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4 | ''OSS 117: From Africa with Love'' (French title ''OSS 117: Alerte Rouge en Afrique noire'', "OSS 117: Red Alert in Black Africa") is a 2021 French spy comedy film, directed by Nicolas Bedos. It is the third installment in the modern ''Film/OSS117'' film series starring Creator/JeanDujardin after ''[[Film/OSS117CairoNestOfSpies Cairo, Nest of Spies]]'' and ''[[Film/OSS117LostInRio Lost in Rio]]''. |
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6 | In 1981, French agent Hubert Bonisseur de la Bath, a.k.a. OSS 117, is sent to an African country to help the country's president against an armed rebellion as part of the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Françafrique "Françafrique"]] policy. He also has to team up with a younger agent named Serge, aka OSS 1001 (Creator/PierreNiney). |
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8 | The film was released on August 4, 2021 in France. |
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10 | !!''OSS 117: From Africa with Love'' provides examples of: |
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12 | * TheEighties: |
13 | ** 117 wishes a "Happy New Year 1981" to whoever would watch the hostage video he's forced to do, before freeing himself from his captors. |
14 | ** The film makes several references to television shows of that time, notably a show for kids named ''L'Île aux enfants'' (which started in 1975 but continued until 1982). It includes actual pictures from back then on several occasions. |
15 | * AnAesop: The colonial past of Africa still has massive repercussions in the present, and the remaining western influence is keeping in place a system that prevents it from developing freely. 117 understands this [[spoiler: but, being [[MyCountryRightOrWrong himself]], doesn't put this new knowledge in practice]]. |
16 | * AfricaIsACountry: Played with. It is generally obvious in context that action is set in an unnamed but specific country (see {{Bulungi}} below). On the other hand Hubert uses a big, cartoonish map displaying a country shaped like Africa. He names a few places like Uganda[[note]]that is the name of an actual country if you wonder[[/note]] but it is unclear whether that is supposed to be part of the country. |
17 | * BodyDouble: The president has three of those [[spoiler:Hubert isn't even sure if the real one survived the assassination]]. |
18 | * BondGunBarrel: The trailers show 117's face in a Film/JamesBond-like gunbarrel. |
19 | * BreadEggsMilkSquick: When BreakingTheFourthWall after his escape in the first trailer, 117 tells this to the viewer: |
20 | -->'''117:''' If you love animals, women with curls and helicopters, meet up with us on February 3, 2021. |
21 | * BreakingTheFourthWall: 117 directly addresses the audience upon escaping in the helicopter in the first trailer, inviting them to watch the film starting February 3, 2021 [[note]]one of the film's previous release dates that were changed due to the UsefulNotes/COVID19Pandemic, it would come out on August 4 instead[[/note]], and so does the beautiful woman who pilots the helicopter. |
22 | * BrokenPedestal: 1001 used to idolize 117, but quickly comes to see that his luck-based spying skills don't make up in the least for his insufferable personnality. |
23 | * {{Bulungi}}: The film is set in an unnamed African country that is a former French colony. |
24 | * ChekhovsSkill: Hubert is taught early that [[spoiler:when a computer doesn't work well you should restart it]]. He also uses German to scare of animals as Leon the leopard trainer told him German is the best language for taming animals. |
25 | * CoolCar: Played with. Hubert is very proud of his special Renault, sent to him by the French secret services. Its only gadgets seem to consist in cigarettes and Suze bottles. |
26 | * ForgotFlandersCouldDoThat: In-universe. After being faced with example after example of 117's stupidity and incompetence, 1001 is both relieved and shocked that he manages to build and code a timed bomb from scratch - it's not enough to restore his Broken Pedestal, though. |
27 | * EvenEvilHasStandards: President Bamba rigs the election and work with France to maintain power and enrich himself but he will drop his YesMan francophiliac attitude when Hubert say something outright racist. |
28 | * HighTurnoverRate: The agency goes through spies like tissues; 117, when he hears the codename OSS 1001,is surprised that they've already gone through all the 800's and 900's. At the end of the movie, he himself says that [[spoiler: although 1001 is dead, he will soon be replaced by a 1002,a 1003 and a 1004]]. |
29 | * HostageSituation: The film starts as 117 is taken prisoner by Soviet soldiers and filmed to send a message, then escapes on his own. |
30 | * {{Hypocrite}}: In the second trailer, 117 gets told by his superior that he has to consider Africans as "friends"/"brothers"... then his superior explains that their resources are exploited, without seeing it as a bad thing. |
31 | * LogoJoke: The Creator/{{Gaumont}} VanityPlate for the film is that of TheEighties ([[https://youtu.be/63avDvXBcRo see here]]) instead of a more recent one, to fit the movie's setting. |
32 | * TheLoinsSleepTonight: Hubert is now older, and fails to have sex with a woman, apparently for the first time in his life. That leads to many gags as he obsesses over this. |
33 | * PoliticallyIncorrectHero: 117, who else? Though this time he ''tries'' to improve things when addressing African people... and fails miserably, which only leads to more CringeComedy. Best seen in this exchange with a hotel employee: |
34 | -->''[117 gives the guy a tip]''\ |
35 | '''Hotel employee:''' You do that too in France?\ |
36 | '''117:''' Oh no, there are much less blacks than here...\ |
37 | ''[employee gives a weird glance]''\ |
38 | '''117:''' ''[feeling he goofed up]'' And that's a pity! |
39 | * ShoutOut: |
40 | ** The international title, ''From Africa with Love'', is an obvious reference to the title of the James Bond film ''Film/FromRussiaWithLove''. |
41 | ** At some point a communist antagonist fights using a hammer and sickle; this is probably a reference to ''Film/LaCiteDeLaPeur''. |
42 | * ReportsOfMyDeathWereGreatlyExaggerated: The mid-credits stinger reveals that [[spoiler: OSS 1001 actually survived his encounter with the crocodile, though he lost both his legs]]. |
43 | * SnakeCharmer: Hubert charms a snake out of his room, playing a kid's show opening theme on an improvised flute. |
44 | * VerbalTic: 117 loved using the word "tantôt" in the previous films. He uses it once again in the film. |
45 | * VoteEarlyVoteOften: The first democratic election of the African country supervised by France "predict" the president to win with eighty-four percent of the votes. |
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