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''The Umbrella Coup'' (French: ''Le Coup du parapluie'') is a 1980 French comedy film directed by Creator/GerardOury, starring Creator/PierreRichard, Gordon Mitchell and Creator/GertFrobe.
Creator/GertFrobe. Music/VladimirCosma composed the soundtrack.
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''The Umbrella Coup'' (French: ''Le Coup du parapluie'') is a 1980 French comedy film directed by Gérard Oury, Creator/GerardOury, starring Creator/PierreRichard, Gordon Mitchell and Creator/GertFrobe.
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Grégoire Lecomte (Richard), the unlucky actor anxious to find a "real job", goes to take a screen test for a role of a killer, but then he takes a wrong turn and meets a mafia don who he takes for a producer, and they mistake him for a hitman with whom they had an appointment. Deluded Grégoire signs contract with them. He is supposed to kill gun dealer Otto Krampe at his birthday party in Saint-Tropez by piercing him with a cap of the [[ParasolOfPain umbrella with a built-in syringe with potassium cyanide]] (known as a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgarian_umbrella "bulgarian umbrella"]]). Grégoire is not aware that it has to be a real murder.
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Grégoire Lecomte (Richard), the unlucky actor anxious to find a "real job", goes to take a screen test for a role of a killer, but then he takes a wrong turn and meets a mafia don who he takes for a producer, and they mistake him for a hitman with whom they had an appointment. Deluded Grégoire signs contract with them. He is supposed to kill gun dealer Otto Krampe at his birthday party in Saint-Tropez by piercing him with a cap of the [[ParasolOfPain umbrella with a built-in syringe with potassium cyanide]] (known as a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgarian_umbrella "bulgarian "Bulgarian umbrella"]]). Grégoire is not aware that it has to be a real murder.
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** He then gets his car accidentally vandalised by Gregoire who bumped with his one. Then, receives his molten vinyls on the face, again on accident, it was directed at Gregoire.
** When he tries to take his gun to get revenge on Gregoire, the latter bumps on his car while leaving, damaging it once again and slamming the back-door on his head.
** When he tries to take his gun to get revenge on Gregoire, the latter bumps on his car while leaving, damaging it once again and slamming the back-door on his head.
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** He then gets his car accidentally vandalised by Gregoire who bumped with his one. Then, receives his molten vinyls vinyl on the face, again on accident, it was directed at Gregoire.
** When he tries to take his gun to get revenge on Gregoire, the latter bumps on his car while leaving, damaging it once again and slamming theback-door back door on his head.
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* CoincidentalDodge: When The Fairy tries to strangle Grégoire on the plane, a turbulence causes the latter to tumble which foils the assault.
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Grégoire Lecomte (Richard), the unlucky actor anxious to find a “real job”, "real job", goes to take a screen test for a role of a killer, but then he takes a wrong turn and meets a mafia don who he takes for a producer, and they mistake him for a hitman with whom they had an appointment. Deluded Grégoire signs contract with them. He is supposed to kill gun dealer Otto Krampe at his birthday party in Saint-Tropez by piercing him with a cap of the [[ParasolOfPain umbrella with a built-in syringe with potassium cyanide]] (known as a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgarian_umbrella "bulgarian umbrella"]]). Grégoire is not aware that it has to be a real murder.
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Grégoire Lecomte (Richard), the unlucky actor anxious to find a “real job”, goes to take a screen test for a role of a killer, but then he takes a wrong turn and meets a mafia don who he takes for a producer, and they mistake him for a hitman with whom they had an appointment. Deluded Grégoire signs contract with them. He is supposed to kill gun dealer Otto Krampe at his birthday party in Saint-Tropez by piercing him with a cap of the [[ParasolOfPain umbrella with a built-in syringe with potassium cyanide]].cyanide]] (known as a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulgarian_umbrella "bulgarian umbrella"]]). Grégoire is not aware that it has to be a real murder.
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''The Umbrella Coup'' (French: ''Le Coup du parapluie'') is a 1980 French comedy film directed by Gérard Oury, starring Pierre Richard, Creator/PierreRichard, Gordon Mitchell and Creator/GertFrobe.
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* WomanScorned: Josyane destroys Grégoire's possessions after learning about his latest [[YourCheatingHeart fling with Sylvette]].
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* WomanScorned: Josyane destroys Grégoire's possessions after learning about his latest [[YourCheatingHeart fling with Sylvette]].Sylvette.
