Michel Blanc takes orders
By the end of the 1970s, Michel Blanc already had more than twenty credits under his belt on the big screen, but one character particularly struck him: Jean-Claude Dusse. A cult character, perhaps the most iconic of the Splendid troupe with his memorable adventures in The Bronzed AND Tanned people go skiing. But if Michel Blanc loves his character and the success of the first film, released in 1978, delights him, he also assumes, as he expressed in an interview given to Firstthey want to evolve:
I found it vulgar to write a sequel Tanned. So I didn’t participate in what would have turned out to be the better of the two films! (laughs) And, on set, the atmosphere between us wasn’t so good, as if something had broken. They were obviously a bit angry with me and logically also for having broken the cohesion of the group. My friends might have thought I had a big head.
Tanned people go skiingin which he appears but which he did not write together with the rest of Splendid, therefore marks a stage in his professional relationship with his partners and friends. The film was released in 1979 and Michel Blanc, until then essentially confined to supporting roles, had already seen it further and bigger.
The turning point film
We must reinvent ourselves without denying ourselves, and Michel Blanc changes the dimension of this register with a form of continuitymeeting Patrice Leconte, director of the two films The BronzedFor Come to my house, I’m staying with a friend. A film that he wrote together with the director and for which he wrote the dialogues, adapting the play created by Luis Rego, the unforgettable Bobo dans The Bronzed. From Splendid we also find Anémone in a central role, Bruno Moynot and Marie-Anne Chazel in secondary appearances.
Michel Blanc shares the lead in this comedy with Bernard Giraudeau, and their duo convinces the audience. Come to my house, I’m staying with a friend, it’s a successattracting more 2.8 million of spectators in theatres. The character is a successful variant of Jean-Claude Dusse, but the main difference is that the actor takes this time the main role and it gets noticed. Then he will continue. In the same year, Michel Blanc also played the lead role My wife’s name came backanother production by Patrice Leconte of which he is also co-writer.
Lending only his voice in Santa Claus Is Trash in 1982, he found the Splendid crew in a supporting role for Grandfather resists in 1983. As in previous years, the Patrice Leconte – Michel Blanc duo delivers their film Move, there’s nothing to seethis time the actor does not participate in the screenplay. On the director’s advice, Michel Blanc then moved on to directing in 1984 with Walk in the shadeco-written by him and in which he stars alongside Gérard Lanvin.
Towards the consecration of Cannes
Walk in the shade is a great success, reaching the top of the French box office in 1984 with 6.1 million of spectators, in front Les Ripoux AND Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. It is also the end of Jean-Claude Dusse’s character exploration, as in the process Michel Blanc rejects similar roles but accepts Bertrand Blier’s proposal to Evening dresses. His performance alongside Miou-Miou and Gérard Depardieu earned him the recognition of Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival in 1986.
Thus, in a few years, he seizes the opportunity to occupy the top of the rankings Come to my house, I’m staying with a friendthen he nuanced his famous character of Jean-Claude Dusse to offer versions that convinced the public as much as the filmmakers of the time, Michel Blanc established himself as a first-rate actor, author and director of French cinema.
Source: Cine Serie
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