What's Up, Tiger Lily?
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- gentle
- inventive
- intimate
- funny
Warm, breathless, gentle comedy / parody, surreal in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.
How every film is hand-scored →In comic Woody Allen's film debut, he took the Japanese action film "International Secret Police: Key of Keys" and re-dubbed it, changing the plot to make it revolve around a secret egg salad recipe.
Our read · What's Up, Tiger Lily? (1966) reads as a warm, breathless, surreal comedy · parody · dub entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.
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The shape of What's Up, Tiger Lily?
What watching it is actually like.
“You want Woody Allen's absurd redub spy spoof hunting the world's greatest egg salad.”
Skip it tonight — Skip if dated Asian stereotypes, striptease credits, or punny gag comedy feel too juvenile.
The reading.
Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.
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Closeness in the twelve-axis space — how the film actually reads, not “people also liked.”
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