History Film / GastonLagaffe

''Gaston Lagaffe'' is a 2018 LiveActionAdaptation film adapting Creator/AndreFranquin's FrancoBelgianComics [[ComicBook/GastonLagaffe character of the same name]]. It is co-written and directed by Pierre-François Martin-Laval.

''Gaston Lagaffe'' is a 2018 LiveActionAdaptation film adapting Creator/AndreFranquin's FrancoBelgianComics [[ComicBook/GastonLagaffe character of the same name]] co-written and directed by Pierre-François Martin-Laval.

''Gaston Lagaffe'' is a 2018 LiveActionAdaptation film about Creator/AndreFranquin's [[ComicBook/GastonLagaffe comic book character of the same name]] co-written and directed by Pierre-François Martin-Laval.

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* SettingUpdate: The original comic book is set in the Belgian publishing company Editions Dupuis, during a time period spanning from TheSixties to TheNineties. The movie is set during the TheNewTens in a French start-up, and is completely divorced from ''Spirou'' or Editions Dupuis.

* AdaptationalJerkass: While De Mesmaeker was often angry in the comic, he was often completely justified and was sometimes pretty friendly until he got hurt by one of Gaston's inventions. In this movie however he's a full on {{Jerkass}}.

* TheComicallySerious: CFO Boulier who claims to be unable to imagine anything because of his job.

* AdaptationalJerkass: While De Mesmaeker was often angry in the comic, he was often completely justified and was sometimes pretty friendly until he got hurt by one of Gaston's invention. In this movie however he's a full {{Jerkass}}.

!!''Gaston Lagaffe'' provides examples of the following tropes:

''Gaston Lagaffe'' is a 2018 LiveActionAdaptation film about André Franquin's [[ComicBook/GastonLagaffe comic book of the same name]] co-written and directed by Pierre-François Martin-Laval.

''Gaston Lagaffe'' is a 2018 [[{{Film}} live-action]] adaptation of André Franquin's [[ComicBook/GastonLagaffe comic book of the same name]] co-written and directed by Pierre-François Martin-Laval.

* YouDontLookLikeYou: Subverted with De Mesmaeker, who is bald in the comic book and has hair here, that is until he loses his wig halfway through the movie.

* AdaptationalExplanation: Unlike the source material, the movie explains the nature of De Mesmaeker's contracts and the reason Gaston doesn't get fired.

* CanonForeigner: The boss' son Ederne.

''Aupetitcoin'' is a French start-up managed by one Léon Prunelle (Martin-Laval) specialized in repurposing and selling defective items, such as oversized ski pants, fingerless mittens or pairs of shoes with two right feet. On his return from vacation he has two bits of news waiting for him: the powerful businessman Aimé de Mesmaeker (Jérôme Commandeur) is dead set on buying the company (with the company's perpetually absent owner giving Prunelle the green light and the responsibility to conduct the operation) , and there is a new intern at the company, one Gaston Lagaffe (Théo Fernandez) , a lazy young man with an inventive mind and an unstoppable destructive streak. Due to a misunderstanding, Prunelle believes Gaston to be the owner's son, and has to contend with his antics. Too bad his antics keep putting the De Mesmaeker buyout in jeopardy while the company's standing keeps getting worse.

* TheAllegedCar: Gaston's car, of course, which gets more and more of Gaston's inventions piled on it as the movie goes on. [[spoiler:When Gaston crashes it towards the end of the movie, it compacts like a tin can.]]

** Boulier also appears much more prominently in the movie than he did in the comic book.
* BizarreInstrument: In addition to Gaston's infamous gaffophone, Jules plays a strange construct made of PVC pipes, and Betrand, somehow, a basketball.

* NamedByTheAdaptation: Inverted with the company's owner. In the comic book, Editions Dupuis was owned by the real-life Monsieur Dupuis, but here, the big boss doesn't get a name.

* SealedWithAKiss: Jeanne tries to invoke this in the end when Gaston saves the company by telling him that this might be the time to kiss. Gaston, being clueless and ObliviousToLove, gives her a friendly kiss on the cheek, and then proceeds to do the same to everyone else.

* AdaptationalJerkass: While De Mesmaeker was often angry in the comic, he was often completely justified and was sometime pretty friendly until he got hurt by one of Gaston's invention. In this movie howerver he's a full {{Jerkass}}.

* SealedWithAKiss: Jeanne try to invoke this in the end when Gaston saves the company by telling him that this might be the time to kiss. Gaston being clueless and ObliviousToLove give her a friendly kiss on the cheek then do the same to everyone else.

* YouDontLookLikeYou: Subverted with De Mesmaeker, who is bald in the comic book and has hair here, that is he loses his wig halfway through the movie.

* TheUnintelligible: Mlle Kiglouss only communicates through gasps and whimpers.

''Gaston Lagaffe'' is a 2017 [[{{Film}} live-action]] adaptation of André Franquin's [[ComicBook/GastonLagaffe comic book of the same name]] co-written and directed by Pierre-François Martin-Laval.