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* BerserkButton: Bergman was sentenced to a hefty fine after pushing a theatre critic down the stairs of the Royal Dramatic Theatre in Stockholm. The reason? The critic has insulted the actor in a play Bergman had put up. When asked about his sentence he said something to the effect of: "''Best money I've ever spent''".
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Ernst Ingmar Bergman (14 July 1918 – 30 July 2007) was a [[UsefulNotes/{{Sweden}} Swedish]] director, regarded as one of the true greats in the history of film. Between writing, directing, and producing, he was nominated for thirteen UsefulNotes/{{Academy Award}}s, winning for [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAwardForBestForeignLanguageFilm Best Foreign Film]] three times: ''The Virgin Spring'' (1960, the inspiration for the American ''Film/TheLastHouseOnTheLeft''), ''Through a Glass Darkly'' (1961), and ''Fanny and Alexander'' (1983). Another of his famous films is ''The Seventh Seal'', a TropeCodifier for ChessWithDeath.
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Ernst Ingmar Bergman (14 July 1918 – 30 July 2007) was a [[UsefulNotes/{{Sweden}} Swedish]] director, regarded as one of the true greats in the history of film. Between writing, directing, and producing, he was nominated for thirteen UsefulNotes/{{Academy MediaNotes/{{Academy Award}}s, winning for [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAwardForBestForeignLanguageFilm [[MediaNotes/AcademyAwardForBestForeignLanguageFilm Best Foreign Film]] three times: ''The Virgin Spring'' (1960, the inspiration for the American ''Film/TheLastHouseOnTheLeft''), ''Through a Glass Darkly'' (1961), and ''Fanny and Alexander'' (1983). Another of his famous films is ''The Seventh Seal'', a TropeCodifier for ChessWithDeath.
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However, it should be noted that in his lifetime, Bergman was pretty much a household name in TheSixties and TheSeventies across the world. His films were generally box-office successes, not only in Sweden and Europe, but also in America. His film ''Scenes from a Marriage'' was the most popular TV show of its age, and according to legend was a cause for a spike in divorce rates after the film's release. ''Cries and Whispers'' was likewise released in America by none other than Creator/RogerCorman, who managed to distribute it so well that it became a box-office success there.
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However, it should be noted that in his lifetime, Bergman was pretty much a household name in TheSixties and TheSeventies across the world. His films were generally box-office successes, not only in Sweden and Europe, but also in America. His film ''Scenes ''Series/{{Scenes from a Marriage'' Marriage|1973}}'' was the most popular TV show of its age, and according to legend was a cause for a spike in divorce rates after the film's release. ''Cries and Whispers'' was likewise released in America by none other than Creator/RogerCorman, who managed to distribute it so well that it became a box-office success there.
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* ThemeNaming: Bergman often used the same names for characters with particular traits, almost to the point of Hogwarts houses. For instance, artists with connection to great truths tend to be named Vogler (''The Magician'', ''Film/HourOfTheWolf'', ''Film/Persona1966''), authoritarians and villains Vergerus (''The Magician'', ''The Serpent's Egg'', ''Film/FannyAndAlexander''), Rosenbergs are tormented failures (''Film/{{Skammen}}'', ''The Serpent's Egg''), Jacobis practical and secretive (''Film/FaceToFace'', ''Film/FannyAndAlexander'') and Egermans are unhappily married (''Film/SmilesOfASummerNight'', ''The Magician'', ''Film/ScenesFromAMarriage'').
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* ThemeNaming: Bergman often used the same names for characters with particular traits, almost to the point of Hogwarts houses. For instance, artists with connection to great truths tend to be named Vogler (''The Magician'', ''Film/HourOfTheWolf'', ''Film/Persona1966''), authoritarians and villains Vergerus (''The Magician'', ''The Serpent's Egg'', ''Film/FannyAndAlexander''), Rosenbergs are tormented failures (''Film/{{Skammen}}'', ''The Serpent's Egg''), Jacobis practical and secretive (''Film/FaceToFace'', ''Film/FannyAndAlexander'') and Egermans are unhappily married (''Film/SmilesOfASummerNight'', ''The Magician'', ''Film/ScenesFromAMarriage'').''Series/{{Scenes from a Marriage|1973}}'').
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Not to be confused with, nor has any relation to, another Swedish famous film persona, Creator/IngridBergman (though he once directed her, in ''Film/AutumnSonata''; people on set got them confused).
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Not to be confused with, nor has any relation to, another Swedish famous film persona, Creator/IngridBergman (though he once directed her, in ''Film/AutumnSonata''; ''Autumn Sonata''; people on set got them confused).
