Well no, let’s see. There are no silly questions in this column, contrary to what Daniel Bélanger claims in the magnificent song dream better.
On the other hand, my answers to your questions, I grant you, do not always fly very high, it is certainly a case of repressed vertigo. Let’s try to raise the bar in this new edition of the remote control mail, which has been cobbled together from real messages from readers with real questions about the wonderful world of TV.
Let’s start with Sylvain A., who wonders why police forces never bear their real name in Quebec TV series. Like the Security of Quebec instead of the Sûreté du Québec?
Here is the answer. Like a hockey team, the Sûreté du Québec is a registered trademark, with exploitation rights on its logo, its name, its uniform, lark. To use it on screen, you have to sign a detailed contract with the provincial police force, which is not cheap, I am told.
The TV series Three Pines of Prime Video recently negotiated with the SQ, and paid a large sum, to have Inspector Armand Gamache (Alfred Molina) work for the real Sûreté du Québec and not the Sécurité du Québec.
To avoid these negotiations, which slow down the pace of creation, scriptwriters and producers prefer to modify the names and logos of police forces to operate freely, without having to report to a senior officer.
Let’s move on to Marie-France R., who noticed that car door windows “are almost always open, summer and winter, in soap operas”. Are the characters running out of fresh air or what?
According to the director of 5e Rank, Christian Laurence, a mounted window produces reflections on the screen and reduces the brightness in the car. This is why our protagonists always drive with the windows down.
Raymond V. and his friends did not understand the first five minutes of the miniseries The night when Laurier Gaudreault has woken up Club illico: “But who is laid half-naked under a burning flag? Who is the woman at the window who is threatened by the kidnapper? »
This scene serves to illustrate the latent homophobia that reigns in Val-des-Chutes and the lady, like many inhabitants of the municipality, is a silent witness. From memory, it is to the victim of this savage aggression that the child of Julien (Patrick Hivon) apologizes, by force.
Louise C. cringes and clenches her fists when she hears a character talk about “fingerprints” in her favorite series. “Can you inform the radio-television world that the words ‘imprint’ and ‘borrow’ are not interchangeable? “, she implores.
Record set, Mme Louisa. It’s a loan from the dictionary that will certainly leave a beautiful imprint on the collective psyche, we hope.
A fan of reality shows, Marie L. wants to know “why the production of Big Brother Celebrities does it blur the cigarettes of participants who smoke on the terrace”?
Noovo did not want to answer this question. In fiction, it is allowed to smoke a cigarette. Also in documentaries. But in a reality show? There is still a vagueness, a thick cloud, will say the most lit.
There Tobacco Control Act prohibits all indirect advertising of a tobacco product. So, to avoid potential trouble with government authorities, Noovo is going to face the blows by pixelating the cigarettes of Mona de Grenoble and LeLouis Courchesne.
Addict to Reasonable doubt, Sylvie B. asks herself: “What is the tube in which the GICCS police officers put their weapons before going out on an intervention that could require the use of this one? »
This gizmo is called a ballistic unloading well. It is designed to absorb lead should a bullet accidentally go off while the cop is loading or unloading his gun.
Now, a little animal lesson, courtesy of Émilie C., who had a good laugh when a grizzly appeared in the fourth episode of the miniseries Three Pines. “There are no grizzly bears in Estrie, the director should be reminded of that,” she slips. Thanks to our D.D Kfoury de salon!
Like many of her televore comrades, Mireille H. denounces the abuse of text messages that appear on the screen in the series here. “You can’t see what’s written and the person receiving the text message doesn’t read it aloud. I volunteer with seniors and they drop out of the show. The TV series are not mainly followed by young people with lynx eyes, ”she notes.
Good news, Mireille. On the text message side, the trend of the moment leans towards the maxi, the oversized and the large letters, as we have seen in the excellent series Before the crash, at Radio Canada. No need for a magnifying glass or a giant screen!
To conclude, Francine J. is worried about my mental health a few weeks before the big departure of the best worst Quebec soap opera. “You who don’t think you’ll survive the end of The breakawaymy solution is that you go to consult, because you have a serious problem”, she notes.
Between Anatole’s (Martin Drainville) big reversal, Keven’s (Thomas Boonen) fallback plan, and my obsession with Saint-Coq and Baby-Q Bar, who most needs to sit down with psychiatrist Leila Khouzam (Nathalie Doummar), huh?