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3 | ''Bleuets'' (literally ''"Cornflowers"'', the meaning is analogous to "NewMeat") is a 2019 French CGI animated short film created by Amaury d'Arcangues, Paul Calvier, Léa Rocton and Thomas Ruiz when they were students of the ECV school of Bordeaux. |
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5 | The short is set during UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, with a French soldier crossing the path of a kid in a town being bombed by German aviation. |
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7 | !!''Bleuets'' provides examples of the following tropes: |
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9 | * AbandonedWarChild: There's no way to know whether or not the kid is abandoned per se, but no-one is watching over him and there's no explanation about what he's doing, that is putting his own life in danger running in a town being bombed, wearing a French Adrian helmet and waving a red cross flag. |
10 | * AllCGICartoon: The short is entirely animated in CGI. It took two years to students of the ECV design and animation school of Bordeaux to put it together. |
11 | * AnachronismStew: The StukaScream. It wouldn't be heard until 1935, and by a different plane at that (Junkers Ju 87). |
12 | * CoolPlane: The German plane bombing the city is a red Fokker Dr.I, i.e. the same type piloted by German ace Manfred "The Red Baron" von Richthofen. |
13 | * DistantFinale: The final scene with the now-grown up boy happens in 1939, on the verge of a [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII new war]]. |
14 | * DuringTheWar: The short is set in a war-torn French town during World War I. |
15 | * DyingMomentOfAwesome: The soldier died aiming a rifle at a German plane's pilot. |
16 | * GasMaskMooks: The French soldier enters the house wearing a gas mask. Gas attacks were sadly commonplace during World War I. |
17 | * GraveMarkingScene: The now-grown up kid visits the monument to the dead of World War I at the end, and lays the old red cross flag down he brandished during the war down in front of it. |
18 | * HeroicSacrifice: The soldier died protecting the boy from a German plane. |
19 | * MusicBoxIntervals: The melody of the song about fallen soldiers at the end sounds like a music box. |
20 | * NewYearHasCome: There's a "Happy New Year 1939!" banner in town at the end of the short. |
21 | * SilenceIsGolden: There's no dialogue at all in the short. There's only a song about fallen soldiers at the end. |
22 | * SnipingTheCockpit: The French soldier attempts to kill the German pilot of the Fokker with a Lebel rifle in order to protect the kid. He shoots, but that's just where the scene is cut. The monument to the dead of World War I implies the soldier didn't survive (since the statue depicts him holding the rifle against the plane) and nothing is said about the plane's fate. |
23 | * StukaScream: The Fokker Dr.I bombing the city makes that noise, despite not being a Junkers Ju 87. |
24 | * TitleDrop: The word "bleuet" is dropped in the song at the end. |
25 | * WarMemorial: At the end. A statue that has been shaped like the soldier shooting at the German plane. |
26 | * WestminsterChimes: The clock bells heard in the town in 1939 sound a bit like Big Ben. |
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