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano, released in 2011, with 32 million admissions worldwide, or even The Aries Family (2014), directed by Eric Lartigau. So why is French cinema afraid of happiness? The American writer Douglas Kennedy, a fine connoisseur of the cultural differences between the two countries, and Eric Lartigau give some answers…
Bonus > About Happiness
What is happiness ? Actors, comedians, writers each give their definition…
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– Julia Robertsby Frédéric Valmont (ed. Didier Carpentier).
– Cinderellaby the Brothers Grimm.
– psychoanalysis of fairy talesby Bruno Bettelheim (ed. Robert Laffont).
– The Movies That Made UsSeason 2 (Netflix documentary).
– Pop culture, reflections on dream industries and the invention of identities, by Richard Memeteau (ed. Zones).
Non-exhaustive list.
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