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Not to be confused with, nor any relation to another Swedish famous film persona, Creator/IngridBergman (though he once directed her, in ''Autumn Sonata''; people on set got them confused).
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Not to be confused with, nor has any relation to to, another Swedish famous film persona, Creator/IngridBergman (though he once directed her, in ''Autumn Sonata''; ''Film/AutumnSonata''; people on set got them confused).
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His films have a reputation for being gloomy and surrealistic. Although he generally tells identifiable "stories," [[LeFilmArtistique straightforward plot descriptions will rarely give any real indication of what his movies are "about"]]: even criticism of his works tends to sound like psychobabble. Bergman himself even stated that he didn't so much care if the audience understood what he was going for, [[EmotionalTorque as long as they felt something]]. Despite being (rather unjustly) a poster child for TrueArtIsIncomprehensible, the list of filmmakers who regard him as being among the best directors ever is long, including Creator/WoodyAllen, Creator/StanleyKubrick, Creator/MartinScorsese, Creator/StevenSpielberg, Creator/AngLee and Creator/FrancisFordCoppola. There's a reason forty of his films[[note]]forty-one, if you count ''Torment'', for which he wrote the screenplay[[/note]] have been released in America by Creator/TheCriterionCollection.
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His films have a reputation for being gloomy and surrealistic. Although he generally tells identifiable "stories," [[LeFilmArtistique straightforward plot descriptions will rarely give any real indication of what his movies are "about"]]: "about"]]; even criticism of his works tends to sound like psychobabble. Bergman himself even stated that he didn't so much care if the audience understood what he was going for, for [[EmotionalTorque as long as they felt something]]. Despite being (rather unjustly) a poster child for TrueArtIsIncomprehensible, the list of filmmakers who regard him as being among the best directors ever is long, including Creator/WoodyAllen, Creator/StanleyKubrick, Creator/MartinScorsese, Creator/StevenSpielberg, Creator/AngLee and Creator/FrancisFordCoppola. There's a reason forty of his films[[note]]forty-one, if you count ''Torment'', for which he wrote the screenplay[[/note]] have been released in America by Creator/TheCriterionCollection.
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His films have a reputation for being gloomy and surrealistic. Although he generally tells identifiable "stories," [[LeFilmArtistique straightforward plot descriptions will rarely give any real indication of what his movies are "about"]]: even criticism of his works tends to sound like psychobabble. Bergman himself even stated that he didn't so much care if the audience understood what he was going for, [[EmotionalTorque as long as they felt something]].
Despite being (rather unjustly) a poster child for TrueArtIsIncomprehensible, the list of filmmakers who regard him as being among the best directors ever is long, including Creator/WoodyAllen, Creator/StanleyKubrick, Creator/MartinScorsese, Creator/StevenSpielberg, Creator/AngLee and Creator/FrancisFordCoppola. There's a reason forty of his films[[note]]forty-one, if you count ''Torment'', for which he wrote the screenplay[[/note]] have been released in America by Creator/TheCriterionCollection.
Despite being (rather unjustly) a poster child for TrueArtIsIncomprehensible, the list of filmmakers who regard him as being among the best directors ever is long, including Creator/WoodyAllen, Creator/StanleyKubrick, Creator/MartinScorsese, Creator/StevenSpielberg, Creator/AngLee and Creator/FrancisFordCoppola. There's a reason forty of his films[[note]]forty-one, if you count ''Torment'', for which he wrote the screenplay[[/note]] have been released in America by Creator/TheCriterionCollection.
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His films have a reputation for being gloomy and surrealistic. Although he generally tells identifiable "stories," [[LeFilmArtistique straightforward plot descriptions will rarely give any real indication of what his movies are "about"]]: even criticism of his works tends to sound like psychobabble. Bergman himself even stated that he didn't so much care if the audience understood what he was going for, [[EmotionalTorque as long as they felt something]]. \n\n Despite being (rather unjustly) a poster child for TrueArtIsIncomprehensible, the list of filmmakers who regard him as being among the best directors ever is long, including Creator/WoodyAllen, Creator/StanleyKubrick, Creator/MartinScorsese, Creator/StevenSpielberg, Creator/AngLee and Creator/FrancisFordCoppola. There's a reason forty of his films[[note]]forty-one, if you count ''Torment'', for which he wrote the screenplay[[/note]] have been released in America by Creator/TheCriterionCollection.
