Intellectual figures in "Annie Hall" and "Manhattan"

Andreanne 2022-04-22 07:01:09

The first time I saw Woody Allen's movie was "Midnight in Paris", I bowed down for his talent, and I watched "Inside My Heart" again. In it, he talked about how the camera creates a Woody Allen-esque atmosphere, Let the actors walk out of the camera and create a feeling of freedom. The "wide-angle map of urban architecture" shows the extension and containment of space. The first time I saw "Annie Hall", I thought it was a romantic comedy with a forced ending. Calling it a comedy is evident from Annie's botched reconciliation excuse (finding Ivey to fight bugs) after the breakup, Ivey pointing out the male professor Zhang Guanli in front of the movie theater, and Ivey's inexplicable reception by leftist anti-war activists. After the reconciliation, Annie and Ivey were speechless on the plane, officially announcing the end of their love, and met Annie, who became someone else's girlfriend, in California, and the love theme of this movie was vividly displayed. At the end of the film, Ivey put the quarrel between the two into a drama, "I miss Annie, and it's hard to let go." A downright arrogant, cynical, and talented literary and art worker who was immersed in his own world actually met a fresh and refined love at first sight. Love. That's how I felt before I read the reviews of Manhattan and The Self-loathing (Annie Hall). After reading this review, I watched Manhattan in order to understand the intellectual image of the reviewer. "Manhattan" is about the lives of Isaac Davis, his ex-wife Jill, his friend Yell, and his lover Mary. First look at the opposite of "Intellectual": Diane Keaton's Annie Hall in the movie of the same name is not really an "Intellectual". In "Inside My Heart" Woody talks about the role being tailored for Diane as well, and that her "absentmindedness" comes from her real personality in real life. Under the actor's interpretation, Anne Hall is extremely humble, kind like all real smart people, has extraordinary literary spirituality, took the initiative to know Ivey, and usually likes to smoke marijuana and cocaine, especially when she has sex, she uses marijuana for fun. Very pleasant and generous, different from annoying young girls. The self-loathing (Annie Hall) film critic commented that Anne's free and easy charm is based on her not being a qualified intellectual. When filming "Manhattan," Woody Allen believed that talking directly about his own problems in the film would resonate with audiences, "Annie Hall" discussed Woody Allen's denial of himself, and "Manhattan" went even further. How fragile and hypocritical is the character of an intellectual". "Talking about all kinds of art, filling their pale words with Cezanne, Nabokov, Bergman. They don't understand love, they are vulnerable and cowardly, and they are cynical." As an orthodox intellectual, Mary could read a book a night in order to publish a book review in a magazine. She first fell in love with a married man, Yell, and sought Isaac's comfort when she couldn't find it. Isaac confessed to her, and she said that she had a lot of problems and could not immediately enter the next relationship. Isaac also contradicted himself. He persuaded the 17-year-old girl to go to bed with him. When he didn't want to take responsibility, he always said that he was not used to sleeping with people. He wanted to get rid of the girl and said that he was thinking about the girl's future. At the same time, he fought with Mary. Hot, accusing Mary of being insecure and not suitable for anyone before confirming the relationship; after meeting with Mary several times to confirm the relationship, she tried to persuade "I'm the best at dealing with trouble"; after Mary returned to her friend, she said to Yell , you are just people without a sense of morality, responsibility, and future plans. In this lonely and bustling city, anything can happen. People who live in Manhattan, they are mediocre, creating unnecessary, neurotic problems all the time. In "Manhattan", Isaac's ex-wife who divorced him said of him: "He is cynical, arrogant, and addicted to death." When a person becomes a rational intellectual, he is bound to suffer from such problems. For example, he uses his own sanctimonious truth to preach to others, and then he turns around and makes the same mistake and finds excuse for his own behavior. In fact, he has a sense of morality and justice. It retains false dogma that can be thrown away at any time. Some sarcastic points also include: after becoming an academic intellectual, you will read a book in one night, read more than 200 books and 200 movies in a year, become an expert on book bags, and remember every important thing. name for concatenation in comments. Such intellectuals generally miss the days with less intelligent partners when they are single; they are attracted to the same intellectual type as themselves when they are in love, but in the end feel out of place because of their stubborn ego. After Ivey and Annie broke up for the first time, he was walking on the road in a daze, when he met a loving couple, and he actually stepped forward and asked, "You seem to be a very happy couple. How did you do it?" The woman said: "I'm shallow and empty, I have no ideas, and I can't say anything interesting." The man said: "I'm exactly like her." After watching books and movies, intellectuals determined to be a decent pedant. Indulge in a sense of self-growth. They need to reflect on whether useless activities are more rewarding than books and movies. The reason for self-loathing is nostalgia, people like the old-fashioned, non-cynical, curious version of themselves, nostalgic for near-absurd playfulness, and the pursuit of delicate faces and sensory stimulation. Shallow and empty young people are better than thoughtful The hypocritical adults are more lovable. Thousands of Woody Allen-esque rambles don't equal what a 17-year-old girl said you have to have a little faith in people. You have to have faith in human nature.

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  • Jeffery 2022-03-27 09:01:05

    All soundtracks are good! good! good! ; The desperate, self-deprecating, understanding, and confused face at the end makes me laugh and cry; when I find that my train of thought is so synchronized with Woody Allen's film, get all the laughs, find all the quotes , I understand that I belong to the group of people that Woody Allen will forever laugh at...;life sucks when I realize that I'll never become Diane Keaton

  • Daniela 2022-04-24 07:01:05

    There are no big scenes in intellectual films, and there is a romantic mood in the bones. And it is a high-level joke. Many people in the Beijing Film Festival are as quiet as chickens in "Kafka", "Hitler's Record" and "Nabokov". For the third time, Woody Allen is still the most comfortable movie I've watched.

Manhattan quotes

  • Yale: You are so self-righteous, you know. I mean we're just people. We're just human beings, you know? You think you're God.

    Isaac Davis: I... I gotta model myself after someone.

  • Isaac Davis: This is so antiseptic. It's empty. Why do you think this is funny? You're going by audience reaction? This is an audience that's raised on television, their standards have been systematically lowered over the years. These guys sit in front of their sets and the gamma rays eat the white cells of their brains out!