Sleeper 1973.

[candelabra]

Забавно. От этого фильма я ждала меньше всего, но он понравился мне гораздо больше "Бананов".



Woody Allen originally conceived the story (in which people in the future are forbidden to talk) as a plausible way of making a modern silent film.

Woody Allen originally intended the film to be three hours long, and in two parts.
The first part would have him in the present day, coping with life, until his illness.
And the second half, would be the futuristic part. But, United Artists rejected this concept.

Woody Allen confirmed the scientific feasibility of his screenplay ideas in a single lunchtime meeting with Isaac Asimov.
Allen also consulted with leading science fiction writer Ben Bova to make sure that some of his futuristic predictions were feasible.

Diane Keaton's second appearance in a Woody Allen-directed film. Their personal relationship was over by the time she started appearing in his movies.

Woody Allen plays clarinet in the music score.

The final edit, condensing 35 hours of film footage into a 90 minute movie, was completed two days before the film opened.

According to editor Ralph Rosenblum, Woody Allen filmed and then deleted a fantasy sequence in which
Miles plays a game of chess with life-sized chess pieces, and is then sentenced to death by the chess pieces after he loses the game.

After the movie was released in French-speaking Canadian regions as "Woody and the Robots",
Woody Allen inserted a clause in all of his subsequent contracts that his movies' titles could not be changed by other parties.

Woody Allen and rock star Alice Cooper, mutual fans, happened to meet while staying in the same hotel while Allen was filming and Cooper was on tour.
Allen immediately offered a cameo to Cooper, who plays an uncredited hitchhiker.