Santa Claus is garbage, is one of those cult Christmas films that is rebroadcast at the end of each year. Film of the 80s, it has not yet revealed all its secrets. Here are 5 things to know about this Christmas movie like no other.
It never goes unnoticed. And for good reason, it is one of the films that breaks the magical image of Christmas. Released in 1982, Santa Claus is trash is a film that has become a staple of the holiday season . The adventures of Josiane Balasko, Anémone, Christian Clavier, Marie-Anne Chazel, Thierry Lhermite and Gérard Jugnot on Christmas Eve continue to make people laugh.
The very first title found and chosen by the members of the Splendid troupe was not approved at all. Santa Claus shot himself in the ass was considered much more vulgar and shocking especially for children. Impossible then to break this image of the old bearded man dressed in red delivering Christmas presents. Although the title has been changed, in some theaters the name on the posters has been changed. Some cinema directors preferred to write Santa Claus is almost garbage .
The first minutes of the film show Gérard Jugnot disguised as Santa Claus walking the Grands Boulevards. But how to shoot a film treating Santa Claus as junk, in the streets of Paris? The production simply gave a false name . At the time, the adventures of the Bronzés were all the rage, which is why, to obtain authorization from the Paris City Hall, the false name Les Bronzés celebrate Christmas has been given. And it worked.
Who doubted the existence of doubitchous? The most famous of the armpit rolls did not come straight out of the imagination of the Splendid troupe, but during a trip to Croatia. Indeed, Josiane Balasko's father was born in Osjek. During a stay in her father's country of birth, the actress tasted many local specialties that inspired her to cook doubitchous .
SOS-distress-friendship has succeeded in crossing borders. It was in 1994 that the film was adapted across the Atlantic under the name Joyeux Noël (Mixed Nuts ). In the casting of this remake, Steve Martin, Liev Schreiber or Adam Sandler. However, he did not have the long-awaited success. It would have even been called one of the worst films ever made .
True. It was one of the actors, Gérard Jugnot, who revealed in his autobiography the existence of SOS-distress-friendship . "At that time I knew someone who, instead of taking care of his own children, spent a lot of time on the phone answering SOS friendship " he wrote at first before adding that this anecdote was the starting point.
"That was our starting point. With Thierry, Christian, Marie-Anne, Josiane and Bruno we imagined the chtarbé characters. It made us laugh, but we were afraid of being the only ones... ".
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