Sleeper (1973 film)
Contemporary politics and pop culture are satirized throughout the film,[2] which includes tributes to the classic comedy of Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, and Charlie Chaplin.Eventually he and Luna infiltrate the Aries Project, wherein they quickly learn that the national Leader had been killed by a rebel bomb ten months previously.Miles and Luna disguise themselves as doctors, resulting in a case of mistaken identity, causing them to be placed in charge of cloning the Leader from his sole remaining part.The Mile Hi Church of Religious Science[5] in Lakewood, Colorado, was turned into a futuristic McDonald's, featuring a sign counting the number sold: 795 followed by 51 zeroes.[6] Author Christopher Turner has suggested that the orgasmatron, the electromechanical device that Monroe encounters, was a parody of Wilhelm Reich's orgone accumulator.The site's critical consensus reads, "In Sleeper, Woody Allen's madcap futurist comedy, practically each joke and one-liner hits its target."[11] Vincent Canby, in The New York Times, called the film "terrific", saying it confidently advances the Allen art into slapstick territory that I associate with the best of Laurel and Hardy.Allen, an amateur clarinetist with a regular weekly gig as a member of the "Ragtime Rascals" at Michael's Pub in midtown Manhattan,[2] sat in with the Band.[17] In 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die, Kim Newman writes that Sleeper's "vision of the future [is] informed by films like 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), A Clockwork Orange (1971), THX 1138 (1971), and Z.P.G.