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3 | ''Ersatz'' (1961), aka ''Surogat'', aka ''The Substitute'', is an animated short film from the former UsefulNotes/{{Yugoslavia}}, produced by Zagreb Film and directed by Dušan Vukotić. |
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5 | A pot-bellied man arrives at the beach for a day of leisure. He whips out a series of geometric shapes, and, using an airpump, blows them up into various objects, including things like a table, a tent, a grill, and a fish to catch. Things get weirder when he apparently decides he wants companionship, and blows up one of his balloons into a woman. |
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7 | ''Ersatz'' was the first non-American cartoon to win the MediaNotes/AcademyAwardForBestAnimatedShortFilm. It can be watched [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u59XkVwL1Sk here]]. |
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12 | * AbhorrentAdmirer: The first woman the man creates with his balloons is obese. He quickly deflates her. |
13 | * BuxomBeautyStandard: The man blows up a balloon into his beautiful bikini woman. He takes a look at her after he's done, then grabs the air pump again and goes back to make her breasts bigger. |
14 | * DerangedAnimation: A highly stylized and unrealistic style that resembles nothing so much as one of Creator/PabloPicasso's cubist paintings turned into a cartoon, with characters and objects that are really just a series of stylized triangles. Then there are the surreal gags throughout the film. The man can't get any drink out of his bottle--so he turns the bottle upside down and squeezes it like he was milking a cow. Then of course there's the man's ability to create anything, including a living woman, by blowing up balloons. |
15 | * DiabolusExMachina: The man runs over a random nail while driving home. This pops both him and the world he lives in. |
16 | * DidNotGetTheGirl: The woman dumps the man when she sees a [[MuscleBeachBum muscular surfer]]. |
17 | * DrivenToSuicide: After the woman dies, the surfer kills himself by pulling out his plug. |
18 | * TheEnd: Shown in five different languages -- Croatian, English, French, Russian and German. This was typical of cartoons from Zagreb Films. |
19 | * EngineeredHeroics: The man produces a shark to go after the woman so he can rescue her. |
20 | * GainaxEnding: After deflating and putting everything away, the man then deflates ''the entire beach'', which he apparently brought with him. Then he inflates a highway and drives off... until his car hits a nail on the road, which explodes everything. Nothing is left but the nail, which then chuckles mischievously. |
21 | * IfICantHaveYou: After the man catches the woman having sex with the surfer, he kills her by deflating her. |
22 | * MimeAndMusicOnlyCartoon: The man is constantly humming a song to himself, and the characters communicate in squeaks. |
23 | * MuscleBeachBum: The muscular surfer who steals the bikini woman away from the protagonist. |
24 | * ThreateningShark: The man inflates one to scare the woman. |
25 | * WidowsWeeds: The woman briefly pictures herself in these after the man goes into the ocean after the shark. |
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