2017’s Bad Buzz, a comedy duo led by Eric Metzger and Quentin Margot, was a colossal flop at the box office with less than 50,000 admissions. Its director Stefan Kazanjian recently explained to BFM.
Do you remember the 2017 movie Bad Buzz? But yeah, try: The movie featured comedian duo Eric (Metzger) and Quentin (Margot), who quit the Quotidien show at the head of a terrible bad buzz that threatened to destroy their reputation. To get out of this difficult situation, they had no choice but to get a good buzz in less than 48 hours.
always nothing? Not so serious after all. Because you’re like the vast majority of viewers who haven’t gone to see Tandem’s (non)adventures orchestrated by director Stephane Kazanjian, specifically the screenwriter of Pattaya or the recent off-the-beaten-track.
Without falling into the disturbingly simplistic language of its title, as if it royally held out its stick for the fall, it’s an understatement to say that Bad Buzz was an absolutely colossal box office flop. A mere 49,323 people saw this OFNI in theaters, largely panned by killer critics. Suffice it to say a slap that had the power of a hellish uppercut.
in June, The BFM site devoted a very long and very interesting paper On the reasons for this bitter failure. An article that is largely fueled by the words of the director, who revealed a self-criticism and post-mortem analysis of his own film. Moreover, a rather daring exercise, not so frequent, from which many of his colleagues could draw inspiration.
Things came together very quickly. A lot. When the director reads the script, he “He thinks it’s great, even if there are things to return”He doesn’t expect filming to begin until three months from now.
“It was supposed to be produced by Canal. Except it happened right when Quotidien went to TMC. So Canal said they weren’t doing it anymore. After that, Eric and Quentin negotiated for TMC not to with Afrikian and Bad Baz became part of their deal.
TF1 did not give. They just hit the punch to keep the daily team going. No one believed. The film was first offered to La Beuze and 11 Commandments directors Thomas Soriot and François Desagne, who turned it down. They read the script better than I did…”
“I was trying to be a good little soldier as best I could . . .”
In addition to the director finding the result too shaky, with major editing problems, the film’s schoolboy humor was a problem. “It was a little too precise to try to appeal to the public of the Fife group or Cyril Hanuna. It was a schizophrenic film that wanted to please Hanuna’s public with the stars of everyday life.” she said.
I add a little: “Eric and Quentin, there’s something silly and erudite at the same time. Their show works very well in that register, moreover. The problem is that we never asked ourselves who Eric and Quentin were.
We wanted to bring them into a genre that wasn’t theirs and that they had both feet in because they wrote the script, but we knew to ask what we could do with their humor.”
Evacuated from the film’s post-production, the director logically retains some bitterness from the experience: “It was weird at the end of post-production because I was completely evacuated. The poster, I think I’m disgusting. They laughed at me at EuropaCorp and told me it was a temporary thing. Then I saw the posters on the subway.”
If he gets kicked out of the draft, that is “Because they just needed someone on set. At least that’s often the case with custom films. In post-production, they can regain control much more easily.”
A disgraced company that no one seems to have imagined, not even its executives, bad bug It wasn’t even released on DVD with us. “After the release, no one, including me, wanted to talk about it. It burned me as a director.” He continues. “#67 million enemies” The cutline of the film’s schoolboy on the title poster. Maybe not so many enemies. But, of course, the polite indifference of millions of potential viewers.
You can see the full interview here.
Source: allocine
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