Les sociétés secrètes dans la fiction

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00:00In 1853, Alexandre Dumas wrote a novel called Joseph Balsamo,

00:04and we will follow a character who will dedicate his life to overthrowing the French monarchy,

00:08under the thumb of large occult societies which work in the shadows.

00:11This story will be adapted many times, first for the theater in 1878,

00:16in the cinema in 1949 with Orson Welles in the title role, and on television in 1973.

00:21Dumas was always a fan of secrets and pretenses,

00:24It is therefore not surprising that he comes to titillate secret societies.

00:26In a completely different register, we also have Traitor on command, in 1975,

00:31directed by Martin Ritt, and starring Sean Connery in the title role.

00:34The Scottish actor plays a detective who infiltrates an Irish secret society,

00:38whose activity consists of sabotaging coal mines,

00:41and to sequester industrialists in retaliation for the ban on trade unionism.

00:45A forgotten film that nevertheless deserves our attention,

00:47which was filmed in a real abandoned mining town,

00:50and opts for a very dark tone which gives it real uniqueness.

00:54You will realize it in the first 15 minutes,

00:56but I won't say more.

00:57And if you're not convinced, just think about Sean Connery with a mustache.

01:00I can't do better.

01:01A certain David Fincher also very often set up different secret societies in his films.

01:06In The Game, Nicolas Van Horten will be subjected to the unhealthy game of the CRS,

01:10a secret company that offers some pretty confusing social experiences.

01:13No need to dwell on Fight Club and its secret fighting club, precisely,

01:17led by a kind of charismatic guru,

01:20which sets rules and whose members must remain silent.

01:22In The Social Network, everything starts with the fact that Mark Zuckerberg

01:26fails to join a Harvard sorority,

01:29even though he knows it would benefit him professionally and socially.

01:33And finally, in The Killer, Michael Fassbender's character

01:36is part of a limited company that offers the confidential services of contract killers.

01:40There are secret societies among superheroes too.

01:42In Doctor Strange, the character will learn to master his powers alongside the ancient one,

01:46a supreme witch who operates in a secret environment known only to her disciples.

01:50It's pretty similar in Batman Begins,

01:53where Bruce Wayne will join a time-insect called the League of Shadows

01:56and which is led by a charismatic leader in the person of Ra's al Ghul.

02:00We can also cite Men in Black,

02:02where an entire extraterrestrial society was created on our Earth in parallel with our society,

02:06and where a secret organization called the Men in Black

02:09will be created precisely to manage this extraterrestrial-terrestrial agreement.

02:13Oh, his disguise is so shitty, that one, it's obvious, he's one of them.

02:16If you don't like it, you can go fuck yourself, you poor fool!

02:18In all three cases, we have a pattern identical to the integration of a secret society.

02:23by a rite of passage.

02:25The difference is that Doctor Strange goes looking for this organization,

02:29G gets spotted by her,

02:30and Bruce Wayne ends up disowning her,

02:32not being in phase with his principles

02:34and lifting the mask on something too dangerous,

02:36too secret.

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