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7 Faces of Dr. Lao
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7 Faces of Dr. Lao is a 1964 fantasy film from MGM, based on the 1935 novel The Circus of Doctor Lao by Charles G. Finney, directed by George Pal, and starring Barbara Eden, Arthur O'Connell, John Ericson, Kevin Tate, and Tony Randall in a tour de force performance as the eponymous Chinese showman, the Abominable Snowman, Apollonius of Tyana, the Giant Serpent, Medusa, Merlin the Magician, Pan, and an unmade-up, anonymous, and silent member of his own audience.The film greatly altered the plot and softened the mordant tone of the original novel, opting rather for a sense of whimsy and wonder, reflected in the score by Leigh Harline, best known for scoring Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Pinocchio. Unfortunately, despite an extraordinary performance by Randall and some (though not all) of the other cast (Kevin Tate as Mike is a stand-out), and the admirable visual effects — for which SFX artist Jim Danforth received an Academy Award nomination and makeup artist William Tuttle an Honorary Oscar — the film has something of the feel of a made-for-TV movie, exacerbated by the use of stock footage from Atlantis, the Lost Continent and The Time Machine, with unconvincing interspersed shots of the cast in ancient costume. It did not do well when it came out, but as the years have gone by, it has come into its own, and is now widely regarded as a fantasy classic. | |
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Magical Flautist: Pan and his pipes. | |
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I Was Quite a Looker | |
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I Was Quite a Looker: Mrs. Cassan, in her youth, was a beauty who had no trouble attracting men. | |
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Talking Animal | |
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Talking Animal: The Giant Serpent, which looks and sounds remarkably like Stark. (Especially remarkable when one considers it was voiced by Randall, not O'Connell.) | |
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The World Is Just Awesome | |
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The World Is Just Awesome: The biggest lesson Dr. Lao teaches us. | |
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Extremely Short Timespan | |
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Extremely Short Timespan: The story takes place within the span of three days, with Lao's circus staying for two nights. | |
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Defrosting Ice Queen | |
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Defrosting Ice Queen: Angela, after her encounter with Pan and his pipes. | |
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Disappeared Dad | |
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Disappeared Dad: Mike's dad passed away, but he's not too sad about it. | |
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Walking the Earth | |
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Walking the Earth: Dr. Lao. | |
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Flying Dutchman | |
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Flying Dutchman: Dr. Lao seems fated to travel from place to place to save people from their own folly. | |
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Elective Broken Language | |
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Elective Broken Language: Dr. Lao casually switches back and forth between Asian Speekee Engrish and perfect English. | |
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Eccentric Townsfolk | |
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Eccentric Townsfolk: The townsfolk of Abalone, to be exact. | |
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Please, Don't Leave Me | |
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Please, Don't Leave Me: Mike chases after Dr. Lao at the end of the film, begging for Lao to come back. Instead, all he finds are some juggling balls. | |
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Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping | |
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Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping: Lampshaded; Cunningham notes that Dr. Lao suddenly switches from a heavy, stereotypical Chinese accent to perfect English. Dr. Lao replies, "Oh, it comes and goes. Whatever dialect the mood requires." | |
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Circus Brat | |
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Circus Brat: Mike wants to be this, but Dr. Lao helps him decide to stay in his town. | |
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Humans Are Bastards | |
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Humans Are Bastards: Stark and most of the townsfolk seem to revel in most sins—greed, vanity, anger—and it's up to Dr. Lao, with the help of Mike, Angela, and Cunningham to remind the town they can be better than that. | |
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Blithe Spirit | |
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Blithe Spirit: Dr. Lao, who opens the eyes of the people of Abalone. | |
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Crappy Carnival | |
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Crappy Carnival: The outward appearance of Lao's circus, which seems much Bigger on the Inside. | |
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Surrounded by Idiots | |
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Surrounded by Idiots: Stark has a pair of cowboy mooks; he orders one to read a newspaper article, starting at the third paragraph. "Third what?" | |
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Cry Laughing | |
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Cry Laughing: Mike sounds like he's about to burst into tears as he juggles the wooden balls Dr. Lao left behind. | |
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Yellowface | |
