“The best dialogue in the world”: Alain Chabat’s favorite scene is this!

Let’s mention Serge Karamazov, the cheerful guard of the city of fear, Didier the dog who suddenly transforms into a human, the Duke of Aquitaine, whose wife is killed in Camelot, Father Christmas from Santa and the list, or the unforgettable Cesar from Mission. Cleopatra, we can no longer count the moments of comedy and cinema that Alain Shabbat has offered us throughout his career.

But before he became an actor and director, the filmmaker – who recently released his legendary Asterix in the cinema – was also a spectator. In August 2010, when he was at our microphone, Alain Chabat agreed to go back with us on his first memories spent in front of the screen, in particular, to come up with a sequence that, in his eyes, was more amazing than any other. .

Then the actor told us about the great comic and musical classic, atypical in every way and hard to fit into one category.

“This is a scene from The Blues Brothers”Alain Chabat told us before elaborating: “Actually, there are two shots that I love.”

“One where He was arrested by the police. They are on the road, they are in the car. Dan Aykroyd says, “Damn!” “What?” “The policemen.” ‘No.’ ‘If.’ ‘Heaven**.’ Here is the rhythm. I love this dialogue, which is the best dialogue in the world.”

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Alain Chabat then mentioned another scene from the same film where the two heroes are still being chased by the police:

“They say, well, we’ve got half a tank of gas, cops on our ass, it’s dark and we’re wearing dark glasses. And the other says: “Go!”

It’s a safe bet that these two little nuggets and this efficiency of dialogue development later inspired Chabat to write his own sketches, or at least for his feature films.

Directed by John Landis in 1980, The Blues Brothers follows the misadventures of Jake (John Belushi) and his brother Elwood (Dan Aykroyd), recently released from prison. Dressed in black suits and hats, with dark glasses, they decide to reform their old music group to raise the $5,000 needed to maintain the Catholic orphanage where they grew up.

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