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Analyze This is a 1999 crime-comedy film, starring Robert De Niro and Billy Crystal. Directed by Harold Ramis.Paul Vitti (De Niro) is a high-ranking mafia member, involved in organizing the first nationwide summit since 1957. The Mafia is under threat by the FBI, as well as by their Chinese and Russian rivals in organized crime. Vitti also has to avoid assassination attempts by young upstarts. Meanwhile, psychiatrist Ben Sobel (Crystal) is agonizing over his problematic relationship with his son, how boring his patients are and his upcoming second marriage.When Vitti starts having panic attacks, a first in his life, he deems psychiatric help is in order. Sobel is the lucky psychiatrist chosen for the job. Sobel's life is more or less taken over by his needy patient, who has no problem having his thugs regularly abduct Sobel for their sessions. More trouble comes into his life when the FBI decides to turn the psychiatrist into their newest informant.The film is well-regarded for its partly serious and partly humorous look at the stress and depression of De Niro's character. It was also a commercial hit and received a sequel, Analyze That (2002). While not a complete flop, the second film was a critical failure, killing the idea of another sequel.Interestingly, released the same year as the start of a TV series involving a Mafioso going to a psychiatrist after having a panic attack. Whether one inspired the other, or it was just coincidence, or if there was just "something in the air" isn't entirely clear. | |
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Fat Idiot | |
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Fat Idiot: Jelly pretty much confirms this. Played with a bit in that while Jelly frequently confuses big words that don't have to do with his profession, he intuitively senses how Paul is breaking down from the second it begins, does a fairly capable job dealing with him, and generally seems to be a fairly competent mobster. | |
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"Well Done, Son" Guy | |
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"Well Done, Son" Guy: Vitti had been fighting with his dad and was very angry at him, but is haunted by guilt due to watching him die. Sobel has almost the same problem, coping with the success and popularity of his father who's also a psychiatrist. | |
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High-Altitude Interrogation | |
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High-Altitude Interrogation Vitti and Jelly to a hitman in Analyze That. And later, Doc Sobel gets the same treatment for filming a scene in the Show Within a Show Little Caesar. | |
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More Dakka | |
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More Dakka: The number of gun fights in this film should be a Drinking Game. In the climax, Vitti calls out his backup, who show up with increasingly powerful weapons, culminating with a gangster marching out with a machine gun with a smaller gangster at his side acting as the loader. | |
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Hidden Depths | |
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Hidden Depths: For all his fearfulness, Sobel does have the ability to be manipulative. He manages to talk Vitti out of executing him by asking him about the last meal his father had, seguing into getting him to break down about his father's assasination. He also manages to fluster Primo during the Mafia meeting by making waves about his own inferiority complex. | |
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Destination Defenestration | |
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Destination Defenestration: An assassin sent to kill Paul in Miami ends up receiving this. And crashes into Sobel's wedding below... | |
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Arch-Enemy | |
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Arch-Enemy: Primo, who deeply resents Paul for being the better and more popular mobster. | |
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The Coroner Doth Protest Too Much | |
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The Coroner Doth Protest Too Much How Vitti's henchman Jelly avoided jail time in one case — a witness "stabbed himself in the back four times and threw himself off a bridge." Later mocked when a would-be assassin is thrown out of the penthouse window (during Sobel's wedding no less): | |
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I Have This Friend | |
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I Have This Friend: Vitti tries this, but it doesn't work. When Sobel "sees through it" he seems fascinated. | |
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Fat Bastard | |
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Fat Bastard: Zigzagged with Jelly, Vitti's right-hand man. He is fat (likely how he got his name), he is a mobster (and does kill a few people on-screen), but he's more of a Noble Demon. | |
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Book Dumb | |
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Played with a bit in that while Jelly frequently confuses big words that don't have to do with his profession, he intuitively senses how Paul is breaking down from the second it begins, does a fairly capable job dealing with him, and generally seems to be a fairly competent mobster. | |
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[Verb] This! | |
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[Verb] This! | |
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Epiphany Therapy | |
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Epiphany Therapy: Vitti keeps expecting this, but it's never as neat and tidy as he wishes it would be. | |
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Deconstructive Parody | |
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Deconstructive Parody: Of the gangster genre and the adverse effects living like a criminal will produce. | |
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Alleged Lookalikes | |
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Alleged Lookalikes: Played with in Analyze That. | |
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Percussive Therapy | |
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Percussive Therapy: When Sobel suggests "hitting a pillow" to Vitti as a means of calming down, Vitti unloads a 9mm clip into a defenseless cushion. | |
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Celebrity Paradox | |
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Celebrity Paradox: Skirted. Sobel has a dream where he and Vitti re-enact the scene in The Godfather where Vito Corleone is gunned down while buying fruit, with himself as Vito and Vitti as Fredo. Recounting this dream to Vitti the next day, Vitti comments that it was a good scene from the movie. Which sounds very odd coming out of the mouth of Robert de Niro, who portrayed the younger Vito Corleone in The Godfather Part II, and both he and Marlon Brando won Oscars for their respective performances. | |
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Black-and-Gray Morality | |
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Black-and-Gray Morality: Paul Vitti is a criminal, a criminal with issues, but still a criminal, but the FBI agents are pretty unscrupulous too, threatening Doc Sobel and altering a recording of Vitti defending Sobel so it would sound like he was plotting to kill him, in order to get Sobel to wear a wire. | |
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Humiliation Conga | |
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Humiliation Conga: What dignity Vitti retains at the end of the first movie is utterly destroyed at the beginning of the second as he clowns in front of the other prisoners to keep them from trying to kill him. | |
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Indulgent Fantasy Segue | |
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Indulgent Fantasy Segue / Daydream Surprise: Sobel's fantasy of telling a patient exactly what he thinks of her. The sequel has him doing this at his father's funeral, although from what his wife comments his actual eulogy failed to totally hold back. | |
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The Consigliere | |
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The Consigliere: The role Dr. Sobel ends up in, quite against his will. | |
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Recorded Spliced Conversation | |
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Recorded Spliced Conversation: Vitti's mob associates warn him to eliminate his psychiatrist Ben Sobel. Vitti, who's already become friends with Sobel, instead warns that if anyone makes an attempt, "I'll kill 'em". The FBI, who secretly taped the recording, cuts out Vitti's warning so that "I'll kill 'em" sounds like he's agreed with the advice and then play it to Sobel in order to trick him into becoming their mole. | |
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Acronym Confusion | |
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Acronym Confusion: | |
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Dead Man's Switch | |
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Dead Man's Switch: If anyone kills Vitti, his documents on the other mobsters will go public. | |
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Precision F-Strike | |
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Precision F-Strike: " ... but the people who know me, call me the fucking Doctor." Sobel introduces himself to the gangster summit meeting. | |
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Show Within a Show | |
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And later, Doc Sobel gets the same treatment for filming a scene in the Show Within a Show Little Caesar. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: Besides all the mafia and psychology films. One scene has Sobel saying "to find us, we need to get inside and let it out. Like that thing that got out and ate those in the spaceship. Rest in peace." | |
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I Have Many Names | |
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I Have Many Names: Played straight with Primo: Then parodied when Sobel tries to imitate Primo while introducing himself. Apparently, he's also "Benny the Groin", "Sammy the Schnoz", "Elmer the Fudd", "Tubby the Tuba", and on one occasion "Miss Phyllis Levine". | |
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Confess in Confidence | |
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Confess in Confidence: Vitti opens up to Sobel about his stress-related problems, both in his professional and personal life. | |
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