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->''"What good is sitting alone in your room?\\
Come hear the music play;\\
Life is a cabaret, old chum,\\
Come to the Cabaret!"''
Come hear the music play;\\
Life is a cabaret, old chum,\\
Come to the Cabaret!"''
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The film was nominated for ten won eight UsefulNotes/{{Academy Award}}s and won eight, Award}}s, including for Fosse's direction, Minnelli's performance as Sally and Creator/JoelGrey's as the Emcee. It is particularly notable for dominating the awards in the year of ''Film/TheGodfather'', although the latter's comparatively few awards Oscars (three) still included Best Picture.
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''Cabaret'' is a 1972 film based on the stage musical ''Theatre/{{Cabaret}}''.
''Cabaret'' is a 1972 film based on the stage musical ''Theatre/{{Cabaret}}''.
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''Cabaret'' is a 1972 American musical film directed by Creator/BobFosse, based on the 1966 stage musical
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The plot of the film has some substantial departures from the plot of the stage version. In places it draws more directly on the musical's sources, Christopher Isherwood's book ''Goodbye To Berlin'' and the play ''I Am a Camera''. Where the stage version is deliberately theatrical and at times blurs the lines between the cabaret performances and the characters' real lives, the film aims for grounded realism. The only songs that are retained in the film are those that are performances in-universe.
The movie was directed by Creator/BobFosse and won eight Academy Awards, including for Fosse's direction, Minnelli's performance as Sally and Creator/JoelGrey's as the Emcee. It is particularly notable for dominating the awards in the year of ''Film/TheGodfather'', though the latter's comparatively few awards (three) still included Best Picture.
The movie was directed by Creator/BobFosse and won eight Academy Awards, including for Fosse's direction, Minnelli's performance as Sally and Creator/JoelGrey's as the Emcee. It is particularly notable for dominating the awards in the year of ''Film/TheGodfather'', though the latter's comparatively few awards (three) still included Best Picture.
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The plot of the film has some substantial departures from the plot of the stage version. In places it draws more directly on the musical's sources, Christopher Isherwood's book autobiographical 1939 novel ''Goodbye To to Berlin'' and the its nonmusical 1951 play adaptation ''I Am a Camera''. Where the stage version musical is deliberately theatrical theatrical, and at times blurs the lines between the cabaret performances and the characters' real lives, the film aims for grounded realism. The For example, the only songs that are retained in the film are those that are [[DiegeticMusical performances in-universe.
in-universe]].
Themovie film was directed by Creator/BobFosse nominated for ten UsefulNotes/{{Academy Award}}s and won eight Academy Awards, eight, including for Fosse's direction, Minnelli's performance as Sally and Creator/JoelGrey's as the Emcee. It is particularly notable for dominating the awards in the year of ''Film/TheGodfather'', though although the latter's comparatively few awards (three) still included Best Picture.Picture.
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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: A film based on a musical based in part on part of a novel by Christopher Isherwood allegedly based on his encounters with one Sally Bowles. As a nice coincidence, Liza Minnelli greatly resembles the description of Sally in the novel.
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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: A film based on a musical partly based in part on a part of a novel by Christopher Isherwood allegedly based on his encounters with one Jean Ross (renamed Sally Bowles.Bowles) in Berlin. As a nice coincidence, Liza Minnelli greatly resembles the description of Sally in the novel.
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* EthicalSlut: Sally starts out as a straight example, before evolving into a deconstruction. Both she and Brian form a LoveTriangle with a bisexual billionaire, causing friction in their relationship. She ends up pregnant [[spoiler:but decides to abort the baby, feeling that she couldn't be mother material. It's instead implied that she wants to continue her partying lifestyle, which is ultimately shown to be empty and just escapism]].
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* EthicalSlut: Sally starts out as a straight example, before evolving into a deconstruction. Both she and Brian form a LoveTriangle with a bisexual billionaire, causing friction in their relationship. She ends up pregnant [[spoiler:but decides to abort the baby, feeling that she couldn't be isn't mother material. It's instead implied that she instead wants to continue her partying lifestyle, which is ultimately shown to be empty and just escapism]].
