Micmacs (film)
[4] A young boy named Bazil loses his military father, who is blown up while attempting to defuse a land mine in the Western Sahara.Thirty years later, Bazil (Dany Boon) is working in a video rental shop in Paris when a stray bullet from a shoot-out in the street enters his forehead.Bazil, who has miming and sign language talents, becomes a homeless busker until he is taken in by a man named Slammer (Jean-Pierre Marielle) to Tire-Larigots, a shelter carved under a mountain of recycling material.Bazil is befriended by the other scavenging dwellers: Elastic Girl (Julie Ferrier), a contortionist; Mama Chow (Yolande Moreau), who feeds and mothers the crew; Remington (Omar Sy) a former ethnographer from Africa who speaks entirely in old-fashioned language clichés; Buster (Dominique Pinon), a former human cannonball; Tiny Pete (Michel Crémadès), an artist who designs moving sculptures from scavenged trash; and Calculator (Marie-Julie Baup), a young woman who measures and calculates things with a glance.While scavenging for trash, Bazil discovers the offices and factories of the firms that manufactured the landmine that orphaned him and the bullet he was shot with, on opposite sides of a street.He hears a phone conversation arranging a meeting between Marconi and associates of Omar Boulounga, an African dictator seeking arms for an upcoming violent conflict.Remington, claiming to be Boulounga's right-hand man, meets with De Fenouillet and proposes the same deal which was offered to Marconi.Next, Elastic Girl breaks into Marconi's apartment searching for blackmail material while Bazil waits and listens on the roof.In a flashback inspired by Brian De Palma's Mission: Impossible,[5] we see that Bazil and his friends simulated the entire plane flight with various sound effects, and the desert setting is simply a clearing in a Paris suburb.Bazil, Buster, and Slammer were digitally removed from the frame, and De Fenouillet was given dialogue whose audio would synchronize exactly with the original lines filmed.The music which appears is by Raphaël Beau, an unknown school teacher with no prior professional recording or scoring experience.