How many pies were thrown?
Godin: Four touched Bill Gates in the face. There were 25 pies in all. One of the secrets of the gloupinesque operation is that you don’t have to throw the pies. You must put the pies point-blank in the face of the victim. One of the members of the victorious commando is the filmmaker Rémy Belvaux (“Man Bites Dog”). He unfortunately lost his papers and so the cops revealed his identity. FM: What were their feelings just the second after they touched Bill Gates with the pie? Godin: The exhilaration of victory. Exquisite pleasure. The gloupinesque operations have a 95 percent success rate. But each time we are stressed, and each time it’s the same pleasure. FM: How did Bill Gates react? Godin: He had a kind of promotional smile that became a kind of smile made of sand… FM: When you touch your victim, don’t you have the feeling of being powerful? You had pies, but it could have been a knife. Godin: Yes, but this is not our problem. We are comical terrorists and the pie is symbolic. The
