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Misuse of the trope; it's about the audience, and we're never supposed to believe he's a genius.
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* InformedAbility: 117's superiors think he's a genius, but the only thing he's really good at is fighting his way out of the messes his general incompetence gets him into.
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* InformedAbility: 117's superiors think he's a genius, but the only thing he's really good at is fighting his way out of the messes his general incompetence gets him into.
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** At the end 117, supposedly an expert on Islam and the Muslim world, is sent off to Iran. His supervisor comments about how they really love Westerners there. Just a couple of years before this time frame, the Americans and British had toppled a democratically elected goverment in Iran and installed the autocratic Shah, who was eventually overthrown in a violent and intensely anti-Western revolution in 1979.
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** At the end 117, supposedly an expert on Islam and the Muslim world, is sent off to Iran. His supervisor comments about how they really love Westerners there. Just a couple of years before this time frame, the Americans and British had toppled a democratically elected goverment in Iran and installed allowed the autocratic Shah, who Shah to move from a constitutional monarch to the head of an authoritarian regime, which was eventually overthrown in a violent and intensely anti-Western revolution in 1979.
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''OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies'' (''OSS 117: Le Caire, nid d'espions'') is a 2006 French satirical film lampooning European spy movies, Connery-era ''Film/JamesBond'' films and the French geopolitical context of TheFifties. It was directed by Creator/MichelHazanavicius, star Creator/JeanDujardin and Creator/BereniceBejo, produced by Creator/Gaumont and distributed by Creator/GaumontColumbiaTriStarFilms.
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''OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies'' (''OSS 117: Le Caire, nid d'espions'') is a 2006 French satirical film lampooning European spy movies, Connery-era ''Film/JamesBond'' films and the French geopolitical context of TheFifties. It was directed by Creator/MichelHazanavicius, star Creator/JeanDujardin and Creator/BereniceBejo, produced by Creator/Gaumont Creator/{{Gaumont}} and distributed by Creator/GaumontColumbiaTriStarFilms.
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''OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies'' (''OSS 117: Le Caire, nid d'espions'') is a 2006 French satirical film lampooning European spy movies, Connery-era ''Film/JamesBond'' films and the French geopolitical context of TheFifties. It was directed by Creator/MichelHazanavicius and star Creator/JeanDujardin and Creator/BereniceBejo.
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''OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies'' (''OSS 117: Le Caire, nid d'espions'') is a 2006 French satirical film lampooning European spy movies, Connery-era ''Film/JamesBond'' films and the French geopolitical context of TheFifties. It was directed by Creator/MichelHazanavicius and Creator/MichelHazanavicius, star Creator/JeanDujardin and Creator/BereniceBejo.
Creator/BereniceBejo, produced by Creator/Gaumont and distributed by Creator/GaumontColumbiaTriStarFilms.
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* MiserableMassage: When 117 goes to a Cairo hammam to get a massage and interrogate Soviet spy Setin there. The massage turns into torture by a big strong henchman on 117 as soon as his cover is blown, but he nonetheless manages to get the upper hand and kill Setin via NeckSnap.
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* CatFight: 117's girlfriend fights the evil woman towards the end. 117 enjoys this very much.
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** At the end 117, supposedly an expert on Islam and the Muslim world, is sent off to Iran. His supervisor comments about how they really love Westerners there. Just a couple of years before this time frame, the Americans and British had toppled a democratically elected goverment in Iran and installed the autocratic Shah, who was eventually overthrown in a violent and intensely anti-Western revolution in 1979.
* CatFight: 117's girlfriend Larmina fights the evilwoman princess towards the end. 117 enjoys this very much.much.
* CentralTheme: Buried in all the goofy satire and affectionate parody of spy movies is an anti-imperialist, anti-colonialist theme in which ignorant, idiot Europeans like 117 are shown meddling in poorer countries and making everything worse.