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* {{Blackface}}: The members of the jazz band at the party have their faces painted black as part of the 1920s theme.
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* AssholeVictim: [[spoiler:Moskovitz and Krampe who both get killed]].
* {{Blackface}}: The members of the jazz band at the party have their faces painted black as part of the 1920s theme.
* {{Blackface}}: The members of the jazz band at the party have their faces painted black as part of the 1920s theme.
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* TheChewToy: Moskovitz:
** He receives a bucket of paint on his head, ruining his costume.
** He then gets his car accidentally vandalised by Gregoire who bumped with his one. Then, receives his molten vinyls on the face, again on accident, it was directed at Gregoire.
** When he tries to take his gun to get revenge on Gregoire, the latter bumps on his car while leaving, damaging it once again and slamming the back-door on his head.
** Gregoire steps on his feet when he [[spoiler:hides being the curtain]].
** He receives a bucket of paint on his head, ruining his costume.
** He then gets his car accidentally vandalised by Gregoire who bumped with his one. Then, receives his molten vinyls on the face, again on accident, it was directed at Gregoire.
** When he tries to take his gun to get revenge on Gregoire, the latter bumps on his car while leaving, damaging it once again and slamming the back-door on his head.
** Gregoire steps on his feet when he [[spoiler:hides being the curtain]].
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* TheComicallySerious: Moskovitz and Radj Khan. Their stoic seriousness is often perturbed by the goofiness of Gregoire and Josyane.
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* SilentAntagonist: Moskovitz the gunman has only one line. Justified, both because it fits his character and the fact that Gordon Mitchell wasn't a good French speaker.
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* {{Flynning}}: Grégoire and Moskovitz have a sword fighting scene with umbrellas.
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** The mirroring scenes on TV during the umbrella fight are from ''Film/LeCapitan''.
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* CarnivalOfKillers: Several hitmen line up to get a shot at Grégoire but he manages to foil all their attempts.
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* TheFool: Grégoire has no clue what he is in for or up against but he succeeds anyway.
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''The Umbrella Coup'' (French: ''Le Coup du parapluie'') is a 1980 French comedy film directed by Gérard Oury, starring Creator/PierreRichard, Pierre Richard, Gordon Mitchell and Creator/GertFrobe.
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* CoveredInGunge: Moskovitz gets a bucket of paint emptied on his head.
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* WilliamTelling: Radj proves his aiming skills by hitting a pineapple above Grégoire's head.
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* WilliamTelling: Radj proves his aiming skills by hitting a pineapple above placed on Grégoire's head.
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* FryingPanOfDoom: Josyane mistakes Moskovitz for Grégoire and whips him one with a huge pan when he enters the door.
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* CurtainCamouflage: Moskovitz hides behind the curtains at Grégoire's hotel suite but the latter notices the shoes and call the bluff.
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''The Umbrella Coup'' (French: ''Le Coup du parapluie'') is a 1980 French comedy film directed by Gérard Oury, starring Creator/PierreRichard, Gordon Mitchell and Creator/GertFrobe.
Grégoire Lecomte (Richard), the unlucky actor anxious to find a “real job”, goes to take a screen test for a role of a killer, but then he takes a wrong turn and meets a mafia don who he takes for a producer, and they mistake him for a hitman with whom they had an appointment. Deluded Grégoire signs contract with them. He is supposed to kill gun dealer Otto Krampe at his birthday party in Saint-Tropez by piercing him with a cap of the [[ParasolOfPain umbrella with a built-in syringe with potassium cyanide]]. Grégoire is not aware that it has to be a real murder.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* {{Blackface}}: The members of the jazz band at the party have their faces painted black as part of the 1920s theme.
* AllPartOfTheShow:
** Even when [[spoiler:the real killer assassinates the target and gets shot by police]], Grégoire thinks it's all a game.
** When Grégoire come flying out of a window and down a palm tree, the guests thinks he is a hired clown and laugh.
* AssassinOutclassin: Grégoire manages to take out two of Krampe's goons while not even realizing they were after him.
* CoincidentalDodge: When The Fairy tries to strangle Grégoire on the plane, a turbulence causes the latter to tumble which foils the assault.
* ConspicuouslyPublicAssassination: Nobody seems to take notice when Moskovitz kills Otto Krampe by throwing the umbrella at him.
