Bon Cop, Bad Cop is a 2006 Canadian comedy-thriller buddy cop film about English Canadian and French Canadian police officers who reluctantly join forces. The dialogue is a mixture of English and French. The title is a translation word play on the phrase "Good cop/Bad cop", and the film's tagline is "Shoot First, Translate Later." Image File history File linksMetadata Boncop. ... Eric Canuel (born 1964) is a Canadian film director and actor. ... Kevin Tierney is s film producer who earned a Genie Award for Best Motion Picture for the film Bon Cop, Bad Cop, for which he also wrote the script. ... Alex Epstein (born 1980) is an American Objectivist philosopher and junior fellow at the Ayn Rand Institute. ... Patrick Huard (born January 2, 1969 in Montreal) is a Quebec actor and comedian. ... Kevin Tierney is s film producer who earned a Genie Award for Best Motion Picture for the film Bon Cop, Bad Cop, for which he also wrote the script. ... Colm Feore (born August 22, 1958, at Boston, Massachusetts) is an Canadian-American actor raised in Canada of Irish and Italian extraction. ... Patrick Huard (born January 2, 1969 in Montreal) is a Quebec actor and comedian. ... Alliance Atlantis Alliance Atlantis is a Toronto-based media company. ... is the 216th day of the year (217th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... During the 1960s, a terrorist group known as the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) launched a decade of bombings, robberies and attacks on government offices. ... is the 230th day of the year (231st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... English Canada is a term used to describe one of the following: English Canadians, a term usually meaning English-speaking or anglophone Canadians, the official language majority in the country except New-Brunswick and Quebec as well. ... “C$” redirects here. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Comedy film is genre of film in which the main emphasis is on humor. ... The thriller is a broad genre of literature, film, and television. ... The Buddy Cop genre of films are action films with plots involving two men of very different and conflicting personalities who are forced to work together to solve a crime and/or defeat criminals, sometimes learning from each other in the process. ... English Canada is a term used to describe either: the anglophone residents of Canada or the Canadian provinces other than Quebec and, sometimes, New Brunswick, in which French is an official language of the provincial governments. ... French Canadian is a term that has several different connotations. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... This article is about Word play. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ...

Synopsis

When a dead body is found hanging on top of the sign demarcating the Ontario-Quebec border, police officers from both Canadian provinces must join forces to solve the murder. David Bouchard (Patrick Huard) is a rule-bending, francophone detective for the Sûreté du Québec, while Martin Ward (Colm Feore) is a by-the-book anglophone Ontario Provincial Police detective. Although both detectives are bilingual, they must resolve their professional and cultural differences as well as their bigotry and prejudices. Motto: Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet (Latin: Loyal she began, loyal she remains) Capital Toronto Largest city Toronto Official languages English (de facto) Government - Lieutenant-Governor David C. Onley - Premier Dalton McGuinty (Liberal) Federal representation in Canadian Parliament - House seats 106 - Senate seats 24 Confederation July 1, 1867 (1st) Area... , Motto: Je me souviens (French: I remember) Capital Quebec City Largest city Montreal Official languages French Government - Lieutenant-Governor Pierre Duchesne - Premier Jean Charest (PLQ) Federal representation in Canadian Parliament - House seats 75 - Senate seats 24 Confederation July 1, 1867 (1st) Area  Ranked 2nd - Total 1,542,056 km² (595... Patrick Huard (born January 2, 1969 in Montreal) is a Quebec actor and comedian. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... The Sûreté du Québec or SQ. (French for Surety of Quebec, but usually transliterated as Quebec Provincial Police) is the provincial police force of Quebec. ... Colm Feore (born August 22, 1958, at Boston, Massachusetts) is an Canadian-American actor raised in Canada of Irish and Italian extraction. ... Look up Anglophone in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... The Ontario Provincial Police (O.P.P.) is the provincial police force for the province of Ontario, Canada. ... The term bilingualism (from bi meaning two and lingua meaning language) can refer to rather different phenomena. ...

Plot

The clues lead the pair to Luc Therrien (Sylvain Marcel). After a fight in a bar, they imprison him in the trunk of Bouchard's car. They then go to watch Bouchard's daughter in a ballet recital. When they emerge, a bomb destroys the car, apparently killing Therrien. Sylvain Marcel (born 1964) is a Canadian actor. ... For other uses, see Ballet (disambiguation). ...

They discover another body, of a former owner of a hockey team, in a house where there is a marijuana grow-op in the basement. A booby trap sets the house on fire, destroying the house and causing the two cops to get high on the fumes. When they are disciplined by Bouchard's police chief shortly afterwards, he angrily removes them from the case after they start laughing hysterically because they're still high. A Cannabis sativa plant The drug cannabis, also called marijuana, is produced from parts of the cannabis plant, primarily the cured flowers and gathered trichomes of the female plant. ...

The next victim is discovered in Ward's jurisdiction. They realize that the killer has a pattern of tattooing his victims, with each tattoo providing a clue to the next murder victim. Each murder, in fact, is in some way connected to major league hockey. (The film uses thinly disguised parodies of National Hockey League teams, owners and players, however, rather than the real league.) Ice hockey, known simply as hockey in areas where it is more common than field hockey, is a team sport played on ice. ... In contemporary usage, a parody (or lampoon) is a work that imitates another work in order to ridicule, ironically comment on, or poke some affectionate fun at the work itself, the subject of the work, the author or fictional voice of the parody, or another subject. ... “NHL” redirects here. ...

The pair anticipate the next victim, but he goes missing before they reach him. He was about to appear on a hockey talk show, and the two cops appear instead.

Ward is attacked in his home by a masked assailant whom he discovers is Therrien. Meanwhile, Bouchard makes love to Ward's sister.

