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Annie Hall: Screenplay
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128 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1980
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Woody Allen
271books3,074followersNoted American actor, screenwriter, and filmmaker Woody Allen, originally Allen Stewart Konigsberg explored the neuroses of the urban middle class in comedies of manners, such as
Annie Hall
(1977) and
Deconstructing Harry
(1997).
This director, jazz musician, and playwright thrice won Academy Award. His large body of work mixes satire, wit and humor in the most respected and prolific cerebral style in the modern era. Allen directs also in the majority of his movies. For inspiration, Allen draws heavily on literature, philosophy, psychology, Judaism, European cinema, and city of New York, where he lives.
This director, jazz musician, and playwright thrice won Academy Award. His large body of work mixes satire, wit and humor in the most respected and prolific cerebral style in the modern era. Allen directs also in the majority of his movies. For inspiration, Allen draws heavily on literature, philosophy, psychology, Judaism, European cinema, and city of New York, where he lives.
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April 24, 2024
Reading the script of a cult film is always an opportunity to immerse yourself in a text by having the images scrolling through your head.
With "Annie Hall," Woody Allen is at his best. I read somewhere that the film is described as "A Romeo and Juliet in the land of analysts." I find this summary rather well-regarded.
Like its author, Alvy Singer is a neurotic New York comedian who has somewhat succeeded but is in his 40s. Despite being in analysis for fifteen years, he is obsessed with sex and death. He has already divorced twice. But beyond the biography of Alvy Singer, his meeting with Annie Hall is at the heart of the subject. It is, therefore, a love story or, more precisely, the difficulty of lasting romantic relationships.
Annie has everything to be the ideal companion; she is as dizzy as he is distressed. He will lead her into metaphysical discussions and move by her singing talents. The couple's on-screen crisp buns would appear to reflect their arguments, united in reality around the film's time (1977).
What is surprising in this film and which I love are the special effects that constantly shift the unfolding of the story: fantasies come true, several images come together to tell the life of Annie and Alvy in parallel, Annie splits in two when she makes love and walks around her apartment overwhelmed by boredom, passers-by are taken to task to testify and respond. A whole bunch of tips gives this shameless and scathing confession on the private life of the king of Jewish humor a special status.
With "Annie Hall," Woody Allen is at his best. I read somewhere that the film is described as "A Romeo and Juliet in the land of analysts." I find this summary rather well-regarded.
Like its author, Alvy Singer is a neurotic New York comedian who has somewhat succeeded but is in his 40s. Despite being in analysis for fifteen years, he is obsessed with sex and death. He has already divorced twice. But beyond the biography of Alvy Singer, his meeting with Annie Hall is at the heart of the subject. It is, therefore, a love story or, more precisely, the difficulty of lasting romantic relationships.
Annie has everything to be the ideal companion; she is as dizzy as he is distressed. He will lead her into metaphysical discussions and move by her singing talents. The couple's on-screen crisp buns would appear to reflect their arguments, united in reality around the film's time (1977).
What is surprising in this film and which I love are the special effects that constantly shift the unfolding of the story: fantasies come true, several images come together to tell the life of Annie and Alvy in parallel, Annie splits in two when she makes love and walks around her apartment overwhelmed by boredom, passers-by are taken to task to testify and respond. A whole bunch of tips gives this shameless and scathing confession on the private life of the king of Jewish humor a special status.
December 2, 2017
Annie Hall: Screenplay, Woody Allen
Annie Hall is a 1977 American romantic comedy film directed by Woody Allen from a screenplay he co-wrote with Marshall Brickman. Produced by Allen's manager, Charles H. Joffe, the film stars the director as Alvy "Max" Singer, who tries to figure out the reasons for the failure of his relationship with the film's eponymous female lead, played by Diane Keaton in a role written specifically for her.
