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Bananas – 1971 Allen
- It’s the second of five archiveable “early funny films” from Woody
- It’s really his take on the Marx brothers duck soup and he uses a stand-in (contemporary for the time) Cuba and Castro instead of freedonia
- Odessa steps sequence taken from battleship potemkin
- Great string of vignettes- fake commercials (exercise machine)- clearly an influence on Saturday Night Live which would start a few years later
- The mugging sequence with a very young stallone on the subway is pure Chaplin- a great silent sequence complete with piano accompaniment
- It’s a wild film and satire- there’s the random parallel parking on the cross sequence
- It’s hilarious- but it really has to stretch to get to the running time of 83 minutes and a feature length
- Recommend but not in the top 10 of 1971
Drake2017-07-11T19:57:40+00:00
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