* CurtainCamouflage: Moskovitz hides behind the curtains at Grégoire's hotel suite but the latter notices the shoes and call the bluff.
* {{Flynning}}: Grégoire and Moskovitz have a sword fighting scene with umbrellas.
* FryingPanOfDoom: Josyane mistakes Moskovitz for Grégoire and whips him one with a huge pan.
* GambitPileup: Krampe's goons try to kill Grégoire, Moskovitz tries to kill Grégoire as well as Krampe, and the police try to protect Grégoire from harm.
* HesDeadJim: Krampe's death is testified by some bystander shortly listening to his (missing) heart beat.
* HiddenWeapons: Radj has a knife hidden up his sleave.
* HollywoodSilencer: The ProfessionalKiller uses one in the opening scene to kill his target in the photo booth.
* InLoveWithTheMark: Sylvette is an undercover cop who takes a liking to her mark Grégoire. They end up getting married.
* IronicJuxtaposition: The scene when Grégoire tells Sylvette of his allegedly blind wife and how helpless she is without him, intercut with scenes of Josyane [[WomanScorned wreaking havoc on his belongings]].
* IShouldWriteABookAboutThis: Grégoire only realizes that he has been involved in a mafia MobWar at the end of the movie, when his partner spells it out for him. He then decides that the story would make for a great movie. Cut to the epilogue -- he is now a celebrated film director at Cannes with MoneyToBurn.
* LettingTheAirOutOfTheBand: The band stops playing this way when Krampe's death is confirmed.
* MistakenForBadass: Grégoire is invited to play an assassin, but enters a wrong office and gets confused for a ProfessionalKiller by TheMafia. And HilarityEnsues.
* ParasolOfPain: Grégoire receives an umbrella with a retractable poisoned needle in the tip to assassinate a target with. He doesn't find out what's going on until the very end of the film.
** Unlike the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgi_Markov#Umbrella_Murder real-life murder case]] the movie is based on, the movie uses a fast-acting poison instead of ricin.
* PercussiveMaintenance: The meter maid early on punches Grégoire's meter to reset it.
* PrettyLittleHeadshots: It's a screwball comedy so the gore part is [[BloodlessCarnage heavily downplayed]]. We see two headshots, the target at the photo booth and when Sylvette shoots Moskovitz, both merely cause a red spot to appear on the victim's forehead.
* ProfessionalKiller: Gordon Mitchell's character is one. Grégoire is mistaken for one.
* ReallyGetsAround: Grégoire is shown to have several FriendsWithBenefits.
* RuleOfPool: Several characters end up in the pool fully clothed.
* RunningGag: Grégoire touching other cars with his bumpers when backing into and out of parking space.
* ShoePhone: The titular umbrella and The Fairy's wrist watch holding a killer string.
* ShoutOut:
** Grégoire pretends to everyone that his wife Juliette, a florist, is blind. When his mistress Josyane evicts him from their home, she yells at him: "[[Film/CityLights Florist and blind!?]] Do you think I never go to the movies?" and he answers "Creator/CharlieChaplin doesn't have a monopoly on blind people".
** At the end, Vittorio Caprioli says "[[Film/TheGodfather He made me an offer I couldn't refuse.]]"
* ThatPoorPlant: There is a cactus at the florist shop which dies instantly when Grégoire stabs the poisonous umbrella in its flowerpot.
* WilliamTelling: Radj proves his aiming skills by hitting a pineapple above Grégoire's head.
* WomanScorned: Josyane destroys Grégoire's possessions after learning about his latest [[YourCheatingHeart fling with Sylvette]].
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''The Umbrella Coup'' (French: ''Le Coup du parapluie'') is a 1980 French comedy film directed by Gérard Oury, starring Creator/PierreRichard, Gordon Mitchell and Creator/GertFrobe.
Grégoire Lecomte (Richard), the unlucky actor anxious to find a “real job”, goes to take a screen test for a role of a killer, but then he takes a wrong turn and meets a mafia don who he takes for a producer, and they mistake him for a hitman with whom they had an appointment. Deluded Grégoire signs contract with them. He is supposed to kill gun dealer Otto Krampe at his birthday party in Saint-Tropez by piercing him with a cap of the [[ParasolOfPain umbrella with a built-in syringe with potassium cyanide]]. Grégoire is not aware that it has to be a real murder.
