Task: Story Composition
Input (English): Fact1: Mellish does not appear until after opening credits, Fact2: cold open featured assassination of president of fictional banana republic of San Marcos and coup d'etat, Fact3: scene was in form of championship boxing telecast on Wide World of Sports with Don Dunphy as host and Howard Cosell as commentator, Fact4: neurotic blue collar man impress social activist by trying to get in touch with revolution in San Marcos, Fact5: Castro-style leader goes mad forcing rebels to place Mellish as President
Output (English): Fielding Mellish Woody Allen is the protagonist, but he does not appear until after the opening credits. The cold open, which featured the assassination of the president of the fictional banana republic of San Marcos and a coup detat that brings Gen. Emilio Molina Vargas Carlos Montalban to power, sets up the situation in which Mellish would become embroiled. The scene was in the form of a championship boxing telecast on Wide World of Sports, with Don Dunphy as the host and Howard Cosell as the commentator. Mellish is a neurotic blue collar man who tries to impress social activist Nancy Louise Lasser by trying to get in touch with the revolution in San Marcos. He visits the republic and attempts to show his concern for the native people. However, he is nearly killed by the local caudillo and then saved by the revolutionaries, putting him in their debt. Mellish then learns, clumsily, how to be a revolutionary. When the revolution is successful, the Castrostyle leader goes mad, forcing the rebels to place Mellish as their President. When traveling back to the U.S. to obtain financial aid, he reunites with his activist exgirlfriend and is exposed. In a classic courtroom scene, Mellish tries to defend himself from a series of incriminating witnesses, including a reigning Miss America and a middleaged AfricanAmerican woman claiming to be J. Edgar Hoover in disguise. One of the witnesses does provide testimony favorable to Mellish, but the court clerk, when asked to read back this testimony, replies with an entirely different, wholly unfavorable rendition. Mellish is eventually sentenced to prison, but his sentence is suspended on the condition that he does not move into the judges neighborhood. Nancy then agrees to marry him. The film ends with the betweenthecovers consummation of their marriage, an event that was over much more quickly than Nancy had anticipated. Like the opening scene, it was accompanied by Cosell providing commentary.