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The Christmas tree was based on a book by an author named Michel Batai.

He was the son of the philosopher Georges Batai, and he'd been an architecture student who had hearing issues, and he had to leave architecture, and he switched to novel writing.

One of his earlier books was called Five Days of Autumn and it was kind of a nastier version

of the Christmas tree in that it's about a bored rich man who tries to destroy his best friend

for shits and giggles.

It's funny though because it's like, okay, you have these little leaves of autumn and the

Christmas tree.

They're both, like, kind of seasonal tree movie.

Yes.

Or tree books.

It's always about the changing of the seasons.

Yes.

And Five Days of Autumn became a French TV movie with Michel Duchessois, Christine

Minizoli, and Roger Hanine.

So this was a known book in Europe, not so much in America.

The producer of the movie was Robert Dorfman, and Dorfman was based out of France, and he made a whole bunch of movies that became to America that we're familiar with now.

Tuchepaou Grizzby, Forbidden Games, last year at Marion Bod.

Of course.

That's the big one I think that everyone really knows his last year at Marion Bot. At least that's one my dad always brings up.

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