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!!This film provides examples of:
* {{Blackface}}: The members of the jazz band at the party have their faces painted black as part of the 1920s theme.
* AllPartOfTheShow:
** Even when [[spoiler:the real killer assassinates the target and gets shot by police]], Grégoire thinks it's all a game.
** When Grégoire come flying out of a window and down a palm tree, the guests thinks he is a hired clown and laugh.
* AssassinOutclassin: Grégoire manages to take out two of Krampe's goons while not even realizing they were after him.
* CoincidentalDodge: When The Fairy tries to strangle Grégoire on the plane, a turbulence causes the latter to tumble which foils the assault.
* ConspicuouslyPublicAssassination: Nobody seems to take notice when Moskovitz kills Otto Krampe by throwing the umbrella at him.
* CurtainCamouflage: Moskovitz hides behind the curtains at Grégoire's hotel suite but the latter notices the shoes and call the bluff.
* {{Flynning}}: Grégoire and Moskovitz have a sword fighting scene with umbrellas.
* FryingPanOfDoom: Josyane mistakes Moskovitz for Grégoire and whips him one with a huge pan.
* GambitPileup: Krampe's goons try to kill Grégoire, Moskovitz tries to kill Grégoire as well as Krampe, and the police try to protect Grégoire from harm.
* HesDeadJim: Krampe's death is testified by some bystander shortly listening to his (missing) heart beat.
* HiddenWeapons: Radj has a knife hidden up his sleave.
* HollywoodSilencer: The ProfessionalKiller uses one in the opening scene to kill his target in the photo booth.
* InLoveWithTheMark: Sylvette is an undercover cop who takes a liking to her mark Grégoire. They end up getting married.
* IronicJuxtaposition: The scene when Grégoire tells Sylvette of his allegedly blind wife and how helpless she is without him, intercut with scenes of Josyane [[WomanScorned wreaking havoc on his belongings]].
* IShouldWriteABookAboutThis: Grégoire only realizes that he has been involved in a mafia MobWar at the end of the movie, when his partner spells it out for him. He then decides that the story would make for a great movie. Cut to the epilogue -- he is now a celebrated film director at Cannes with MoneyToBurn.
* LettingTheAirOutOfTheBand: The band stops playing this way when Krampe's death is confirmed.
* MistakenForBadass: Grégoire is invited to play an assassin, but enters a wrong office and gets confused for a ProfessionalKiller by TheMafia. And HilarityEnsues.
* ParasolOfPain: Grégoire receives an umbrella with a retractable poisoned needle in the tip to assassinate a target with. He doesn't find out what's going on until the very end of the film.
** Unlike the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georgi_Markov#Umbrella_Murder real-life murder case]] the movie is based on, the movie uses a fast-acting poison instead of ricin.
* PercussiveMaintenance: The meter maid early on punches Grégoire's meter to reset it.
* PrettyLittleHeadshots: It's a screwball comedy so the gore part is [[BloodlessCarnage heavily downplayed]]. We see two headshots, the target at the photo booth and when Sylvette shoots Moskovitz, both merely cause a red spot to appear on the victim's forehead.
* ProfessionalKiller: Gordon Mitchell's character is one. Grégoire is mistaken for one.
* ReallyGetsAround: Grégoire is shown to have several FriendsWithBenefits.
* RuleOfPool: Several characters end up in the pool fully clothed.
* RunningGag: Grégoire touching other cars with his bumpers when backing into and out of parking space.
* ShoePhone: The titular umbrella and The Fairy's wrist watch holding a killer string.
* ShoutOut:
** Grégoire pretends to everyone that his wife Juliette, a florist, is blind. When his mistress Josyane evicts him from their home, she yells at him: "[[Film/CityLights Florist and blind!?]] Do you think I never go to the movies?" and he answers "Creator/CharlieChaplin doesn't have a monopoly on blind people".
** At the end, Vittorio Caprioli says "[[Film/TheGodfather He made me an offer I couldn't refuse.]]"
* ThatPoorPlant: There is a cactus at the florist shop which dies instantly when Grégoire stabs the poisonous umbrella in its flowerpot.
* WilliamTelling: Radj proves his aiming skills by hitting a pineapple above Grégoire's head.
* WomanScorned: Josyane destroys Grégoire's possessions after learning about his latest [[YourCheatingHeart fling with Sylvette]].
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