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Annie Hall (1977)

I think it's the first time we talked on this blog of a movie director who, to this day, continues to make movies (of course, has an advantage that does not have many of the directors who appear here: still alive) and also, more often than before. Just when this year his long awaited debut and criticized (for better or for worse) will meet the man of your dreams , most of us can not remember ever leaving this jewel called film Annie Hall.

Annie Hall was conceived by Woody Allen a principle as a modern version of the sophisticated comedies of the 30 played by Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. Later, Allen and his co-writer Marshall Brickman gave up this idea for a comedy based on the previous child marriages and love affairs of the hero, Alvy Singer.

The movie begins with a monologue where Alvy (Woody Allen) and his friend Rob (Tony Roberts ) reflect on life, which seems to be the mark of the house of the director of New York. Rob introduces him to Alvy in Annie Hall (Diane Keaton ) in a tennis match and from there the film focuses primarily on the analysis of the history of Alvy and Annie. Alvy is a Jewish comic about 40 years, completely neurotic, obsessive and insecure. Spent 15 years visiting a psychiatrist and has not got anything straight. Annie is also uncertain and somewhat immature but Alvy recommends a psychiatrist and several self-help books. Before long, Annie becomes more secure, but Alvy still trapped in their own progress frets.

Although Allen has always denied that the film is autobiographical, some say that it reflects the rupture between Woody Allen and Diane Keaton, who maintained a relationship in real life.

Annie Hall, is the turning point in the career of Woody Allen, who until that time had produced comedy funny but not brilliant. As he puts it dared to do more than tell jokes in their dialogues and assumed an attitude of greater control in their movies. It says of the movie that, ironically, the most mature work is that Allen is specifically about emotional immaturity.

Withdraws from the verbosity humor that characterized their Previous films typical of other Jewish comedians such as the Marx Brothers and focuses on humor that relies on dialogue and personal obsessions such as psychoanalysis, death, sex religion, a frequent themes in his films.


The movie is full of extremely clever and original gags: the scene of Alvy and cartoon Snow White's stepmother, the scene is subtitled 'thoughts while Alvy and Annie talk about trivial matters, both starting the scene with respective psychiatrists where they give completely different answers to these questions, the scene where Annie's soul leaves his body does not want to have sex with Alvy and start a dialogue with the two, the scene of the lobster, the dialogue of Woody talking directly with the viewer, the scene in the cinema queue Marshall McLuhan (who replaced at the last moment to Fellini) , the scene of Woody's more on the desk of the school ...

The film is a constant dialogue filled with phrases that remain in the world of cinema: "spiders big as a Buick," "I try to do with women what Eisenhower has been doing to the country for eight years," "The Sex is the most fun you can do without laughing. "" Do not mess with masturbation, making love with someone I love, "" Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable "...

winks and also many works and tributes to directors, like Bergman or Fellini.

Einsehower There is also criticism and Johnson, appointments cultured Balzac, James Joyce, Henry James, Groucho Marx and Freud and references to movies like the work of Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire . In fact, at first the movie was going to graduating A roller coaster called desire or Anhedonia, meaning inability to feel pleasure, but the producer did not allow either of these two titles.

As a curiosity about the final title, Hall is the real name of Diane Keaton to which small-dubbed with the name of Annie.

Diane Keaton, one of the actresses most representative of his generation won the Oscar for best actress. Diane got in my opinion a lovely character. At first always smiling, sweet insecure throughout the film his character shows a significant improvement in that final completion where he holds the final conversation with Alvy.
His personality in dress did not create you need a costume for the film. His personal dress created a trend in fashion. And still speaking of Annie Hall style .
undoubtedly owes much to Annie Hall to Diane Keaton and Diane Keaton in Annie Hall.

In the next photo, Diane Keaton today:

Personally, I love your style, I have to say. It leaves typical. And also has something that makes drop me great, will it always comes as smiling?

Woody Allen, meanwhile, achieved something that could not get anyone from Orson Welles with Citizen Kane, that the same person was nominated in three categories: best film, best screenplay and best actor. He took the best picture and best screenplay, but it was to collect, claimed he was playing the clarinet y. .. you forgot. Until 2003 not appear on the Oscars.

