The Adventures of Antoine Doinel: Difference between revisions

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* '''The 400 Blows:''' This film introduces Antoine, a Parisian bastard child with a cold, adulterous mother and an argumentative stepfather. The film follows him as, after a series of injustices, he becomes a ~~juvenille~~ ~~deliquent~~ and his family abandons him. The title comes from the French slang term "faire les quatre cents coups" which means something like "raising hell" or "living a wild life." Considerably [[Darker and Edgier]] than the next four films. It snagged Truffaut the Best Director award at Cannes at the tender age of 27.

* '''The 400 Blows:''' This film introduces Antoine, a Parisian bastard child with a cold, adulterous mother and an argumentative stepfather. The film follows him as, after a series of injustices, he becomes a juvenile delinquent and his family abandons him. The title comes from the French slang term "faire les quatre cents coups" which means something like "raising hell" or "living a wild life." Considerably [[Darker and Edgier]] than the next four films. It snagged Truffaut the Best Director award at Cannes at the tender age of 27.

* '''Antoine and Colette:''' A short film Truffaut made for the Love at Twenty collection, which is about ... [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|well.]] This marks the saga's turn from drama to light romantic comedy.

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* [[Amazingly Embarrassing Parents]]: Particularly cruel version from Truffaut's The 400 Blows: Once Antoine's parents learn that he's been skipping school, they decide to punish him in the most humiliating way imaginable to a preteen boy—by going down to school, storming into his classroom, slapping him in front of all his classmates, and letting him (and everyone else in the room) know, in no uncertain terms, that there's more to come once he gets home. They then leave him to stew in terror and suspense for the rest of the school day.

* [[Author Avatar]]: Little Antoine's story was based off Truffaut's childhood experiences, but Antoine's adulthood is fictional. In-universe, Antoine writes a novel which is very close to a word-for-word autobiography.

* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: By the end of the first film, sweet-natured Antoine is considered a worthless delinquent. His own mother washes her hands of him and requests that after a stint in ~~juvenille~~ detention he be sent to a work camp by the shore where she doesn't have to deal with him anymore. But at least he gets to see the ocean - in one of French cinema's most famous and beautiful scenes.

* [[Bittersweet Ending]]: By the end of the first film, sweet-natured Antoine is considered a worthless delinquent. His own mother washes her hands of him and requests that after a stint in juvenile detention he be sent to a work camp by the shore where she doesn't have to deal with him anymore. But at least he gets to see the ocean - in one of French cinema's most famous and beautiful scenes.

* [[Cerebus Syndrome]]: Inverted. After The 400 Blows, the next films are considerably [[Lighter and Softer]]. Can lead to [[Mood Whiplash]], since the general idea is still the same: the whole world misunderstands Antoine and he fails at everything he tries, except now it's [[Played for Laughs]].

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