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Sleeper (1973)

post #1 of 9
1/8/08 at 6:02pm
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"Goddamn cheap Japanese flying packs!"

Such a fucking funny movie. I still maintain that Love & Death is funnier (probably because Diane Keaton gets a chance to shine), but this is the one where Allen gets to do it all. It's the perfect kind of movie for his surreal and satirical stand-up comedy to be realised on film. He gets to do the one-liners, he gets to do silent film stuff (when he's first revived and spinning around in the wheelchair, so fucking funny), he gets to do bizarre stuff (robot confession gives him a doll, brainwashing includes Miss America re-enactment, Diane Keaton as Marlon Brando in Streetcar Named Desire) and he does it all on these wonderfully built sets that feel as unique and singular as any "serious" sci-fi film.

I'm also pretty sure it was during the making of this film that he gave Joel Schumacher (his then costume designer) those immortal words: "90% of life is showing up."
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post #2 of 9
1/8/08 at 7:06pm
If you didn't find the concept of the Orgasmatron to be hilarious. Then you sir are dead inside.

Not to mention continuing a great theme of 70s Woody Allen

"I haven't seen my analyst in 200 years. He was a strict Freudian. If I'd been going all this time, I'd probably almost be cured by now."

Plus providing us just how indestructable the Volkswagen Beetle is.

Patrick, make sure to see his first film Take the Money and Run.
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post #3 of 9
1/8/08 at 7:08pm
"We have a theory that when members of your society were found guilty of a crime... they were forced to watch this."

"Is he housebroken or will he be leaving little batteries all over the floor?"

"Never clone alone!"

And the music. Brilliant choice.

"I have a Ph.D in oral sex."
"They make you take any Spanish with that?"
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post #4 of 9
1/8/08 at 8:11pm
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Quote:
Originally Posted by EdHocken
Patrick, make sure to see his first film Take the Money and Run.
Oh, I've seen it. The only films of his that I haven't seen are scattered around the 80's and 90's. But I will eventually see them all.
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post #5 of 9
1/8/08 at 8:13pm
It's 15 years at least since I saw this, but isn't there a scene where he goes alone into the Orgasmatron?
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post #6 of 9
1/8/08 at 8:18pm
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Right, to hide, and he comes out all woozy and that's how he gets captured.
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post #7 of 9
1/8/08 at 8:52pm
"Oh, he was probably a member of the National Rifle Association. It was a group that helped criminals get guns so they could shoot citizens. It was a public service."

"This is Bela Lugosi. He was the mayor of New York"

"Woof, woof, woof. Hello, I'm Wags. Woof, woof, woof."

Loved this film, and I'm long overdue to watch it again.
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post #8 of 9
4/30/11 at 3:58pm

Just caught this, a lot of fun. Goofier than I was expecting, but I'm not familiar with Allen's stand-up (I've only seen Annie Hall and Manhattan, little more serious). Still, worth the time and kind of the Idiocracy of its day (but funnier). Seems to riff on then-recent sci-fi films (2001, THX-1138) as well as the classics (1984), and also feels influential on satirical sci-fi that followed it. Demolition Man comes to mind. It's a timeless fish out of water tale, like Rip Van Winkle, and boy was Diane Keaton beautiful. Her Brando killed me!

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post #9 of 9
5/29/11 at 3:31pm

"I'm not the heroic type. I was once beat up by Quakers."

 

'Is he to busy taking handsome lessons?"

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