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* [[Creator Killer]]: After this film, Reiner's directorial career plummeted. |
* [[Creator Killer]]: After this film, Reiner's directorial career plummeted. |
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* [[Critical Research Failure]]: Just about every depiction of every ethnicity. {{spoiler|Justified because [[Invoked Trope|it's all in North's imagination]] and that's all he knows.}} |
* [[Critical Research Failure]]: Just about every depiction of every ethnicity. {{spoiler|Justified because [[Invoked Trope|it's all in North's imagination]] and that's all he knows.}} |
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* [[Doing It for the Art]]: Reiner wanted to create a touching, personal fable; his very own ''[[The Wizard of Oz (film)|The Wizard of Oz]]''. |
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* [[Eagle Land]]: Played straight and inverted. Foreigners and Americans who don't exactly fit Type 1 are shoehorned into Type 2. |
* [[Eagle Land]]: Played straight and inverted. Foreigners and Americans who don't exactly fit Type 1 are shoehorned into Type 2. |
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* [[Enfant Terrible]]: Winchell. |
* [[Enfant Terrible]]: Winchell. |
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* [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff]]: [[In |
* [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff]]: [[In-Universe]] -- there's nothing on TV in France but [[Jerry Lewis]] movies. |
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* [[Hollywood Atlas]]: Most of the segments are horrific pastiches of cultural stereotypes, including: |
* [[Hollywood Atlas]]: Most of the segments are horrific pastiches of cultural stereotypes, including: |
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** [[Eskimo Land]] |
** [[Eskimo Land]] |
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* [[Insistent Terminology]]: North's "crack". |
* [[Insistent Terminology]]: North's "crack". |
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* [[Karma Houdini]]: Winchell would've been one [[All Just a Dream|if the whole thing had actually happened]]. |
* [[Karma Houdini]]: Winchell would've been one [[All Just a Dream|if the whole thing had actually happened]]. |
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* [[Magnum Opus Dissonance]]: As stated under [[Doing It for |
* [[Magnum Opus Dissonance]]: As stated under [[Doing It for the Art]], this was supposed to be Reiner's equivalent to ''[[The Wizard of Oz (film)|The Wizard Of Oz]]''. [[Creator Killer|It wasn't]]. |
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* [[Mood Whiplash]]: The assassination plot in the final third is awfully dark for a light fantasy. |
* [[Mood Whiplash]]: The assassination plot in the final third is awfully dark for a light fantasy. |
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* [[Prophetic Names]]: The evil journalist kid is named [[wikipedia:Walter Winchell|Winchell]]. |
* [[Prophetic Names]]: The evil journalist kid is named [[wikipedia:Walter Winchell|Winchell]]. |
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