Bananas Trailer
This early Woody Allen film is just as "bananas" as its title suggests. One of the goofier of Allen's works, this absurd comedy features Allen as Fielding Mellish, a product tester from New York. He soon falls in love with Nancy (but of course he did, her name is Nancy after all) who is a political activist that showed up at his door looking for him to sign her petition. He becomes instantly infatuated with Nancy, which leads to a string of bizarre instances eventually causing Fielding to become the leader of San Marcos in hopes of winning over Nancy's heart. Often times throughout the movie, I felt as if I was watching an episode of Madtv, or SNL because it had a very "campy" or vaudeville-esque feel to it. Each scene could stand alone as its own comedy sketch, loosely linked together by some sort of an unrealistic plot. This is definitely one of the more silly of Allen's films, mainly focused around physical, slapstick comedy as a way of stringing the seemingly unrelated scenes into one whole Don Quixote/Marx Brothers' "Duck Soup" inspired comedy.
This early Woody Allen film is just as "bananas" as its title suggests. One of the goofier of Allen's works, this absurd comedy features Allen as Fielding Mellish, a product tester from New York. He soon falls in love with Nancy (but of course he did, her name is Nancy after all) who is a political activist that showed up at his door looking for him to sign her petition. He becomes instantly infatuated with Nancy, which leads to a string of bizarre instances eventually causing Fielding to become the leader of San Marcos in hopes of winning over Nancy's heart. Often times throughout the movie, I felt as if I was watching an episode of Madtv, or SNL because it had a very "campy" or vaudeville-esque feel to it. Each scene could stand alone as its own comedy sketch, loosely linked together by some sort of an unrealistic plot. This is definitely one of the more silly of Allen's films, mainly focused around physical, slapstick comedy as a way of stringing the seemingly unrelated scenes into one whole Don Quixote/Marx Brothers' "Duck Soup" inspired comedy. 
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