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- The French Democracy is a short 2005 French political film made by Alex Chan using computer animation from Lionhead Studios' 2005 business simulation game The Movies. The plot centers on three Moroccan men who turn to rioting after facing different forms of discrimination. Chan, a French native of Chinese descent, created the film to convey his view that racism caused the riots of the 2005 civil unrest in France. Although Chan was restricted by shortcomings and technical limitations in The Movies, he finished the film after four days of production. The film was uploaded to The Movies Online, Lionhead's website for user-created videos, on 22 November 2005 and was soon covered by American and French press. Although real-time-rendered, three-dimensional computer animation (machinima) had been used in earlier political films, The French Democracy attained an unprecedented level of mainstream attention for political machinima. While acknowledging the film's flaws, such as the grammatically poor English subtitles, commentators praised its clear political message and compared it to films such as La Haine and Do the Right Thing. The French Democracy inspired other politically conscious machinima works and fueled discussion about the art form's potential for political expression. Some raised concerns that video game companies would use their copyrights to control the content of derivative machinima films. (en)
- The French Democracy est un court métrage français machinima réalisé par Alex Chan à l'aide du jeu vidéo The Movies. Il met en scène, en France, trois Marocains se révoltant contre des actes de discrimination. Il s'inspire des événements déclencheurs des émeutes de 2005 dans les banlieues françaises. Son auteur, Alex Chan, est un designer français de parents originaires de Hong Kong et était alors âgé de 27 ans. D'une durée de 13 minutes, ce court métrage a été mis en ligne le 22 novembre 2005 sur The Movies Online et a été largement couvert part la presse américaine et française. (fr)
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- The French Democracy est un court métrage français machinima réalisé par Alex Chan à l'aide du jeu vidéo The Movies. Il met en scène, en France, trois Marocains se révoltant contre des actes de discrimination. Il s'inspire des événements déclencheurs des émeutes de 2005 dans les banlieues françaises. Son auteur, Alex Chan, est un designer français de parents originaires de Hong Kong et était alors âgé de 27 ans. D'une durée de 13 minutes, ce court métrage a été mis en ligne le 22 novembre 2005 sur The Movies Online et a été largement couvert part la presse américaine et française. (fr)
- The French Democracy is a short 2005 French political film made by Alex Chan using computer animation from Lionhead Studios' 2005 business simulation game The Movies. The plot centers on three Moroccan men who turn to rioting after facing different forms of discrimination. Chan, a French native of Chinese descent, created the film to convey his view that racism caused the riots of the 2005 civil unrest in France. Although Chan was restricted by shortcomings and technical limitations in The Movies, he finished the film after four days of production. (en)
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