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Stardust Memories is a 1980 comedy-drama film written and directed by Woody Allen, who also stars along with Charlotte Rampling, Jessica Harper, Marie-Christine Barrault, and Tony Roberts.Sandy Bates (Allen) is a neurotic movie director struggling to survive a career retrospective being held in his honor, all while dealing with studio executives who are demanding a new, happier ending to his bleak new film.Allen considers this to be his favorite among his films, alongside The Purple Rose of Cairo and Match Point.Not to be confused with Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory or the manga of the same name.
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The Anti-Nihilist
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The Anti-Nihilist: In the end of the film Sandy is back on the train uncertain where he is going, but he is no longer desperate to get off as he is happily with Isobel. He declares that even if they are headed to the same trash heap, it's not so bad as they have each other.
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Take That Me: Woody Allen names his Author Avatar "Bates".
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Take That, Audience!
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Take That, Audience!: A lot of fans for a long while took the film as a slap in their face because of the way Allen portrayed his fans - then they loved it as Self-Deprecation.
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Sanity Slippage
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Sanity Slippage: Over the course of the film, we see Sandy and Dorrie's relationship falling apart. Towards the end, there's a montage of Dorrie's increasingly neurotic statements.
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Author Avatar: Sandy Bates is pretty much Allen. In fact, it's strongly hinted that Bates is a character played by Allen, who is As Himself in the final scene after the film had been screened.
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Jump Cut: Dorrie's final bout of Sanity Slippage is marked by disjointed shots of her breaking down.
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Homage
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Homage: Federico Fellini, and 8½ in particular.
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Executive Meddling
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Executive Meddling: An in-universe example - the executives want to give Sandy's latest film a happier ending.
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Ambiguously Bi
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Ambiguously Bi: The film more of less states that Daisy is bisexual, as she talks about her various dalliances.
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Show Within a Show
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Show Within a Show: The entire film is a movie being screened at a Woody Allen festival. (Yes, Woody, not Sandy.) The actors even talk about their roles in the film when leaving.
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Shout-Out
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Shout-Out: Sandy takes Daisy to see The Bicycle Thief. The movie takes its name from The Roaring '20s song "Stardust" — the Nat King Cole cover in particular. The idea of a comedic filmmaker wanting to do "serious" movies is a reference to Sullivan's Travels.
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The movie takes its name from The Roaring '20s song "Stardust" — the Nat King Cole cover in particular.
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Troubled, but Cute
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Troubled, but Cute: Daisy is cute, but it's not-too-subtly implied that she has a lot of issues.
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Empathic Environment
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Empathic Environment: Even Bates' apartment reflects his mood. When he's depressed, the famous photo of Nguyen Van Lém being executed adorns his wall. When he's happy, Groucho Marx in Animal Crackers is on the wall.
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Tom Hanks Syndrome
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Tom Hanks Syndrome: invoked The fans (and the studio executives) all complain that Sandy keeps making "serious" movies instead of the kind of slapstick comedies that made him famous.
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Brick Joke: One segment shows a monster that is representative of Sandy's anger going on a rampage, killing his therapists and his ex-wife. Later in the film, a fan asking a stupid question is mauled by the creature in an effective Jump Scare.
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