Bon Cop, Bad Cop...

[fajrdrako]

Bon Cop, Bad Cop is a Canadian movie. It's so Canadian it hurts. It's a comedy-thriller starring Colm Feore (whom I just saw live in Stratford as a very sexy Coriolanus) and Patrick Huard. Patrick Huard wrote the story and starred in it; not only that, he's gorgeous. Who knew there were such impressive Canadians around?

Among other things, the movie is a crash course in swearing in Quebec. It's funny - I don't think you'd have to be Canadian to get the jokes. It's both violent and silly. It's a comedy-thriller about a cop from Toronto, Martin Ward (Feore), and a cop from Montreal, David Bouchard (Huard). They are direct opposites in personality and culture, and don't want to work together - but when a corpse is dropped on the Ontario/Quebec border sign, they have to. Turns out a hockey-crazed serial killer is murdering hockey magnates involved in selling Canadian hockey players and teams to the U.S. They come to like each other's families, save each other's lives, and eventually to solve the case.

There are other delightful characters too - the Montreal cop's over-the-top boss, the loquacious lab technician. And delightful scenes, like Bouchard's daughter's ballet recital, and a dramatic scene of a burning house.

This made me realize how many movies I see - most of them - that are about cultures that aren't quite my own. And how few I see that are my own. Even if I'm not into hockey, the closing credits looked like the local phone book. I was surprised, though, that they translated some French terms as "motherfucker", which sounds American to me. I'd have just made it "fucker".

One mystery remains: which was the bad cop, and which was the bon cop? I thought they were both (hilariously) bad. Police procedure in this movie doesn't just go out the window, it gets trampled in the mud and annihilated.

Comments

[msilverstar]

Fascinating! May I point jubliancy and oneangrykate to this entry? They live in Montreal and are film buffs, but don't post much unlocked cos of family issues.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Yes, by all means send them the link.

[wijsgeer.livejournal.com]

for some reason, every time an Canadian (or American) writes hockey I get the mental image of the game you (eh, we) play on the green stuff. (And in wich both the male as the female Dutch team perform in the wold top). I alsways have to readjust to get in the ice and the uniforms.

[fajrdrako.livejournal.com]

Yes, in Canada hockey is played on ice and is the most popular team sport of all. It's like football is in Europe. Kids play it from an early age. In summer, when there's no ice to play on, they play street hockey - the same thing, played on the street (hopefully streets without traffic) with running shoes instead of ice skates and a ball instead of a puck. The European game, played on grass, is something I only ever heard of in gym class, until I went to England.

Our local team is The Ottawa Senators (http://www2.ottawasenators.com/eng/index.cfm).