Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 3,4 (click to see context) from:
''Outside the Law'' (''Hors la loi'' -- "Outlaws") is a 2010 French-Algerian-Tunisian film directed by Rachid Bouchareb.
to:
''Outside the Law'' (''Hors la loi'' -- "Outlaws") is a 2010 French-Algerian-Tunisian film directed by Rachid Bouchareb.Bouchareb, who previously directed ''Film/{{Days of Glory|2006}}'', which has some thematic resonance with this one.
Deleted line(s) 33 (click to see context) :
* SpiritualSuccessor: To Bouchareb's 2006 film ''Film/{{Days of Glory|2006}}'', about Algerians fighting in the French army in World War II. This film has some of the same actors playing characters with the same names, but is clearly not the same continuity (characters killed off in the first film are alive in this one).
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 5,6 (click to see context) from:
It is a story of the UsefulNotes/{{Algeria}}n War for Independence, and specifically guerilla fighting by Algerians inside of France. The film focuses around three brothers, Saïd, Messaoub, and Abdelkader. A prologue in 1921 shows the family losing its farm when a French national simply takes it. The film skips forward to May 8, 1945 and the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sétif_and_Guelma_massacre Setif massacre]] right on the day when UsefulNotes/WorldWarII ended in Europe. Abdelkader, marching in a protest, is arrested and winds up spending ten years in jail. Far worse, the brothers' father and their sisters are massacred by rampaging French troops and colonial militia.
to:
It is a story of the UsefulNotes/{{Algeria}}n War for Independence, and specifically guerilla fighting by Algerians inside of France. The film focuses around three brothers, Saïd, Messaoub, Saïd (Creator/JamelDebbouze), Messaoud (Roschdy Zem), and Abdelkader.Abdelkader (Sami Bouajila). A prologue in 1921 shows the family losing its farm when a French national simply takes it. The film skips forward to May 8, 1945 and the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sétif_and_Guelma_massacre Setif massacre]] right on the day when UsefulNotes/WorldWarII ended in Europe. Abdelkader, marching in a protest, is arrested and winds up spending ten years in jail. Far worse, the brothers' father and their sisters are massacred by rampaging French troops and colonial militia.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 3,6 (click to see context) from:
''Outside the Law'' (''Hors la loi'' -- "Outlaws") is a 2010 French-Algerian-Tunisian film directed by Rachid Bouchareb. It was a co-production of Algeria and France.
It is a story of the Algerian War for Independence, and specifically guerilla fighting by Algerians inside of France. The film focuses around three brothers, Saïd, Messaoub, and Abdelkader. A prologue in 1921 shows the family losing its farm when a French national simply takes it. The film skips forward to May 8, 1945 and the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sétif_and_Guelma_massacre Setif massacre]]. Abdelkader, marching in a protest, is arrested and winds up spending ten years in jail. Far worse, the brothers' father and their sisters are massacred by rampaging French troops and colonial militia.
It is a story of the Algerian War for Independence, and specifically guerilla fighting by Algerians inside of France. The film focuses around three brothers, Saïd, Messaoub, and Abdelkader. A prologue in 1921 shows the family losing its farm when a French national simply takes it. The film skips forward to May 8, 1945 and the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sétif_and_Guelma_massacre Setif massacre]]. Abdelkader, marching in a protest, is arrested and winds up spending ten years in jail. Far worse, the brothers' father and their sisters are massacred by rampaging French troops and colonial militia.
to:
''Outside the Law'' (''Hors la loi'' -- "Outlaws") is a 2010 French-Algerian-Tunisian film directed by Rachid Bouchareb. It was a co-production of Algeria and France.\n\n
It is a story of theAlgerian UsefulNotes/{{Algeria}}n War for Independence, and specifically guerilla fighting by Algerians inside of France. The film focuses around three brothers, Saïd, Messaoub, and Abdelkader. A prologue in 1921 shows the family losing its farm when a French national simply takes it. The film skips forward to May 8, 1945 and the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sétif_and_Guelma_massacre Setif massacre]].massacre]] right on the day when UsefulNotes/WorldWarII ended in Europe. Abdelkader, marching in a protest, is arrested and winds up spending ten years in jail. Far worse, the brothers' father and their sisters are massacred by rampaging French troops and colonial militia.