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His films have a reputation for being gloomy and surrealistic. Although he generally tells identifiable "stories," [[LeFilmArtistique straightforward plot descriptions will rarely give any real indication of what his movies are "about"]]: even criticism of his works tends to sound like psychobabble. Bergman himself even stated that he didn't so much care if the audience understood what he was going for, [[EmotionalTorque as long as they felt something]]. Despite being (rather unjustly) a poster child for TrueArtIsIncomprehensible, the list of filmmakers who regard him as being among the best directors ever is long, including Creator/WoodyAllen, Creator/StanleyKubrick, Creator/MartinScorsese, Creator/StevenSpielberg, Creator/AngLee and Creator/FrancisFordCoppola. There's a reason forty of his films[[note]]Forty-one, if you count ''Torment'', for which he wrote the screenplay[[/note]] have been released in America by Creator/TheCriterionCollection. However, it should be noted that in his lifetime Bergman's films were generally box-office successes, not only in Sweden and Europe, but also in America. His film ''Scenes from a Marriage'' was the most popular TV show of its age and according to legend was a cause for a spike in divorce rates after the film's release. ''Cries and Whispers'' was likewise released in America by none other than Creator/RogerCorman who managed to distribute it so well that it became a box-office success there. He was pretty much a household name in TheSixties and TheSeventies across the world.
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Despite being (rather unjustly) a poster child for TrueArtIsIncomprehensible, the list of filmmakers who regard him as being among the best directors ever is long, including Creator/WoodyAllen, Creator/StanleyKubrick, Creator/MartinScorsese, Creator/StevenSpielberg, Creator/AngLee and Creator/FrancisFordCoppola. There's a reason forty of hisfilms[[note]]Forty-one, films[[note]]forty-one, if you count ''Torment'', for which he wrote the screenplay[[/note]] have been released in America by Creator/TheCriterionCollection. Creator/TheCriterionCollection.
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Ernst Ingmar Bergman (14 July 1918 – 30 July 2007) was a [[UsefulNotes/{{Sweden}} Swedish]] director, regarded as one of the true greats in the history of film. Between writing, directing, and producing, he was nominated for thirteen UsefulNotes/{{Academy Award}}s, winning for Best Foreign Film three times: ''The Virgin Spring'' (1960, the inspiration for the American ''Film/TheLastHouseOnTheLeft''), ''Through a Glass Darkly'' (1961), and ''Fanny and Alexander'' (1983). Another of his famous films is ''The Seventh Seal'', a TropeCodifier for ChessWithDeath.
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Ernst Ingmar Bergman (14 July 1918 – 30 July 2007) was a [[UsefulNotes/{{Sweden}} Swedish]] director, regarded as one of the true greats in the history of film. Between writing, directing, and producing, he was nominated for thirteen UsefulNotes/{{Academy Award}}s, winning for [[UsefulNotes/AcademyAwardForBestForeignLanguageFilm Best Foreign Film Film]] three times: ''The Virgin Spring'' (1960, the inspiration for the American ''Film/TheLastHouseOnTheLeft''), ''Through a Glass Darkly'' (1961), and ''Fanny and Alexander'' (1983). Another of his famous films is ''The Seventh Seal'', a TropeCodifier for ChessWithDeath.
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->''"Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls."''
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* AbortionFalloutDrama: In his early film ''Port of Call'' (1948), the young working-class heroine picks up a friend from a BackAlleyDoctor abortionist. Something goes very wrong, the friend dies, and when the cops demand that she name the abortionist, she refuses, arguing that someone has to look out for the people society leaves to fend for themselves.
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* CerebusSyndrome: In a lot of his film things start relatively optimistically but always shift for the worse. And worse. And even worse. ''{{Film/Hour of the Wolf}}'', ''Film/{{Skammen}}'', ''Film/EnPassion'', ''Film/CriesAndWhispers'', ''Film/FaceToFace'', ''Film/AutumnSonata'', ''Film/FannyAndAlexander'' are all examples. In the beginning of each of the films listed the situation appears somewhat regular. But it rapidly deteriorates.
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** In a lot of his film things start relatively optimistically but always shift for the worse. And worse. And even worse. ''{{Film/Hour of the Wolf}}'', ''Film/{{Skammen}}'', ''Film/EnPassion'', ''Film/CriesAndWhispers'', ''Film/FaceToFace'', ''Film/AutumnSonata'', ''Film/FannyAndAlexander'' are all examples. In the beginning of each of the films listed the situation appears somewhat regular. But it rapidlydeteriorates.deteriorates.
** Applies to his career as well. He started out specializing in comedies, but after ''Film/TheSeventhSeal'' he took a DarkerAndEdgier turn.
** In a lot of his film things start relatively optimistically but always shift for the worse. And worse. And even worse. ''{{Film/Hour of the Wolf}}'', ''Film/{{Skammen}}'', ''Film/EnPassion'', ''Film/CriesAndWhispers'', ''Film/FaceToFace'', ''Film/AutumnSonata'', ''Film/FannyAndAlexander'' are all examples. In the beginning of each of the films listed the situation appears somewhat regular. But it rapidly
** Applies to his career as well. He started out specializing in comedies, but after ''Film/TheSeventhSeal'' he took a DarkerAndEdgier turn.
