{"id":163514,"date":"2018-05-13T05:11:03","date_gmt":"2018-05-13T09:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=163514"},"modified":"2025-01-16T22:34:35","modified_gmt":"2025-01-17T03:34:35","slug":"bon-cop-bad-cop-producer-kevin-tierney-dead-at-67","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/05\/13\/bon-cop-bad-cop-producer-kevin-tierney-dead-at-67\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Bon Cop, Bad Cop’ producer Kevin Tierney dead at 67"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kevin Tierney in October 2008 (Photo By Canadian Film Centre, CC BY 2.0<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

MONTREAL — The Montreal producer behind the hit bilingual film \u201cBon Cop, Bad Cop\u201d has died at the age of 67.<\/p>\n

Kevin Tierney’s son announced his father’s death on social media, saying on Twitter that he died early Saturday morning surrounded by family.<\/p>\n

Tierney produced a number of films including the box-office hit film \u201cBon Cop, Bad Cop,\u201d which he also co-wrote and earned a Genie Award for best motion picture in 2007.<\/p>\n

The action-comedy film about a by-the-book Ontario provincial police detective who gets teamed with a rock ‘n’ roll, throw-away-the book-type Quebec cop holds the honour of most popular Canadian film at the Canadian box office, surpassing the 1981 teen comedy \u201cPorky’s\u201d in sales.<\/p>\n

\u201cI didn’t want it to be political.<\/p>\n

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I just wanted it to be a funny flick,\u201d Tierney said shortly after the film was made.<\/p>\n

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But the movie struck a chord with audiences accustomed to only serious discussions of the culture clashes between anglophone and francophone Canada.<\/p>\n

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\u201cBon Cop, Bad Cop\u201d featured dialogue in both official languages, with subtitles, as the two cops tried to solve the murder of a hockey executive whose body was found at the Ontario-Quebec boundary.<\/p>\n

Its stars, Colm Feore and Patrick Huard, who reunited for a sequel that was released last year.<\/p>\n

Tierney’s other projects similarly poked fun at how Quebec and the rest of Canada interact, such as his 2011 bilingual comedy \u201cFrench Immersion,\u201d about five anglophones who take a crash French course in a Quebec village.<\/p>\n

Like \u201cBon Cop Bad Cop,\u201d \u201cFrench Immersion\u201d didn’t shy away from separatism, nationalism and various politicians — it just used the hot-button issues for mirth.<\/p>\n

Considering that thousands of people in both cultures had gone through the language immersion experience, Tierney wondered why no one had made a movie about it before.<\/p>\n

\u201cEssentially the jokes, the stuff of the comedy is not political, it’s cultural. And you know, culture’s funny,\u201d Tierney said at the time.<\/p>\n

Telefilm Canada tweeted Saturday that Tierney was an important figure in Canadian cinema.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis films touched us all and will live on as a part of Canadian culture,\u201d the Tweet said.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur deepest sympathies to the Tierney family.\u201d<\/p>\n

Born and raised in Montreal, Tierney said he was a unilingual anglophone until age 24, when he and his wife taught abroad and learned French.<\/p>\n

He served as vice-chair of cinema for the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television, and was given a producer’s award from the Canadian Film and Television Production Association in 2009.<\/p>\n

That year, Tierney also produced the well-received film \u201cThe Trotsky,\u201d a coming-of-age movie that was directed by his filmmaker son Jacob.<\/p>\n

Tierney noted that \u201cThe Trotsky\u201d was tough to sell to American film distributors because it was full of references to its Montreal setting. He said he didn’t believe audiences cared, stating that for certain movies, it was better to be \u201cgrounded in a cultural reality.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIt’s way better now than it was in the old days, when we were pretending to smoke American cigarettes and putting fake American dollar bills in people’s hands,\u201d he said at the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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