It is a story of the
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 3,4 (click to see context) from:
''Outside the Law'' (''Hors la loi'' -- "Outlaws") is a 2010 French film directed by Rachid Bouchareb. It was a co-production of Algeria and France.
to:
''Outside the Law'' (''Hors la loi'' -- "Outlaws") is a 2010 French French-Algerian-Tunisian film directed by Rachid Bouchareb. It was a co-production of Algeria and France.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 1,4 (click to see context) from:
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/6603662b_e9dd_4f26_9823_7b731cd7b7ba.jpeg]]
''Outside the Law'' (Hors la loi) is a 2010 film directed by Rachid Bouchareb. It was a co-production of Algeria and France.
''Outside the Law'' (Hors la loi) is a 2010 film directed by Rachid Bouchareb. It was a co-production of Algeria and France.
to:
''Outside the Law''
Deleted line(s) 8 (click to see context) :
Changed line(s) 40 (click to see context) from:
* TimeSkip: Big time skips of 24 years from the first sequence in 1921 to the Serif massacre in 1945, then another eight-year time skip that finds Messaoub in the French army while Saïd is getting along well as a minor-league hoodlum and Abdelkader is still rotting in prison.
to:
* TimeSkip: Big time skips of 24 years from the first sequence in 1921 to the Serif massacre in 1945, then another eight-year time skip that finds Messaoub in the French army while Saïd is getting along well as a minor-league hoodlum and Abdelkader is still rotting in prison.prison.
----
----
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* SpiritualSuccessor: To Bouchareb's 2006 film ''Film/{{Days of Glory|2006}}'', about Algerians fighting in the French army in World War II. This film has some of the same actors playing characters with the same names, but is clearly not the same continuity (characters killed off in the first film are alive in this one).
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* BigNo: Saïd at the end, as Abdelkader is shot and killed by police goons on a subway platform.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* TheGlovesComeOff: Col. Faive, convinced that law enforcement tactics won't work against the FLN, decides to fight fire with fire. He starts a death squad group, the Red Hand, dedicated to using terror and murder against the FLN and their supporters.
Added DiffLines:
* LaResistance: DiscussedTrope. Abdelkader detains Col. Faive of the French police, for a talk only. Abdelkader asks Faive if he is ashamed of anything he did for LaResistance. When Faive answers "no", Abdelkader says that now the FLN is LaResistance, and the French are now the bad guys. He even asks Faive for help. Faive refuses.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Added DiffLines:
* CallBack: In the opening scene the mother is shown scooping up dirt as the family is forced off their land. Some 40 years later, after she's fallen ill with TB, she shows Messaoub the bag of dirt and tells him to bury her with it if she doesn't live to make it back to Algeria.
Added DiffLines:
* ExternalCombustion: Abdelkader's French girlfriend Helene is killed by a car bomb. Because he was trailing behind and hadn't gotten in the car when Helene starts the engine, he survives.
Added DiffLines:
* IOweYouMyLife: Otmani the French cop, and ethnic Algerian, calls Saïd with a warning that the cops are springing a trap on Saïd's brothers and the FLN. He specifically says that he's calling because Messaoub saved his life back in Vietnam, and that with the call he considers the debt paid.
Added DiffLines:
* RuleOfThree: There are three brothers. Abdelkader is both the local FLN leader and a fanatic wholly devoted to the cause. Messaoub is a soldier for his brother in the FLN but is also ridden with doubt and guilt. Saïd, the youngest, is assimiliated into French culture and largely indifferent to the war.
* ShameIfSomethingHappened: Abdelkader wants help infiltrating French police headquarters. He corners Otmani, a French cop and ethnic Algerian. He tells Otmani that the FLN considers him a traitor but they'll give him one more chance. He then says that while the French police might arrest him, they would ''not'' arrest his French wife and children. Otmani winds up helping Abdelkader infiltrate the headquarters and murder another cop.
* ShoutOut: Multiple scenes are either, depending on one's POV, either shout-outs to or stolen from ''Film/TheGodfather'' and ''The Godfather Part II''.
** Before leaving Algeria, Saïd approaches an old man sitting in a chair in a courtyard, greets him, and then knifes him to death, as revenge for the Serif massacre and the deaths of his father and sisters. This is highly reminiscent of Vito Andolini murdering the Sicilian don in ''The Godfather Part II''.
** To kill the French police officer, Abdelkader gains entry to the station, then obtains a gun hidden behind a radiator, like how Michael retrieved a gun hidden behind a toilet tank in ''The Godfather''. Abdelkader is a NonActionGuy like Michael as well.
** Helene and Abdelkader are leaving for Germany. Helene gets in the car first. Abdelkader spots a suspicious passer-by and screams a warning just before Helene starts the engine and the car blows up. This is a direct lift from Michael's first wife getting blown up by a car bomb as he watches in ''The Godfather''.
