La cité de la peur
La cité de la peur (pronounced pretty much as it is written - means City of Fear) is a 1994 movie by gang of comedians called Les Nuls (The idiots/zeroes/useless). After a very successful show on French TV Canal Plus, this first (and so far, only) full-length movie has had considerable impact on French culture. From its cult dance scene (La Carioca) to countless quotes and silly visual gags, La cité de la peur is packed with non-stop humor.
Some random examples:
Prenez un chewing-gum, Emile (for the correct "French" pronunciation, try "shwingum"): have a chewing-gum, Emile. Any time you offer a chewing-gum to a French man, call him Emile and you automatically imply he has bad breath.
- Vous voulez un whisky ?
- Juste un doigt.
- Vous voulez pas un whisky d'abord ?
- Do you want a whisky ?
- Just a finger
- Don't you want a whisky first ?
Very classy. And on that note let's end with the French joke of the day.
Go to the French Google site, www.google.fr and do a search on toutesdesbeautés ("all beauties", in one word). Google proceeds to suggest an interesting spelling correction that I'll cover some other time.
Some random examples:
Prenez un chewing-gum, Emile (for the correct "French" pronunciation, try "shwingum"): have a chewing-gum, Emile. Any time you offer a chewing-gum to a French man, call him Emile and you automatically imply he has bad breath.
- Vous voulez un whisky ?
- Juste un doigt.
- Vous voulez pas un whisky d'abord ?
- Do you want a whisky ?
- Just a finger
- Don't you want a whisky first ?
Very classy. And on that note let's end with the French joke of the day.
Go to the French Google site, www.google.fr and do a search on toutesdesbeautés ("all beauties", in one word). Google proceeds to suggest an interesting spelling correction that I'll cover some other time.
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