Noël Godin
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Noël Godin (born Liège, September 13, 1945) is a Belgian writer, critic, actor and notorious cream pie flinger or ‘entarteur’. Godin gained global attention in 1998 when his group ambushed Microsoft CEO Bill Gates in Brussels, pelting the software magnate with pies.
Godin claims his goal has long been to ‘entarte’ as many people like Gates as possible - people he feels are particularly self-important and lacking a sense of humor. Godin told the New York Times he chooses “to function in the service of the capitalist status quo, without really using his intelligence or his imagination.” He says his sworn enemies are "authority, depressing laws, the return of the moral order, nuclear power, any form of political power."
Since 1969, when Godin planted a cream pie on the face of the French novelist Marguerite Duras, he has attacked dozens, including choreographer Maurice Bejart, France's best-known television anchorman Patrick Poivre d'Arvor, ambitious French politician Nicolas Sarkozy and film maker Jean-Luc Godard.
A regular target is French philosopher, socialite and writer Bernard-Henri Lévy. Levy, married to the beautiful actress Arielle Dombasle, is known to wear white shirts unbuttoned almost to his navel and to hold forth on political issues with intense gravitas. After one attack, in 1994, an enraged Levy was filmed standing over Godin snarling "Get up, or I'll kick your head in”.
Godin, who uses the pseudonym ‘Georges Le Gloupier’ has also inspired an unknown number of followers around the world, who now regularly provide him with details about the whereabouts of various important potential targets. It took 32 people to conduct the Bill Gates operation. His followers take care to look as ridiculous as possible as they throw their tarts, smiling broadly, spouting anti-pretentious poetry and repeating "gloup, gloup, gloup."
Godin insists his group is non-violent and is careful to use only what he calls a "tarte classique," filled with whipped cream and perhaps a little chocolate in soft sponge cake. He says his humor can be traced back through Jerry Lewis, Wile E. Coyote, the Marx Brothers and yippies like Abbie Hoffman.
Godin has appeared in many films directed by his friend Jan Bucquoy and producer Francis De Smet including the acclaimed La Vie Sexuelle des Belges 1950-78, Camping Cosmos, Opus IV: La Jouissances Des Hystériques, Tart or Vivant, Tarte ou Vivant and Les Vacances de Noël.
Chronicler of cinema for a Belgian magazine, Noël Godin wrote one day that the imaginary realizer George Gloupier had thrown a pie-chart with the cream with the face of Robert Bresson. In the following number, it announced that Marguerite Duras, friendly for Bresson, had avenged it by attacking Gloupier for the same manner. A little later at the time of the arrival in Belgium of Marguerite Lasted (it presented her Détruire film, says it to the University of Louvain), Noël Godin delivered itself on this one to its first entartage. "Lasted remained like the characters of its films: motionless, désincarnée, diaphanous ", Godin remembers. Since, only or with the head of true commandos, it entarté innumerable personalities which it regarded as particularly hateful and infatuées. Among its victims: Marco Ferreri, Patrick Pepper of Arvor (Photo), Pascal Sevran, Patrick Bruel, Jean-Luc Godard, Maurice Béjart, the Belgian minister Edouard Poullet, Nicolas Sarkozy, Bill Gates (Photo), Royal Ségolène (Video), Bernard-Henri Lévy who will be several times entarté. Moreover it will very badly take its pie-chart with the cream in 1985, flanking by ground Gloupier, to intimate to him then: "Is raised, or I you pète the mouth with blows of heel! ". The scene, filmed and diffused, in particular by Coluche and Pierre Desproges, will manifestly tarnish the public image of the philosopher. Since then, BHL is one of the rare personalities to have undergone several entartages. March 18, 2006, it was entarté for the 7th time by the "killers with gags" of the "brigades pâtissières" of Noël Godin to the 26e Salon of the book of Paris. Godin already declared several times that what could resemble eagerness will end when Lévy shows that the "message" passed while entonnant in public the song of Maurice Chevalier: "the cap of ninny". The example of Noël Godin made of the followers in many countries with the creation of an anti-organization called the International pâtissière whose Gloupier declares the merry spokesman Gloup! Gloup!
