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Watch: Lenny 1974 123movies, Full Movie Online – Interview-style biography of controversial and pioneering stand-up comedian Lenny Bruce. The film traces Bruce from his beginnings as a Catskills comic to his later underground popularity based on his anti-establishment politics and his scatological humor..
Plot: The story of acerbic 1960s comic Lenny Bruce, whose groundbreaking, no-holds-barred style and social commentary was often deemed by the establishment as too obscene for the public.
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	7.6/10 Votes: 16,332
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	61/100 | MetaCritic
	N/A Votes: 203 Popularity: 8.953 | TMDB

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Heart-breaking portrayal of a comic genius ahead of his time …
“Lenny” tells the tragic fate of a pioneer and a martyr : the comedian Lenny Bruce whose irreverent courage paved the way to a whole new style of performance : stand-up comedy. Lenny is posthumously regarded as the father of stand-up comedy and this movie directed by Bob Fosse, is a deserved homage to the unsung hero of a shameful fight for freedom of speech. Who else but Bob Fosse, the director who’s to entertainment what Hitchcock is to suspense, could have made such a riveting movie about a comic performer ? And who else but Dustin Hoffman could have personified this prodigious comical talent and his heart-breaking fight for dignity in such a haunting performance ?

“Lenny” is about entertainment in its most difficult, underestimated but noblest form, comedy. And by noble, it means ‘most sincere’ because laughs are the most spontaneous emotions, and you can’t cheat with them. That’s what Romans called “Vis Comica”, a gift, a strength, and a power. Lenny had this power and used it to point out and denounce the excesses of American society. He wasn’t a clown, or a buffoon but he was a performer who built an ingenious talent to translate any sensitive subject : religion, politics, and society into an acerbic but hilarious social commentary. He epitomized the notion of making laugh and think. His approach was always provocative but never badly intentioned, in other words, he always had a point, something to denounce, but on one condition : it had to make people laugh … half-polemical, half-cynical, but always comical. A lot of close-ups on the audience are used in the film, a reminiscence of the same direction used in “Cabaret” : people look bored, upset, thoughtful, smiling, laughing, they’re part of the artistic process, as long as they laugh at the end, and applaud, they get Lenny’s point and appreciate his comedic talent. Indeed, you can’t cheat with laughs.

There’s something profoundly cathartic in Lenny’s humor, a desensitizing effect leading to a bigger tolerance. Lenny didn’t even realize how beyond his time, how modern he was. He didn’t know he would face a hateful crowd of opponents from an Establishment which could tolerate anything, except the use of profanity and obscenity on stage in a public place. And that’s how Lenny became an unintentional barometer of freedom of speech in America. And as an irreverent character who believes in his ideas, he could never censor himself … not because he wanted to defy the system, but because he was convinced he was defending a right cause. As long as people were genuinely laughing, he couldn’t believe his words were considered obscene. His disbelief was sincere and turned his rebellious attitude into a form of political activism that kind of killed the fun, but never the relevance. Lenny’s fate, in a tragic irony, is almost religious as he was sacrificed on the altar of intolerance, for his ideas and beliefs. The last shot of him naked, lying on the floor, is indecently shocking, so is the devastation in his voice when he’s begging the judge to let him redo his sketch. I’ll never forget the way Hoffman breaks his voice, shouting “I didn’t hurt anybody” … this heart-breaking sentence summarizes the whole martyrdom of Lenny Bruce.

This film invites us to follow the tragic story of Lenny and understand this obscure part of America’s history where the so-called moral society couldn’t allow a performer to exercise his right to speak. It also invites us to question our own tolerance and then try to put our beliefs into perspective. Freedom of speech is like a gift from democracy, you can corrupt it by conveying fear, racism and hatred, or you can make people laugh by destroying all the barriers of political correctness and convince them that there’s no segregation in words. Lenny’s point is that we’re all equally laughable, regardless of our cultures, our religions, our social status, life is too serious to be taken seriously. If the content of Lenny’s sketches seems harmless now, that doesn’t mean that freedom of speech should be taken for granted. If there are still some words that mustn’t be said, or ideas that mustn’t be expressed, this means the fight is not over yet.

“Lenny” is built on a tertiary structure. One third of interviews of all the people who knew Lenny : his manager, his mother and his wife, Honey, played in an extraordinary underrated performance by Valerie Perrine. The chemistry between Honey and Lenny was poignant. Those are two persons, imperfect, but so endearing in their mutual love you could see that Lenny wasn’t the bitterly cynical type of guy, he knew what love was about, and this love was one of his greatest inspirations. The heart of the film is Lenny’s story, his ascension, the pinnacle of his career until the tragic descent into hell, on which he and Honey have a responsibility. Indeed, he and Honey were flawed, and the excesses that governed a big part of their life were not omitted. And this poignant tragicomedy is punctuated by sketches from a late-career Lenny, showing how he turned all these events that enriched his life into hilarious, provocative and insightful comments. It was not a way to make people laugh at him, but with him at all the flaws that make humans worth being mocked. Lenny’s sketches relied on his capability of turning everything he touched into laughter, and that’s the pure comedic talent.

Lenny is about a man ahead of his time, a pioneer for entertainment and a martyr for freedom and dignity, but the deepest truth about Lenny, that makes his death sadder and more obscene lies in the heart of Honey, who, as a heart-breaking conclusion, simply says “He was just so damn funny”

Other Information:

Original Language en
Runtime 1 hr 51 min (111 min)
Budget 0
Revenue 0
Status Released
Rated R
Genre Biography, Drama
Director Bob Fosse
Writer Julian Barry
Actors Dustin Hoffman, Valerie Perrine, Jan Miner
Country United States
Awards Nominated for 6 Oscars. 7 wins & 16 nominations total
Production Company N/A
Website N/A

Technical Information:

Sound Mix Mono
Aspect Ratio 1.85 : 1
Camera N/A
Laboratory DeLuxe (prints)
Film Length 3,065 m (Sweden)
Negative Format 35 mm
Cinematographic Process Spherical
Printed Film Format 35 mm