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Yellowface: But then, Lao can wear whatever face suits his fancy. | |
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Mythical Motifs | |
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Mythical Motifs: Many of the characters are figures of mythology. | |
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The Barnum | |
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The Barnum: Oddly enough, not so much the showman Lao as Stark. | |
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Bookends | |
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Bookends: The film begins with Dr. Lao on his donkey climbing up a mountain on his way to his destination and ends with him going down that same mountain. | |
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Silly Rabbit, Cynicism Is for Losers! | |
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Silly Rabbit, Cynicism Is for Losers!: Apollonius to Stark. | |
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NietzscheWannabe | |
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Nietzsche Wannabe: Stark, who tells Cunningham, "There's no such thing as the dignity of man. Man is a base, pathetic, vulgar animal." | |
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Really 700 Years Old | |
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Really 700 Years Old: Actually, seven thousand, three hundred, and twenty-two, next October. | |
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Intrepid Reporter | |
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Intrepid Reporter: Crusading Editor Ed Cunningham. | |
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Public Domain Soundtrack | |
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Public Domain Soundtrack: Toccata and Fugue in D minor plays during the volcanic eruption in "The Fall of the City". | |
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Circus of Fear | |
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Circus of Fear: Many of the exhibits, and particularly "The Fall of the City," are distinctly disturbing. | |
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Water-Triggered Change | |
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Water-Triggered Change: Dr. Lao presents a fish in a bowl. Whenever a fish goes out, it transforms into a terrifying sea monster. A cowboy shoots the bowl and the fish turns into a sea monster. Then the monster gets soaked in water, resulting in it turning back into a fish. | |
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Henpecked Husband | |
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Henpecked Husband: Mr. Lindquist; happily, his wife appears to take Dr. Lao's lesson to heart. | |
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Politically Incorrect Villain | |
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Politically Incorrect Villain: Stark's mooks demonstrate how stupid and rotten they are by harassing the local Indian Native American, George C. George (Eddie Little Sky). | |
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Hot Librarian | |
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Hot Librarian: Angela, though her profession doesn't figure much in the plotline. | |
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Rule of Symbolism | |
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Rule of Symbolism: Mike first shows off his "juggling" when he tries to join the circus. When Dr. Lao leaves, Mike finds three balls on the ground and starts juggling, symbolizing his growth. | |
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"Not So Different" Remark | |
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"Not So Different" Remark: The Giant Serpent makes one to Stark. | |
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Stock Ness Monster | |
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Stock Ness Monster: Dr. Lao keeps the Loch Ness Monster in a fishbowl. As long as it's in the fishbowl, it stays tiny. Don't let it out. | |
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Double Take | |
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Double Take: Cunningham when he sees that Angela is suddenly lusting after him (thanks to Pan). | |
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Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti | |
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Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti: The Abominable Snowman. | |
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Sarcasm Mode | |
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Sarcasm Mode: "Oh, it just comes and goes?" | |
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Blind Seer | |
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Blind Seer: Apollonius of Tyana is blind and is employed by the circus of Dr. Lao as a fortune teller who, as he explains, is cursed "to tell the absolute truth". | |
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Circus of Magic | |
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Circus of Magic: On the other hand, many of those same exhibits have some strange whimsy and wonder. | |
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Mood Whiplash | |
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Mood Whiplash: After Lao gives a beautiful and insightful speech about life being a circus, Mike tearfully replies that he doesn't understand. Lao shouts, "Neither do I!" before the two start dancing joyfully. | |
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Small Reference Pools | |
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Small Reference Pools: Averted big time by one of the three instrument-playing toys on top of the Abominable Snowman's barrel organ. The first two toys are of a clown and a white dog. The third one is a Fred Flintstone toy! | |
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Gorgeous Gorgon | |
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Gorgeous Gorgon: Medusa, despite her snaky hair, is quite attractive. | |
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Double Vision | |
