Zelig

Zelig is a 1983 American comedy mockumentary family comedy from Director Woody Allen 's (who also plays the leading role) about a man who so willingly wants to be nice by anyone found that he is like a human Chameleon adapts to others.

All did everything to make his film by letting go for a "real" documentary. So he stood there, for example, that the voiceover in the film for the cinemas outside the us in would be spoken by an actor out of the country concerned. To do this, Arnold Gelderman In Netherlands was selected. He used parts of old newsreels and placed himself in the clip using the so-called bluescreentechnique. His cameraman Gordon Willis were looking for even cameras and lenses from the 1920s and 1930s to an "authentic" imagery On the negatives were scratches and circles to strengthen the effect. Nowadays it's pretty just turned to actors to fit in old pictures. Using digital techniques is that a lot simpler than in 1982, when this film was made.

The film won a Premio Pasinetti on the Venice Film festival. The film also won another Italian film Prize, the David di Donatello for best foreign actor (Woody Allen). Zeligalso got a Danish Bodilprijs for best non-European film. ==Story[ Edit] == The film is set up as a serious documentary. So-called Journal images are interspersed with comments from real researchers and scientists as Bruno Bettelheim , Saul Bellowand Susan Sontag.

The subject of the documentary is the life of Leonard Zelig. Zelig is an inconspicuous man, who has a special property, however, he takes the form of people in his environment. We see him at a party at the writer f. Scott Fitzgerald where he both the figure of the ' rich and famous ' as of the kitchen staff. Eventually takes Zelig so many other personalities that he ends up in a mental crisis.

Zelig is included in an establishment where he is examined by Dr. Eudora Fletcher. She finds out that Zelig so badly wants to be appreciated by others that he almost automatically adopts the guise of people in his environment. It succeeds Fletcher to cure Zelig, but it seems like they created a monster. Her patient receives such a big ego that he is violent and intolerant. Meanwhile, Fletcher and Zelig become in love with each other, while also increasing the pressure of the media. Zelig collapses and is again a human Chameleon. If a large number of women says he is married with them, flight Zelig.

Finally Fletcher to find him in nazi Germany where Zelig works for the Germans. She knows to persuade Zelig to escape and flee to America. There they are caught up as heroes. ==Division Of Roles[ Edit] ==
 * Woody Allen -Zelig
 * Mia Farrow – Dr. Eudora Fletcher