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The Point

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The Point	comment	A 1971 more-or-less independent animated musical featuring songs from Harry Nilsson and many Disney Acid Sequences note This is likely due to Nilsson having come up with the concept on a walk through the woods while he was tripping on acid with animation by Jimmy Murakimi and Fred Wolf. It acts as a companion film to an album by Nilsson of the same name.This story is framed as a father (voiced by Dustin Hoffman in the initial broadcast) reading a story to his son.We begin in The Land of Point, where the "law of the land" states that "everyone and everything must have a point." This is carried out to its logical extreme—buildings, animals, plants, and people are all "pointed" to the point that nothing in the entire town is round. Except our protagonist, Oblio, who was born round-headed. He copes by wearing a pointed cap, and he has help from his dog and best friend, Arrow. (Yes, Arrow is very pointy, especially in the muzzle.) He is generally tolerated by everyone in town, some Fantastic Racism abounds, but he is well liked by the other children and the good-hearted but naive King.One day, he beats the son of the evil Count at a game of Triangle Toss, the town's equivalent of football. The Count, who intends to have his equally evil son rule the village one day, sees Oblio's popularity as a threat and makes up his mind to get rid of him. He uses the law of the land against Oblio, and the King has no choice but to exile Oblio and Arrow to the Pointless Forest—which, strangely enough, is full of pointed trees. In the Pointless Forest, he meets the Pointed Man, who points in every direction (you see, "A point in every direction is the same as no point at all.") and seems to exist solely to convince Oblio that the forest and all of his experiences therein are pointless. Oblio also meets and sees other wonders, all of which lead him to understand that, as the Rock Man puts it, "You don't have to have a point to have a point. Dig?" Oblio completes his hero's journey, returns to the village, and teaches everyone the main Aesop: "Everything has a point, whether it shows or not."The movie is interspersed with songs, nearly all of which have little or nothing to do with the actual plot other than a line or two. This is totally excusable, since the songs and the movie are both Moments of Awesome in the composer's body of work.
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The Point / int_1843bf38	type	Visionary Villain
The Point / int_1843bf38	comment	Visionary Villain: The Count intends to have his son rule the village one day. This is why the Count has Oblio banished to the Pointless Forest: so that Oblio's popularity won't be a threat to the leadership credibility of the Count's son.
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The Point / int_1b60dcba	type	The Bully
The Point / int_1b60dcba	comment	The Bully: The Count's son to Oblio. He’s as mean as his father and seems to be the only kid to be prejudiced against Oblio for not having a point.
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The Point / int_1b8c7503	type	The Exile
The Point / int_1b8c7503	comment	The Exile: The Count has Oblio and Arrow banished to the Pointless Forest.
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The Point / int_1d435a4d	type	A Boy and His X
The Point / int_1d435a4d	comment	A Boy and His X: Oblio and Arrow, the best of friends. Whenever Oblio plays Triangle Toss, Arrow helps out by standing on Oblio's shoulders and catching the triangle on one of his own points.
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The Point / int_1e1afc1b	type	Framing Device
The Point / int_1e1afc1b	comment	Framing Device: The story of Oblio is a bedtime story the father is reading to his son.
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The Point / int_36c64123	type	Gentle Giant
The Point / int_36c64123	comment	Gentle Giant: The Rock Man is the biggest character in the movie and is also one of the kindest, giving Oblio some needed encouragement and wisdom.
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The Point / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
The Point / int_3b113b7	comment	Character Development: The King starts out as a bit of a pushover, allowing the Count to walk all over him. However, when Oblio returns home, the King is more than willing to stand up to the Count.
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The Point / int_43d612b7	type	Disney Acid Sequence
The Point / int_43d612b7	comment	Disney Acid Sequence: Every single song goes into an abstract sequence with very little relevance to the story.
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The Point / int_4781adbb	type	Jerk with a Heart of Gold
The Point / int_4781adbb	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Gold: The Tree Man, who's in the leaf-manufacturing business, is gruff, preoccupied with "timing," and initially doesn't want to waste time in conversation. The moment he notices Oblio is troubled, though, he softens up and gives him some advice. And when he learns that Oblio has no roots (and therefore no ability to "grow leaves" like him), he's genuinely sorry for him, and sincerely hopes the boy can "grow" riches of his own somehow.
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The Point / int_4c8e8078	type	All of the Other Reindeer
The Point / int_4c8e8078	comment	All of the Other Reindeer: Mostly averted. Despite being the only individual to not have a pointed head, Oblio is well liked by most of the townsfolk, with only a few select individuals actually showing any prejudice. The Count, however, takes this to extremes when he decides to have Oblio banished for being round-headed.
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The Point / int_537dd8fe	type	Affably Evil
The Point / int_537dd8fe	comment	Affably Evil: The Pointed Man. He is jolly and talkative, but also trying to lead Oblio astray and make him think everything is pointless.
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The Point / int_58970413	type	Coincidental Broadcast
The Point / int_58970413	comment	Coincidental Broadcast: The father wants to read a bedtime story to his son, who would rather watch a TV show before bed. As the father reads, the story's action just happens to be played out on the TV in the son's bedroom.
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The Point / int_5b415ef2	type	BottomlessPit
The Point / int_5b415ef2	comment	Bottomless Pit: In the Pointless Forest, Arrow nearly falls into a hole with no bottom. Oblio pulls him away just in time.