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!!References in Popular Culture:
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'': The episode "Meatballs or Consequences", mainly through the use of the ChessWithDeath motif (though the Warners request that they play checkers instead) and TheGrimReaper having a thick Swedish accent.
* ''Series/TheMuppetShow:'' "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mqv_qYBgEk0 Silent Strawberries]]" (and, naturally, The Swedish Chef is a major character).
* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000:'' "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pGZbfNADNs A Joke By Ingmar Bergman]]"
* Music/{{Sparks}}: ''The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman'', a musical written for Swedish radio about Bergman getting swept into his own personal Hollywood nightmare after the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'': The episode "Meatballs or Consequences", mainly through the use of the ChessWithDeath motif (though the Warners request that they play checkers instead) and TheGrimReaper having a thick Swedish accent.
* ''Series/TheMuppetShow:'' "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mqv_qYBgEk0 Silent Strawberries]]" (and, naturally, The Swedish Chef is a major character).
* ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000:'' "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pGZbfNADNs A Joke By Ingmar Bergman]]"
* Music/{{Sparks}}: ''The Seduction of Ingmar Bergman'', a musical written for Swedish radio about Bergman getting swept into his own personal Hollywood nightmare after the 1956 Cannes Film Festival.
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Film.The Magician links to a 1920's movie, not the Bergman one.
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* ThemeNaming: Bergman often used the same names for characters with particular traits, almost to the point of Hogwarts houses. For instance, artists with connection to great truths tend to be named Vogler (''Film/TheMagician'', ''Film/HourOfTheWolf'', ''Film/Persona1966''), authoritarians and villains Vergerus (''Film/TheMagician'', ''The Serpent's Egg'', ''Film/FannyAndAlexander''), Rosenbergs are tormented failures (''Film/{{Skammen}}'', ''The Serpent's Egg''), Jacobis practical and secretive (''Film/FaceToFace'', ''Film/FannyAndAlexander'') and Egermans are unhappily married (''Film/SmilesOfASummerNight'', ''Film/TheMagician'', ''Film/ScenesFromAMarriage'').
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* ThemeNaming: Bergman often used the same names for characters with particular traits, almost to the point of Hogwarts houses. For instance, artists with connection to great truths tend to be named Vogler (''Film/TheMagician'', (''The Magician'', ''Film/HourOfTheWolf'', ''Film/Persona1966''), authoritarians and villains Vergerus (''Film/TheMagician'', (''The Magician'', ''The Serpent's Egg'', ''Film/FannyAndAlexander''), Rosenbergs are tormented failures (''Film/{{Skammen}}'', ''The Serpent's Egg''), Jacobis practical and secretive (''Film/FaceToFace'', ''Film/FannyAndAlexander'') and Egermans are unhappily married (''Film/SmilesOfASummerNight'', ''Film/TheMagician'', ''The Magician'', ''Film/ScenesFromAMarriage'').
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* ThemeNaming: Bergman often used the same names for characters with particular traits, almost to the point of Hogwarts houses. For instance, artists with connection to great truths tend to be named Vogler (''Film/TheMagician'', ''Film/HourOfTheWolf'', ''Film/Persona1966''), authoritarians and villains Vergerus (''Film/TheMagician'', ''The Serpent's Egg'', ''Film/FannyAndAlexander''), Rosenbergs are tormented failures (''Film/{{Skammen}}'', ''The Serpent's Egg''), Jacobis practical and secretive (''Film/FaceToFace'', ''Film/FannyAndAlexander'') and Egermans are unhappily married (''Film/SmilesOfASummerNight'', ''Film/TheMagician'', ''Film/ScenesFromAMarriage'').
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* LeFilmArtistique: His pop culture reputation is as the ultimate example of this trope. People are often surprised to find that his films, while dealing with weighty themes, can actually be quite accessible, since he usually wrapped them around easily-understandable premises and plots, and included some humor as well.
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* MoneyDearBoy: Money is why he did nine commercials for the soap brand Bris in 1951 (he still cared enough that they came out rather artsy). It was necessary because the Swedish film industry was on strike at the time to protest the high taxes applied to it. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5wFxWbYifs One]] was also his first work with Bibi Andersson.
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* MoneyDearBoy: Money is why he did nine commercials for the soap brand Bris in 1951 (he still cared enough that they came out rather artsy). It was necessary because the Swedish film industry was on strike at the time to protest the high taxes applied to it. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5wFxWbYifs com/watch?v=7UMbvohZ_iY One]] was also his first work with Bibi Andersson.
