Common Knowledge Notes
Genre - Crime, mystery, heist, Drama thriller - hybridisation of genres. Neale theory on genre conventions blending together evolving and hybridising into several genres.
- George kay and scripted it in English British writer and Francois Uzan translated it into French context French writer
- It won Satellite Award for best actor in the series and Critics' choice Television award for best foreign Language
- Went on for 3 seasons.
Context notes
Main character: Assane Diop (Played by Omar Sy), A charismatic and clever man of Senegalese descent living in Paris
Setting - Modern day Paris
Historical
Book character Arsene Lupin first Lupin first in 1905 in Maurice Leblanc's novel Arsene Lupin, the Gentlemen Burglar. Netflix show is directly inspired by this book as it takes the character and modernises it as it is not a direct adaptation but instead use this character and focuses heavily on issues of racial inequality and injustice. Lupin in the show faces systematic racism and discrimination in the upper echelons of French society and get revenge for his father's wrongful arrest leading to his suicide.
Social
Assane is of senegalese and Mauritanian descent clashes with higher class french soceity. We notice in lower class work such as the cleaner roles their is vast variety of ethnicities working in those jobs compared
France was (and still is) deeply engaged in intesne debates about national indentity, especially around race, religion and immigration.
Cultural
Covid 19 Lockdown everyone is stuck at home not being able to leave their house which leads into a binging Tv programmes. Streaming services were heavily on the rise at this point and Netflix also wanted t
