Back in 2009, a Canadian comedy film called ‘Father And Guns’ (originally: De père en flic‘) was released. The movie tells a story of two policemen, a father (Jacques) and a son (Marc), who can’t stand each other, yet are paired up to work together for an undercover police investigation. The film broke the box office record and became the highest-grossing French language film in Canadian history.
Seven years later, the creators of the movie decided it was time for a sequel and at this moment the filming of ‘De père en flic 2’ is slowly coming to its end on the locations in Quebec. La Presse recently visited the set and today published a summarizing article about what the fans can expect from this movie, as well as a short transcript of a scene that takes place after an arrest is made by the two policemen.
And it is during this scene, when La Presse mentions there is a slight reference to the Canadian band Simple Plan in the movie. See the translation of an excerpt from this article below:
“Do you need to feel alive? Do you need a hobby? Well, if that’s it, you can do water aerobics or go bowling,” continues Marc, after comparing his father to the bassist of Simple Plan, because of his tattooed forearms, his dyed hair and his tight black sweater.”
Whether the scriptwriters did not do a full research about Simple Plan when writing this particular scene, where they sort of mixed the personalities of both David Desrosiers (the actual bassist), who does not have any tattoos on his forearm, and either Pierre Bouvier or Jeff Stinco (who do have tattoos on their forearms, although Pierre’s full arm sleeve seems more probable in this case) or whether this was a part of the comedic appeal, it seems that not just Simple Plan fans might get a slight chuckle from this scene.
The film ‘De père en flic 2’ should be released sometime in 2017.
