The Ambivalent Role of Stereotypes in Contemporary French Comedies

The introduction has been written already. Please write the main body of the research paper. The focus of this essay should be based on three primary french comedy films which are: (Welcome to the Sticks 2008, The Intouchables 2011, Serial (bad) weddings) and the main body will focus on how these three films portray issues that deal with race, society, ethnicity, culture and religion and what impact does stereotypes impose on the characters who are marginalised part of the society and what effect do these stereotypes have on the audience members who watch the films. Along with why does the Director of the film choose to highlight these stereotypes in these films, could this be to create a positive impact or does this create a negative impact on the audience members.
If you wish to follow the essay main body with the thoughts from the introduction then I have copied my introduction below. Feel free to use it as much or as little as you would like to help with the main body of this research paper.
Introduction
This research will concentrate on the ambivalent role of stereotypes in contemporary French comedies. The focus will be on the comedy genre juxtaposed with approaches to generating humorous situations created with the use of stereotypical portrayal of ethnicity, race, nationality, culture, religion, and other/related characteristics.
French audiences are preferring comedy from any other genre (Creton 2015; Moine 2015). Our research will closely examine three highly successful box office films of French origin: Welcome to the Sticks (Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis) (2008), The Untouchables (Intouchables) (2011) and Serial (Bad) Weddings (Qu`est-ce qu`on a fait au Bon Dieu?) (2014). These films were on first, second and fourth place according cinema audience numbers during the last two decades in France (frenchfilms.org 2019).
Welcome to the Sticks (Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis) (2008)
This “verbal comedy” (Moine 2015, p.575) is exhibited in the dialogue created by Dany Boon, co-writer and director of the film who stars as Antoine Bailleul. The film, “seen by 20,360,000 spectators on national screens” (Moine 2015, p. 582) is the highest-grossing French film of all time at the box office in France (frenchfilms.org 2019).
The story is of a manager of the French post office branch in southern France Philippe Abrams, who is sent for two years to Bergues, a small town in northern France, "the sticks", where he is met by his employee Antoine. According to people from French South, it is a horrible place where live strange ch'tis who speak a bizarre dialect. After a short time Philippe is astonished how nice the place is, with friendly inhabitants and co-workers. His wife Julie, who still believes that her husband lives in an awkward banishment, decides to visit him. After experiencing some obscured living conditions, staged by her husband and his friends, she finds out how lovely life on North is.
The Untouchables (Intouchables) (2011)
French buddy comedy-drama film, work of directors Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano is a story of a young black man with a criminal record, Driss (Omar Sy), who is employed by a rich disabled male named Philippe (François Cluzet), as his carer. As inspiration for the film was used the true story of Philippe Pozzo di Borgo who employed French-Moroccan man with a criminal record Abdel Sellou as his care assistant.
The film collected eight nominations for the César Awards including the César Award for Best Film and won the César Award for Best Actor for Omar Sy. In 2012 The Intouchables became the highest-earning all-time movie in a non-English language, grossing $281 million worldwide (McClintock 2012) and even seven years later still remaining among top 10 highest earning non-English films of all time, while on first positions are Chinese films with their incomparably big market potential (John 2019).
Serial (Bad) Weddings (Qu`est-ce qu`on a fait au Bon Dieu?) (2014)
The film directed by Philippe de Chauveron about a rich Catholic couple from Chinon: a notary Claude Verneuil and his spouse Marie. Three of their four daughters are married to men, each one of them a different religion and a different ethnic background: Algerian Muslim, Jew and Chinese. The parents live in hope in their youngest daughter Laure that she will bring home a Catholic partner. They are shocked when they discover that the man to whom their daughter is engaged is black. The film ends however with a happy marriage.
This project focuses on some of the sections of the chosen films and provides aspects of the approach towards the use of stereotypes by their directors.