The comedian Alvy Singer is trying to understand why his relationship with Annie Hall ended a year ago. Growing up in New York, he vexed his mother with impossible questions about the emptiness of existence, but he was precocious about his innocent sexual curiosity. Annie and Alvy, in a line for The Sorrow and the Pity, overhear another man deriding the work of Federico Fellini and Marshall McLuhan; McLuhan himself steps in at Alvy's invitation to criticize the man's comprehension. That night, Annie shows no interest in sex with Alvy. Instead, they discuss his first wife, whose ardor gave him no pleasure. His second marriage was to a New York writer who didn't like sports and was unable to reach orgasm. With Annie, it is different. The two of them have fun making a meal of boiled lobster together. He teases her about the unusual men in her past. He met her playing tennis doubles with friends. Following the game, awkward small talk led her to offer him first a ride up town and then a glass of wine on her balcony. There, what seemed a mild exchange of trivial personal data is revealed in "mental subtitles" as an escalating flirtation. Their first date follows Annie's singing audition for a night club ("It Had to be You"). He suggests they kiss first to get it out of the way. After their lovemaking that night, Alvy is "a wreck", while she relaxes with a joint. ....
تاریخ نخستین خوانش: دوم ماه دسامبر سال 2001 میلادی
عنوان: آنی هال / مارشال بریکمن؛ کارگردان: وودی آلن؛ نویسنده: وودی آلن؛ مترجم: مژگان محمد؛ تهران، نشر نی، 1380؛ در 192 ص؛ شابک: 9643125645؛ موضوع: فیلمنامه ها - به مناسبت صد سال سینما صد فیلمنامه قرن 20 م
داستان فیلم مربوط به زندگی الوی سینگر (وودی آلن) است که یک بازیگر طنز و یک شومن است. الوی سینگر سعی دارد بفهمد چرا رابطه اش با دختری به نام آنی هال (دایان کیتن) که یک خواننده است یک سال پیشتر قطع شده است. سینگر در یک خانواده یهودی در نیویورک بزرگ شده، او از طریق راب، دوست صمیمی� خویش با آنی هال در زمین تنیس آشنا میشو�. این دو خیلی زود دلباخته همدیگر میشون� و با هم زندگی میکنن�. اما مشکلات عصبی سینگر و مشکلات روابط جنسی بین آن دو باعث میشود� آنی از این رابطه خارج شود و به لس آنجلس برود. در آن جا آنی وارد رابطه� ای با تونی لیسر (پل سایمون) تهیه� کننده صفحات موسیقی اش میشو�. سینگر به لس آنجلس میآی� تا آنی را متقاعد کند رابطه� شان را دوباره از سر گیرند، اما موفق نمیشو�. در صحنه آخر، سینگر و آنی در کافه� ای در نیویورک ملاقات دوستانه� ای دارند، در حالی که هر کدام وارد رابطه جدیدی شده� اند. ... ا. شربیانی
Annie Hall is a 1977 American romantic comedy film directed by Woody Allen from a screenplay he co-wrote with Marshall Brickman. Produced by Allen's manager, Charles H. Joffe, the film stars the director as Alvy "Max" Singer, who tries to figure out the reasons for the failure of his relationship with the film's eponymous female lead, played by Diane Keaton in a role written specifically for her.
The comedian Alvy Singer is trying to understand why his relationship with Annie Hall ended a year ago. Growing up in New York, he vexed his mother with impossible questions about the emptiness of existence, but he was precocious about his innocent sexual curiosity. Annie and Alvy, in a line for The Sorrow and the Pity, overhear another man deriding the work of Federico Fellini and Marshall McLuhan; McLuhan himself steps in at Alvy's invitation to criticize the man's comprehension. That night, Annie shows no interest in sex with Alvy. Instead, they discuss his first wife, whose ardor gave him no pleasure. His second marriage was to a New York writer who didn't like sports and was unable to reach orgasm. With Annie, it is different. The two of them have fun making a meal of boiled lobster together. He teases her about the unusual men in her past. He met her playing tennis doubles with friends. Following the game, awkward small talk led her to offer him first a ride up town and then a glass of wine on her balcony. There, what seemed a mild exchange of trivial personal data is revealed in "mental subtitles" as an escalating flirtation. Their first date follows Annie's singing audition for a night club ("It Had to be You"). He suggests they kiss first to get it out of the way. After their lovemaking that night, Alvy is "a wreck", while she relaxes with a joint. ....
