Bananas (1971)
Directed by Woody Allen
When a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest rebellion.
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It's neither the droll Woody of Bananas or Bullets over Broadway, nor the high drama of say, Crimes and Misdemeanors.
Allen has always viewed sex as vaguely embarrassing sport – recall his undercover escapade with Louise Lasser in Bananas, with Howard Cosell calling the play-by-play – but his visit to sensual Barcelona has emboldened him.
El tan cantado final se asemeja demasiado a lo que sucedía con la revolución en Bananas (Allen, 1971), o en cualquier revolución latinoamericana, dirán los más cínicos: una vez derrocado el dictador, el nuevo gobierno toma el poder y pierde la cordura.
After a sort-of character-establishing opening set piece -- replete with the fellas conducting a semi-Mexican-standoff with some Somali pirates and dropping bon mots such as "Fat chance," "Yeah, that'll happen," "Appreciate it," and "Good to have friends" just at the points where they ought to -- they are recruited by a shady suit (Willis) for a Banana Republic cleanup mission right out of ... well, right out of Woody Allen 's " Bananas ," basically.
But don’t expect the old serio-comic-romantic Woody of Annie Hall (1977) and Manhattan (1979), or the primitively antic Woody of Bananas (1971) and Sleeper (1973).
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Around the time Annie Hall was made, Allen was transitioning from broad, slapstick-heavy spoofs such as Sleeper and Bananas toward more personal, introspective comedies and dramas.
After skewing Russian literature (Love and Death), political leaders (Bananas), and future nostalgia (Sleeper) in broad comedies, it was as if Woody said, “Okay, you’ve seen that I can be funny, now it’s time to get to know me a little bit.”