--- product_id: 5329160 title: "Bananas" brand: "woody allenlouise lasser" price: "₱2983" currency: PHP in_stock: true reviews_count: 9 url: https://www.desertcart.ph/products/5329160-bananas store_origin: PH region: Philippines --- # Bananas **Brand:** woody allenlouise lasser **Price:** ₱2983 **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Bananas by woody allenlouise lasser - **How much does it cost?** ₱2983 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.ph](https://www.desertcart.ph/products/5329160-bananas) ## Best For - woody allenlouise lasser enthusiasts ## Why This Product - Trusted woody allenlouise lasser brand quality - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description Bananas ## Images ![Bananas - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51YEKNWN8HL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Jokes and Visual Gags at the Speed of Thought. Funny! *by B***D on Reviewed in the United States on April 28, 2005* `Bananas' is cowriter / director Woody Allen's second film (after `Take the Money and Run') in which he writes, directs, and acts. It has all the trademarks of his classic comedies such as visual gags, guest interviews (including Howard Cosell and other leading announcers for ABC's `Wide World of Sports'), one liners, obscure references to other movies, long lists of surprising cameos, and inept sexual encounters.In fact, one small thrill from this movie is to see Sylvester Stallone in a minor, nonspeaking role.I have not seen `Bananas' for years before just now getting the DVD and I'm pleasantly reminded of how many Allen scenes I remember from this movie, with no recollection that the scene came from `Bananas'. My favorite, which I always thought was from `Take the Money and Run' is when he directs a parking car so that it rams into the car behind it. This seems like an almost trivial piece of business until you match it up with Allen's character, which is simply not necessarily a nice person. Through so many movies, including some of the very best such as `Manhattan' and `Stardust Memories', Allen's character is neither stupid, sexually inept, intellectual, or particularly admirable. But then, Hamlet and Macbeth were not the most sterling of characters, yet their personalities were a great basis for drama.The liner notes to this DVD claim that there is a significant influence from the Marx brothers on this movie, but aside from the fact that the Marx brothers probably influenced every American comedian working since 1935, I really don't see a big connection to `Bananas'. Even the hypothesis that the movie was titled in homage to the Marx brothers `Coconuts' I think is a bit of a stretch. The other thing they cite is the appearance of a harp player in main character Fielding Mellish's hotel rooms closet. But then, there is an even more obvious quote from the famous marble steps scene in the famous Russian film `Battleship Potemkin', but I don't see the liner notes claiming a kinship with the works of Sergei Eisenstein.On the other hand, just as I suspected scenes in `Play It Again, Sam' being quoted in `Animal House', I sense a borrowing of one or more scenes from `Bananas' by the filmmakers who did `Network'. I have a really strong sense that either `Network' was quoting Allen or vice versa.Unlike almost all of Allen's films starting with `Annie Hall', this and other early Allen films have virtually no socially redeeming value except for the fact that they are very, very funny and they enable us to see the funny side, if that is at all possible, of things like the `Bay of Pigs' invasion and our various incursions into Haiti and the Dominican Republic. So, If I had to choose to be locked up with but one Woody Allen movie, it would definitely be `Annie Hall' or later. I simply cannot see the virtue of the attitude parodied in `Stardust Memories' of preferring the earlier, `funny' movies. I may not be especially keen on `Interiors' or `September', but I do prefer the later comedies such as `Shadows and Fog', `Curse of the Jade Scorpion', and `Mighty Aphrodite' than the earlier ones with virtually no meaningful plot.That does not mean they are not very funny movies. On average, I think they are at least as funny as most of Mel Brooks movies (except for `Blazing Saddles' and `The Producers') and I think they succeed with more laughs per reel by resorting to fewer improbabilities and downright silliness than does friend Brooks.In fact, in the liner notes, Allen is quoted as saying that `Bananas' is a movie where his only concern was to be funny. There may be one behind the scenes parallel with the Marx brothers in that lots of both Marx brothers movies and Allen movies borrow from their stage routines. Another parallel is that both Allen and the Marxes were incredibly physical, so there may be just a little more Groucho here than I was originally inclined to admit.If all you want is comedy, or you are a died in the wool Woodman fan, this is a movie for you! If you like `Annie Hall' but are cool in `Take the Money and Run', you may want to pass on this movie. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Vintage Woody *by S***N on Reviewed in the United States on November 26, 2022* One of my favorite Woody films. Highly recommended. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Director Woody Allen's third movie doesn't have any bananas in it. *by J***N on Reviewed in the United States on April 1, 2021* I first saw "Bananas" in the theater sometime after it was first released in 1971. I was 19 at the time. I also saw it back in the '80's on Cinemax,( a pay channel from HBO,) and a few years back on HBO. Well, I'm 64 now and I got it on DVD and it wouldn't play on my Samsung High Definition Blu-Ray player. I'm really sorry I didn't read the warning on the home page. Anyway,Woody Allen directed and co-wrote along with Mickey Rose, an old friend from high school. Allen was Best Man at his wedding. Rose also co-wrote his first two flicks, "What's Up Tiger Lilly ?" from 1966 and "Take the Money and Run" from 1969. This would be the last film they would work on together.Allen plays "Fielding Mellish"," a products tester". His first wife Louise Lasser plays his new girlfriend Nancy. Features a cameo from the late,great Howard Cosell. A then unknown Sylvester Stallone appears as mugger on the Subway.He wasn't mentioned in the credits. When asked in an interview some years back why he he called the movie "bananas" ? His reply '"Because there are no bananas in it. Like that novelty song from the 1920's "Yes We Have No Bananas." Some of the highlights: Woody Allen asks his girlfriend why she's breaking up with him. Her reply. "Because you're immature." He asks, " How am I'm immature ?" She replies, "Emotionally,physically,intellectually and spiritually." And he asks, "Well what other ways ?" And the courtroom scene is a highlight. The take off a cigarette commercial is another highlight. And after a coup and they overthrow a dictatorship in the Central American country of "San Marcos",they asks one of them how he pleads? His reply "I plead guilty with an explanation." The title is a take off on that slang word for crazy that was popular in the '70's and much of the film takes place in "the banana republic." After so many revolutions that have happened down there over the years. 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