Everyone stand up: the blunder that inspired the title of the film

This evening on TF1 will be broadcast Everyone Standing, the first feature film directed by Franck Dubosc.

Made in 2018, this film, tackling the complicated subject of disability with humor and lightness, tells the story of Jocelyn, a businessman and inveterate flirt played by Dubosc himself, who decides to pass himself off as a paraplegic following a misunderstanding and in order to seduce a young woman. The situation escalates when he realizes that her sister is herself in a wheelchair.

The French filmmaker, who is best known for his career as a comedian and actor, has since directed a second film, this time centered on the theme of dance (and whose rather enigmatic title Dubosc explained to us in interview).

But today let’s focus on how he chose to title his first feature film: Everyone standinga formula which was directly inspired by a famous blunder, accidentally made by singer François Feldman in 1996, during the 10th Telethon ceremony.

As the musician performed his song Dont play on stage, he had in fact exclaimed “Everyone stand up over there!” by addressing an audience mainly made up of people in wheelchairs. A gaffe that has remained famous in the history of television, which Dubosc therefore decided to reuse:

“The working title was ‘Get up and walk’, but I didn’t find it very graceful. I actually took up what François, who is a friend, had said”had confided the actor and director in the press kit for the film.

“Everyone made a lot of fun of this blunder committed in front of people who couldn’t get up, but I ultimately found it very positive. Because standing up, it’s in the head. Besides, my character says it speaking of Florence who is disabled: ‘She thinks faster, she goes faster, she lives more than us.’ He means ‘much more than me.'”

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