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Rémy Julienne, the ace of stuntmen, is dead

2021-01-22T06:58:28.414Z


Rémy Julienne died at the age of 90, his family announced on Friday. He had directed some of the most spectacular scenes ever shot


It was cinema before 3D and digital.

You could hardly fake anything.

The stunts, someone had to do them for real.

And it was just someone, Rémy Julienne.

The ace of stuntmen, invisible on the screen but whose name scrolls in the credits of 1,400 films, died at the age of 90, a victim of Covid-19, his family announced on Friday.

He who had resisted three heart attacks and two cancers ...

In the anthology of many mythical scenes of popular cinema, Rémy Julienne was always there, but we did not see him.

As in the DS driven by the driver Salomon (Henri Guybet) for his irascible boss Pivert (Louis de Funès) in “Rabbi Jacob”, with a pleasure boat on the roof, and which ends up in a pond, upside down, after avoiding a truck.

Except that the masked stuntman, that divers had to recover, could not get out of the Citroën, invisible in the mud.

And he could not find his mouthpiece to breathe.

“I really didn't go far this time,” said the speed master.

As in the pursuit of "L'As des As", between Belmondo, the little boy and the Nazi bikers, when the stuntman drives the Mercedes from a distance, hidden on a platform.

In a wrong move, Bébel's sleeve had gripped the remote control stick, and the kid really found himself behind the wheel, as the old-fashioned special effects king climbed into the car for the ride. stop and avoid the drama.

He debuted in 1964 in "Fantômas"

A cinema without a net, more dangerous.

With very few volunteers.

Which stuntmen have made history apart from Rémy Julienne?

He himself took the place of his predecessor Gil Delamare, who died in 1966 in action.

The latter had spotted him two years earlier, when the thirty-something was French motocross champion.

A discipline in which it is better not to fall.

In the cinema, it's the opposite, and Rémy Julienne smiled to earn a living that way.

He made his debut in 1964 in “Fantômas”, driving a motorcycle with a Louis de Funès dummy hanging on his back, to force a police roadblock… and succeed in his fall after having crossed it.

It was the start of a very spectacular shadow career, alone then with his son Dominique, whose chases he choreographed.

Rémy Julienne has formed an inseparable duo with Jean-Paul Belmondo, who will become his friend.

When the most beautiful daredevil of French cinema hangs on a helicopter or on the roof of a metro, the stuntman is his real director.

Because the actor wanted to do everything himself, like stand up and advance on cars launched at 60 km / h in the streets of Athens for "Le Casse".

But also the most spectacular scenes of the "Brain", "Fear of the city", "The Animal", "the Professional", "the Morfalous", or "Happy Easter".

“Jean-Paul was unstoppable.

With him, it was always faster, always stronger, always further.

For me, it was terribly motivating, but also extremely dangerous, ”Rémy Julienne confided to our newspaper three years ago.

Jean-Louis Trintignant, keen on motor racing, also had absolute confidence in the latter on the sets.

He turns in six James Bond

His reputation quickly crossed borders.

The "Frenchie" turns in six James Bond with three different actors, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton and Pierce Brosnan.

A video accessible on the Internet of the making-of of the scene of "GoldenEye", where the latter, at the wheel of his Aston Martin, races with a Ferrari on a road that descends from a pass, successively taken by a tractor and a group of cyclists, is very enlightening on the job: like a choreographer, Rémy Julienne first makes each car “work” separately in the bends, then coordinates their chase.

Himself, invisible, tows the Ferrari not actually driven by the actress at the wheel.

In 1999, a drama marked his career when he was 69 years old: during the filming of "Taxi 2", the cameraman was killed by the car launched too quickly and from too high, which landed far beyond the marks provided for in ground.

Rémy Julienne, who was not at the wheel, will dedicate his memoirs to him, “The stunts of my life”.

He will also blame the production for refusing him tests for this scene and for ignoring his warnings in terms of security.

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With his sons and grandsons, the man with the eternal cap had founded a company which also created mechanical shows at theme parks including Disney, including in Florida.

The one Claude Lelouch called "the Einstein of the waterfalls" lived in the Loiret, near Montargis, never stingy with an anecdote or a masterclass on his Bébel and 007 years. He drove fast, but with the care of a craftsman .

Source: leparis

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