If the accusations against Woody Allen haven't completely ruined the experience of watching his movies for you, there's still some joy to be found in his oeuvre. When the aliens in 1980's "Stardust Memories" tell Woody Allen "we love your films, particularly the yearly funny ones," Allen was mocking himself, and referencing uproarious pictures like his third directorial effort, "Bananas," which he naturally also wrote and starred in.
In the trailer and in his own words, he describes his role and the fruity plot: "I play the part of Fielding Mellish, who is a tester of products at a small company in New York, who, throughout circuitous turn of events, finds himself leader of a Latin American country." Indeed, Allen as Mellish gets in way over his head chasing an activist girl (Louise Lasser, who'd divorced Allen in real life one year prior) and ends up donning revolutionary fatigues and a long, Castro-like beard. He gets shot at, hounded by the press and the public, and even has to go to court, where he famously objects, "This trial is a travesty. It's a travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham."
"Bananas" was partially based on the book "Don Quixote, U.S.A." by Richard Powell, had a score by Marvin Hamlisch and Yomo Toro, featured Sylvester Stallone in an early role uncredited role as Subway Thug No. 1, and marked the first of two collaborations with revered sports announcer Howard Cosell. Orange you glad you DID see "Bananas"?
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