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'''''Alphaville, une étrange aventure de [[Lemmy Caution]]''''' is a 99-minute [[1965]] [[science fiction film]] directed by [[Jean-Luc Godard]], based on the novel by [[Paul Éluard]] and starring [[Eddie Constantine]], [[Anna Karina]], [[Howard Vernon]] and [[Akim Tamiroff]].
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'''November 20''' is the 324th day of the year (325th in [[leap year]]s) in the [[Gregorian Calendar]]. There are 41 days remaining.
''Warning: [[Wikipedia:Spoiler warning|Wikipedia contains spoilers]]''
'''Events:'''
*[[1272]] - [[Edward I of England]] becomes king
*[[1700]] - [[Battle of Narva]] - King [[Charles XII of Sweden]] defeats the army of [[Tsar]] [[Peter I of Russia|Peter the Great]]
*[[1789]] [[New Jersey]] became the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights
*[[1917]] - [[Ukraine]] declared a republic
*[[1940]] - [[Hungary]], [[Romania]] and [[Slovakia]] join [[Axis powers]]
*[[1943]] - [[Battle of Tarawa]] begins
*[[1945]] - [[Nuremberg Trials]] begin
*[[1947]] - [[Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom|Princess Elizabeth]] marries [[Philip Mountbatten]]
*[[1957]] - [[United States Secretary of Defense]] [[Neil McElroy]] proposes [[Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency|ARPA]]
*[[1984]] - The 50-billionth [[McDonald's]] [[hamburger]] is made
The plot is simple - Lemmy Caution, an 'outland' agent, arrives in the futuristic city of Alphaville to search for missing agent Henry Dickson. The city is under the control of Professor von Braun and run by the Alpha 60 computer system. Love, poetry, emotion and so on are outlawed for the inhabitants of the city creating an inhuman and alienated society. Caution enlists Natascha, the daughter of von Braun, to help him.
'''Births:'''
*[[1625]] - [[Paulus Potter]], painter (+ [[1654]])
*[[1669]] - [[Susannah Annesley]], mother of Methodist founders [[John Wesley|John]] and [[Charles Wesley]].
*[[1858]] - [[Selma Lagerlof|Selma Lagerlöf]], author and recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in literature]] [[1909]] (+ [[1940]])
*[[1866]] - [[Kenesaw Mountain Landis]], judge and first [[baseball]] commissioner (+ [[1944]])
*[[1879]] - [[Albert S. Reitz]], American Baptist evangelist
*[[1884]] - [[Norman Thomas]], U.S. social reformer
*[[1889]] - [[Edwin Hubble]], astronomer
*[[1896]] - [[Wilfrid Laurier]], seventh [[Prime Minister of Canada]]
*[[1908]] - [[Alastair Cooke]], [[television]] host
*[[1912]] - [[Otto von Habsburg]], scion of the [[Austria]]n imperial family
*[[1913]] - [[Judy Canova]], actress (+ [[1983]])
*[[1914]] - [[Emilio Pucci]], fashion designer (+ [[1992]])
*[[1917]] - [[Robert Byrd]], U.S. politician
*[[1919]] - [[Evelyn Keyes]], actress
*[[1921]] - [[Jim Garrison]], [[assassination]] detective, author, politician (+ [[1992]])
*[[1923]] - [[Nadine Gordimer]], author and recipient of the [[Nobel Prize in literature]] [[1992]]
*[[1924]] - [[Benoit Mandelbrot|Benoît Mandelbrot]], mathematician
*[[1925]] - [[Robert F. Kennedy]], U.S. politician (+ [[1968]])
*[[1927]] - [[Estelle Parsons]], actress
*[[1932]] - [[Richard Dawson]], actor, [[game show]] host
*[[1936]] - [[Don DeLillo]], U.S. author
*[[1937]] - [[Rene Kollo|René Kollo]], tenor
*[[1939]] - [[Dick Smothers]], comedian, half of the [[Smothers Brothers]]
*[[1946]] - [[Duane Allman]], musician (+ [[1971]])
*[[1947]] - [[Joe Walsh]], musician
*[[1956]] - [[Bo Derek]], actress
*[[1959]] - [[Sean Young]], actress
*[[1960]] - [[Cathy Moriarty]], actress
*[[1962]] - [[Jodie Foster]], actress
Godard uses the plot to produce a bizarre, messy film shot through with elliptic philosophical dialogue and cynical humour. The film is deliberately dark, in terms of physical lighting as well as many other factors. The action is unbalanced and surprising, Caution is a parody of an American private eye, wearing the trench-coat and shooting people carelessly he is defiantly erratic in the logical city. The key is the battle between Caution and Alpha 60, Caution's love for Natascha introduces emotion and unpredictability into the city that the computer has crafted in its own image. The film was shot in 1960s [[Paris]], the night-time streets of the capital becoming Alphaville with modernist glass and concrete being used for interiors, reflecting the problems of the future onto contemporary [[France]]. There are no special effects to enhance the science fiction elements of the film. In a rather clumsy move Godard apparently wanted to title the film ''[[Tarzan]] versus [[IBM]]''.
'''Deaths:'''
*[[1910]] - [[Leo Tolstoy]], novelist
*[[1925]] - [[Alexandra of Denmark|Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom]]
*[[1936]] - [[Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera|José Antonio Primo de Rivera]], activist, politician
*[[1973]] - [[Alan Sherman]], comedian
*[[1975]] - [[Francisco Franco]], dictator of [[Spain]]
*[[1993]] - [[Emile Ardolino]], director, producer
The film also features its version of [[George Orwell]]'s [[newspeak]].
'''Holidays and Observances:'''
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'''See Also:'''
[[November 19]] - [[November 21]] - [[October 20]] - [[December 20]] -- [[historical anniversaries|listing of all days]]
[[January]], [[February]], [[March]], [[April]], [[May]], [[June]], [[July]],
[[August]], [[September]], [[October]], [[November]], [[December]]
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