* ShameIfSomethingHappened: Abdelkader wants help infiltrating French police headquarters. He corners Otmani, a French cop and ethnic Algerian. He tells Otmani that the FLN considers him a traitor but they'll give him one more chance. He then says that while the French police might arrest him, they would ''not'' arrest his French wife and children. Otmani winds up helping Abdelkader infiltrate the headquarters and murder another cop.
* ShoutOut: Multiple scenes are either, depending on one's POV, either shout-outs to or stolen from ''Film/TheGodfather'' and ''The Godfather Part II''.
** Before leaving Algeria, Saïd approaches an old man sitting in a chair in a courtyard, greets him, and then knifes him to death, as revenge for the Serif massacre and the deaths of his father and sisters. This is highly reminiscent of Vito Andolini murdering the Sicilian don in ''The Godfather Part II''.
** To kill the French police officer, Abdelkader gains entry to the station, then obtains a gun hidden behind a radiator, like how Michael retrieved a gun hidden behind a toilet tank in ''The Godfather''. Abdelkader is a NonActionGuy like Michael as well.
** Helene and Abdelkader are leaving for Germany. Helene gets in the car first. Abdelkader spots a suspicious passer-by and screams a warning just before Helene starts the engine and the car blows up. This is a direct lift from Michael's first wife getting blown up by a car bomb as he watches in ''The Godfather''.
Added DiffLines:
* TheseHandsHaveKilled: Messaoub, tormented by guilt over his FLN activities, tearfully confesses to his mother, saying "I've killed people...with these hands."
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 1,2 (click to see context) from:
''Outside the Law'' is a 2010 film directed by Rachid Bouchareb. It was a co-production of Algeria and France.
to:
[[quoteright:350:https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/6603662b_e9dd_4f26_9823_7b731cd7b7ba.jpeg]]
''Outside the Law'' (Hors la loi) is a 2010 film directed by Rachid Bouchareb. It was a co-production of Algeria and France.
''Outside the Law'' (Hors la loi) is a 2010 film directed by Rachid Bouchareb. It was a co-production of Algeria and France.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
None
Changed line(s) 10 (click to see context) from:
* DistantPrologue: There's a 24-year time skip between the first scene and the next one.
to:
* BriefcaseFullOfMoney: Abdelkader takes a satchel full of money from Helene, a French leftist who is helping the Algerian resistance.
* CoincidentalBroadcast: Abdelkader flips on a radio with perfect timing to catch a news report about the attacks that he and the FLN have been launching.
* CycleOfRevenge: Abdelkader's boss in the FLN tells him to start killing torturers and cops. Abdelkader flinches, saying that if they do that the police retaliation will be merciless. His superior says that will only help the movement.
* DistantPrologue: There's a 24-year time skip between the first scene and the nextone.one.
* DramaticSitDown: Saïd's mother does a WallSlump into a sitting position on their balcony, as she tells him that all of his sisters were killed by the French (their bodies are still lying inside).
* EvilColonialist: All the French in Algeria, really, from the unseen Frenchman in the opening scene who takes the family's land, to the French colonial police in 1945 who open fire on the marchers in Serif.
* IHaveAFamily: Omar, who knows what's coming as he has been caught StealingFromTheTill of FLN dues, begs Messaoub for mercy, saying "I have three children." It doesn't work.
* NoNameGiven: Neither of the brothers' parents are named.
* PietaPlagiarism: Saïd cradles his father's body in the street after finding him shot down, a victim of the Serif massacre.
* RedLightDistrict: The Pigalle district of Paris, a notorious den of strip clubs and prostitution. Saïd gets his start in crime there as a pimp's assistant.
* StealingFromTheTill: One of the FLN faithful in Paris, Omar, steals some of the group's money to buy a refrigerator. He is killed by Messaoub on Abdelkader's orders.
* StockFootage:
** There's stock footage of the May 8, 1945 VE Day celebrations in Paris. This cuts artfully to a shot of the protests in Serif the same day, in a shot that at first looks like more stock footage but then shifts to color.
** More stock footage later in the film showing attacks by the FLN in Metropolitan France.
* TimeSkip: Big time skips of 24 years from the first sequence in 1921 to the Serif massacre in 1945, then another eight-year time skip that finds Messaoub in the French army while Saïd is getting along well as a minor-league hoodlum and Abdelkader is still rotting in prison.
* CoincidentalBroadcast: Abdelkader flips on a radio with perfect timing to catch a news report about the attacks that he and the FLN have been launching.
