Nanar

In the field Cinéma tographic, a nanar is a familiar term which indicates a Film so much badly carried out and ridiculous that it becomes about it involuntarily amusing and Comique.

Normally, the nanar term differs from the turnip by its aptitude to divert. The nanar amuses by its defects, while the turnip is simply bad and tedious (in reference to the insipid taste of the vegetable of the same name). The nanar term is however sometimes used wrongly to indicate films without interest. It makes then doubles use with the term of turnip to which it should be opposed.

Etymology

According to Bernard Pivot, the term nanar would be in fact derived from Navet , which would go back itself to before even the invention from the cinema: one used it at the 19th century in the living rooms to indicate table X of little value (the term employed today would be rather “a crust”) or literary works tedious. The term east is seemed it widespread in the Fifties starting from the cinemas of the Latin Quarter of Paris.

According to the Dictionary the Robert , the term nanar date well of the 19th century but spelled nanard then. It would not derive from Navet but from the old word of Argot panard meaning old man . A nanard is thus also in the beginning an old “crust” (an old person being sometimes called besides a “old croûton”), a work which one finds bad and laughable because it is obsolete. This last point is sometimes taken into account, of the dictionaries translating nanar by bad because obsolete (what is not always false besides…).

One can also employ the word nanar as adjectival in all that is funny because bad. For example, speech of a book nanar for a book which makes laugh because he is very badly written.

Another definition

In the jargon of the Secondhand trade the USSR and secondhand booksellers, the nanar indicates a book or a poor and unsaleable object.

Quotation

“It is nanars which improve not with the age, but with the time which separates the spectator of the vision from film” (Nanarland)
“Nanar is more one frame of mind that a simple kind of cinema” (Nanarland)

Some famous French realizers to have carried out nanars

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Topics of predilection of the nanars to the Frenchwoman

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the Vacances

Nanars volunteers

Certain films are voluntarily carried out like nanars, forms of parodies which give each other the serious air without the being, and which are distinguished from the nanars " involontaires" by a looked after invoice, same liveliness as the films voluntarily kitsch which are homages to the old women series B.

See too

Nanarland, Internet site specialized in the nanar.
Bruno Mattei, realizer of many (a) Italian, with which one owe to in particular the rats of Manhattan and Virus cannibal .
ED Wood, called “the worst realizer of all times”; its films are regarded as traditional nanar, in particular celebrates it Plan 9 from Outer Space .
Godfrey Ho, realizer hongkongais film of martial arts (very often implying Ninja S) often considered as nanars. It in addition used the technique of the " much; 2 in 1" who consists in using rushes of two different films to do only one of them. (Thus, two actors of two different films find and speak each other " face-with-face").
Lay Joseph, which worked with Godfrey Ho and which in particular founded the company IFD, person in charge of many films considered as nanars, of which cartoons.
Menahem Golan, Israeli producer which produced and carried out many films considered as nanars.
White Fire , film free - Turkish regarded as largest nanar of all times by Nanarland.
Turkish Star Wars , a Turkish film which competes seriously with White Fire with the row of ultimate nanar according to Nanarland.
Weng-weng, dwarf actor Filipino having played in films considered like nanars single. (parodies of James Bond to the evocative titles like 007 1/2 or For your Height Only )

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