I am not Bergman, nor Chaplin.

Margret 2022-03-17 08:01:01

"Woody Allen, is that the director who married his adopted daughter, incestuous."

"...Yes, but all you need to know is his art is OK, all this gossip just makes woody look normal. It's just a person. Besides, he also found happiness and satisfaction in this late relationship."

As an admirer, I have corrected his name countless times.

Well, I've always wanted to talk about my big idol, Mr Allen.

Woody's film every year is like a less important legal holiday. Although it attracts some attention, it is always only the part of people who have always attached importance to it and become accustomed to it. Because Woody's films will never have a problem frame waiting for the audience to analyze with their own consciousness, for Woody's specific audience, he has become an ideological "forcer", and this group of subordinate people , willingly.

Of course, this ideology does not interpret chatter as vitality, and romantic love as city life.

Woody, as an actor, mostly plays the same type of highly distinctive character. In this respect, he is very similar to Chaplin.

Woody, as a director, is full of autonomy and prolificity in his series of works. In this respect, he is very similar to Bergman.

But Woody refuses to compare them together. Well, let's talk about this old man alone.

A small, quick-witted but vulnerable man with glasses and a look of bewilderment at how others can pierce his exterior, but he hides his uneasiness with unexpected witticisms. regain mental balance. It's such a little old man, and he is such a little old man in and out of the play.

In fact, Woody mostly sets the film's background in the environment he began to explore when he filmed his critically acclaimed "Annie Hall" -- city life, middle-class taste, and vitality. These films are often about some emotional entanglement and dislocation. The protagonists of the story still find themselves in a situation of inexplicable irritability and even blatant betrayal of their own emotional problems, so they start a new relationship, but the result is not much better. As far as Hannah Sisters, Twin Melinda, as close as Match Point, Midnight Barcelona...Wooody started what we call anti-romance In a unique way, the expression of "magic realism" in the field of literature is applied to the field of film.

However, "Once Upon a Time in Stardust" has a transformative significance. Whether it is the concept of filming or the way of filming, it even gave up the previous practice of firmly grasping the mainstream audience. And this film is also one of the films that Woody himself considers acceptable. In addition to showing that he has taken a big step forward in skills, perhaps, the film is particularly true and poignant to reveal how fame can disrupt and distort a person's life. This has also pushed it to the public eye, even if it has caused more or less public dissatisfaction.

Sandy's weekend retrospective was nothing more than a dream, but Woody's acute sense of the palpable antagonism between celebrities and their followers was evident. On the one hand, followers adore a celebrity precisely because the latter captures an aspect of their experience and feeds that information back to them. On the other hand, they are deeply jealous of this. In Once Upon a Time in Stardust, Woody portrays everyone Sandy encounters as grotesque—they ramble about him, talk nonsense, ask him for things he touches or wears to keep Memorial, even breaking into his bedroom to see if he has a mistress, frustrated high school classmates showing up to test his compassion, accountants and lawyers bringing bad news on tax audits, studio executives asking him to re-cut his New movie... In the frenzy of fame, the darkest side is just that. And Woody's appearance in front of the audience in the film as he is -- without make-up or concealing his accent -- confuses the audience even more.

This is my big idol, Woody Allen, definitely not the big pervert who married his adopted Korean daughter who the public misunderstood, not the little actor who only nags on the nerves, and not the one who makes the public feel the difference with Bergman. Lin is a great director measured by the same yardstick.

His aura is infinite.

He's just Woody Allen.

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Extended Reading
  • Carmela 2022-03-26 09:01:14

    Taking the stars out of the dust... Although I have always maintained the style of woody, this imitation is a bit too obvious, but it also proves that the classic has a form level higher than the content, and a person with good understanding can take it It is also very good to use

  • Moriah 2022-03-19 09:01:11

    It's still the same Woody Allen, who is infinitely passionate about women, persistent in problems, makes a bunch of witticisms, and always ends up being infinitely disappointed. Still the same style of soundtrack, guitar, piano, strings, jazz, especially the encounter with strangers. But this is Woody Allen, love him to death.

Stardust Memories quotes

  • Dorrie: Mmm. You smell nice.

    Sandy Bates: Yeah?

    Dorrie: That aftershave. It just made my whole childhood come back with a sudden Proustian rush.

    Sandy Bates: Yeah? That's 'cause I'm wearing Proustian Rush by Chanel. It's-it's reduced. I got a vat of it.

  • Vivian Orkin: Oh, oh. Th-this is my friend Libby. She thinks you're a genius. Libby just did a definitive cinematic study of Gummo Marx. She did!

    Dick Lobel: Interestingly, he's the one Marx brother that never made any movies.