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''All That Jazz'' (1979) is Bob Fosse's gimlet-eyed take on an especially hectic moment in his creative life: directing and choreographing the Broadway musical ''[[Chicago]]'' while also directing the film version of ''[[Lenny]]''. Fosse's [[Author Avatar]], Joe Gideon, spends the film smoking, drinking, womanizing, and popping pills, all the while flirting with the [[Angel of Death]]. The various women in his life look on with love, helplessness, or just plain exasperation. Between bouts of indulgence, he tirelessly works on his film, ''The Stand-Up'', and choreographs some brilliant musical numbers.▼
 
The opening audition sequence, set to George Benson's rendition of "On Broadway," has been endlessly imitated (''Staying Alive'', the film version of ''[[A Chorus Line]]'', etc., etc., etc.). One of Paula Abdul's music videos paid homage to "Airotica," the second half of the "NY/LA" number. ▼
 
▲'''''All That Jazz'' (1979)''' is Bob Fosse's 1979 gimlet-eyed take on an especially hectic moment in his creative life: directing and choreographing the Broadway musical ''[[Chicago]]'' while also directing the film version of ''[[Lenny]]''. Fosse's [[Author Avatar]], Joe Gideon, spends the film smoking, drinking, womanizing, and popping pills, all the while flirting with the [[Angel of Death]]. The various women in his life look on with love, helplessness, or just plain exasperation. Between bouts of indulgence, he tirelessly works on his film, ''The Stand-Up'', and choreographs some brilliant musical numbers.
Written by Fosse and Robert Alan Aurthur, directed and choreographed by Fosse. It won Academy Awards for Editing, Art Direction, Costume Design, and Score. It was also nominated for Best Picture, Director (Fosse), Original Screenplay, Cinematography, and Actor ([[Roy Scheider]] as Gideon).▼
 
▲The opening audition sequence, set to George Benson's rendition of "On Broadway,", has been endlessly imitated (''Staying Alive'', the film version of ''[[A Chorus Line]]'', etc., etc., etc.). One of Paula Abdul's music videos paid homage to "Airotica,", the second half of the "NY/LA" number.
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=== ''All That Jazz'' provides examples of: ===
▲Written by Fosse and Robert Alan Aurthur, directed and choreographed by Fosse. It won Academy Awards for Editing, Art Direction, Costume Design, and Score. It was also nominated for Best Picture, Director (Fosse), Original Screenplay, Cinematography, and Actor ([[Roy Scheider]] as Gideon).
 
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* [[Angel of Death]]: Angelique.
* [[As Himself]]: Lighting designer Jules Fisher.
** Ann Reinking as Kate Jagger. {{context|reason=How is this an example of the trope as written?}}
** Fosse's regular assistant choreographer Kathryn Doby.
* [[Author Avatar]]: Joe Gideon.
* [[Bowdlerise]]: TV edits have to omit "Airotica," even though it's a key moment in the plot.
* [[The Cameo]]: Wallace Shawn, Nicole Fosse. ▼
* [[Casting Couch]]: Gideon hires Victoria Porter out of lust, and winds up in bed with her shortly thereafter. Her attempts to use this to her advantage, however, don't go very well.
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* [[Creator Cameo]]: Editor Alan Heim appears briefly as the editor of ''The Stand-Up.''
* [[Death Is Dramatic]]: Joe Gideon goes out in a hallucinated production number, complete with mostly adoring audience.
* [[Death Seeker]]: Gideon spends the entire film flirting with Angelique, the [[Angel of Death]] herself. Most of the plot revolves around the likelihood of him experiencing [[Author Existence Failure]].
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* [[Hollywood Heart Attack]]: Averted, hard. Gideon's symptoms are extremely realistic.
* [[Hopeless Auditionees]]: There are several in the chorus call sequence.
* [[Informed Flaw]]: Victoria is supposed to be the weakest dancer in the cast, but doesn't always look like it. (Victoria can't sing, either, but we only get to ''see'' the composer's agonized reaction.).
* [[It's Showtime!]]: "It's showtime, folks!" is Rob Gideon's [[Catch Phrase]].
* [[Mating Dance]]: The "Airotica" ballet. "I think we just lost the family audience."
* [[Muse Abuse]]: Joe Gideon is portrayed as blatantly using the suffering his inveterate womanizing and over-the-top lifestyle causes for his friends, family, and lovers as inspiration for his work. They react pretty much as expected.
{{quote| '''Audrey Paris''': "Well, I don't know about the others; but I think it's the best work you've ever done," [in tears] "you son of a bitch!"}}
* [[The Musical Musical]]▼
* [[Production Posse]]: Several regular Fosse dancers crop up here, including Ann Reinking, Ben Vereen, and Sandahl Bergman.
* [[Roman à Clef]]: Avowedly so.
** Joe Gideon is Fosse.
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** The opening is effectively Bob Fosse declaring that he can do ''[[A Chorus Line]]'' better than it can.
** The entire film is essentially an exercise in [[Self-Deprecation]].
{{quote| "Ladies and gentlemen, let me lay on you a so-so entertainer, not much of a humanitarian, and this cat was never *nobody's* friend. In his final appearance on the great stage of life - uh, you can applaud if you want to - Mr. Joe Gideon!"}}
▲* [[The Cameo]]: Wallace Shawn, Nicole Fosse.
▲* [[The Musical Musical]]
* [[Troubled Production]]: ''NY/LA,'' thanks to Gideon's impending [[Author Existence Failure]].
* [[Unfunny Aneurysm Moment]]: Seven years later, Fosse died of a heart attack.
* [[Your Cheating Heart]]: If you're female, and you're in a relationship with Joe Gideon, prepare for him to cheat.
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