As for her character, to say, I love Woody Allen's character is the movie that is, even if you have the feeling that always makes the same character. Just now that I do not see is missing.

Personally I think of all the brilliant gags, dialogue or performances think Annie Hall and all the films of Woody Allen, in general, has always been so successful because it makes movies about subjects that deep interest us at all but think that he is the neurotic. We laugh with his rambling but basically all we ever obsessed with the same issues as him. And we passed all those stories in the background are more everyday than they appear with a humor to everyone that leaves no time to be clever.

remains No more to say except long life to Woody Allen.

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The Seven Year Itch (The seven year itch) 1955


We can say that The Itch knocked all (or nearly all) the conservatism of the 50, for his views on marital infidelity was a scandal to the time, but in addition, we have a satirical romantic comedy (the hottest since the beginning of the film) with the greatest sexual icon of the United States and possibly the cinema's more, the sexuality of Marilyn inflamed to censors and caused great controversy stigmatized his private life, it showed a Marilyn in her most suggestive until then.



Richard Sherman (Tom Ewell) is a middle-aged editor is alone in Manhattan on hot summer days after sending his wife and son to spend a few days of vacation in Maine ... but everything changes when the apartment above moves a young and beautiful girl (Marilyn Monroe) resulting Sherman's imagination overflows.



Based on the Broadway comedy by George Axelrod on the romance that keeps a man married to his attractive neighbor, Hollywood could not miss this theatrical success and not take it to the big screen. But in the 50 film just did not enjoy the theater's artistic freedom, since all films were passed by the Hays Code famous guillotine.

The censors said the entire film would violate all production codes, as adultery, according read the famous code "would not cause comedy or laughter."


Billy Wilder
But this film was an irresistible challenge to which he could not avoid facing. It was not the first time the director teased the censors, since Lost Weekend Bane or topics as controversial as alcoholism, adultery or murder.

20th Century Fox had an ace up its sleeve in the form of a sex goddess Marilyn Monroe 28 years call, which was only two years posing nude for Playboy magazine. So when Fox obtained the rights to the work the attention is focused on his co-star. Richard Sherman's role was that of a normal type, so the output rejected suitors from the likes of Gary Cooper, wanted an ordinary guy (not especially handsome) but with a comic touch. Wilder thought of the actor who played in the theater, Tom Ewell, Marilyn I knew that before he embodied the essence of the character.



But back to the Hays Code, the censors had removed any explicit reference to the infidelity and adultery, and so the work was meaningless, since in the play the protagonist had an affair with her neighbor for the absence of his wife, then felt guilty and that gave rise to a series of comic events, but there was infidelity story ... but the censors underestimated the ingenuity and intelligence of Billy Wilder and Marilyn powerful impact on the screen.

In 1954, when they started filming, Monroe was the greatest sex symbol of America and her marriage to the player Joe DiMaggio's baseball became fodder for the tabloids, and so we have to add that Fox informed the press of all the movements of the actress, so both the Hays Commission and the Catholic Legion of Decency closely monitoring both the shooting as they considered the greatest threat against the morality of the country, Marilyn Monroe.



Although in reality the character of Marilyn was "the girl", after successive snips censorship, Monroe was the main attraction of the film, and star. Filming in New York, Marilyn sowed chaos wherever he went and the famous scene of the foot she would go down in history film with gold lettering. I can not forget the actor Tom Ewell, Marilyn sign here because although one of his most memorable and remembered, he is really great, wonderful, great ... a perfect comedian. Immense.




One of the anecdotes of the film found it while filming the famous scene from the slopes, which at first was shot on location (although in the end and because of crowd noise would be finished filming in studies Fox). Anyone who saw the heroine whistling and devolved and did not walk with a ball with the text, and on the other hand, Joe DiMaggio was getting more nervous as it was not willing for everyone to see so his wife (even though she got to shoot two panties). Marilyn laughed and had fun with such a stir, her husband, increasingly became more angry and humiliated ... and is even said that the time was the turning point of their marriage, leaving it clear that she was the star and he was "lord." In two weeks, his marriage ended.