* CatFight: 117's girlfriend Larmina fights the evil
* CentralTheme: Buried in all the goofy satire and affectionate parody of spy movies is an anti-imperialist, anti-colonialist theme in which ignorant, idiot Europeans like 117 are shown meddling in poorer countries and making everything worse.
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* ArgentinaIsNaziland: In a earlier mission, 117 is tasked with recovering a suitcase from a Nazi wanting to fly to Buenos Aires in 1945.
* ArgentinaIsNaziland: In a earlier mission, 117 is tasked with recovering a suitcase from a Nazi wanting to fly to Buenos Aires in 1945.
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* AnimatedCreditsOpening
AnimatedCreditsOpening: Like with everything else in the film, done in a 1960s style, with abstract shapes and lines that morph into stuff that suggests James Bond-style spy fiction, like a tuxedo or a martini glass.
* ArgentinaIsNaziland: Ina an earlier mission, 117 is tasked with recovering a suitcase from a Nazi wanting to fly to Buenos Aires in 1945.
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* MonochromePast: The 1945 intro.intro, in which 117 and Jack are shown on a mission in end-of-war Berlin.
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** 117 playing with the light switch to the chicken warehouse, which always makes the chickens start squawking when he turns it on.
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* CockADoodleDawn: 117's cover is a poultry business. He has way too much fun turing the light on and off and confusing the chickens in his chicken coop, who squawk every time the switch is flipped on.
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* CockADoodleDawn: 117's cover is a poultry business. He has way too much fun turing turning the light on and off and confusing the chickens in his chicken coop, who squawk every time the switch is flipped on.
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** 117's hero worship of ineffectual French President Rene Coty, complete with him handing out pictures of Coty to random Egyptians and expecting them to be impressed.
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** 117's hero worship of ineffectual French President Rene René Coty, complete with him handing out pictures of Coty to random Egyptians and expecting them to be impressed.
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* GoingByTheMatchbook: Subverted. 117 completely fails to comprehend an important clue in a matchbook, which turns out to be the name of the missing Russian ship. He also is too dumb to realize that the matchbook from a nightclub that the asssassin left behind might be a clue, and Larmina has to prompt him to go there.
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* GoingByTheMatchbook: Subverted. 117 completely fails to comprehend an important clue in a matchbook, which turns out to be the name of the missing Russian ship. He also is too dumb to realize that the matchbook from a nightclub that the asssassin assassin left behind might be a clue, and Larmina has to prompt him to go there.
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* HisNameIs: 117's British colleague is stabbed InTheBack (with a cartoonishly huge dagger) just as he's about to tell 117 something about JackJefferson.
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* HisNameIs: 117's British colleague is stabbed InTheBack (with a cartoonishly huge dagger) just as he's about to tell 117 something about JackJefferson.Jack Jefferson.
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** Moeller the Nazi has identical homoerotic memories of his old war comrade, Von Umpsring, whom 117 killed.
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* ButForMeItWasTuesday: A vengeful Moeller says that 117 killed his friend Von Umspring, which was the DistantPrologue scene. 117 shrugs, saying "I've killed so many Nazis that I've lost track."
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* ItsPersonal: Moeller reveals that Von Umspring, the German officer that 117 kicked out of the plane in the 1945 DistantPrologue, was his best friend (and implied lover).
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* NeckSnap: 117 to Setine (the Soviet agent).
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* NeckSnap: 117 to Setine (the Soviet agent).agent), in another joke about action movie cliches, since he makes it look about as hard as snapping one's fingers.
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* PostMortemOneLiner: 117 does a NeckSnap of the Soviet spy and says "I have to say he was a pain in the neck."
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* BecomingTheMask: 117 quickly becomes more interested in [[spoiler:raising chickens]] than in being a spy.
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* BecomingTheMask: 117 quickly becomes more interested in [[spoiler:raising chickens]] raising chickens than in being a spy.
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* GoingByTheMatchbook: Subverted. 117 completely fails to comprehend an important clue in a matchbook.
