#La Règle du jeu (1939)

[alexjcrowley]

Polyamori could have saved The Rules of the Game (1939) but I don't want them to be saved

[greenerteacups]

Hello GT. I hope you're well.

I have such a random question that I was musing over today. If Lionheart!Daphne, Lionheart!Draco, Lionheart!Theo, and Lionheart!Ron went to the pictures what would each of their reactions be? What would their favorite movie be?

Oh! For a second I was baffled and fascinated by the bespoke combination of characters you'd grouped together until I realized... purebloods! The least likely four in the main cast to have ever seen a movie! I've got you. (To make this realistic, I'm limiting their repertoire to movies that came out before 1996.)

Daphne's favorite movie would be Sixteen Candles. She'd be a big fan of rom-coms in general, but that one would get her good. Sabrina and To Catch A Thief would be in her top 4 on letterboxd, but mostly just because she likes the outfits. Also, she would force the girls' dorm to sit through all four hours of Gone with the Wind, and she would sob buckets at the ending.

Draco would find movies interesting, but generally not his cup of tea; his closest reference would be plays, but my headcanon is that wizarding plays probably have sick special effects that make them much closer to movies than muggle plays are. The most interesting element for him would be technical elements like lighting and camerawork, and the shift in acting techniques that happens when you invent stuff like the closeup, etc., etc. I can see him getting really into French cinema circa 1940, especially satires or black comedies. I'm thinking his favorite is La règle du jeu (1939). In the original French, obviously.

Ron would like crime/thriller movies, and smart ones. The Godfather Part II is an obvious pick, as is Pulp Fiction. Deep affection for movies about Guys Who Are Friends Doing Cool Shit. Like, he goes ham for that scene in The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly where the two guys are walking through the shootout in the ghost-town. And the three-way standoff at the ending. He would try to get into Bond, but he would get irritated by all the hoity-toity gentleman-spy shit. (He'd love the Craig reboot, though.)

Theo, on the other hand... I'm torn. It would either be some classic psychological war epic like Apocalypse Now or — actually, no, it's Casablanca. He'd never tell you, though.

[dk-thrive]

The awful thing about life is this: everyone has their reasons.

— Octave (Jean Renoir), The Rules of the Game (La Règle du jeu). 1939.

[nine-frames]

La règle du jeu (The Rules of the Game), 1939.

Dir. Jean Renoir | Writ. Jean Renoir & Carl Koch | DOP Jean Bachelet

[detournementsmineurs]

Julien Carette et Odette Talazac dans "La Règle du Jeu" de Jean Renoir (1939), avril 2025.

[gatutor]

Jean Renoir-Paulette Dubost "La regla del juego" (La règle du jeu) 1939, de Jean Renoir.

[influence-sable]

La règle du jeu de Jean Renoir (1939)

[faerybites]

La règle du jeu, 1939. Dir.: Jean Renoir.

[relampagos]

'La règle du jeu'.- Jean Renoir (1939). IMDb. Filmaffinity.

[pfomtiwl-blog]

La Règle du Jeu (English: The Rules of the Game) (1939)

[fabiansociety]

if you've got a criterion subscription, you can watch The Rules of the Game there:

i too have made a movie list challenge, mostly trying to avoid movies i had seen on other list challenges, so.

How Many Of These Arbitrary Movies Have You Seen?

[lafiguraentutapiz]

La Règle du jeu. Jean Renoir. 1939

[detournementsmineurs]

“La Règle du Jeu” de et avec Jean Renoir (1939) et avec Nora Gregor, Marcel Dalio, Roland Toutain, Mila Parély, Paulette Dubost, Gaston Modot, Julien Carette, Edy Debray, Anne Mayen, Odette Talazac, Pierre Nay, Francœur, Claire Gérard, Pierre Magnier et Géo Forster, avril 2025.

[jacobwren]

“The awful thing about life is this: Everyone has their reasons.” Scene from La Règle du jeu (1939), a film by Jean Renoir.

[ardentesclipei]

« La règle du Jeu » directed by Jean Renoir (1939) True French Cinema masterpiece It’s the story of a drama happening between members of French high society of the time, mixing old nobility (old money) and bourgeois (nouveaux riches), under the household’s watch https://www.instagram.com/p/CpahYS7M3kP/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=