My Dinner with Andre: Difference between revisions

* [[As Himself]]: Played with; although the characters are named after the actors who play them, and some of the events they describe apparently happened, both Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory have denied that they are playing themselves entirely. They've stated that were they to remake the movie they'd swap roles to prove the point.

* [[Avoid the Dreaded G Rating]]: It's obviously not a children's film but there isn't anything about the movie that isn't kid-friendly, either. Despite this, it still went ''unrated'' in the US because the filmmakers simply decided not to submit it to the MPAA. It could be because the movie would probably pass with a PG-rating (or even a G-rating) since there isn't anything about it that would be inappropriate for children.

* [[Building of Adventure]]: There isn't much of an adventure going on but the movie takes place mostly in the restaurant.

* [[The Danza]]: Wallace Shawn and Andre Gregory, playing characters with those exact names.

* [[Genre Busting]]: Okay, so ''what'' genre would you say this is?

* [[The Ghost]]: Pretty much everyone mentioned by Wallace and Andre. The most we ever get is a photograph of a Polish woman Andre worked with. Debbie in particular is probably the most frequently mentioned of the unseen cast.

* [[Le Film Artistique]]

* [[Minimalism]]: And how.

{{quote| I treated myself to a taxi. I rode home through the city streets. There wasn't a street, there wasn't a building, that wasn't connected to some memory in my mind. There, I was buying a suit with my father. There, I was having an ice cream soda after school. And when I finally came in, Debbie was home from work, and I told her everything about my dinner with Andre. }}

* [[The Tropeless Tale]]: The very fact this list exists means that the movie isn't this. But it comes damn close.

 

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