The "Tattoo Killer" kidnaps Bouchard's daughter, leading to the final confrontation with the two policemen. It is ultimately revealed that the murders are being committed as revenge against the hockey league for desecrating the game by moving Canadian teams such as the "Quebec Fleur de Lys" to the United States.

Bilingualism

Bon Cop, Bad Cop claimed to be Canada's first bilingual feature film, however that accomplishment belongs to Amanita Pestilens (1963). Since the film revolves around the concept of mixed cultures and languages, most scenes include a mixture of French and English dialogue, with characters switching language rapidly. The entire movie was filmed using both a French and an English script, and the language used at each moment was only finalized later during editing.^[1] The film was then released in two official versions, one for Anglophones and one for Francophones, which differ only in their subtitles and in a few spoken lines. The DVD also includes an option for bilingual viewers to switch off all subtitles. The term bilingualism (from bi meaning two and lingua meaning language) can refer to rather different phenomena. ... Amanita Pestilens is a 1963 Canadian film produced by F. R. Crawley, directed by René Bonnière. ... Canadian English (CaE) is a variety of English used in Canada. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ...

Francophone humour

• When Jeff is updating the cops on Rita's autopsy, he mentions that Rita spelled backwards is "atir." This sounds like "à tire", Québec slang for "elle tire", which means that she is promiscuous.
• When Luc Therrien, played by Sylvain Marcel, puts on the mascot outfit in the washroom, he poses in front of a mirror and utters the line "Are you talkin' to me?", a parody of a similar scene in Taxi Driver. However, he also says "Ah-ha!", a reference to Marcel's tagline in the popular commercials for the Familiprix chain of drugstores.
• The line "Vive le Québec libre" uttered during the sex scene between David and Iris is an allusion to an encouragement to Quebec sovereigntists made by French President Charles De Gaulle in 1967.
• The scenes introducing Ward play on French Canadian stereotypes of English Canadians (and Torontonians in particular) as boring or uncool. Examples include Ward ironing his pants in his kitchen while otherwise formally dressed for work, and his desire for a desk job.

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Anglophone humour

• Rick Mercer has a minor supporting role in the film as Tom Berry, a loudmouthed, racist television sportscaster, who is a parody of real-life Canadian hockey commentator Don Cherry.
• Similarly, the character of Harry Buttman is a parody of NHL commissioner Gary Bettman, and hockey team owner Pickleton is a parody of Peter Pocklington.
• Bouchard's erratic driving is a reference to long-standing Canadian jokes about the dangers of driving in Montreal, and of Quebec drivers in general.
• When Ward and Bouchard arrive at the heliport, Ward's division of French-English language jurisdictions ("...with the possible exception of some areas in New Brunswick") and the formal language he uses in doing so are allusions to the Canadian Constitution and its official language provisions.

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Actual facts

• The film makes parodial references to certain major NHL events. The relocation of the Quebec Nordiques to Denver and the Colorado Avalanche's 1996 Stanley Cup championship the following season. Another reference is Eric Lindros as one of the key victims played a role in the trade. Peter Pocklington is also referenced for his role in trading Wayne Gretzky to the LA Kings.

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Exhibition and box office

Canada

The film opened in Quebec on 4 August, 2006 (and Canada-wide on August 18) and, as of December 17, 2006, had grossed $12,665,721 USD (12,578,327 CAD), making it one of the highest-grossing Canadian films of all time domestically. While the film has only generated $1.3 million outside of Quebec,^[2] its success is significant given the difficulties that Canadian films normally face at the box office. is the 216th day of the year (217th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... is the 230th day of the year (231st in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... December 17 is the 351st day of the year (352nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... “USD” redirects here. ... “C$” redirects here. ...

In October 2006, Bon Cop, Bad Cop's producers claimed that the film had become the highest-grossing Canadian film domestically, surpassing the $11.2 million teen comedy Porky's earned in Canada in 1981. The claim, however, does not take into consideration inflation: Porky's domestic gross in 2006 dollars is approximately $24.2 million, still far ahead of Bon Cop, Bad Cop; the latter is thus likely the third highest-grossing Canadian film domestically after Porky's and 1970s Deux femmes en or.^{[citation needed]} Porkys is a comedy film about the escapades of teenagers at the fictional Angel Beach high school in Florida in 1954. ...

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International

The film has not been released theatrically outside Canada, although it has been screened at film festivals in Australia^{[citation needed]} and Estonia^{[citation needed]}. In June 2007, it was shown on Cuban television - the Spanish subtitles struggled to convey the bilingualism.^{[citation needed]}

Awards and recognition

The film won in two of its ten nominated categories for the 27th Genie Awards in 2007: Image File history File links WikiNews-Logo. ... Wikinews is a free-content news source and a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. ... The 27th Genie Awards will be held on February 13, 2007 to honour films released in 2006. ...

• Best motion picture
• Overall sound

Its other nominated categories were:

• Best actor: Colm Feore
• Best actor: Patrick Huard
• Direction: Eric Canuel
• Art Direction/Production Design: Jean Bécotte
• Cinematography: Bruce Chun
• Editing: Jean-François Bergeron
• Sound editing
• Original song:"Tattoo"

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References

1. ^ Famous Quebec, August/September 2006
2. ^ Bon Cop, Bad Cop hits new high for Quebec box office. CBC. Retrieved on September 26, 2006.

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External links

• Northern Stars: Bon Cop, Bad Cop, accessed 25 July 2006
• (French) cinoche.com: Bon cop, bad cop, accessed 25 July 2006
• PulpMovies: Bon Cop, Bad Cop, accessed 25 July 2006
• Co-writer Alex Epstein
• Bon Cop, Bad Cop at the Internet Movie Database