Netflix: The Killer Movie Takes a Joke From Jose Garcia and The Crown!

“It’s a hunter who goes into the woods and sees a grizzly bear…” If the beginning of this joke means anything to you now, it’s because you’ve seen David Fincher’s Assassin on Netflix.

Tilda Swinton and Grizzly Bear

In a luxurious restaurant, with a few glasses of fine whiskey and in the face of a discreet Michael Fassbender, Tilda Swinton classically and elegantly tells the story of a hunter and his painful encounter with an indestructible bear that makes him sexually (and rather wildly) pay for his successive misses. shot to kill him. Here’s the scene:

Jose Garcia and the Blue Bear

But this (long) joke probably reminded you in particular of another movie that came out exactly twenty years ago. In 2003, 1,138,636 spectators laughed at the performance (fire, even) of the resident Jose Garcia, who told a huge table of friends about the hunter and the blue bear. With a lot of mimicry, shouting and singing (because Plantgrad is funny and sings easily), the actor 3 minutes 35… will kill one of the guests with laughter. Watch the scene below:

This amazing square – and its memorable blue bear joke – is the starting point of “Laughter and Punishment”, the first feature film of Isabel Doval (director of the hugely successful Quadras series), which tells the tragicomic adventures of a funny and self-centered man who loses everything. Not knowing how to listen to others and who embarks on a self-discovery journey, torn between his playful nature and his carefully buried sensitivity. The film is available on DVD.

At the time, the filmmaker was partnered with Jose Garcia (the couple split in 2021), whose troubled temperament subconsciously fed his writing, even if he denied being inspired by it (he wasn’t immediately offered the role): “He has his career and I have mine”He explained at the time of his release. “We already share a lot. I think that despite everything, subconsciously, living with José inspired me to film the adventures of Vincent and Camille. He has this energy, this ability to give to others. But the analogy is to stop him. .”

Isabelle Doval portrayed José Garcia again ten years later in 2013’s Fonzy, a thrilling remake of Quebec gem Starbuck’s that follows the steps of a big, irresponsible 42-year-old who discovers he’s the father of 533 children.

Charles, Camilla and the Russian Bear

It also won’t surprise fans of The Crown, another Netflix original, that a joke about the bear and the hunter was integrated into episode 6 of season 4 (titled Terra nullius) from the monarchical series. We discover the complicity of Prince Charles (Josh O’Connor) and Camilla Parker-Bowles (Emerald Fennell) as they tell the story as a duo to their merry friends after the hunt. The extract may (re)appear above!