Bananas (1971)

Calificación de los usuarios:

7.1/10   

Director:

Woody Allen

Escritores:

Woody Allen (written by) and
Mickey Rose (written by)

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

28 abril 1971 (USA)

Género:

Comedia

Plot:

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.

Plot Keywords:

Political | President | Rebellion | Product Tester | Protest

Premios:

1 nomination

Comentarios de los usuarios:

Woody Allen's best comedy

Reparto

Woody Allen	...	Fielding Mellish
Louise Lasser	...	Nancy
Carlos Montalbán	...	General Emilio M. Vargas
Nati Abascal	...	Yolanda (as Natividad Abascal)
Jacobo Morales	...	Esposito
Miguel Ángel Suárez	...	Luis (as Miguel Suarez)
David Ortiz	...	Sanchez
René Enríquez	...	Diaz (as Rene Enríquez)
Jack Axelrod	...	Arroyo
Howard Cosell	...	Himself
Roger Grimsby	...	Himself
Don Dunphy	...	Himself
Charlotte Rae	...	Mrs. Mellish
Stanley Ackerman	...	Dr. Al Mellish
Dan Frazer	...	Priest

También conocida como:

Bananas (Argentina) [es]
La locura está de moda (Venezuela) [es]

MPAA:

Rated PG-13 for comic sexuality including some pin-up nudity, some drug use and crude language.

Duración:

82 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

1.37 : 1

Sonido:

Mono

Clasificación:

Netherlands:6 | Argentina:18 | Australia:M | Canada:PG | Finland:K-12 | France:U | Germany:16 | Iceland:Unrated | Ireland:15 | Sweden:11 | UK:15 (video rating) (1988) | UK:AA (cut) | USA:GP (original rating, certificate #22817) | USA:PG-13 (re-rating) | Singapore:PG

Locaciones de Filmación:

New York City, New York, USA

Compañía:

Jack Rollins & Charles H. Joffe Productions

Trivialidades:

In an interview, Woody Allen was asked why he named the movie "Bananas". His response: "Because there are no bananas in it."

Errores:

Sin sincronía de Audio o Visual: When Fielding is driving his Volkswagen and talking, there is a shot where his lips clearly aren't moving.

Citas:

[first lines]
Don Dunphy: Good afternoon. Wide World of Sports is in the little republic of San Marcos where we're going to bring you a live, on the spot assassination. They're going to kill the president of this lovely Latin American country and replace him with a military dictatorship...

Conexiones de Película:

Referenced in "Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies (#9.12)" (1997)

Banda de Sonido:

Quiero La Noche

Woody Allen's best comedy

This is one of Woody Allen's earliest films -which should rank with the all-time greatest comedies. Although it was made back when the trial of The Chicago Seven was still fresh and Tobacco was still advertised on television, Bananas is timeless and still topical: J. Edgar Hoover in drag; the CIA sending US troops to fight on both sides of a revolution because they are afraid of being on the wrong side. One can usually recall a few scenes from a good movie, but Bananas is one of those great movies which one can replay in the mind from beginning to end. (Bananas is neatly bracketed at the beginning and end by Howard Cossell playing himself in bizarre Wide World of Sports coverages.) Allen has total control as writer, director and lead actor as in his later films, but in Bananas, the humor is broader and more cinematic. He plays the nebbish Fielding Mellish with less of the existential whining that mars his later films. There is a youthful resiliance like a toy punching bag that keeps coming back up. That is what made Chaplin's little tramp both comical and endearing.