"Amélie was an innocent and naive girl in Paris with her own sense of justice. She decided to help those around her and, along the way, she discovered love."

My nom is Jaques UnFerrier Mon Cherie. I am a big fanatic of the globally loved French film Amelie (2001). J'adore Amelie!

Amelie was a quaint French film exploring quaint quirky French culture in mon Paris. I vividly and fondly remember mon Paris in my youth. Oh what a city! Tres magnifique! Such beautiful people and beautiful culture! Not to mention the stinky cuisine. Hon Hon Hon HON!

But ehhh... you may ask what ever happened to the sequel of Amelie? Amelie 2?
Well you see, as le director stated, Mon Paris, the Paris of mon cherie Amelie no longer existed. He said 'non' to the sequel because 'Paris is ugly now'.
Quaint quirky french culture evaporated, steamrolled, uprooted and replaced by homogenizing nutritionless "diverse" culture.

Now when Amelie would turn around to look at faces dans le cinema! What would she see?

Topless engineers, scientists, and doctors disregarding quaint mon Paris culture in favour of their own culture of disrupting others.

In such a short time mon Paris was no longer made up of the same people. Replacement had occured. Or perhaps it was us Frenchies who had gone bad as le media would have you believe.

What would happen to la juene fille such as Amelie in New France? Would it be a quirky story about French weirdos? Or would she be molested and harassed on the street? Perhaps finding love amongst the ugliness of which New France has to offer. Maybe she would visit a freshly burnt down church or a newly erected mosque.
What would ESG scores do to the story? Would the story have to focus on black people instead of mon Frenchies? Would it be a story about Amelie finding love with refugees? Would there be anything French to it?

Whatever it would be. It would not be the same. It would not be the Amelie which we love. Because the Paris we J'adored no longer existed.

And that is why we will never get Amelie 2.

The End

@RiskDebonair
Irish Writer, Poet & Satirist