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* GagEcho: Sally draws a comparison between Fritz romancing Natalia and an animal stalking its prey. She suggests he needs to 'pounce' to get Natalia to notice him. Much later, Natalia tells Sally about Fritz making a pass at her on the couch. Sally awkwardly says "he pounced".
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* GagEcho: Sally draws a comparison between Fritz romancing Natalia and an animal stalking its prey. She suggests he needs to 'pounce' to get Natalia to notice him. Much later, Natalia tells Sally about Fritz making a pass at her on the couch. Sally awkwardly says "he pounced".pounced."
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* MadonnaWhoreComplex: PlayedForDrama. Sally would be the Whore, while Natalia is the Madonna. Natalia has to go to Sally for advice on sexual matters, while Sally herself angsts about whether a 'Whore' like her could ever become a good wife and mother.
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* MadonnaWhoreComplex: PlayedForDrama. Sally would be the Whore, while Natalia is the Madonna. Natalia has to go to Sally for advice on sexual matters, while Sally herself angsts about whether a 'Whore' 'whore' like her could ever become a good wife and mother.
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* MoneySong: "Money Money", sung by Sally and the MC about how money "makes the world go round". Sung while Sally is enjoying being romanced by a rich bachelor.
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** Within the one song. "Tomorrow Belongs to Me" starts with a simple boy with a great voice singing. But when the camera pans back to reveal his Swastika on uniform and everyone in the audience joins in together, it gets extremely creepy.
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* EthicalSlut: Sally starts out as a straight example, before evolving into a deconstruction. Both she and Brian engage in TriangRelations with a bisexual billionaire, causing friction in their relationship. She ends up pregnant [[spoiler:but decides to abort the baby, feeling that she couldn't be mother material. It's instead implied that she wants to continue her partying lifestyle, which is ultimately shown to be empty and just escapism]].
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* EthicalSlut: Sally starts out as a straight example, before evolving into a deconstruction. Both she and Brian engage in TriangRelations form a LoveTriangle with a bisexual billionaire, causing friction in their relationship. She ends up pregnant [[spoiler:but decides to abort the baby, feeling that she couldn't be mother material. It's instead implied that she wants to continue her partying lifestyle, which is ultimately shown to be empty and just escapism]].
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Set in Berlin in 1931, the main characters are Sally Bowles (Creator/LizaMinnelli), a performer at the Kit Kat Club cabaret, and Brian Roberts (Creator/MichaelYork), a visiting Englishman.
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Set in Berlin UsefulNotes/{{Berlin}} in 1931, [[UsefulNotes/WeimarRepublic 1931]], the main characters are Sally Bowles (Creator/LizaMinnelli), a performer at the Kit Kat Club cabaret, and Brian Roberts (Creator/MichaelYork), a visiting Englishman.
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* CoolestClubEver: The film's version of the Kit-Kat Club. Christopher Isherwood, writer of the books the film was based on, said that if anything like that had existed in 1930s Berlin people would have been coming from all over Europe just to visit it.
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* LargeHam: Sally Bowles, whether it's just from her excessive drinking or her personality. But she's a very OTT person.
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* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Nazis.The Nazis. At first, they're seen as just another bunch of thugs; not people you'd want to be around, but not much worse than your typical street thugs. Maximillian even goes so far as to say that they can be controlled to a certain extent and used to deal with the [[DirtyCommunists communists]]. However, as the movie goes on, their popularity and influence increases, and it becomes clear that, yes, they ''are'' very dangerous and nobody in Germany is truly safe from them. The "Tomorrow Belongs to Me" sequence is the point where it becomes clear that they can't be taken lightly anymore due to the support they generate from the public with their superficially positive message.
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* ReallyGetsAround: When Sally gives Natalia the German word for 'fornication', Brian has this to say.
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* AdaptationalNationality: Sally is British and Clifford/Brian is American in the original play, but the film swaps their nationalities.
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* AdaptationalNationality: Sally is British in the original play, but American here.
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* SexForSolace: Cliff finds Sally devastated because her father has cancelled last-minute a meeting with her. She cries and assumes that her father doesn't love her and find her worthless. Cliff tells Sally that she is very talented and beautiful, and they have sex the next minute.