تاریخ نخستین خوانش: دوم ماه دسامبر سال 2001 میلادی
عنوان: آنی هال / مارشال بریکمن؛ کارگردان: وودی آلن؛ نویسنده: وودی آلن؛ مترجم: مژگان محمد؛ تهران، نشر نی، 1380؛ در 192 ص؛ شابک: 9643125645؛ موضوع: فیلمنامه ها - به مناسبت صد سال سینما صد فیلمنامه قرن 20 م
داستان فیلم مربوط به زندگی الوی سینگر (وودی آلن) است که یک بازیگر طنز و یک شومن است. الوی سینگر سعی دارد بفهمد چرا رابطه اش با دختری به نام آنی هال (دایان کیتن) که یک خواننده است یک سال پیشتر قطع شده است. سینگر در یک خانواده یهودی در نیویورک بزرگ شده، او از طریق راب، دوست صمیمی� خویش با آنی هال در زمین تنیس آشنا میشو�. این دو خیلی زود دلباخته همدیگر میشون� و با هم زندگی میکنن�. اما مشکلات عصبی سینگر و مشکلات روابط جنسی بین آن دو باعث میشود� آنی از این رابطه خارج شود و به لس آنجلس برود. در آن جا آنی وارد رابطه� ای با تونی لیسر (پل سایمون) تهیه� کننده صفحات موسیقی اش میشو�. سینگر به لس آنجلس میآی� تا آنی را متقاعد کند رابطه� شان را دوباره از سر گیرند، اما موفق نمیشو�. در صحنه آخر، سینگر و آنی در کافه� ای در نیویورک ملاقات دوستانه� ای دارند، در حالی که هر کدام وارد رابطه جدیدی شده� اند. ... ا. شربیانی
September 18, 2016
بهترین فیلمی بود که از وودی آلن دیده بودم و بعدش دیگه هیچکدوم از باقی کارهاش به من لذت تماشای آنیها� رو نمیدا�. فکر کردم حالا دوباره این لذت رو با کلمهه� تجربه کنم. راضی بودم.
در ادامه باید بگم که خوبتری� ویژگی اثر دست کم برای من، شخصیت اصلی بود. آدمه� حداقل یکبا� در بخشی از زندگیشو� شبیه الوی سینگر میش�. در رابطهه� و در از دست دادنه�. در برخوردشون با دنیا و بیزاری از چیزای ساده و پیش پا افتاده. باقی آدمه� سعی میکن� وضعیت رو عوض کنن و زودتر همرنگ جماعت شن. الوی ولی توی اون وضعیت باقی میمون�.
در ادامه باید بگم که خوبتری� ویژگی اثر دست کم برای من، شخصیت اصلی بود. آدمه� حداقل یکبا� در بخشی از زندگیشو� شبیه الوی سینگر میش�. در رابطهه� و در از دست دادنه�. در برخوردشون با دنیا و بیزاری از چیزای ساده و پیش پا افتاده. باقی آدمه� سعی میکن� وضعیت رو عوض کنن و زودتر همرنگ جماعت شن. الوی ولی توی اون وضعیت باقی میمون�.
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May 28, 2016میدونین� این اواخر چیزهای عجیبغریب� به ذهنم اومده، شاید دلیلش چهلسالهشد� باشه. حدسم اینه که دارم وارد یک بحران یا چیزی تو این مایهه� میشم� نمیدونم� نگران قضیه� سن و سال نیستم. از اون جور آدمه� نیستم، میدونین� دارم کچل میشم� اما این موضوع کمتری� اهمیتی برام نداره. فکر میکن�... هر چی سنم بالاتر میر� بهتر میشم� میدونین� به نظرم بر خلاف چیزهایی که میگ� مثلاً موی خاکستری متین و سنگینه، من دارم از اون کچلها� جذاب میش�. با اینحا� شبیه هیچکدو� این آدمه� نیستم. مگر اینکه یکی از اونهای� بشم که همینطور� که تفشو� از گوشه� دهنشو� آویزونه، با یک ساک خرید میپیچ� تو یک کافه و درباره� سوسیالیسم دادِ سخن مید�.
