The Shock of the Future (Le Choc du futur)

What's this shitty music?

Let's go.

Your coffee's really disgusting, babe... Plus it's cold!

Do you have a problem with you answering machine?

No.

I left you ten messages. You never answer!

Oh. I'm sorry.

It's just that I worked really late last night.

I didn't have time to listen to it.

I'm sorry.

No but I'm freaking out here!

Do you understand that I booked the singer this afternoon, okay?

I have to turn in the tape to Quicknails tomorrow morning.

- You have to answer me! - Yeah.

Yes? Right. So where are we?

We are... Where are we...?

I can already show you a few things.

So let's see...

Yes. Shit.

No, in fact I totally forgot

but the CV of my sequencer is totally out for some reason.

Wait. Honey. I'm sorry. Speak in English

because I really don't give a crap about your airplane pilot bullshit.

So what's the problem?

Well the problem is that I have the music, I have tons of ideas.

But I have a couple of settings to do and I'd like to wait before I show you.

This was Michel's idea, to take a chick to do the music.

Okay. Because guys are never late?

Exactly. Guys don't have issues.

Guys, you tell them: "Give me the tape on thursday"

They give the tape on thursday on time!

All of a sudden, you want to do a big thing.

Hey!

Your buttons and shit, I don't get it!

It's crazy!

I'm sorry.

So what are we gonna do?

I'm leaving you until the end of afternoon.

- Okay. - It'll do?

- Yeah, it will do. - Fine.

- You'll give me the tape? - Yes! You'll have everything.

Okay.

See you later. Bye.

You won't be late?

No. It will be done.

Okay.

Did I say goodbye? No I didn't.

Bye sweetie.

See you later.

Yeah, see you later.

Hey, I'm thinking of something...

The artists who succeed are the ones who listen to their answering machine.

And who call back so that people won't get nuts!

Ten messages! No answer!

It's not okay! Okay?

It's not complicated.

- See you later. - See you later.

Hi Ana, it's Clara.

You didn't confirm our appointment tomorrow for the commercial.

I wanted to know if it was still on.

Ana... Hi, it's Duncan.

Dominic Giroux, the producer from Barclay Records, is coming to your party.

It's a great opportunity to have him listen to your music, okay?

Yeah!

Hey, it's Jean Mi.

You were supposed to send me the tape yesterday! Is everything okay?

Ana? Are you there?

Ana!

Call me back please, it's important.

Ana! It's Jean Mi again.

Quicknails is harrassing me, call me back

because the PR is a cunt, call me back before I start worrying!

Ana! What the fuck are you doing? It's Jean-Mi! Call me back!

Ana, write a theme that goes forward, grandiloquent but still elegant.

What a prick.

Quicknails...

Quicknails...

Shit.

What the fuck?

Shit!

What's this mess?

Hello, is this Herve Girard?

Michel Maniatovski gave me your number.

Yes.

Yes, I know he left six months ago, I'm the one who's keeping his flat.

Yeah. Well...

No, I'm calling because I have a little problem with one of his machines.

I was wondering if you could help me?

Yeah... If you can come today, it would be perfect!

Yeah.

Okay.

Very good. Very good. Yeah. Okay.

Yeah. Thank you very much. Thank you.

See you later.

Bye.

- They're you go. It works! - Really?

Yeah! Allelluia! Of course it works!

Let me make sure...

Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!

You're welcome honey!

You're lucky Michel let's you touch his stuff.

That's no business for chicks, it costs a lot of dough!

- Thanks. - Just kidding.

Hey, you got a spliff?

Yeah, I must have that somewhere.

What's that?

Hey. Wait a sec. You're curious, aren't you?

I wanna see.

Wait, don't touch! Give me a sec.

This...

...is a beatbox!

Latest from Roland; the CR-78.

- Can we try it? - Of course! Give me a second.

Do you have an entry somewhere for a jack?

- Yeah. - Show me.

It's so beautiful.

Here... You can take this...

Hand me the second one...

What about the spliff?

Get on with it! No time to loose!

They're times when you need to get going!

So you're into music?

You're a backing singer?

No, I do music with all these machines you see.

Yeah?

So you're crashing at Michel's. Good.

When is he back?

I don't know... You know he went to an Ashram...

He'd be able to stay there.

You'll probably inherit the place. I'm telling you.

I'm not sure he's gonna come back.

- It's awesome! - Yeah. And you can try a lot.

- You can play around like this... - Okay... let me see...

You can even do breaks.

- Here? - Yeah.

- It's fucking amazing! - Yeah!

You can change your tempo as you like.

As it is, it's just a beatbox.

But that's not revolutionary yet. Give me a second.

You plug it in the sequencer and they're synchronized.

No?

No need to record, or go back and forth anymore.

- You're kidding me? - No!

- But it's crazy! - Yeah! It changes everything!

- It's unbelievable! - Yeah.

I need it. I need it right now!

It's awesome!

You're funny. It's five thousand.

They're only three in Paris and Blanc-Francard took the first one.

- Five thousand. That's something. - Yeah. That's something!

No but... wait... Wait... wait...

I absolutely need it!

I'm working on a commercial.

I'll be paid in a month and I'll give you the money.

- Then you get it in a month. - No!

Hey I'm sorry! I've got too many people on line!

No! I need this machine now!

I'm having a party tonight! The guy from Barclay Records...

- Giroux. You know who that is? - Yeah.

Well you see, it's really important. I want to show him what I can do.

And with this gem

I'm going to do amazing stuff with my machines!

- It's going to be insane! - Listen...

Why should I trust you?

I don't know...

Well...

You could give me a little something...

For example...

- A kiss... - Excuse me?

Just a little one...

Or nothing... No, just nothing...

You're a friend of Michel.

The friends of my friends are apparently not my girlfriends.

- So I'll let you have it. - Thank you.

- But careful! - I promise... I'll be careful!

- No, but seriously... really. - Thank you so much.

- Thank you. - Don't fuck up.

- I promise. I'll be careful. - Yeah.

- Thank you. That's really great. - Here. My gift.

Time to go.

- Don't worry. - Yeah.

- Thank you Herve. - You're welcome.

Ana! Hi darling!

- How are you? - Good. And you?

So what did you bring for tonight?

You're going to see.

Awesome stuff! It's going to be fantastic!

- Great! Come in. - Yeah.

This is a band from London. They're into performance big time.

They even screen videos during their shows.

Listen to this...

They use the noise of the synthetizor to do the snare drum. That's really clever.

Yeah.

It's special...

Yeah. It's great.

Yeah. I love it!

Okay now wait...

Here's a total madman.

A Belgian guy. Absolutely fantastic!

I'm keeping this.