* CycleOfRevenge: Abdelkader's boss in the FLN tells him to start killing torturers and cops. Abdelkader flinches, saying that if they do that the police retaliation will be merciless. His superior says that will only help the movement.
* DistantPrologue: There's a 24-year time skip between the first scene and the next
* DramaticSitDown: Saïd's mother does a WallSlump into a sitting position on their balcony, as she tells him that all of his sisters were killed by the French (their bodies are still lying inside).
* EvilColonialist: All the French in Algeria, really, from the unseen Frenchman in the opening scene who takes the family's land, to the French colonial police in 1945 who open fire on the marchers in Serif.
* IHaveAFamily: Omar, who knows what's coming as he has been caught StealingFromTheTill of FLN dues, begs Messaoub for mercy, saying "I have three children." It doesn't work.
* NoNameGiven: Neither of the brothers' parents are named.
* PietaPlagiarism: Saïd cradles his father's body in the street after finding him shot down, a victim of the Serif massacre.
* RedLightDistrict: The Pigalle district of Paris, a notorious den of strip clubs and prostitution. Saïd gets his start in crime there as a pimp's assistant.
* StealingFromTheTill: One of the FLN faithful in Paris, Omar, steals some of the group's money to buy a refrigerator. He is killed by Messaoub on Abdelkader's orders.
* StockFootage:
** There's stock footage of the May 8, 1945 VE Day celebrations in Paris. This cuts artfully to a shot of the protests in Serif the same day, in a shot that at first looks like more stock footage but then shifts to color.
** More stock footage later in the film showing attacks by the FLN in Metropolitan France.
* TimeSkip: Big time skips of 24 years from the first sequence in 1921 to the Serif massacre in 1945, then another eight-year time skip that finds Messaoub in the French army while Saïd is getting along well as a minor-league hoodlum and Abdelkader is still rotting in prison.
Is there an issue? Send a MessageReason:
Much more to come
Added DiffLines:
''Outside the Law'' is a 2010 film directed by Rachid Bouchareb. It was a co-production of Algeria and France.
It is a story of the Algerian War for Independence, and specifically guerilla fighting by Algerians inside of France. The film focuses around three brothers, Saïd, Messaoub, and Abdelkader. A prologue in 1921 shows the family losing its farm when a French national simply takes it. The film skips forward to May 8, 1945 and the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sétif_and_Guelma_massacre Setif massacre]]. Abdelkader, marching in a protest, is arrested and winds up spending ten years in jail. Far worse, the brothers' father and their sisters are massacred by rampaging French troops and colonial militia.
The film skips forward another decade to the mid-1950s. Saïd has taken his mother to France where, much to her disgust, he's earned a certain measure of success as a petty hoodlum. Abdelkader is released from a French prison. Messaoub is released from a Vietnamese prison at around the same time, he having been a POW from the Vietnam War. The three brothers are reunited in the Paris shantytown that is the Algerian community. Messaoub, even more radical after a decade in a French jail, joins the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Liberation_Front_(Algeria) FLN and becomes a guerilla leader]]. Messaoub somewhat reluctantly joins him. Saïd refuses, continuing his disreputable ways. From there, the story of the war through eventual Algerian independence in 1962 plays out.
----
!!Tropes:
* DistantPrologue: There's a 24-year time skip between the first scene and the next one.
It is a story of the Algerian War for Independence, and specifically guerilla fighting by Algerians inside of France. The film focuses around three brothers, Saïd, Messaoub, and Abdelkader. A prologue in 1921 shows the family losing its farm when a French national simply takes it. The film skips forward to May 8, 1945 and the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sétif_and_Guelma_massacre Setif massacre]]. Abdelkader, marching in a protest, is arrested and winds up spending ten years in jail. Far worse, the brothers' father and their sisters are massacred by rampaging French troops and colonial militia.
The film skips forward another decade to the mid-1950s. Saïd has taken his mother to France where, much to her disgust, he's earned a certain measure of success as a petty hoodlum. Abdelkader is released from a French prison. Messaoub is released from a Vietnamese prison at around the same time, he having been a POW from the Vietnam War. The three brothers are reunited in the Paris shantytown that is the Algerian community. Messaoub, even more radical after a decade in a French jail, joins the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Liberation_Front_(Algeria) FLN and becomes a guerilla leader]]. Messaoub somewhat reluctantly joins him. Saïd refuses, continuing his disreputable ways. From there, the story of the war through eventual Algerian independence in 1962 plays out.
----
!!Tropes:
* DistantPrologue: There's a 24-year time skip between the first scene and the next one.