[آهی میکش�.] من و آنی به هم زدیم اما من... من هنوز نمیتون� از سرم بیرونش کنم. میدونی� دارم جزئیات این رابطه رو توی ذهنم بالا و پایین میکن� و زندگیا� رو مرور میکن�. میخوا� بدونم این رابطه از کجا خراب شد، میدونین� یک سال پیش... عاشق هم بودیم...!
[آهی میکش�.] من و آنی به هم زدیم اما من... من هنوز نمیتون� از سرم بیرونش کنم. میدونی� دارم جزئیات این رابطه رو توی ذهنم بالا و پایین میکن� و زندگیا� رو مرور میکن�. میخوا� بدونم این رابطه از کجا خراب شد، میدونین� یک سال پیش... عاشق هم بودیم...!
June 19, 2019
عشق را ای کاش زبان سخن بود
به نظرم ، دومین� بهترین فیلم وودی آلنه. شخصاً رو بیشتر دوست دارم؛ خصوصاً خط داستانی کاراکترِ خود وودی آلن رو. منتها آنی هال هم فیلم محشریه. پره از خلاقیتها� فرمی که آدم کِیف میکن� از دیدنش. داستان غیرخطی، حرف زدن با دوربین، نمایش و ترکیب چند زمان و چند مکان در یک پلان و کلی حرکت جذاب فرمی دیگه.
وودی آلن هر کاری دلش خواسته کرده تو این فیلم. خودش در مصاحبها� که آخر همین کتاب چاپ شده میگ�: «برایم مهم نبود که تماشاگر خوشش بیاید یا نه، فقط میخواست� کاری را که دوست داشتم، بکنم.» و فکر میکن� رمز موفقیت در فیلمها� اینچنین� همین باشه؛ کاری رو بکنی که دوست داری و عموماً موردپسند مخاطب هم قرار میگیر�.
به نظرم ، دومین� بهترین فیلم وودی آلنه. شخصاً رو بیشتر دوست دارم؛ خصوصاً خط داستانی کاراکترِ خود وودی آلن رو. منتها آنی هال هم فیلم محشریه. پره از خلاقیتها� فرمی که آدم کِیف میکن� از دیدنش. داستان غیرخطی، حرف زدن با دوربین، نمایش و ترکیب چند زمان و چند مکان در یک پلان و کلی حرکت جذاب فرمی دیگه.
وودی آلن هر کاری دلش خواسته کرده تو این فیلم. خودش در مصاحبها� که آخر همین کتاب چاپ شده میگ�: «برایم مهم نبود که تماشاگر خوشش بیاید یا نه، فقط میخواست� کاری را که دوست داشتم، بکنم.» و فکر میکن� رمز موفقیت در فیلمها� اینچنین� همین باشه؛ کاری رو بکنی که دوست داری و عموماً موردپسند مخاطب هم قرار میگیر�.
January 10, 2019
I am a huge fan of Woody Allen and “Annie Hall� is my favourite rom-com movie ever (probably ex-aequo with Todd Solondz' "Happiness").
The script is brilliant because it embraces Allen's central themes: New York; Fear of death; Existentialism; Trust; Love and Pessimism..
Actually it is more than a comic flick about a quirky romantic relationship. Even if it was considered to be the greatest comedy film of all time (), the film was actually subtitled as "a nervous romance", or as Susan Benson has put it: Annie Hall is one of the truest, most bittersweet romances on film.
(I recommend her synopsis of the film )
The film is actually both funny and sad at the same time: while watching it (or eventually, reading its screenplay) you'll laugh at the numerous witty expressions and awkward conversations, but "there is also a great deal of hurt within the film"
(Tim Radford, in a review published by The Guardian when the movie was released ) and once it ends it leaves you in a morose mood.
