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What's New Pussycat?
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What's New Pussycat? is a 1965 comedy film directed by Clive Donner, starring Peter Sellers, Peter O'Toole, Romy Schneider, Capucine, Paula Prentiss, Woody Allen, and Ursula Andress. It was Woody Allen's film debut, as well as his first produced screenplay. The title song is by Burt Bacharach and Hal David.Michael James (O'Toole) is a Parisian fashion editor and notorious playboy who wants to be faithful to his fiancée, Carole Werner (Schneider), but every woman he meets seems to fall in love with him, including Liz Bien (Prentiss), a neurotic American stripper, and Rita (Andress), a parachutist who accidentally lands in his car. His psychoanalyst, Dr. Fassbender (Sellers), is preoccupied with stalking one of his patients, Renée Lefebvre (Capucine), who in turn longs for Michael. Meanwhile, Carole concocts a plan to make Michael jealous by letting his friend Victor Shakapopulis (Allen) try to seduce her. Hilarity Ensues when all of these characters check into a quaint hideaway hotel in the French countryside for the weekend, unaware of one another's presence. | |
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Eiffel Tower Effect | |
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Eiffel Tower Effect: Literally. The scene of Michael and Dr. Fassbender's attempt at serenading Renée ending with them being chased by the police ends with a pan to the Eiffel Tower, which apparently can be easily seen from Renée's apartment. | |
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The Cameo | |
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The Cameo: Early in the film, Michael enters a bar/nightclub, and a man walks past with his back to the camera and asks him, "Excuse me, but haven't you seen me somewhere before?" Michael replies, "Well, the name is familiar, but I can't place the face." The man in question is Peter O'Toole's friend and drinking buddy Richard Burton, who is uncredited; Michael bids him farewell by asking him to give his love to "What's-her-name". | |
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Strange Minds Think Alike | |
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Strange Minds Think Alike: Victor goes down to the harbor by night to celebrate his birthday with a dinner every year. This year Fassbender has come down on exactly the same night to commit suicide, which puts them in competition. In the end it works out well, as they end up talking through each other's problems. | |
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Title Theme Tune: Written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David and sung by Tom Jones, it became a big hit on both sides of the Atlantic. | |
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Actor Allusion: In Richard Burton's cameo, he asks Peter O'Toole, "Haven't you seen me somewhere before?". O'Toole responds: "Give my regards to what's her name". The dialogue is a reference to their appearance together in Becket, and to Burton's wife at the time, Elizabeth Taylor. When in the climax Dr. Fassbender ends up in the arms of Rita (Ursula Andress), he tries to calm his enraged wife by claiming that she is the personal friend of James Bond. Andress of course was the original Bond Girl in Dr. No and would later appear in the spoof Casino Royale (1967), which also featured the main leads from this film.note The line was in fact an ad-lib by Dr. Fassbender's actor Peter Sellers, which caused Andress to laugh, which can be seen in the film. | |
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Closet Shuffle | |
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Closet Shuffle: Taken to absurd levels, climaxing in a hotel where all the guests (except the protagonist, he hopes) are hiding an illicit affair with someone else. At one point, in fact, Victor lets a woman hide in the closet of the room he's in with his date... then does the same with the man chasing her. | |
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Elevator Going Down | |
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Elevator Going Down: Michael and Renée agree the proper setting is essential, then promptly make use of an elevator. In the throes of ecstasy he assures her it's perfectly safe, so long as the combined weight of the two people does not exceed 1400 pounds. | |
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Credits Gag | |
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Credits Gag: The opening credits feature animated titles of the main seven cast members. Peter Sellers's credit appears backwards, so the film stops briefly to correct this. | |
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Black Comedy Rape | |
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Black Comedy Rape: Dr. Fassbender's pursuit of his patient is portrayed as hilarious, even though he repeatedly tries to tear her clothes off, and presumably, to rape her. | |
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Animated Credits Opening | |
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Animated Credits Opening: Done by Richard Williams. Can be seen here. | |
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Kavorka Man | |
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Kavorka Man: Michael claims this about himself. "When the light hits me in a certain angle, I'm actually...handsome!" Of couse, all you have to do is see Michael's Chick Magnet status (and take one look at Peter O'Toole) and get the joke. | |
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Head-Tiltingly Kinky | |
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Head-Tiltingly Kinky: At the rendezvous hotel where the suites are named for famous lovers, the concierge gets a call and tells her husband "The gentleman in 'Marquis de Sade' asks for twelve loaves of bread and a Boy Scout uniform!" This actually causes a Spit Take on Michael. | |
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Here We Go Again! | |
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Here We Go Again!: At the end of the film, when he sees Michael and Carole arguing again when, after apparently sorting everything out, Michael calls the pretty hotel receptionist "Pussycat", Fritz's last line in the film is "Perhaps I haven't lost a son. Maybe I've gained another patient." before pulling the moves on the receptionist. | |
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Gainax Ending | |
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Gainax Ending: The drawn-out climactic sequence during which the entire cast ends up staying at the same resort, with a bomb and a bunch of perverts looking for an orgy in their midst. After all ending up in one hotel suite, in various compromising situations, they join forces to charge down the police officers that try to apprehend them, and all of the major conflicts created throughout the film are immediately resolved simply by their escape. Also, Rita somehow becomes fully clothed during the sequence. | |
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Shaped Like Itself | |
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Shaped Like Itself | |
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Homage | |
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Homage: The harbour scene in which the lovelorn Dr. Fritz plans to commit suicide and Victor's intrusion inhibits him from doing so pays tribute to City Lights, in which the Little Tramp saves a dipsomaniacal millionaire bent on self-destruction. | |
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Brawn Hilda | |
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Brawn Hilda: Such a woman is married to Viennese psychiatrist Fritz Fassbender. She tracks him down to a hotel in full Wagnerian dress to stop his philandering, and appears to be a Freudian nightmare to Victor. | |
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And Starring | |
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And Starring: "And Introducing Woody Allen" / "Guest Star Ursula Andress" | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: Vincent van Gogh and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec are shown at a sidewalk cafe. Dr. Fassbender makes a comment about Rita being a "personal friend" of James Bond (played by Ursula Andress, AKA Honey Ryder in Dr. No). | |
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Dude Looks Like a Lady | |
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Dude Looks Like a Lady: Dr. Fassbender, with his velvet suits and shoulder-length hair. The film opens with him arguing with his wife who accuses him of seeing another woman. She demands "Is she prettier than me?" He shouts "Is she prettier than you?! ...I'm prettier than you!" Michael later mistakes him for a girl he had been pursuing. | |
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Crazy People Play Chess | |
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Crazy People Play Chess: Victor plays strip-chess but ends up fainting from tension. | |
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Sauna of Death | |
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Sauna of Death: Victor tries to do in friend/romantic rival Michael by cranking up the heat in the steam room they're in. Michael thrives on the steam, and Victor nearly passes out (doesn't help that he's fully dressed, sportcoat, glasses and all). | |
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Car Cushion | |
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Car Cushion: Very soon after Michael vows to give up womanizing for his impending marriage, skydiver Rita lands next to him in his open roadster. | |
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Technical Virgin: The neurotic Liz owns up to being a 'semi-virgin', explaining "Here [in Paris] I'm a virgin; in America I'm not" without further elaboration. | |
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