Sleeper(1973)

IMDB ^ | 1973 | Woody Allen, Marshall Brickman

[DallasBiff]

A nerdish store owner is revived out of cryostasis into a future world to fight an oppressive government.

[DallasBiff]

I know this is Woody Allen, but this movie was made 49 years ago, so please don't rip me for posting.

For lack of a better term, this movie is somewhat prophetic.

You have a society with a rich know it all elite, and one of those members of that elite meets a person Miles Monroe, who has been unfrozen after 200 years and sees the decadence of her side and joins the other side.

I know Woody Allen meant this film to be a slam against Nixonian Republicans, but today it is a slam against modern day democrats.

[Nateman]

The scene where he disposes of the leaders nose is worth the price of admission alone.

[johnthebaptistmoore]

Woody Allen is correct in making fun of public schooling, in Annie Hall: Those who can’t, teach, and those who can’t teach, teach gym.

[Pelham]

or when Woody finds the 200 yr old VW...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ctin21yrfcA

[nickcarraway]

In fairness, he ripped of the whole nose thing off from Nikolai Gogol. And based on some of his short stories it does seem like Woody Allen is well read.

[Angelino97]

I saw it as a kid. I remember thinking, that’s a pretty cool looking future. Everything is so clean, so prosperous, so modern. I wouldn’t want to overthrow that Leader. I’d want to live in his country. I was rooting for Allen to fail.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

My memory of that movie is in the future they have discovered that butter, and ice cream, and fat are good and nutritious for you.

[DallasBiff]

I saw it as a kid. I remember thinking, that’s a pretty cool looking future. Everything is so clean, so prosperous, so modern. I wouldn’t want to overthrow that Leader. I’d want to live in his country. I was rooting for Allen to fail

Yeah but in the film, they only showed the decadence of the elite, think Gavin Newsom at the French Laundry restaurant, where he and everybody else were not wearing a mask.

[DallasBiff]

My memory of that movie is in the future they have discovered that butter, and ice cream, and fat are good and nutritious for you

That came from the doctors who were sympathetic to the other side, like doctors today who say that the covid xax is unhealthy.

[Bobalu]

[ifinnegan]

“In fairness, he ripped of the whole nose thing off from Nikolai Gogol.”

Interesting. I never thought of that.

I’d say kind of. Perhaps more inspired or influenced.

But yeah. Probably a connection.

“And based on some of his short stories it does seem like Woody Allen is well read.”

Probably Russian literature for sure. Mel Brooks, who was a writer with Woody Allen for Sid Caesar, talked about his love of Russian literature.

[Ronaldus Magnus III]

‘200 year old VW.’.

AND... It was a VW Bug.

AND... It started right up. They even ended up in the water, and the Bug floated.

[Bullish]

Oh Gawd no! Not Woody Allen.

[Bullish]

You know, I love Russian literature too. It doesn’t make me a leftist asshole like it did them.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Volkswagen ran commercials at the time showing the bug floating on water. They were so airtight that they actually would float for a while.

VW Beetle Commercial - Floating

[sheik yerbouty]

“..And then a man named Albert Shanker got hold of an atomic boomb!”

[lefty-lie-spy]

Funny that you posted this while I’m watching Death Race 2000. :)

[imardmd1]

My memory of that movie is in the future they have discovered that butter, and ice cream, and fat are good and nutritious for you.

They are, it's been proven. And eggs,too, jumbo ones, with enough lecithin to solubilize, digest, assimilate, and metabolize all the cholesterol they contain plus a lot more. All researched in the past 50 years.

(86 y.o., 5'11", 178 lb., 130/60 b.p., pulse/oximeter 58/96%. still raising and working on 24' ladder alone; everlasting life promised and totally confident of, a transition to Paradise starting any time He wishes.)

[Tired of Taxes]

I thought this movie was hilarious when I was a kid.

[wally_bert]

They certainly knew how to build a car those Germans.