Le film du jour : Risky Business (1983)

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00:00Directed by Paul Brickman, Risky Business is part of a trend typical of its time.

00:05the Coming of Age Movie, which consists of seeing the average American teenager emerge from his

00:09chrysalis and becoming an adult.

00:11This transition takes place through a powerful experience, something that will awaken the

00:15adolescent awareness.

00:16Here, this experience is the encounter between Joel and Lana.

00:20He is a model teenager, living in an upscale neighborhood of Chicago, destined to

00:24pursue higher education and become an outstanding business leader.

00:27At home, the rules are strict: we don't touch the oak tree, we don't smoke.

00:32We don't drink.

00:33And yet, once the parents are gone, once freed from the family cocoon, from this burden

00:37Unbearable, Joel indulges in all kinds of excesses.

00:40And if we follow the parents' departure from a subjective point of view, from the teenager's perspective, that

00:44is not insignificant.

00:45We also wanted to be alone in our parents' house to drink alcohol.

00:49dancing to All Time Work'n'Wall and stealing dad's Porsche.

00:52Finally, the Renault 25 as far as I'm concerned.

00:55Much less classy, I grant you.

00:56Lana, on the other hand, is a very mysterious call girl, much more intelligent and lucid than Joel.

01:02She's the one pulling the strings throughout the entire film, and their meeting will take place

01:05through a very surprising, but also very captivating sexual tension.

01:10As if the scene wasn't real, and Joel was just fantasizing about it

01:14at the moment, as he often does throughout the film.

01:16The narrative constantly straddles this boundary between illusion and reality.

01:20And the nighttime strolls through an idyllic Chicago, accompanied by the soundtrack by Tangerine

01:25Dream only accentuates this notion of illusion, of a waking dream.

01:29Joel's emancipation goes through all these stages, and that's where the controversy lies.

01:34This all ends well and does not condemn the hero, despite the limitations of his morality.

01:38We now know that the original ending of the film was supposed to be much less

01:42feel-good.

01:43The film's dreamlike atmosphere and captivating ambiance greatly appealed to me.

01:47brand.

01:48Far beyond its repetitive themes.

01:50Paul Brickman does a more than decent job.

01:53His inspired direction makes me regret his far too early retirement.

01:56He withdrew from the film industry after the film's success, preferring a quiet life.

02:01of anonymity.

02:03This teen movie, Tom Cruise's fourth in the same year, will allow the latter

02:06to experience his first real success.

02:09And he will also be responsible for the first of a long list of iconic scenes.

02:12A scene improvised by Cruise, which will enter the collective unconscious and constitute

02:17the foundations of his legend.