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* SexForSolace: Cliff Brian finds Sally devastated because her father has cancelled last-minute a meeting with her. She cries and assumes that her father doesn't love her and find her worthless. Cliff Brian tells Sally that she is very talented and beautiful, and they have sex the next minute.
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* SexForSolace: Cliff finds Sally devastated because her father has cancelled last-minute a meeting with her. She cries and assumes that her father doesn't love her and find her worthless. Cliff tells Sally that she is very talented and beautiful, and they have sex the next minute.
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* ShoutOut: The sultry dance Sally performs on top a chair as she sings "Mein Herr" is likely a reference to ''Film/TheBlueAngel'', another famous film set in the cabarets of Weimar Germany, where Creator/MarleneDietrich sings "Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuss auf Liebe eingestellt" while seductively strattling a chair. Both songs additionally carry themes of infidelity and promiscuity.
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* ShoutOut: The sultry dance Sally performs on top a chair as she sings "Mein Herr" is likely a reference to ''Film/TheBlueAngel'', another famous film set in the cabarets of Weimar Germany, where Creator/MarleneDietrich sings "Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuss auf Liebe eingestellt" while seductively strattling straddling a chair. Both songs additionally carry themes of infidelity and promiscuity.
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The movie was directed by Creator/BobFosse and won eight Academy Awards, including for Fosse's direction, Minnelli's performance as Sally and Joel Grey's as the Emcee. It is particularly notable for dominating the awards in the year of ''Film/TheGodfather'', though the latter's comparatively few awards (three) still included Best Picture.
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The movie was directed by Creator/BobFosse and won eight Academy Awards, including for Fosse's direction, Minnelli's performance as Sally and Joel Grey's Creator/JoelGrey's as the Emcee. It is particularly notable for dominating the awards in the year of ''Film/TheGodfather'', though the latter's comparatively few awards (three) still included Best Picture.
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* DiegeticMusical: All the musical numbers are in-universe performances at clubs or restaurants, most of them at the Kit Kat Club cabaret. (The original stage musical had non-diegetic songs as well, but they were left out of the film to keep it on a more realistic level.)
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* BetterAsFriends: Sally goes after Brian but when he confesses that he may be gay, they agree to remain friends. Then subverted when it turns out he's BiTheWay -- and Sally becomes the first girl he enjoys sleeping with.
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* CoolestClubEver: The film's version of the Kit-Kat Club. Christopher Isherwood, writer of the books the film was based on, said that if anything like that had existed in 1930s Berlin people would have been coming from all over Europe just to visit it.
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* ManicPixieDreamGirl: Subverted with Sally Bowles, who demonstrates just how messed up this kind of character tends to be in real life. She and Brian have a lot of fun at first but it's soon illustrated that she loves her partying lifestyle too much [[spoiler:and she aborts their baby because she doesn't think she's mother material]]. The last scene of the film has her performing a number that implies she's going to continue a life of fun and frivolity -- [[spoiler:but the crowd is full of Nazi officers, implying Sally's fun won't last too long]].
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* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: A film based on a musical based in part on part of a novel by Christopher Isherwood allegedly based on his encounters with one Sally Bowles. As a nice coincidence, Liza Minnelli greatly resembles the description of Sally in the novel.
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[-[[caption-width-right:316:"There was a cabaret, and there was a master of ceremonies... and there was a city called Berlin, in a country called Germany... and it was the end of the world."]]-]
''Cabaret'' is a 1972 film based on the stage musical ''Theatre/{{Cabaret}}''.
Set in Berlin in 1931, the main characters are Sally Bowles (Creator/LizaMinnelli), a performer at the Kit Kat Club cabaret, and Brian Roberts (Creator/MichaelYork), a visiting Englishman.
The plot of the film has some substantial departures from the plot of the stage version. In places it draws more directly on the musical's sources, Christopher Isherwood's book ''Goodbye To Berlin'' and the play ''I Am a Camera''. Where the stage version is deliberately theatrical and at times blurs the lines between the cabaret performances and the characters' real lives, the film aims for grounded realism. The only songs that are retained in the film are those that are performances in-universe.
The movie was directed by Creator/BobFosse and won eight Academy Awards, including for Fosse's direction, Minnelli's performance as Sally and Joel Grey's as the Emcee. It is particularly notable for dominating the awards in the year of ''Film/TheGodfather'', though the latter's comparatively few awards (three) still included Best Picture.
