The director of the iconic holiday film 'National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation' is attending a special screening in his hometown of Montreal. The event features a live French dub of the film with actors mirroring the scenes and audience members shouting pre-determined lines.
Jeremiah Chechik has attended plenty of screenings of his 1989 comedy directorial debut, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation . But the upcoming shows in his hometown of Montreal will be unlike anything he’s seen before. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation — or as it's known in Quebec, Le sapin a des boules — plays at Montreal 's Club Soda, complete with live actors on stage mirroring the scenes.
(Communications Mingotwo)But the upcoming shows in his hometown of Montreal will be unlike anything he's seen before. For several years now, Montreal's Club Soda has hosted screening the holiday classic's French-language dub, with an interactive twist.actors on stage mirror scenes from the film while audience members, many dressed as characters from the film, shout out pre-determined lines in reaction to specific moments.As It Happens The event is the brainchild of organizer Jarrett Mann, who puts on similar screenings year-round of French dubs of iconic movies like. 'I'm going to go out on a limb and say that I think it's the most popular Christmas film here in Quebec,' Mann said. Jarrett Mann, left, invited film director Jeremiah Chechik, right, to a French-dubbed screening of National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation in Montreal. (Communications Mingotwo, Jemal Countess/Getty Images) It also happens to have been directed by Chechik, who was born and raised in Montreal and studied theatre at McGill University before moving to Toronto and, eventually, Los Angeles. When Mann fired off an email to Chechik inviting him to attend this year's screenings to mark the movie's 35th anniversary, he didn't expect to hear back. 'He answered pretty much within the hour and he said, 'I'm in,'' Mann said. 'That, to me, was a Christmas miracle.' Chechik piped in: 'It did take me the full hour to get over the shock and awe of actually receiving the letter — and to kind of dig in and really kind of uncover what the film has become in Quebec
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