Thursday, May 01, 2008

I Dream of Jeannie: Americanization of Jeannie (1965) (TV)

Synopsis [spoilers]: Jeannie is feeling neglected. Tony is busy assembling a model of the rocket which will take him to space, and doesn't want her around disturbing him. Whe he finishes it, Jeannie makes it fly through the window. She reads an article in a magazine about the modern American woman and thinks it offers the solution to her problems. She decides to follow all the steps that the article suggests. First, she buys some expensive clothes and stops performing her housekeeping duties; then she refuses to cook dinner. She suggests Tony take her out to a fancy restaurant. In the restaurant there is an Oriental dancer; Tony seems to be enjoying her dance too much, and Jeannie gets jealous. She says she can dance better than the dancer, so she takes the stage and starts dancing. Tony pulls her off the stage and they leave the restaurant. In the following day, Jeannie decides to take a job at a department store; she is selling ovens, and, when none of the customers is impressed with her product, she uses her magical powers to cook instantaneously a piece of meat; they all want to buy it then, but when she produces a cake out of nowhere they get suspicious and change their minds. Jeannie is fired. She feels depressed and Tony suggests she gets a pet; she says she used to have one and Tony suggests she brings it to life; a lion appears.

Saw it dubbed in Portuguese.

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