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Structure
Interesting Questions, Facts and Information
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 Interesting Questions, Facts, and Information
 Indochine
funeral ceremony. You can see the two caskets on one of the many boats. When the narration begins we find out that they are Camille's parents.
rubber. Part of the land was inherited when she adopted Camille.
rowing. He's also the coxswain.
| What does Eliane buy at the auction that Jean-Baptiste wanted? | 'Indochine' I
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painting. He wanted it because it was a landscape he had painted in his youth. She seemed untouched by his sentimentality.
| What happened to Jean-Baptiste his first time at the plantation? | 'Indochine' I
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he got a nose bleed. It gave him the privacy to make a move on Eliane, though it was smoothly rebuffed.
| What fruit was Eliane eating when explaining to her daughter that the difference between people isn't skin color? | 'Indochine' I
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mango. She said that she was Asian because she ate mango instead of apples. Ironically, she is this movie's symbol for France.
her childhood home. The beginning of a torrid and opium-flavored affair.
| Where did Eliane find Jean-Baptiste after their night together? | 'Indochine' I
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gambling den. She was completely beside herself looking for him. He turned her away in the establishment but then ran out to catch her in her car.
for marching in a show of solidarity for executed assassins of French officers at Yen-Bay. Camille seemed pleased that he was home.
| What small disaster followed the assassination of the mandarin? | 'Indochine' I
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plantation building was set on fire. The Devries went into the other building to prove there was no danger to convince the workers to get back to their labor.
a prisoner on the run was shot and fell on her. He washed her off to find that none of the blood was hers. Camille, of course, fell in love with him for supposedly saving her life.
| At the party, what was served that garnered applause for its European associations? | 'Indochine' II
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Yule logs. A Yule log, like in France. Apparently these made it like a real Christmas.
| Who got up first to dance when the record was put on at the party? | 'Indochine' II
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Eliane and Camille. Others slowly joined them. The arrival of Jean-Baptiste sort of ruined their moment, though.
| Jean-Baptiste called Eliane a vulture at the party and she slapped him. What was his response? | 'Indochine' II
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slap her back. He certainly seemed to have no qualms about hitting a woman.
| What did Guy (the inspector) leave at the opium den after retrieving Eliane? | 'Indochine' II
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his hat. It wasn't really acknowledged by the film, so it was probably a mistake that he walked out without it.
| According to Tanh's mother, what is the secret to success? | 'Indochine' II
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indifference. She said she would never understand the passions of French people's love stories.
| After the Christmas party, where was Jean-Baptiste sent? | 'Indochine' II
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Dragon Island. This was apparently the most remote post available. Eliane used her influence to make certain he was far away.
| What was the monthly 'celebration' described by the other officer at Jean-Baptiste's new post? | 'Indochine' II
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slave trade. People were recruited in the North and forced into slavery by way of their hunger and desperation. Then they'd be sold into slavery on the island.
| Why couldn't Eliane go to the wedding ceremony for Camille? | 'Indochine' II
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Eliane was European. A little reminder that Eliane was still a European woman, even if she identified herself as an Asian.
| What food did Camille and Sao's family get at the church? | 'Indochine' II
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rice. It was probably the only thing the church could afford to distribute in large quantities.
cholera. Camille and Sao's family walked through an empty town with white Xs painted on the building sides, and Sao's husband explained that the cholera problem was probably to blame.
| What did Eliane give as a sacrifice at the shrine after learning that Camille and Jean-Baptiste were going to Ha-Long bay? | 'Indochine' III
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a jeweled necklace. After watching the other woman pray, she removed her necklace and set it on the shrine.
| When their boat was found, what was the request made by Jean-Baptiste? | 'Indochine' III
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Save her. I want her to live.. Oh, how sweet! He cares for her!
Rubber girl. She's Raymond's wife, who left the plantation on bad terms earlier, but now Raymond's back in France and Yvette seems to be moving in on Guy.
onstage performing. She collapsed into Jean-Baptiste's arms and he carried her to a house where she could give birth.
| What did Jean-Baptiste do with the baby just before he was arrested? | 'Indochine' III
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baptized him. He named the boy Etienne Marie Loic. After this scene we learn that it is Etienne to whom Eliane is telling the story we are hearing as narration.
| What did Eliane say to the inspector when he explained that he could not release Camille from prison, despite knowing she was there? | 'Indochine' III
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He's nothing but words. She also claimed this as her reason for never having slept with him. Women need more than words.
| Where did Jean-Baptiste spend the night on his day of freedom? | 'Indochine' III
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Eliane's childhood home. It was also his last night alive. Jean-Baptiste was shot while in the bed with Etienne, and it was made to look like a suicide.
No. She had moved on in order to make it through her prison time, and could not go back to her old life.
No. He thought the situation was ridiculous and identified Eliane as his mother.
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