Forty shots were needed to implement one of the most famous and unforgettable frame of film history.



In reality, the skirt is lifted up his head, the film is not beyond knees.



"You see, that's all they see in me." Eli Wallach Marilyn Monroe when she saw the silhouette ad 16 meters to Times Square and only showed "the scene."





A Wilder was concerned and frustrated with the situation of Marilyn, as the star did not stop their destructive behavior, especially when at that time were in a deep depression which nearly prevented memorize dialogue, despite the radiant is in the film, that was precisely what offset many delays and duplication.



"No matter what the diáologos suffered trying to rip you like a dentist ... when he said seemed really spontaneous. You loved, and that is what has endured" Billy Wilder.




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The Blue Angel (Der Blaue Engel) 1930

At the risk of this blog is called "Marlene 24 times a day" (I stole the joke) Today I talk about Blue Angel, one of those movies that if not for a reputation of almost half a century would have to remove the first ten minutes of viewing.

To get in a situation, the film takes place in Germany in the last years of the Weimar Republic that governed Germany after World War I (1919-1933) The nation has played its identity and the discontent of the Germans made Hitler took power in 1933, making Germany a totalitarian country. In this dark climate of general discontent and confusion is a nightclub called The Blue Angel, where students teacher's words of Immanuel Rath (Emil Jannings ), which students call Unrat Professor (Professor garbage), (The original title of the novel by Heinrich Mann , novel on which the film is based) attend all evenings and see the number of the famous cabaret singer Lola-Lola (Marlene Dietrich ).

Marlene Dietrich as Lola Lola - Falling in love again

Rath Professor attends The Blue Angel to catch students in the middle of crime scene but no resists the charms of Lola-Lola and when it sings its Falling in love again with the eyes of Professor Lamb slain, no turning back to Professor Rath. The hunter hunted, impeccable teacher advocate of decency, he said, lacks Lola falls in love with her.



professor's students mock him and the directors of the Lyceum where he teaches him fired. Professor Rath, despite everything, he married Lola, let education and goes on tour with the company of his famous wife, where he offered to play a clown.


But when Lola gets tired of it, follow its path and does not even care that her husband can see how she takes him to bed the man he wants. Professor Rath jealousy turn into madness. The final desvelaré you not, is breathtaking. At the end and the interpretation of Emil Jannings worth seeing the Blue Angel.


The movie became very famous for launching the careers of Marlene Dietrich (though not her first film). It was the first of the famous duo formed by actress and director Josef von Sternberg . Contrary to those that followed from it in the Hollywood period, The Blue Angel is not as luxuries or baroque embellishment Sternberg was still in its early expressionist and got a dark and disturbing film.

There is much symbolism in the film, for example, the scene where the stone figures are going to watch with each stroke, while the clock when students return to class, minimally-lit streets in the soft light of a lantern, odd shapes, grim ... An atmosphere consistent with the history of the collapse at the hands of Professor Lola-Lola.

Lola-Lola in addition to launching the careers of Marlene marked in a way the rest of papers that would play throughout his career, the prototype of the femme fatale. But I do not convince in the role of Lola. Perhaps the femme fatale image I have is another, perhaps is that the femme fatale of the 30's has little to do with the image that we could have now. The truth is I did not get see in it the famous myth of Lola.

As said earlier, is a film that starts to get interesting when you go down the middle, but it's worth enduring a little at first to see the end.

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Since the beginning of the Seventh Art, the movie stars have been a major source of influence in the canons of beauty and fashion. Them learn to dress, to comb, to smile, to pose, smoking ... and fall in love with any of the many types of beauty for decades exported from the big screen.

In the picture, Audrey Hepburn in Billy Wilder's film Sabrina , do not you remember this wonderful dress to another, as seen not long ago?






Exactly Balmain dress that Penelope Cruz (the new muse of elegance and Hollywood glamor) looked at the Oscars two years ago. Personally I prefer the dress to Audrey, because, let me leave, the only word to describe it is orgasmic.


Gloria Swanson, with a beautiful neckline gown atelier. She was one of Hollywood's most stylish, especially in the 20's.


