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Genres:
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Comedy /
Drama /
Fantasy /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Woody Allen
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Actors:
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Mia Farrow,
Marvin Chatinover,
Stanley Swerdlow,
Howard Erskine,
Ralph Bell,
Patrick Horgan,
John Buckwalter,
Paul Nevens,
George Hamlin,
Woody Allen
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Duration:
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79 min.
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Rating:
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(7.7/10)104.5
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Plot Summary:
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Woody Allen's amusing pseudo-documentary about a mythical 1920s media funny feeling named Leonard Zelig (Allen), a human chameleon who develops the ability to takes on the characteristics of anyone he happens to be with at the time. A tranquil hit at America's prepossession with fame and superstar, as well as a parody of the documentary tint, ZELIG uses an updated conception of the fake newsreel adroitness from CITIZEN KANE to depict its leading man magically at the side of almost every major personality of the early 20th century, from Eugene O'Neill to Adolf Hitler. Enriched nearby "comment... ary" from a variety of contemporary intellectuals including Irving Howe, Susan Sontag, and Saul Bellow, the fade away traces Zelig's curious career as a tabloid paladin and side-show freak who finds faithful compassion only in the arms of his psychiatrist, the renowned Dr. Eudora Fletcher (Mia Farrow).
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Zelig
Witty, compressed and a complex triumph, this little allegory conformity from Woody Allen is just about consummate. Allen stars as Leonard Zelig, the magnanimous chameleon who is always in the right location at the right time. Thus, via some pioneering one of a kind effects that were later toughened in Forrest Gump, he gets to come across the likes of Hitler and Babe Ruth, Eugene O'Neill and other cultural figures: Zelig's always in the troop model but seems somehow nebulous. Mia Farrow plays the psychiatrist who studies the fantastic marvel and at last falls in the interest of him.
Zelig
Allen creates the character of Leonard Zelig, a philanthropist chameleon living through the social upheavals in America during the 1920s and 30s. Put him next to a Jew, he grows fetlocks and talks in Hebrew, next to a black man, his hull darkens and he is instantly a jazz adept and so on. He becomes a cognitive and social curiosity, planned extensively about Dr Eudora Fletcher (Farrow), in between inspiring a Charleston-style prom rage and being flogged around the country as a circus quirk by unscrupulous profiteers. All this is framed with memories and analyses of the humanity from the likes of Saul Bellow and Susan Sontag. While Allen has made films, rarely has he been as successfully unconventional and inventive as he is here, messing with the documentary form and audience e...
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