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* GoingByTheMatchbook: Subverted. 117 completely fails to comprehend an important clue in a matchbook.matchbook, which turns out to be the name of the missing Russian ship. He also is too dumb to realize that the matchbook from a nightclub that the asssassin left behind might be a clue, and Larmina has to prompt him to go there.
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** The British spy bungling the TrustPassword, followed by 117 beating him up.
** 117's hero worship of ineffectual French President Rene Coty, complete with him handing out pictures of Coty to random Egyptians and expecting them to be impressed.
** The British spy bungling the TrustPassword, followed by 117 beating him up.
** 117's hero worship of ineffectual French President Rene Coty, complete with him handing out pictures of Coty to random Egyptians and expecting them to be impressed.
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* CallForward: "Egypt will have peace for centuries to come."
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** "Egypt will have peace for centuries to come.""
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** "Egypt will have peace for centuries to come.
** Plantieux offers 117 a drink, mentions unrest in France's empire such as the recent fall of Dien Bien Phu, then says "Trust me, we'll persevere and keep our colonies." They didn't.
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* CockADoodleDawn: 117's cover is a poultry business. He has way too much fun turing the light on and off and confusing the chickens in his chicken coop, who squawk every time the switch is flipped on.
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* HisNameIs: 117's British colleague is stabbed InTheBack (with a cartoonishly huge dagger) just as he's about to tell 117 something about JackJefferson.
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* StealthInsult: After 117 makes another stunningly ignorant comment about Islam, Larmina says "you are very--very French, in fact." He answers with a cheerful "Thank you!"
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* UnreliableExpositor: 117 homoerotic memories of his friend Jack are a bit off; [[spoiler:the cheeky laughter were only done by him and Jack felt so bullied that he turned against France.]]
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* UnreliableExpositor: 117 117's homoerotic memories of his friend Jack are a bit off; [[spoiler:the cheeky laughter were only done by him and Jack felt so bullied that he turned against France.]]
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* TitleDrop: Larmina pronounces the Cairo airport "a next of spies."
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* TitleDrop: Larmina pronounces the Cairo airport "a next nest of spies."
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** When demonstrating his PhallicWeapon, 117 says "It's called--a revolver." It's an automatic. This is even more obvious when he proceeds to work the slide.
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* NeutralFemale: As 117 battles Princess Al Farouk's man, she stands off to the side, looking concerned.
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%%* IdiotHero: And racist, too.
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* TitleDrop: Larmina pronounces the Cairo airport "a next of spies."
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* DistantPrologue: The opening sequence shows 117 and Jack working together in a mission in 1945 Berlin, before skipping ten years to 1955 and OSS trying to find out who killed Jack.
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* TrustPassword: OSS identifies his contacts by asking "How's the veal stew?" Satirized when the man he approaches at the airport actually isn't a spy, and they get into a conversation about the lunch menu.
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* PreMortemOneLiner: In the opening sequence, 117 says "''Auf wiedersehen'', Herr Colonel," before kicking a Nazi officer out of a plane to his death.
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* {{Retraux}}: The opening logos for the production companies (Gaumont and Mandarin Films) are done in a deliberately old-timey, black and white manner. And the film as a whole is shot to look like a 1960s cheesy spy movie.
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* {{Retraux}}: The opening logos for the production companies (Gaumont and Mandarin Films) are done in a deliberately old-timey, black and white manner. And the film as a whole is shot to look like a 1960s cheesy spy movie. See also the horribly fake-looking model airplane used in the opening action sequence.
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* AffectionateParody: Of Eurospy fiction and ''Film/JamesBond''.
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** Also, the guy who's constantly on the phone informing his boss that 117 has arrived somewhere.
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** Also, the guy who's constantly on the phone informing his boss that 117 has arrived somewhere. To the point where he keeps doing it long after being told to stop, and his boss eventually tracks him down and murders him just so that he'll stop calling.