"For the decade of the 30, and Hollywood was so deeply involved in promoting fashion, accessories and cosmetics, which had become the most influential female beauty in the world. The fans copied the styles of dress and makeup of their favorite stars, or of photographs from magazines or directly from the movies. " (Richard Maltby and Ian Craven, Hollywood Cinema ).


Audrey Hepburn picking up his Oscar for Roman Holiday . This Givenchy, is considered by many the best dress she has walked a red carpet.


The foregoing defines perfectly the power and influence that have always characterized the film mecca when it comes to impose its standards of beauty and fashion audiences worldwide.
The list of examples is very numerous and well known: Veronica Lake's hairdo in the 40's, the fashion Bonnie in 1967 after the premiere of the film Bonnie & Clyde , the haircut at Farrow Mia garçon Rosemary's Baby (1968), and large shirts and jackets Diane Keaton in Annie Hall (1976). Males also have left their mark: the style of "bad boy" James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause , or Clark Gable, who brought down shirt sales in the United States when he showed his bare chest in It Happened One Night , and Marlon Brando, which caused the effect otherwise when one of them stuffed in their perfect muscles in A Streetcar Named Desire .

This influence is no less curious when you consider that emerged, in a way, against the current. Because early on, actresses and film stars were not "name": when the first farmers began to create films in series for mass consumption, not considered necessary to include in them the names of the protagonists. After all, the acting was a profession discredited, and theater performers, perfect strangers to pay for each study that, where appropriate, could be fired or replaced without problems.
Or so they thought.


(Nicole Kidman, Gucci, picking up his Oscar for his performance in hours)


tycoons had not foreseen that the public began to notice certain actors and actresses and write letters of admiration, reached studies aimed at "the butler mustache or curly blonde hair," he recalled William Goldman. "In 1910, America's most popular actress was known as the girl ... the Biograph Biograph was the company with which the girl had a contract." But that same year, Carl Laemmle, owner of IMP (later Universal) was that girl to his studio with a juicy contract and undertook to publish your name across the country: Florence Lawrence, had been born the first movie star.



However, Laemmle's strategy would not have taken effect without the aid of the invention of the first plane that gigantic face of the actors to make them a presence that squashes the stalls. Roman explains
Gubern: "the foreground, to magnify the presence of interpreters, allowed the public to recognize and become familiar with the actors and actresses most photogenic and attractive, and soon appeared a phenomenon of emotional identification and subsequent collective worship. "


Spotlight Marlon Brando (no words ...)


Speaking of the appeal of the stars, they tend to standardize as if they all respond to the same physical archetype. Some of it was, since the classical age, studies have tried to list all possible registers of a deal and always trying to clone the image from the box-office star in each field. When interpreters became independent and became available for any producer, the personality of each one began to value more than the aesthetic stereotype to which they belonged.


Claudette Colbert in Cleopatra (1934), spectacular.


Still, the variety was present from the beginning, and no doubt, Mae West has a prominent place, as they burst anyone impersonating as the prototype of provocative, with some scripts and a carefully selected public attitude to shock.


Mae West, wearing a dress with transparencies.


All categories archetypes (or stereotypes) have been known, over after release, new faces and forms of action, but its basic principle has been altered too.


Montgomery Clift, can be more handsome?


PROTOTYPE MADE BEAUTY IN HOLLYWOOD.

1 The Girl Next Door. Archetype

started by Mary Pickford, the so-called girlfriend America (the first, original, not Julia Roberts), once the most popular Hollywood star. The beauty of its members is based on a simplicity that encourages its proximity to the viewer.
Some examples are:

Mary Pickford.


Audrey Hepburn.



Jean Arthur


Ingrid Bergman.


Carole Lombard.


Jennifer Aniston.



In the men's section, Montgomery Clift.




But if we see the following photos, we might well think that belongs to the prototype number two.





2 The male.

The male attractiveness in its most animal has always been his letter since Clark Gable began to impose. Testosterone exhibited through physical force and the sweat was common property, and the roles of athletes and adventurers came to them like a glove.

Clark Gable.


Steve McQueen.


John Wayne.


William Holden.


Burt Lancaster.