Each attack is accompanied by the famous war cry "Gloup! Gloup! ", as well as alexandrine suitable with the victim, for example: Bill Gates: "Entartons, let us entartons the pollutant dough" Bernard-Henri Lévy: "Entartons, let us entartons the pompeux gherkins" Arielle Dombasle and his/her husband Bernard-Henri Lévy: "Entartons, let us entartons the couple gherkin" Philippe Douste-Blazy: "Entartons, let us entartons the ministers buffoons" Daniel Toscan of Plantier: "Entartons, let us entartons the pontifiants croûtons" Nicolas Sarkozy: "Entartons, let us entartons the nauseous aces" Pascal Sevran: "Entartons, let us entartons the canker with the songs" Plaintes
Among "entartés" to have carried felt sorry for, Jean-Pierre Chevènement is, who obtained in October 2002 the judgment of Noël Godin to 800 euros of fine for "voluntary violences with premeditation". In front of the court, Noël Godin stated to have undertaken a "crusade pâtissière in homage to the humorist Alphonse Allais, counters personalities which are caught very, very, very with serious". Philippe Douste-Blazy also carried felt sorry for against the entartor. Ségolène Royal targets of a entartor at the time of one of his displacements Friday June 16, 2006. Whereas it moved towards elected officials and sympathizers, brought together on the square of the station of the Small rock Friday afternoon "a man, benefitting from his big size, threw since the back of the group a pie-chart with much of cream and only one cutter" on elected, told Denis Leroy, member of his entourage close and present on the spot. Ségolène Royal vêtue of a white tailor à.rayures maroon moved towards the young man for him to say: "I do not know who you are, but what you did, that is not an act of courage, it is an aggression". Since it known as anxious for its security according to the Parisian one and declares: "In any democratic country, one would have granted a brought closer protection to me. I took a cake, that could have been much more serious... this act must be punished like any aggression ". The entartor was thus put in police custody at the police station of the city. Named Jonathan Joly, it was explained in an official statement entitled "the cutters of anger" and qualifies its act of "complement of ballot paper" because it is disappointed by the socialist Party and the policy followed by the president of Poitou-Charente. Jonathan Joly considers complexed, deaf, hypocritical left the "and demagogue", and the plural left "carried by an electorate which tends to sink in depresses and disillusion". According to Jonathan Joly, "the entartage is an operation which requires accounts of the politicking caste". It would be reducing to bring back "this expression citizen symbolic system and humorous to cowardice, an aggression, and other masks untrue and arrogant" and thus addresses a "solidarity without fault in terrorism pastrycook" to the "fellow-countrywomen and to fellow-citizens inhabited by a similar feeling", addressing a "dedication to Noël Godin" whom it does not know. Jonathan Joly also condemned its police custody during which it "would have been vilified, maltreated and finally locked up a score of hours". Quotations
"let us not speak about Magritte, it is a dead loss, but Achille Chavée, Marcel Marïen, Paul Nougé (who gave to André Gide a leech in a bottle) did not have this dogmatic side of surrealist French; dogmatic sides of surrealist Stalinist French; the sides tartignolles never missed on their premises, but they prevailed with more drolery. "(Anthology of strong subversion, 1989)" It remained like the characters of its films: motionless, désincarnée, diaphanous. "(in connection with Marguerite Lasted)" Jean-Pierre Chevènement is the head with pie-chart par excellence. Here are thirty-two years that I undertook a crusade pâtissière counters personalities very being caught with the serious one. The attack pastrycook is a kind of matérialisation of the letter of insult, with words which would jump to the figure and dégoulineraient in the neck. "" It is question only of making sore with the exacerbated ego of our victims.
Catalogue of films
Actor
Sexual life of the Belgians 1950-78 (1994) of Jan Bucquoy; Camp-site Cosmos (1996) of Jan Bucquoy; Notebooks of Mr Manatane; Aaltra de Benoît Delépine and Gustave de Kervern (2004); Royal Palate! of Valerie Lemercier (2005); Holidays of Christmas (French Title: Les Vacances de Noël) (2005) of Jan Bucquoy.
Realizer
books of the cinema, 20 min (1972); Prout prout tralala, 18 min (1974); Strike and farts, 14 min (1976) with Roland Lethem and Jean-Marie Buchet
Bibliography Anthology of strong subversion, the Age of man, 1989, ISBN: 2825107158 Cream and punishment: memory of a entartor, Albin Michel, 1995 Grabuge! Ten amusing ways of planting the system, in collaboration with Pleasant Jr, Benoit Delépine and Matthias Sanderson, Flammarion, 2002 we Arm the ones the others, novel, Flammarion, 2003 Entartons, entartons pompeux gherkins! (Account of its thirty years of guerrilla pâtissière), Flammarion, 2005
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