History Film / AllThatJazz

* CaptainObvious: "They're taking off their clothes!"

* JerkWithTheHeartOfJerk: Joe Gideon.

* DeathIsDramatic: Joe Gideon goes out in a hallucinated production number, complete with mostly adoring audience.

* AuthorAvatar: Joe Gideon. =

Compare/contrast Film/EightAndAHalf

** Ann Reinking as Kate Jagger.

** The film's editor, Alan Heim as Eddie the Editor
* AuthorAvatar: Joe Gideon.

* CastingCouch: Gideon hires Victoria Porter out of lust, and winds up in bed with her shortly thereafter. Her attempts to use this to her advantage, however, don't go very well.

* FaceDeathWithDignity / GoOutWithASmile: Joe, when the Angel of Death comes to collect him.

* TakeThat: Davis Newman, played by Cliff Gorman, sends up Dustin Hoffman, who was Lenny Bruce in the film version of ''Lenny.'' On Broadway, Lenny had been played by...Cliff Gorman.
** The opening is effectively Bob Fosse declaring that he can do ''AChorusLine'' better than it can.
** TakeThatMe: The entire film is essentially an exercise in SelfDeprecation.
---> "Ladies and gentlemen, let me lay on you a so-so entertainer, not much of a humanitarian, and this cat was never *nobody's* friend. In his final appearance on the great stage of life - uh, you can applaud if you want to - Mr. Joe Gideon!"

* CreatorBreakdown: Leading to a heart attack which the real Bob Fosse survived, but {{Expy}} Joe Gideon doesn't. Fosse would die of a heart attack seven years later, however.

* HarsherInHindsight: Seven years later, Fosse died of a heart attack.

* ProductionPosse: Several regular Fosse dancers crop up here, including Ann Reinking, Ben Vereen, and Sandahl Bergman.

* TroubledProduction: ''NY/LA,'' thanks to Gideon's impending AuthorExistenceFailure.

* ActorAllusion: Ben Vereen's turn as creepy variety show host O'Connor Flood is extremely close to his role as the Leading Player in ''{{Pippin}}''.

* TheOtherDarrin: Sandahl Bergman replaced Cheryl Clark during filming when Clark refused to take her top off for "Airotica."

* CreatorBreakdown: Leading to a heart attack which the real Bob Fosse survived, but {{Expy}} Joe Gideon doesn't. [[spoiler: Fosse would die of a heart attack seven years later, however.]]

* UnfunnyAneurysmMoment: Seven years later, Fosse died of a heart attack.

* TheCameo: Wallace Shawn, Nicole Fosse.
* TheMusicalMusical

* DeathSeeker: Gideon spends the entire film flirting with Angelique, the AngelOfDeath herself. Most of the plot revolves around the likelihood of him experiencing AuthorExistenceFailure.

* AngelOfDeath: Angelique.

'''''All That Jazz''''' (1979) is BobFosse's gimlet-eyed take on an especially hectic moment in his creative life: directing and choreographing the Broadway musical ''Theatre/{{Chicago}}'' while also directing the film version of ''{{Lenny}}''. Fosse's AuthorAvatar, Joe Gideon, spends the film smoking, drinking, womanizing, and popping pills, all the while flirting with the AngelOfDeath. The various women in his life look on with love, helplessness, or just plain exasperation. Between bouts of indulgence, he tirelessly works on his film, ''The Stand-Up'', and choreographs some brilliant musical numbers.

!!''All That Jazz'' provides examples of:

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** Fosse's regular assistant choreographer Kathryn Doby.

* HollywoodHeartAttack: Averted, hard. Gideon's symptoms are extremely realistic.

* CreatorBreakdown: Leading to a heart attack which the real Bob Fosse survived, but {{Expy}} Joe Gideon doesn't.

** The entire film is essentially an exercise in SelfDeprecation.

The opening audition sequence, set to George Benson's rendition of "On Broadway," has been endlessly imitated (''Staying Alive'', the film version of ''AChorusLine'', etc., etc., etc.). One of Paula Abdul's music videos paid homage to "Airotica," the second half of the "NY/LA" number.