Furthermore, the movie was originally to be entitled Anhedonia, that is, “the clinical inability to experience happiness�, according to WA in one of his conversations with Bukckman who wrote his biography titled Woody Allen On Woody Allen. However, Woody changed it for he feared that it would be labeled as intellectual and that most people would think it’s a european movie.
The movie starts with a scene where Alvy Singer (Woody Allen) recites an opening monologue to tell the story of the failure of his relationship with Annie Hall:
ALVY:
There's an old joke. Uh, two elderly
women are at a Catskills mountain
resort, and one of 'em says: "Boy,
the food at this place is really
terrible." The other one says, "Yeah,
I know, and such... small portions."
Well, that's essentially how I feel
about life. Full of loneliness and
misery and suffering and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly.
The-the other important joke for me
is one that's, uh, usually attributed
to Groucho Marx, but I think it
appears originally in Freud's wit
and its relation to the unconscious.
And it goes like this-I'm
paraphrasing: Uh.. "I would never
wanna belong to any club that would
have someone like me for a member."
That's the key joke of my adult life
in terms of my relationships with
women. Tsch, you know, lately the
strangest things have been going
through my mind, 'cause I turned
forty, tsch, and I guess I'm going
through a life crisis or something,
I don't know. I, uh... and I'm not
worried about aging. I'm not one o'
those characters, you know.
Although I'm balding slightly on top, that's
about the worst you can say about
me. I, uh, I think I'm gonna get
better as I get
older, you know?
I think I'm gonna be the balding
virile type, you know, as opposed to
say the, uh, distinguished gray, for
instance, you know? 'Less I'm neither
o' those two. Unless I'm one o' those
guys with saliva dribbling out of
his mouth who wanders into a cafeteria with a shopping bag screaming about socialism.
(Sighing)
Annie and I broke up and I-I still
can't get my mind around that. You
know, I-I keep sifting the pieces of
the relationship through my mind and-and examining my life and tryin' to
figure out where did the screw-up
come, you know, and a year ago we
were... tsch, in love. You know,
and-and-and... And it's funny, I'm
not-I'm not a morose type. I'm not
a depressive character.
I-I-I, UH,
(Laughing)
you know, I was a reasonably happy
kid, I guess. I was brought up in
Brooklyn during World War II.
* To watch the scene:
I would quote all the script .. as Roger Ebert wrote in the introduction of his review: "Annie Hall" contains more intellectual wit and cultural references than any other movie ever" . (I think it was his favourite Woody Allen movie, besides "Crimes & Misdemeanors" and "Hannah & her Sisters" which he also rated with 4/4.. He was however really harsh when reviewing his recent films).
Most of these cultural references mentionned by Ebert could be found in a list made by Peter Cowie in his book Annie Hall.
/book/show/5...
Here are some quotes among my many other favorites:
~“I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.�
~"Sex with you is really a Kafkaesque experience."
~"I can't get with any religion that advertises in Popular Mechanics"
~"Hey, Harvard makes mistakes too, Kissinger taught there!"
~"I was depressed at that time. I was in analysis. I was suicidal as a matter of fact and would have killed myself, but I was in analysis with a strict Freudian, and, if you kill yourself, they make you pay for the sessions you miss."
The script is brilliant because it embraces Allen's central themes: New York; Fear of death; Existentialism; Trust; Love and Pessimism..
Actually it is more than a comic flick about a quirky romantic relationship. Even if it was considered to be the greatest comedy film of all time (), the film was actually subtitled as "a nervous romance", or as Susan Benson has put it: Annie Hall is one of the truest, most bittersweet romances on film.
(I recommend her synopsis of the film )
The film is actually both funny and sad at the same time: while watching it (or eventually, reading its screenplay) you'll laugh at the numerous witty expressions and awkward conversations, but "there is also a great deal of hurt within the film"
(Tim Radford, in a review published by The Guardian when the movie was released ) and once it ends it leaves you in a morose mood.
Furthermore, the movie was originally to be entitled Anhedonia, that is, “the clinical inability to experience happiness�, according to WA in one of his conversations with Bukckman who wrote his biography titled Woody Allen On Woody Allen. However, Woody changed it for he feared that it would be labeled as intellectual and that most people would think it’s a european movie.
