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* RightHandAttackDog: The consul has several dangerous guard dogs. They kill a DGSE agent when he gets into the consulate.
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The director and the three leading actors would go on to make ''Film/LesVisiteurs'' two years later.
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''L'Opération Corned-Beef'' ("Operation Corned Beef") is a 1991 French comedy film starring Creator/ChristianClavier, Creator/JeanReno and Creator/ValerieLemercier.
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''L'Opération Corned-Beef'' ("Operation Corned Beef") is a 1991 French action comedy film starring Creator/ChristianClavier, Creator/JeanReno and Creator/ValerieLemercier.
''L'Opération Corned-Beef'' ("Operation Corned Beef") is a 1991 French action comedy film starring Creator/ChristianClavier, Creator/JeanReno and Creator/ValerieLemercier.
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* RedBaron: Boulier, a badass intelligence officer, is nicknamed ''Le Squale'' ("the shark").
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Boulier, a badass intelligence officer, has to take care of Jean-Jacques Granianski, a feeble psychological consultant.
* SensitiveGuyAndManlyMan: Boulier, a badass intelligence officer, has to take care of Jean-Jacques Granianski, a feeble psychological consultant.
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Captain Philippe Boulier (Reno) is a military intelligence officer. His team is spying on a foreign consul who is an intermediary between a Colombian arms dealer and a traitor inside the French governement. They have placed a microphone inside the ring of Marie-Laurence Granianski (Lemercier), an interpreter who works in the consulate. Unfortunately, she plans to go on holiday with her husband at the time of the meeting between the arms dealer and the mysterious traitor. Boulier designs a plan: a female agent will seduce Jean-Jacques Granianski, Marie-Laurence's husband, and compromising evidence will be sent to Marie-Laurence, so that she will cancel her holiday. Unfortunately, the only agent who is attractive enough for this mission is Isabelle Fourreau, Boulier's own wife.
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Captain Philippe Boulier (Reno) is a military intelligence officer. His team is spying on a foreign consul who is an intermediary between a Colombian arms dealer and a traitor inside the French governement. government. They have placed planted a microphone inside the ring of Marie-Laurence Granianski (Lemercier), an interpreter who works in the consulate. Unfortunately, she plans to go on holiday with her husband at the time of the meeting between the arms dealer and the mysterious traitor. Boulier designs a plan: a female agent will seduce Jean-Jacques Granianski, Marie-Laurence's husband, and compromising evidence will be sent to Marie-Laurence, so that she will cancel her holiday. Unfortunately, the only agent who is attractive enough for this mission is Isabelle Fourreau, Boulier's own wife.
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* VillainousCrush: Zargas, the arms dealer, has a crush on Marie-Laurence Granianski
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* VillainousCrush: Zargas, the arms dealer, has a crush on Marie-Laurence GranianskiGranianski.
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* AgentsDating: Boulier is married with another DGSE agent, Isabelle Fourreau. Their relationship goes awry when Isabelle Fourreau is ordered to sleep with a random guy in the framework of her job.
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* HereWeGoAgain: In the end, François Mitterrand asks Fourreau to sleep with UsefulNotes/MikhailGorbachev as part of a new mission.
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* PlausibleDeniability: A minister tells Masse and Boulier that they can keep on spying on the consul illegally, but he warns them that if they get caught he will deny involvement. In the end, the minister actually stresses the fact that Masse cannot prove that he approved the mission.
* ThePreciousPreciousCar: Jean-Jacques's brand new Citroën BX gets completely trashed by the end of the film.
* ThePreciousPreciousCar: Jean-Jacques's brand new Citroën BX gets completely trashed by the end of the film.
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* AngryGuardDog: The consul has several dangerous guard dogs. They kill a DGSE agent when he gets into the consulate.
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* EvilCripple: The head of the DST uses a wheelchair. {{Downplayed}}, because he is not outright evil, he is just an ObstructiveBureacrat who tries to stop Boulier, the protagonist.
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* HiddenWire: The DGSE hides a microphone inside Marie-Laurence's ring, who is not aware of it. Somehow it works without a transmitter.
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* SpySpeak: The mission is named "Operation Corned Beef" by the intelligence service because the last name of the target is "Burger".
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* EvilCripple: The head of the DST uses a wheelchair. {{Downplayed}}, because he is not outright evil, he is just an ObstructiveBureacrat who tries to stop Boulier, the protagonist.
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* InvisiblePresident: Both François Mitterrand and Helmut Kohl are only shown from behind. An actor imitates their voices.
* SpiesInAVan: Boulier's team uses a van to spy on the consulate. It is supposed to be a van of occupational medicine services.
* VillainousCrush: Zargas, the arms dealer, has a crush on Marie-Laurence Granianski
* SpiesInAVan: Boulier's team uses a van to spy on the consulate. It is supposed to be a van of occupational medicine services.
* VillainousCrush: Zargas, the arms dealer, has a crush on Marie-Laurence Granianski
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Captain Philippe Boulier (Reno) is a military intelligence officer. His team is spying on a foreign consul who is an intermediary between a Colombian arms dealer and a traitor inside the French governement. They have placed a microphone inside the ring of Marie-Laurence Granianski (Lemercier), an interpreter who works in the consulate. Unfortunately, she plans to go on holiday with her husband during the meeting between the arms dealer and the mysterious traitor. Boulier designs a plan: a female agent will seduce Jean-Jacques Granianski, Marie-Laurence's husband, and compromising evidence will be sent to Marie-Laurence, so that she will cancel her holiday. Unfortunately, the only agent who is attractive enough for this mission is Isabelle Fourreau, Boulier's own wife.