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!!The film provides examples of:
* AdaptationalAttractiveness:
** Subverted in the film's famous dance scene with Sally and the bentwood chair. Minnelli and Fosse worked hard to show the typically untrained technique and stereotypical moves that an enthusiastic amateur like Sally would have used. Minnelli -- a trained dancer -- later claimed that rehearsing these jerky, exaggerated moves seeded many of her later arthritis problems.
** The elderly BetaCouple Herr Schultz and Fraulein Schneider from the musical are replaced with the much younger Fritz and Natalia.
** The character of Natalia in the original book is a not especially attractive teenage schoolgirl, rather than a beautiful young woman.
* AdaptationalJobChange: In the musical, the lead male character was a writer. In the movie, he's an English teacher.
* AdaptationalNationality: Sally is British in the original play, but American here.
* AdaptationalSexuality: Brian Roberts is bisexual, unlike his book counterpart, who is gay.
* AdaptationNameChange: The lead male character is called Brian Roberts rather than Cliff Bradshaw.
* BadGirlSong: Sally's first song is "Mein Herr", which establishes her as a GoodBadGirl.
-->"You have to understand the way I am, Mein Herr."
* BadGuysDoTheDirtyWork: Max views the Nazis as a bunch of thugs, but useful for getting rid of Communists. He remarks upon this as he, Sally, and Brian drive past a dead body covered in a prayer shawl underneath a Nazi banner.
* BetaCouple: Fritz and Natalia.
* BetterAsFriends: Sally goes after Brian but when he confesses that he may be gay, they agree to remain friends. Then subverted when it turns out he's BiTheWay -- and Sally becomes the first girl he enjoys sleeping with.
* TheBlindLeadingTheBlind: An innocent virgin asks Sally Bowles for advice on whether her feelings are true love or mere lust, since Sally is 'a woman who is giving her body often to men'. Sally, who is really 'as fatale as an after-dinner mint' can only shrug helplessly.
* BookEnds: Begins and ends with the distortion of the Master of Ceremonies, then off the Nazi audience.
* ButNotTooBi: The main male character, who is StraightGay in the book, reveals himself to be bisexual in the musical, but we never do see him having an exclusive relationship with another man.
* ComicallyMissingThePoint: When Natalia tells Sally about Fritz making a pass at her, she describes him as having no respect for her father's couch.
* DownerEnding: The final image of the blurry mirror reflecting the cluster Nazi soldiers sitting among the crowd suggest that this is so.
* DramaticIrony: The movie takes place in Germany in 1931. Throughout the movie, we see the Nazi party becoming more and more prominent, though not all of the characters do. The end of the film is Sally blithely performing before a crowd of armband-wearing Nazis, though the audience knows even ''that'' will end in time.
* EarnYourHappyEnding: [[spoiler:Fritz and Natalia. Though how long it will last is not too clear...]]
* EthicalSlut: Sally starts out as a straight example, before evolving into a deconstruction. Both she and Brian engage in TriangRelations with a bisexual billionaire, causing friction in their relationship. She ends up pregnant [[spoiler:but decides to abort the baby, feeling that she couldn't be mother material. It's instead implied that she wants to continue her partying lifestyle, which is ultimately shown to be empty and just escapism]].
* FanDisservice: The raggedy costumes, caked-on makeup and amateurish choreography strongly downplays, if not outright removes, any potential eroticism in the cabaret ChorusGirls. Coupled with the Emcee's creepy leering, the nightmarish editing and cinematography, and the overall setting of pre-Nazi Germany, the numbers overall come across more sad and sleazy than sexy.
* {{Fanservice}}: Liza Minnelli in a sexy black leotard, gyrating around a chair and singing with AudioErotica -- the song "Mein Herr" is full of it.
* FemmeFatale: A DeconstructedTrope. Sally thinks she can pull it off, but she really, really can't. Brian quips that she is "about as ''fatale'' as an after-dinner mint."
