Everybody Get Up: The mistake that gave rise to the film’s title

Tonight on TF1, Everyone Standing, the first feature film directed by Frank Dubosky, will be broadcast.

This 2018 film, which deals with the difficult subject of disability with humor and lightness, tells the story of Jocelyn, a businesswoman and a keen flirt, played by Dubosky herself, who decides to overcome her paraplegia after a misunderstanding. Seduce a young woman. The situation becomes tense when he realizes that his sister is in a wheelchair.

The French filmmaker, best known for his career as a comedian and actor, has since made a second film, this time about dance (and whose rather cryptic title Dubosk revealed in an interview).

But today let’s focus on how he chose the title of his first feature film: Everyone is standingA formula directly inspired by the famous mistake that singer Francois Feldman accidentally made in 1996 during the 10th Telethon ceremony.

As the musician performed his song don’t play He actually shouted it on stage “Everybody get up there!” He addressed the audience, which consists mainly of people sitting in wheelchairs. The gaffe, which remained famous in the history of television, which Dubosk decided to use:

“The working title was ‘Get Up and Walk,’ but I didn’t find it very graceful. I actually took what Francois, who’s a friend, said.”The press kit of the film was entrusted to the actor and the director.

“Everyone made a lot of fun of this mistake made in front of people who couldn’t stand up, but in the end I think it’s very positive. Because standing up is in the head. Also, my character says this about Florence, who is disabled: “She thinks faster, more He goes fast, he lives longer than us”. It means “much longer than me”.

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