#The intouchables

[skulandcrossbones]

THE INTOUCHABLES (2011)

MOVIE REC ASK GAME: 3. A FOREIGN LANGUAGE MOVIE ↳ asked by @neinnonay

[mundancheemudomo]

🎥Favorite movies🎥

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[hollyyy555]

me core

[algerian-lady]

Dude I just hate it when they make movies about Algerians, without Algerians. Like what's the point to take our stories? There's millions out there that can be told but you take ours instead, thank you very much.

[sundaynightfilms]

The Intouchables, 2011

[musicmags]

[micpanda]

Top 5 movies?

this was harder than I thought bc apparently I did not realize how many movies I consistently discover and watch oops,, so these are super not in any specific order...

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (2013) - the cinematography is everything and the soundtrack is killer and its the definition of escapism

Leap Year (2010) - my go to rom com because it's so wholesome and oh my word so many tropes and it has Amy Adams and foreign accents are cute and did I mention tropes yet ?? ((road trip, one bed, mistaken for lovers, bickering, inside jokes)) ((other notable rom com mentions Someone Great (2019), Hitch (2005) because one is a classic that is oft referenced in my family and the other got me through my first breakup))

Good Will Hunting (1997) - I love these kind of thought provoking movies where you have to sit for a bit afterwards, similar vibes are Finding Forrester (2000), The Intouchables (2011), Interstellar (2014), etc

Soul (2020) - probably one of my favorite new age animation movies, the colour theory and composition is awesome and I fully support finding the joy in the small things of life

((I'm really bad at picking favorites and tops so here's a mixture of ties that I can't decide on with little to no context or explanation)) Les Miserables (2012) my go to cry inducer, Remember the Titans (2000) reminds me of my dad but also young Ryan Gosling, Spiderman Into the Spiderverse (2012), all of the Final Destination movies,, um um for any of my other top movies that I didn't list I apologize to you and fervently remind you that I still adore you even if you didn't run across my mind at this given point...

[valoale]

Omar Sy really is one of the best actors of all time and I won’t be convinced otherwise

[mostunderratedawards]

Most Underrated Movie

The Impossible

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

The Intouchables

The Dark Knight Rises

The Cabin in the Woods

Pitch Perfect

[nanasketchdump]

Finally managed to find a place to watch the movie 'The Intouchables' (I found it in French with English sub! Yaaay!!!) And I love these guys so much

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[dorothymaloneconstance]

Dorothy dans un épisode de la série Les incorruptibles.

[algerian-lady]

Algeria inspires, takes no credit.

There's a saying at mine that goes: "لعدوة حاجتها حلوة" (lit: the enemy's stuff is sweet) and it means that a person may treat you like shit, yet they will still seek your things and like them. I think it perfectly reflects how Hollywood (and the US in general) uses many countries as a source of inspo, appropriate their culture and history without giving them any credit.

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First of all, take any USAmerican and ask them to point out Algeria in the map, they'll be left dumbfounded, even though it's literally right in the middle of it. The now US president had even said that nobody knows about Algeria or cares about it, and don't get me wrong, I'm very happy that a bitch like him had never picked a map long enough to spot my country and make it a target of the US destruction machine. Alhamdolilah, I hope Trump will never have to pick a map and the geography stuff along with diplomacy ig is left for the ambassadors aboard. But I do think that film producers who hope to inspire from this country (or any other) need to pick up some books still.

Now listen, I know exactly what's happening in here, the Hollywood machine wants to make up for past mistakes and exclusion by representing a black cleopatra and Jugharatha, turning L and Ldpdl black and so on. But while in the later cases, it's completely alright, the formers aren't, because it treats real life material. I know Hollywood could care less about some ppl in north Africa saying they aren't black (let's frame them as racist while we're at it), all they care about is sounding woke and progressive to their own audiences but including vaguely African notions only to allow black American representation. I'm all about African American representation, but there's another representation people are missing here, something that is very important on this very instant and that is MENA representation.

