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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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