3 The classic trouser.

A guy who has not survived until today, except perhaps as a caricature. And the mustache, hair double-breasted suit and slicked were emblems of a time living in the past almost from the beginning. Their representatives were gentlemen of high society and good ways, and there were prisoners in a prison of difficult development.

Errol Flynn.


John Gilbert.


Tyrone Power.



Gary Cooper.



4 The traditional leading man.

Present in all times of the film, is the archetypal firm and at the same time, more changeable. The monopoly has been lost Anglo-Saxon this field.

Rodolfo Valentino.


Cary Grant.


Rock Hudson.


Paul Newman.



Robert Taylor.



5 The sex bomb. Women burning. Erotica

pure and simple, not only recognized but esplotado the film industry, which tried to enhance the sexual magnetism of these actresses to the limits of the permissible. They would point out for some physical feature, such as curves or Marilyn red hair of Rita Hayworth, and often provocative women interpreted the edge of morality, leading to outshine their male costars.
The word hot does not have to mean sex, fiery temperament is what characterizes them.

Rita Hayworth.



Ava Gardner.


Marilyn Monroe.


Sophia Loren.


Kim Basinger.


Penelope Cruz.



6 The "ugly" interesting.

This prototype is when they began to take leading roles actors which does not correspond to physical attractiveness to use. They conquered the screen thanks to some very special features that gave them a unique personality.


Orson Welles.


James Stewart.


Robert de Niro.


Al Pacino.


Dustin Hoffman.


Jack Nicholson.



7 The rebel.

The key is to keep a maverick image, both inside and outside the screen. T dirty, unshaven face and a permanent anti-attitude, were the weapon with which James Dean or Marlon Brando dazzled the public.







8 th Women ice.

seemingly cold woman, who hides behind his unbridled sensuality porcelain features; the more enigmatic, more fascinated the public.

Greta Garbo.


Grace Kelly.


Catherine Deneuve.


9 ° femme fatale.

The doom of men have female name, because for them the men were no more than just toys to play with before you drag them to suicide, prison or ruin ... In short, women's roles in no way can end with a happy ending.

Marlene Dietrich.


Lana Turner.




10 The rogue .

With them not being safe. That's what makes them so interesting. Cocky, lopsided grin and all signs of a disreputable past, a world away from the politically correct. We can also call antiheroes (especially in the case of Mitchum).

Robert Mitchum.


Kirk Douglas.



Small note about the glamor.
Like beauty, galmour is not uniform, there are different classes. And the film shows us the perfection: from the physical and styling perfectly studied, where we found Marlene Dietrich, who also knew very well hide your flaws and enhance their strengths even better (again can include Grace Kelly ) we went to Greta Garbo , looking listless, tired and awkward gait, and Audrey Hepburn , which embodies the simplicity, naturalness.

Recently, certain personalities in the fashion world (designers, cool-hanters, stylists and journalists) did a ranking on the influence of the famous in the fashion world: in the 20's, Gloria Swanson, in the 30 and 40, Marlene Dietrich, at 50, Audrey, in the 60's Grace Kelly, Jacqueline Kennedy in the 70's (Brigitte Bardot would be present in the two decades) in the 80's Madonna, and 90, is the decade of the tops (Naomi Campbell, Claudia Schiffer Linda Evangelista, Eva Herzigova, etc.).


hepburn Audrey taking a bike ride with your pet.


Grace Kelly on her wedding day, when they went on to become a princess.


Marlene Dietrich, when her daughter made her grandmother, the press of the time gave him the nickname the world's most glamorous grandmother . The English Cristóbal Balenciaga was orgullso said to be one of the designers' favorite actress.


Greta Garbo. What I can say it has not already said? Weird Photos

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Audrey Hepburn and Grace Kelly backstage at the Oscars, is likely to be more glamorous in a small space?


characterized Marilyn Monroe Marlene Dietrich in the movie that catapulted her to fame The Blue Angel (1930). Although in reality, the idol was always Monroe Jean Harlow.



Jean Harlow.


In the photo below, and to say goodbye, I leave to Bette Davis, Marlon Brando and Grace Kelly in the 1954 Oscars.

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