* GagEcho: Sally draws a comparison between Fritz romancing Natalia and an animal stalking its prey. She suggests he needs to 'pounce' to get Natalia to notice him. Much later, Natalia tells Sally about Fritz making a pass at her on the couch. Sally awkwardly says "he pounced".
* InformedJudaism: Both Natalia and [[spoiler:Fritz]], although in his case he was actively trying to hide it.
* KickTheDog: Some Nazis kill Natalia's dog and leave it on her front porch.
* LargeHam: Sally Bowles, whether it's just from her excessive drinking or her personality. But she's a very OTT person.
* LittlePeopleAreSurreal: Subverted: Sally, trying to shock Brian, asks whether he's ever had sex with a dwarf. Brian calmly responds with, "Yes. But it wasn't a lasting relationship."
* MadonnaWhoreComplex: PlayedForDrama. Sally would be the Whore, while Natalia is the Madonna. Natalia has to go to Sally for advice on sexual matters, while Sally herself angsts about whether a 'Whore' like her could ever become a good wife and mother.
* MoneySong: "Money Money", sung by Sally and the MC about how money "makes the world go round". Sung while Sally is enjoying being romanced by a rich bachelor.
* MoodWhiplash:
** Within the one song. "Tomorrow Belongs to Me" starts with a simple boy with a great voice singing. But when the camera pans back to reveal his Swastika on uniform and everyone in the audience joins in together, it gets extremely creepy.
** Really there are quite a few of these. There are numerous small set pieces that show the Nazis taking over Berlin that add a feeling of dread to the happy talk of the characters, like the radio with Nazi propaganda or the swastika posters. Then there are the cabaret songs which cut between the upbeat music and darker scenes, such as a man being beaten perhaps to death.
** Another scene cuts between the MC and some of the Kit Kat Club Girls doing a jaunty dance, and a bunch of young men sneaking into Natalia's yard in order to throw her dead dog against her door, all while chanting "JUDEN! JUDEN!" It is around this time that [[ThoseWackyNazis the MC and the girls switch their hats around, which now look like soldiers' helmets, and march offstage...]]
* MovieBonusSong: "Mein Herr", "Maybe this Time" and "Money Money".
* MusicalWorldHypotheses: All the songs take place in a night club, with the single exception of "Tomorrow Belongs To Me", a patriotic song that a boy sings to a luncheon, with the diners joining in for the last chorus.
* NotIfTheyEnjoyedItRationalization: Played with. Fritz -- under the advice of Sally -- 'pounces' on Natalia one afternoon. Natalia describes herself as initially being shocked but quickly realising she enjoys it. Although it straddles the line, there's no reason to think Natalia couldn't have rejected him if she wanted to -- or that Fritz wouldn't have stopped if Natalia made it clear she wasn't interested.
* NotSoHarmlessVillain: Nazis.
-->'''Brian:''' You still think you can control them?
* ReallyGetsAround: When Sally gives Natalia the German word for 'fornication', Brian has this to say.
-->'''Brian:''' Trust ''that'' to be the one German word you pronounce perfectly.
* RevealShot: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNMVMNmrqJE Tomorrow Belongs To Me]]. Starts out as a nice song, and then you start to see the swastikas...
* ShirtlessScene: Brian is shirtless in a trip to the lake house, in the first instance that implies Maximilian has an attraction to him.
* ShoutOut: The sultry dance Sally performs on top a chair as she sings "Mein Herr" is likely a reference to ''Film/TheBlueAngel'', another famous film set in the cabarets of Weimar Germany, where Creator/MarleneDietrich sings "Ich bin von Kopf bis Fuss auf Liebe eingestellt" while seductively strattling a chair. Both songs additionally carry themes of infidelity and promiscuity.
* SilentCredits: The credits roll in complete silence.
* SophisticatedAsHell: "I think your paper and you [[ThoseWackyNazis party]] are pure [[PrecisionFStrike crap]], sir!"
* TriangRelations: Sally/[[spoiler:Maximillian]]/Brian are in a Type 8 relationship, although it's far from harmonious.
* WhamLine:
-->'''Brian:''' Oh, ''screw'' Maximillian!\\
'''Sally:''' ''(primly)'' I do.\\
'''Brian:''' ''(chuckles)'' ... so do I.\\
''(Sally's eyes widen in realization)''
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