Jacques Tati's globalization gag 1965

[mwfinkbeiner]

@redcardinalist - The original script involved visits to many cities, all of which would look the same. The globalization word hadn't come into use yet, but the point of this video, as Tati explained it to me as the American kid (I was 17 then), is that's all that remained of Paris. The reflection of the Eiffel tower was merely that - a misty memory seen through modern looking glass. All of Tati, starting with the postman on the bicycle, carries this sub-text against modernity. YouTube it!

[redcardinalist]

Nice video!

I don't know why people think that the "old" Paris in Playtime has been swept away and nothing remains but the modern environment seen in the film. The film is set in the suburbs of Paris and in fact the historic Paris (including the Eiffel tower) can clearly be seen in the distance in one scene).

The ongoing joke through the film is that the characters never manage to get to the real Paris. - The American tourists only ever see the concrete and steel buildings :)

[feckingbillgates]

1967.  Not 1965.

[mwfinkbeiner]

@feckingbillgates The scene was shot about August 8, 1965. The anti-globalization theme of the movie by the time Tati went bankrupt producing and finishing "Playtime" in 1967.

[feckingbillgates]

@mwfinkbeiner Thanks for the clarification.

[snapz18]

cool! hey ur the guy w/ the blonde hair