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'La Classe amricaine' (; ), also known as 'Le Grand Dtournement' ('The Great Dtournement'), is a 1993 French television film, written and directed by Michel Hazanavicius and Dominique Mzerette. It consists exclusively of extracts of old Warner Bros. films, put together and dubbed with new lines so as to create an entirely new film that is a parody of 'Citizen Kane'.

Plot



The film begins with the following lines appearing on screen, complete with deliberate spelling mistakes: "Attention! Ce 'flim' n'est pas un 'flim' sur le 'cyclimse'. Merci de votre comprhension." ("Attention! This is not a about . Thank you for your understanding.")

The story begins with the death of George Abitbol (John Wayne), described as the "Classiest man in the world", somewhere near the fictitious atoll of "Pom Pom Galli" in the "South Pacific" (a place taken from the Wayne movie 'The Sea Chase'). Reporters Dave (Paul Newman), Peter (Dustin Hoffman) and Steven (Robert Redford) investigate his death by going to meet people who knew him during his life in "Tegzas". They mostly investigate his last words: "Monde de merde" (French for "Shitty world").

Cast



Production



Warner Bros. had given the French film and television studio Canal+ Group the rights to use extracts of Warner Bros. films. Hazanavicius and Mzerette set about producing an entire film from cut-and-paste existing footage, and hired the usual French dubbers of John Wayne (Raymond Loyer), Paul Newman (Marc Cassot) and Kirk Douglas (Roger Rudel) to perform the dubbing. 'La Classe amricaine', which lasts seventy-two minutes, incorporates scenes cut from about fifty films, including 'All the President's Men', 'Rio Bravo', 'Band of Angels', 'The Cheyenne Social Club', 'Blood Alley', 'Bullitt', 'The Candidate', 'Chisum', 'The Cowboys', 'The Crimson Pirate', and 'When Time Ran Out'.

It is the third and last film of a triptych entitled 'Le Grand Dtournement', composed of 'Derrick contre Superman' (September 1992) and 'a dtourne' (December 1992).

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See also



* 'Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid'

*John Wayne filmography

* Mozinor

* Guy Debord

References




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