Sleeper (1973) (Comedy) © 1999 by Raymond Weschler Major Characters Miles Monroe.................................Woody Allen Owner of the "Happy Carrot Health Food Store" in New York City. He checks into a hospital for a minor operation, but ends up being frozen for 200 years before being unfrozen in the year 2173. Luna..........................................Diane Keaton A very bad poet and artist living in the year 2173 who meets Miles, and eventually joins him in a revolutionary underground movement to overthrow the repressive government. Erno..........................................John Beck The young, muscular leader of the underground trying to overthrow the government.Plot Summary Miles Monroe is a quintessential Jewish New Yorker, making a living as the owner of a Health Food Store in Greenwich Village in Manhattan (New York City). After checking into a hospital for a minor operation, Miles is unexpectedly frozen (with "cryogenic technology"). He is shocked to discover that he has woken up in the year 2173, 200 years after he initially went to the hospital. Miles is thawed out (unfrozen) by doctors working in an underground revolutionary movement that is determined to overthrow the current repressive government. The year 2173 is dominated by a police state where everyone has a computerized record, but Miles has no official identification number. He is therefore chosen to lead an expedition to find out about a special government project that other units of the underground are planning to prevent. Miles is a typical coward, but he has no choice, and thus begins his journey. On the way, he meets Luna, who initially is very much against the revolutionary movement, but soon joins the underground when her own life is threatened by the police. Eventually, Miles and Luna are able to infiltrate the highest levels of government, and accomplish their mission. "Sleeper" is a very funny movie that helped establish Woody Allen as one of America's best comic directors. There is much good colloquial language (including a lot of futuristic vocabulary), and despite the fact that it takes place in 2173, it is a good look into the fears, concerns and obsessions of late 20th Americans. Some Words and Expressions that You may not Know Miles Monroe, health food store owner in 1973 New York, finds himself awoken from an operation 200 years late. Everything is on for tonight. If something is "on for" a particular time, it is still planned to happen. Argon thinks that they're on to us. If you are "on to someone," you know what they are planning. The capsule was perfectly in tact. Another way to say unharmed, or like new. He's been under for 200 years. Here, a colloquial way to say unconscious. Encephalic activity. A very technical expression referring to brai责任编辑:yechenglu
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