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The Point / int_66dfe36a	type	Missing Mom
The Point / int_66dfe36a	comment	Missing Mom: The mother of the Count's son is never seen or mentioned.
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The Point / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
The Point / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: When Oblio's father first sees his infant son and greets him with "Hi, Oblio. ...Hi, son," it's said rather nervously (given, this was the first time he saw someone lacking a point). When his son returns from his exile, he says these same words again, in a much happier voice than before.
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The Point / int_72d30083	type	Cheaters Never Prosper
The Point / int_72d30083	comment	Cheaters Never Prosper: During the game of Triangle Toss, right after a triangle is thrown, the Count's son tackles Oblio, but Arrow catches the triangle anyway.
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The Point / int_7cc8d769	type	Sore Loser
The Point / int_7cc8d769	comment	Sore Loser: The Count's son, big time. After losing the game of Triangle Toss, he tells his father, who sets the rest of the plot in motion by using the law of the land against Oblio.
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The Point / int_83445b04	type	Pun
The Point / int_83445b04	comment	Pun: "He's got a point there! (chuckle)"
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The Point / int_970c8a84	type	Big Fun
The Point / int_970c8a84	comment	Big Fun: Three round, fat ladies who inhabit the Pointless Forest and spend their days laughing, dancing, and bouncing on each other—then start bouncing Oblio into the air. "I really don't understand this!" Oblio remarks while experiencing this. But he's smiling when he says it.
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The Point / int_9952b10b	type	Re-Release Soundtrack
The Point / int_9952b10b	comment	Re-Release Soundtrack: Non-musical example—due to Dustin Hoffman's contract stipulating that his narration could only be used for one airing, his voice had to be redubbed for subsequent airings. Alan Barzman was used for the first rebroadcast, Ringo Starr did the home video release and Alan Thicke did a version that was broadcast on cable during the 1980s and 1990s.
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The Point / int_9d1cc720	type	Barbie Doll Anatomy
The Point / int_9d1cc720	comment	Barbie Doll Anatomy: The film's animators do not consistently draw clothes. They also don't (consistently) draw what lies under them.
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The Point / int_a30c287	type	Good Parents
The Point / int_a30c287	comment	Good Parents: Oblio's parents love their son even if he was born without a point.
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The Point / int_a3c0d670	type	Evil Chancellor
The Point / int_a3c0d670	comment	Evil Chancellor: The Count, convincing the King that Oblio must be banished for not having a point.
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The Point / int_b5b3599d	type	Amoral Attorney
The Point / int_b5b3599d	comment	Amoral Attorney: The Count acts as an unscrupulous lawyer when Oblio is put on trial for not having a pointed head, arguing that the land's law of everything needing a point is more important than what the public thinks of Oblio.
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The Point / int_b5b4b485	type	The Bet
The Point / int_b5b4b485	comment	The Bet: The object of Triangle Toss is to catch a triangle on one of your points. When the Count's son says Oblio can't play because he has no point, they make a bet: best two out of three catches wins. It's not clear what the reward is, but Oblio says, "Bet you anything!"
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The Point / int_b9d334b2	type	Aerith and Bob
The Point / int_b9d334b2	comment	Aerith and Bob: Some of the kids at the Triangle Toss game are named Harry or Fred. Our hero? Oblio. Harry, Fred, and Richard are also the only named characters (besides Oblio and Arrow) in the entire film. IMDb trivia suggests they're references to Harry Nilsson, Fred Wolf, and Richard Starkey (Ringo Starr).
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The Point / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
The Point / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: In the end, Oblio gains a point on his head, just like the other villagers' points, but all the other people in his village lose their points—and so do all the buildings! If anything, even if things have changed, one thing remains the same: Oblio is still the odd one out in his world. Still, his personal growth has allowed him to gracefully accept he'll always be different. It helps that the rest of the villagers begin assuming that everyone has a point, whether it shows or not.
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The Point / int_c5c79ad3	type	And Your Little Dog, Too!
The Point / int_c5c79ad3	comment	And Your Little Dog, Too!: Literally. Arrow is also banished to the Pointless Forest, on the grounds of criminal conspiracy.
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The Point / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
The Point / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: The King. He's clearly distraught when the Count forces him to banish Oblio to the Pointed Forest. When Oblio comes back, he is clearly done with the Count's bull and ignores him in favor of listening to Oblio.
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The Point / int_f10d3363	type	Distracted by the Sexy
The Point / int_f10d3363	comment	Distracted by the Sexy: Invoked by the Count's son during the game. He produces a cute female dog. Arrow stops to gaze at her, missing the triangle he was supposed to catch, and the Count's son catches it instead. A little later, this happens to the Count's son, who stops to pose for some girls waving at him. Meanwhile, Oblio and Arrow catch the next triangle, leaving the Count's son hanging his head.
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The Point / int_f15c2859	type	NO INDOOR VOICE
The Point / int_f15c2859	comment	No Indoor Voice: The Count spends much of his screentime angrily shouting and bawling at the other characters. It even gets lampshaded near the end of the film, when the King has to tell him to shut up so that Oblio can tell his story.
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The Point / int_f8e7ac96	type	Overlord Jr.
The Point / int_f8e7ac96	comment	Overlord Jr.: The Count's son is just as wicked as his old man.
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The Point / int_fe64d5a1	type	Evil Is Petty
The Point / int_fe64d5a1	comment	Evil Is Petty: His son gets beaten at a game, and what does the Count do? Banish the victor, of course.
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