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Captain Philippe Boulier (Reno) is a military intelligence officer. His team is spying on a foreign consul who is an intermediary between a Colombian arms dealer and a traitor inside the French governement. They have placed a microphone inside the ring of Marie-Laurence Granianski (Lemercier), an interpreter who works in the consulate. Unfortunately, she plans to go on holiday with her husband during at the time of the meeting between the arms dealer and the mysterious traitor. Boulier designs a plan: a female agent will seduce Jean-Jacques Granianski, Marie-Laurence's husband, and compromising evidence will be sent to Marie-Laurence, so that she will cancel her holiday. Unfortunately, the only agent who is attractive enough for this mission is Isabelle Fourreau, Boulier's own wife.
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* InterserviceRivalry: Philippe Boulier works for the DGSE, a French intelligence agency. Officially he cannot operate on French soil, where the DST, another French intelligence agency, is competent, but he does it secretly, because he does not trust the DST and does not want to cooperate with them.
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* InterserviceRivalry: Philippe Boulier works for the DGSE, a French intelligence agency. Officially Officially, he cannot operate on French soil, where the DST, another French intelligence agency, is competent, but he does it secretly, because he does not trust the DST and does not want to cooperate with them.
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* DreamIntro: The prologue shows Philippe Boulier fighting drug traffickers in Colombia. After a ChaseScene, he is killed by Zargas. Then he wakes up in his bed: it was just a dream.
* FakeActionPrologue: The prologue shows Philippe Boulier fighting drug traffickers in Colombia. After a ChaseScene, he is killed by Zargas. Then the prologue is revealed to be a DreamIntro.
* FakeActionPrologue: The prologue shows Philippe Boulier fighting drug traffickers in Colombia. After a ChaseScene, he is killed by Zargas. Then the prologue is revealed to be a DreamIntro.
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''L'Opération Corned-Beef'' ("Operation Corned Beef") is a 1991 French comedy film starring Creator/ChristianClavier, Creator/JeanReno and Creator/ValerieLemercier.
Captain Philippe Boulier (Reno) is a military intelligence officer. His team is spying on a foreign consul who is an intermediary between a Colombian arms dealer and a traitor inside the French governement. They have placed a microphone inside the ring of Marie-Laurence Granianski (Lemercier), an interpreter who works in the consulate. Unfortunately, she plans to go on holiday with her husband during the meeting between the arms dealer and the mysterious traitor. Boulier designs a plan: a female agent will seduce Jean-Jacques Granianski, Marie-Laurence's husband, and compromising evidence will be sent to Marie-Laurence, so that she will cancel her holiday. Unfortunately, the only agent who is attractive enough for this mission is Isabelle Fourreau, Boulier's own wife.
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!!''L'Opération Corned-Beef'' provides examples of:
* ArmsDealer: Augusto Zargas, a Colombian arms dealer who sells advanced French weapons illegally.
* DramaticIrony:
** The audience knows that the agent sent to seduce Jean-Jacques is Boulier's wife, unlike Boulier. This is PlayedForLaughs when Boulier insists that she accomplishes her mission.
** The audience knows that Jean-Jacques's lover is is Boulier's wife, unlike Jean-Jacques. This is PlayedForLaughs when Jean-Jacques shares smutty details about his relationship with Boulier.
* FemmeFataleSpy: Isabelle Fourreau, an intelligence officer, seduces Jean-Jacques Granianski in the framework of a spying operation.
* InterserviceRivalry: Philippe Boulier works for the DGSE, a French intelligence agency. Officially he cannot operate on French soil, where the DST, another French intelligence agency, is competent, but he does it secretly, because he does not trust the DST and does not want to cooperate with them.
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Captain Philippe Boulier (Reno) is a military intelligence officer. His team is spying on a foreign consul who is an intermediary between a Colombian arms dealer and a traitor inside the French governement. They have placed a microphone inside the ring of Marie-Laurence Granianski (Lemercier), an interpreter who works in the consulate. Unfortunately, she plans to go on holiday with her husband during the meeting between the arms dealer and the mysterious traitor. Boulier designs a plan: a female agent will seduce Jean-Jacques Granianski, Marie-Laurence's husband, and compromising evidence will be sent to Marie-Laurence, so that she will cancel her holiday. Unfortunately, the only agent who is attractive enough for this mission is Isabelle Fourreau, Boulier's own wife.
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!!''L'Opération Corned-Beef'' provides examples of:
* ArmsDealer: Augusto Zargas, a Colombian arms dealer who sells advanced French weapons illegally.
* DramaticIrony:
** The audience knows that the agent sent to seduce Jean-Jacques is Boulier's wife, unlike Boulier. This is PlayedForLaughs when Boulier insists that she accomplishes her mission.
** The audience knows that Jean-Jacques's lover is is Boulier's wife, unlike Jean-Jacques. This is PlayedForLaughs when Jean-Jacques shares smutty details about his relationship with Boulier.
* FemmeFataleSpy: Isabelle Fourreau, an intelligence officer, seduces Jean-Jacques Granianski in the framework of a spying operation.
* InterserviceRivalry: Philippe Boulier works for the DGSE, a French intelligence agency. Officially he cannot operate on French soil, where the DST, another French intelligence agency, is competent, but he does it secretly, because he does not trust the DST and does not want to cooperate with them.
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