Love and Death behind the scenes gags

Love and Death

Some scenes in the film were shot in Paris.
During the filming, Woody Allen was very worried about the quality of the local food in Budapest. He only ate canned food and bottled water that he brought from the United States, so he became one of the few people in the film crew who did not have diarrhea.
The scene in the wheat field at the end of the film visually imitates Ingmar Bergman's classic "Mask", and the side-by-side faces are Woody Allen's tribute to Bergman's classic shots.
The film originally used Igo Feodorovic's music as the original soundtrack, but Woody Allen thought that made certain scenes "not funny". He found that Sergey Prokofiev's brisk music was more suitable for "Love and Death".
In the film, the lion statues interspersed in the love scene between the male protagonist Boris and the Duchess and the shots of the soldiers being shot by bullets through glasses all imitate the Odessa Steps in "Battleship Potemkin".
In the film, Woody Allen went to the army with a butterfly specimen and a butterfly net to the Russian writer Vladimir Nabokov.
The philosophical controversy in the film (such as "subjectivity is objective") and the film title "Love and Death" both come from the works of Russian philosophers George Ivanovich Gurdjieff and Peter Ouspensky.
The protagonist Boris Lang read a fragment of his poem "I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across the floors of silent seas", and he immediately declared that the poem was written "too much sentimentality". The original author of this poem is Thomas Eliot, selected from his collection of poems "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock".
When Boris' father visited him in prison, he told Boris that "the neighbor brother Karamazov told him Raskonikov had killed two women." Raskonikov is the male protagonist in "Crime and Punishment" by the famous Russian writer Dostoyevsky. He killed two women in the novel and was subsequently condemned by his conscience; "The Brothers Karamazov" is Another masterpiece by Dostoyevsky. The dialogue in the film also includes words such as "demon", "juvenile", "idiot", "insulted and harmed", "gambler", "dual personality", etc., these are all Dostoyev The name of the novel that Skye wrote.