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Double Vision: Lampshaded by the film when the heads of Dr. Lao's various personæ all sprout at once from from the neck of the Loch Ness monster. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: Dr. Lao refers to his "yellow jackass" as the "Golden Ass of Apuleius." | |
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Not That Kind of Doctor | |
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Not That Kind of Doctor: As Lao tells Mike, "My specialty is wisdom." | |
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Fauns and Satyrs | |
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Fauns and Satyrs: Pan, the God of Joy. | |
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Lighter and Softer | |
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Lighter and Softer: Much lighter than the book, which is quite cynical (among other things, there's no equivalent to Mike or Cunningham; Angela's book equivalent is just a repressed young woman who becomes quite the party girl after meeting Pan). | |
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Cassandra Truth | |
| 7 Faces of Dr. Lao / int_cf92fea8 | comment |
Cassandra Truth: As Apollonius of Tyana says, "You see, it is my curse to tell the absolute truth." Neither do his hearers seem to act on what he tells them. For example, he tells the haughty and self-absorbed Mrs. Cassan that her land will never produce oil, she will never re-marry or even have another man in her life, and her remaining years will be so devoid of meaning that when she dies, she might as well never have lived for all the good or ill she will have done. Far from treating this as a warning to become a better person and thus enrich her own life and the lives of those around her, she lies to Angela that Apollonius predicted that she will become rich and marry Stark. | |
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Taken for Granite | |
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Taken for Granite: Despite warnings, Mrs. Lindquist looks at Medusa head-on. She gets stoned. Thankfully, Merlin reverses the process. | |
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Broken Bird | |
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Broken Bird: Angela Benedict, still mourning the death of her husband. | |
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Adaptational Wimp | |
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Adaptational Wimp: In the original novella, Apollonius is both the Circus's seer and powerful magician, and isn't blind. Here he gets divided in two, with "Apollonius" being the blind seer and "Merlin" being the fumbling magician. | |
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Interchangeable Asian Cultures | |
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Interchangeable Asian Cultures: As emphasized thus: | |
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Finger-Snap Lighter | |
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Finger-Snap Lighter: Although it takes a couple of tries when it's windy. | |
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Everything's Louder with Bagpipes | |
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Everything's Louder with Bagpipes: The soundtrack begins to skirl with these when the Loch Ness monster is released from its fish-bowl and balloons into an eight-headed dragon-fish-thing. | |
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Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids! | |
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Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids!: Stark, to Cunningham. | |
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Romancing the Widow | |
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Romancing the Widow: Angela is still grieving the loss of her husband, and doesn't notice (or doesn't want to notice) the interest Cunningham has for her. | |
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Koan | |
| 7 Faces of Dr. Lao / int_e544a7f6 | comment |
Koan: As in this dialogue: | |
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Hobbes Was Right | |
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Hobbes Was Right: Stark champions this, while Lao argues persuasively that Rousseau Was Right. | |
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No More for Me | |
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No More for Me: To keep the audience from getting Taken for Granite, Dr. Lao sets up a mirror so they can see Medusa's reflection instead of looking at her directly. A drunk man, on first seeing Medusa's reflection, puts the stopper back in his bottle. Later, when the shrewish Mrs. Lindquist looks at her head-on and is turned to stone, the drunkard tosses the bottle away before fleeing with the rest of the crowd. | |
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Humans Are Ugly | |
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Humans Are Ugly: The Giant Serpent tells Stark this. | |
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Wise Serpent | |
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Wise Serpent: Amongst the exhibits wealthy rancher Clinton Stark visits in the Circus of Dr. Lao is the tent of the Giant Serpent, who not only looks like him but also proves to be quite wise. When Clinton tries to dismiss its criticism of him by declaring it's just a beast in a cage, the snake mocks Clinton by pointing out that this also applies to himself, with his greed and cowardice being its own sort of "cage", too. This experience proves fundamental in helping Stark re-evaluate his views on life and humanity. | |
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Bigger on the Inside | |
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Bigger on the Inside: The circus tent is rather modestly sized when viewed from without, but those who step inside find that it contains many large exhibit rooms as well as an arena with enough seating for the entire population of the town. | |
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