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Actors: Mel Brooks, Anne Bancroft
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about To Be or Not To Be (1983) |
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Frederick and Anne Bronski are famous actors in a variety show in Poland around the beginning of WW2. They get pulled into a pickle by Lt. Sobinski(whom Anna had a short lived liaison with) where they must stop a list of names of people in the Polish underground from getting into german hands. It sounds serious but it is accually a very funny Mel Brooks movie. Anne Bancroft(Brooks' real life wife) does a wonderful job also.
--Samantha , Resident Scholar
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A remake of the 1942 Jack Benny classic, "To Be or Not
To Be" this time is directed, produced, and acted by Mel Brooks. Changes from the original include making the actors Jewish and adding some zany musical numbers. Still it preserves the laugh-a-minute status (only in color this time)and its scathing attack on the Nazi insenibilities.
Fun, yet sentimental. Good show, Mr. Brooks!
--Bill Hobbs, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of To Be or Not To Be (1983) |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Comedy, primarily
Yes
Time/era of movie:
- 1930's-1950's
Kind of comedy
- bungling spies
Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Profession/status:
- actor
Age:
- 20's-30's
- 40's-50's
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard wavey
Body type
- (man) average
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Jewish
How sensitive is this character?
- sensitive to others' feelings
Sense of humor?
- Strong but gentle sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- (woman) short/butch/lez
Body type
- (woman) very skinny
How much in movie?
- 90%-100%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Jewish
Main Adversary
Identity:
- an organization
Profession/status:
- dictator
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 40%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- German
Setting
Europe
Yes
European country:
- Eastern Europe
City?
Yes
Misc setting
- theater
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- generic/vague references to death/punishment
- moderately detailed references to deaths
Movie makes you feel...
- excited
- full of laughter
Any profanity?
- None
- Occasional swearing
If lots of song/dance...
- lot of singing and dancing
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