Deconstructing Harry: Difference between revisions

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"Look at this guy! You created me, now you doesn't recognize me?" }}

 

Successful author [[Meaningful Name|Harry Block]] has been [[Muse Abuse|routinely mining his real life for material]]. After his latest divorce, he's been dating a young fan of his work - who just left him. Now he has to deal with an upcoming trip to his alma mater, and some of his characters start checking up on him in real life. A pretty poignant case of [[Family-Unfriendly Aesop]] follows.

 

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* {{spoiler|[[A Chat With Satan]]:}}

* [[Actor Allusion]]: Judy Davis' character (Lucy) is dealing with a broken marriage and being jilted for a younger woman; the same fate she suffered in Allen's ''[[Husbands and Wives]]'' a few years earlier.

** In one of Harry's stories, this is the reason his marriage to [[Florence Nightingale Effect|his former psychoanalyst]] failed: after the birth of their son, she rediscovered her Jewish roots, became obsessed with faith and tradition, and ended up leaving Harry for a dashing Israeli patient. In real life, though, {{spoiler|Harry cheated on Joan with one of her patients.}}

** Then there's Bert, Harry's brother-in-law; an observant Jew who Harry despises to the point of becoming estranged from his sister. {{spoiler|They later briefly reconnect.}}

* [[High Class Call Girl]]: The Asian prostitute in one of the stories-within-a-story.

* [[Hollywood Atheist]]: Mostly played for laughs, of the smug variety.