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It is centered around one of Allen's rare character-types. Allen plays a mediocre unintellectual blue collar man, Fielding Mellish, who tries to impress Nancy (Lasser), a social activist he loves. Trying to get in touch with the San Marcos revolution, he visits attempting to show his concern for the native people. However, nearly killed by the fascist dictator, only to be saved by the revolutionaries, he is then indebted to help them. Mellish clumsily learns how to be a revolutionary, and then in an effort to feed the troops goes to a restaurant and in typical New Yorker fashion orders out thousands of deli sandwichs (with wheelbarrows of cole slaw on the side). When the revolution is successful, the Castro-style leader goes mad (declaring at one point that all underwear be worn on the outside), forcing the rebels to place Mellish as their President. When traveling back to the US to obtain financial aid, he reunites with his activist ex-girlfriend, and is exposed. In a classic courtroom scene, Mellish tries to defend himself from a series of incriminating witnesses (including J. Edgar Hoover disguised as a black woman), only to be freed by the judge on the condition he never moves into the judge's neighborhood. A blue-collar worker is a working class employee who performs manual or technical labor, such as in a factory or in technical maintenance trades, in contrast to a white-collar worker, who does non-manual work generally at a desk. ... Social activists are people who act as the conscience and voice of many individuals within a society. ... Fictional Latin American republic loosely based on Cuba, featured in ‘Bananas’, the 1971 Woody Allen comedy. ... Benito Mussolini and Adolf Hitler Fascism (in Italian, fascismo), capitalized, refers to the right-wing authoritarian political movement which ruled Italy from 1922 to 1943 under the leadership of Benito Mussolini. ... Dictator was the title of a magistrate in ancient Rome appointed by the Senate to rule the state in times of emergency. ... The term Revolutionary is some what vague and may be thought to be relative to the context it is used in. ... Hoover in 1961 John Edgar Hoover (January 1, 1895 – May 2, 1972) was appointed Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on May 10, 1924, and remained so until his death in 1972, having been appointed to that position for life by Lyndon Johnson. ...

Famous scenes

Allen's most famous scenes in this film include his testing a work office gym (a reference to Chaplin's Modern Times), his cowardly attempts to defend an elderly woman from subway thugs (incuding Sylvester Stallone), his indiscreetly trying to buy men's magazines in a general magazine store in front of mixed company, and the series of mishaps he goes through learning the various techniques of jungle warfare. GYM is a sound format (similar to NSF) for the Sega Genesis/Mega Drive. ... This article describes subways as mass transit lines. ... Sylvester Stallone Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone (born July 6, 1946 in New York City), usually known as Sylvester Stallone, is an American film actor, director, producer, and screenwriter. ... Pornography (from Greek πορνογραφια pornographia — literally writing about or drawings of harlots) is the representation of the human body or human sexual behaviour with the goal of sexual arousal, similar to, but (according to some) distinct from, erotica. ...

Also noteworthy is Fielding's return to the United States as the President of San Marcos, where he is greeted by a representative from the State Department and Mr. Hernandez, the official interpreter. After a few pleasantries are exchanged and it is obvious that Fielding speaks and understands perfect English, Mr. Hernandez is chased away by two men with butterfly nets.

Bookending the movie are two scenes of absolute absurdism, where ABC's Wide World of Sports covers a live assassination in San Marcos, complete with Howard Cosell shouting "It's all over for El Presidente!" as well as Fielding Mellish's honeymoon with Nancy, which plays out as a boxing match. ABCs Wide World of Sports is a long-running sports anthology show on American television. ... Howard Cosell, born Howard William Cohen (March 25, 1918 - April 23, 1995), was a well-known sports journalist on American television. ...

Continuity problem

One continuity problem in this film occurs during the assassination of the original president of San Marcos. The assassin draws his revolver and begins to fire. The camera (now on the front of the gun) shows three bullets left. Then the camera switches to the trigger, and, without pause, the assassin fires a further nine bullets from the same gun. But nonetheless, this is a classic in the history of comedy. For the use of the word continuity in mathematics, see continuous function. ... Fictional Latin American republic loosely based on Cuba, featured in ‘Bananas’, the 1971 Woody Allen comedy. ... The Colt Single Action Army, one of the most popular revolvers of all time A revolver is a multishot firearm, usually a handgun, in which the rounds are held in a revolving cylinder that rotates to fire them through a single barrel. ...

External link

• Bananas (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066808/) at the Internet Movie Database