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Sleeper
(1973)
In director Woody Allen's classic sci-fi comedy farce:
- the many slapstick sequences and sight gags
- the scene of Greenwich Village health food store
owner and ex-clarinet player Miles Monroe (Woody Allen) - now waking
up 200 years later - transported into the future year of 2173 - his
quips upon hearing he'd been frozen for 200 years: ("Like spending
a weekend in Beverly Hills" and "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")
- his attempts to hide from the government, first by
impersonating a personal domestic servant-robot (with comedy slapstick
reminiscent of Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton)
- his servanthood in the house of eccentric, vain, and
talentless poetess Luna Schlosser (Diane Keaton) during a party
- his creation of a giant-sized pudding that attacked
and must be beaten down with a broom
- the scene of the passing of the silver metal orgasm-inducing "Orb" from
guest to guest
- the riotous scene at the robot factory where Miles
was threatened with having his head screwed off
- the reprogramming-brainwashing scene in which Miles
was given new clothes, an apartment, and an electronic pet dog named
Rags
- the contented look on Miles' face as he exited the
cylindrical Orgasmatron
- the shot of a 22nd-century McDonalds sign (with 795
trillions of hamburgers sold)
- the scene of Miles' repeatedly slipping on the banana
peel of the giant, genetically-modified fruit in a garden
- the scene that parodied A Streetcar
Named Desire
- the scene of the Great Leader's giant disembodied
nose being flattened by a steamroller
- the classic closing line by Miles when Luna asked
what he believed in: "Sex and death. Two things that come once
in a lifetime -- but at least after death you're not nauseous" -
followed by a passionate kiss
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