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The magazine “8:30 p.m. on Saturday”, presented by Laurent Delahousse just after the 8 p.m. news on France 2, reveals the little story in the big one, to leaf through like a family album.
The magazine “8:30 p.m. Saturday” (X), looks at two exceptional destinies, that of Alexandre Dumas, who defied all obstacles to become one of the greatest French writers, and that of Bruce Willis, the new hero of his generation full of self-deprecation, who has today become today a pop culture character.
The day when > Alexandre Dumas took his revenge
The new adaptation of Count of Monte Cristo was released on June 28 on the big screen, with Pierre Niney in the role of the character Edmond Dantès. A novel published in 1848 and which has not aged a day as its author, Alexandre Dumas, had a sense of action, suspense and twists, already proven with The three Musketeers.
Alexandre Dumas, like a screenwriter and producer, understood like no one else, before the invention of streaming platforms, the need to keep a story going, and regardless of the criticism. Like his characters, what animated him was the taste for revenge.
News > Bruce Willis, a new hero
During the 1980s, Ronald Reagan was in power and Hollywood didn’t do things by halves: in the movies Terminator, Predator Or Alienthe hero who saves the world wants to be virile and doesn’t really practice irony. Until the appearance of a new actor, who started as a waiter in Manhattan. He calls himself Bruno, and his cool attitude brings a breath of fresh air to the cinema.
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