With everything happening in MENA (because of the US) , with how much hate and dehumanizing and racist the US and the western media had been toward our region, it's more than necessary for artistic creations to make a statement, that no, we're not as backward and unimportant as the media makes us look like, that we have an imprint on history. This représentation is needed, when dumb fucks insults Algeria, when the US doesn't shy away from making a movie called "The Algerian" only for it to be about terrorism and extremism, whenever my country is shown, it's all about dictatorship and terrorism, yet producers dare to take our references without crediting us?

In the case of Dune, their movies are of to be boycotted because of how orientalist they are, that's what Swana ppl had been saying from the start and as a result I didn't watch the movies, but for ppl who read the books, they are found to be heavily inspired from the Algeria, the revolution, natives and there's mentions of Taghit in the Algerian desert, ofc none of it is credited and it doesn't have any aim of representation, the movie as a whole is no proper representation of the MENA region even when its inspired from it , it's just oriental Aesthetic.

With the movie gladiator 2, there's a part where they talk about Numidia, an Amazigh kingdom in the northern part of what is today Algeria, Amazigh are the native people of North Africa, they are light skinned in the north, from white skinned to brown, (Although Amazigh from the Sahara can be black), just like ancient Egyptians, that didn't stop the Roman empire from severally oppressing us (which is what the west and Europe had constantly been doing since ever). There's this extremist thinking that light skinned ppl don't belong in Africa, even when north Africa had always been historically lighter, this led some extremists to spread lies about our origins and try to falsify our history. That is extremely offensive, seeing that our region had seen its share of oppression, being lighter skinned has nothing to do with the west, it had never spared us any harm and can't group us with western countries. We are not Caucasians, we are Amazigh and Arabs (in this case, Amazigh).

In the case of the movie the intouchables, which is a great movie that talks about a rich disabled white man who becomes friend with a black man assisting him. The story is actually inspired from that of a French guy and his Algerian assistant, and could have been representing this, especially knowing how badly Algerians are treated in France, this could give Algerians a different image, and MENA ppl in general. But it's not in the Hollywood bucket list to give MENA representation and humanize that bunch of the world, ofc unless you sprinkle in some other kinds of anti islamic propaganda in there.

Algeria is a part of Africa, yes, and I'd love for there to be more panafricanisme like the old days, i do see Algeria improving on this regard lately , my country wants to be closer to its African brothers. But there's def always been a barrier there, starting from the locations of the regions, (North Africa being separated by a long desert from the rest of the continent) or by our histories, cultures and ethnicities, or simply by our politics. The reality of the thing is that not all Africans are the same, North Africans had always felt closer to the middle east than the rest of Africa, and that is okay, our continent is diverse and should be, being African shouldn't have only one strict definition, being united means accepting and respecting our divergence and diversity. We need our unity, because it creates our strength, otherwise we'll always be manipulated by the west.

In order to represent north Africa, we have to think of MENA and giving it justice, as much as the rest of Africa, that's the region double dimension, North Africa/The maghreb is situated between Europe, Asia and the rest of Africa, it's influenced by the three of them while being their own thing . But why I say that NA needs to be talked about in the MENA frame ? It's mainly bcz its already being addressed that way, all the time on TV and medias and everywhere , when they are insulting us, we are talked about negatively as SWANA, then if there's smth positive we're black Africans. That is unfair, just be true to the stories you tell, if it's a black Algerian, cast a black actor preferably an Amazigh or atleast make the character respect the region he came from. If it's a white or brown Algerian, cast an Algerian to play the role, an Amazigh at worst or smn who's profile is similar to them, but most importantly, whatever actor takes up the role; make them true to their origins, don't erase us.

Some day there will be a movie about a black American boxer winning a medal while fighting against the world and it'll be all about black empowerment when it should have been about Iman khelif, Algeria, the third world, MENA, Arabs, and brown women. What they wanna represent is good, it's great, but the story they didn't tell is the truth, and there's nothing more important than the just truth, they'll appropriate smn else's success story to empower oppressed people, that's great right? But do they really need that or want that? I don't think so.

Anyways, those are my two cents. If you don't know and don't care about Algeria, don't mention us, in evil or in good, because you won't be fair either way.

[sundaynightfilms]

The Intouchables, 2011