Les Choristes: Difference between revisions

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America, present day. Wildly successful orchestra conductor Pierre Morhange is called back to France for his mother's funeral, and is visited by Pépinot, his one-time classmate. He's brought a photograph of their school years, and the diary that their teacher kept.

Rewind back to 1949. Clément Mathieu, a failed musician, accepts a post at '[[Exactly What It Says On the Tin|Fond de l'Etang]]' ('Rock Bottom'), a school for delinquent boys. Horrified both by their behaviour and the brutally repressive methods of headmaster Rachin, he begins to teach his class music as a way to get their attention. It... doesn't all go according to plan.

Rewind back to 1949. Clément Mathieu, a failed musician, accepts a post at '[[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Fond de l'Etang]]' ('Rock Bottom'), a school for delinquent boys. Horrified both by their behaviour and the brutally repressive methods of headmaster Rachin, he begins to teach his class music as a way to get their attention. It... doesn't all go according to plan.

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* [[Humiliation Conga]]: Arguably what happens to Mathieu

* [[Ironic Echo]]: ''"I am Clément Mathieu, a musician and each night I compose for [the children]."'' becomes {{spoiler|''"I am Clément Mathieu, a failed musician; a surveillant without employment."''}}

* [[Jerk ~~With~~ a Heart of Jerk]]: At the middle of the movie, as the students behaviour is improving and the success of Mathieu's methods become apparent, Rachin at first seems to mellow in his harshness and become kinder, playing football with the students he previously despised. Towards the end of the film however, {{spoiler|as he takes credit for Mathieu's work and then fires him for breaking the school rules by taking the boys out for a picnic, even though he saved their lives from the fire, it turns out that he's still the same bastard he was before.}}

* [[Jerk with a Heart of Jerk]]: At the middle of the movie, as the students behaviour is improving and the success of Mathieu's methods become apparent, Rachin at first seems to mellow in his harshness and become kinder, playing football with the students he previously despised. Towards the end of the film however, {{spoiler|as he takes credit for Mathieu's work and then fires him for breaking the school rules by taking the boys out for a picnic, even though he saved their lives from the fire, it turns out that he's still the same bastard he was before.}}

* [[Jerkass Facade]]: Morhange tries to pull one of these. Mathieu isn't impressed.

* [[La Résistance]]: Thanks to {{spoiler|Rachin banning the choir}}, Mathieu jokingly calls them this after they practice in private.