The movie starts with a scene where Alvy Singer (Woody Allen) recites an opening monologue to tell the story of the failure of his relationship with Annie Hall:
ALVY:
There's an old joke. Uh, two elderly
women are at a Catskills mountain
resort, and one of 'em says: "Boy,
the food at this place is really
terrible." The other one says, "Yeah,
I know, and such... small portions."
Well, that's essentially how I feel
about life. Full of loneliness and
misery and suffering and unhappiness, and it's all over much too quickly.
The-the other important joke for me
is one that's, uh, usually attributed
to Groucho Marx, but I think it
appears originally in Freud's wit
and its relation to the unconscious.
And it goes like this-I'm
paraphrasing: Uh.. "I would never
wanna belong to any club that would
have someone like me for a member."
That's the key joke of my adult life
in terms of my relationships with
women. Tsch, you know, lately the
strangest things have been going
through my mind, 'cause I turned
forty, tsch, and I guess I'm going
through a life crisis or something,
I don't know. I, uh... and I'm not
worried about aging. I'm not one o'
those characters, you know.
Although I'm balding slightly on top, that's
about the worst you can say about
me. I, uh, I think I'm gonna get
better as I get
older, you know?
I think I'm gonna be the balding
virile type, you know, as opposed to
say the, uh, distinguished gray, for
instance, you know? 'Less I'm neither
o' those two. Unless I'm one o' those
guys with saliva dribbling out of
his mouth who wanders into a cafeteria with a shopping bag screaming about socialism.
(Sighing)
Annie and I broke up and I-I still
can't get my mind around that. You
know, I-I keep sifting the pieces of
the relationship through my mind and-and examining my life and tryin' to
figure out where did the screw-up
come, you know, and a year ago we
were... tsch, in love. You know,
and-and-and... And it's funny, I'm
not-I'm not a morose type. I'm not
a depressive character.
I-I-I, UH,
(Laughing)
you know, I was a reasonably happy
kid, I guess. I was brought up in
Brooklyn during World War II.
* To watch the scene:
I would quote all the script .. as Roger Ebert wrote in the introduction of his review: "Annie Hall" contains more intellectual wit and cultural references than any other movie ever" . (I think it was his favourite Woody Allen movie, besides "Crimes & Misdemeanors" and "Hannah & her Sisters" which he also rated with 4/4.. He was however really harsh when reviewing his recent films).
Most of these cultural references mentionned by Ebert could be found in a list made by Peter Cowie in his book Annie Hall.
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Here are some quotes among my many other favorites:
~“I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me.�
~"Sex with you is really a Kafkaesque experience."
~"I can't get with any religion that advertises in Popular Mechanics"
~"Hey, Harvard makes mistakes too, Kissinger taught there!"
~"I was depressed at that time. I was in analysis. I was suicidal as a matter of fact and would have killed myself, but I was in analysis with a strict Freudian, and, if you kill yourself, they make you pay for the sessions you miss."
October 21, 2013
El libro se resume en:
“It reminds me of that old joke- you know, a guy walks into a psychiatrist's office and says, hey doc, my brother's crazy! He thinks he's a chicken. Then the doc says, why don't you turn him in? Then the guy says, I would but I need the eggs. I guess that's how I feel about relationships. They're totally crazy, irrational, and absurd, but we keep going through it because we need the eggs.�
Annie Hall es sobre las relaciones, sobre afrontar, sobre seguir y tomar decisiones. Está bien bueno y juro que no es mi favoritismo hablando. En lo personal Manhattan me gusta más (quizás es mi parte cursi hablando por mi), pero este guión tiene lo suyo.
“It reminds me of that old joke- you know, a guy walks into a psychiatrist's office and says, hey doc, my brother's crazy! He thinks he's a chicken. Then the doc says, why don't you turn him in? Then the guy says, I would but I need the eggs. I guess that's how I feel about relationships. They're totally crazy, irrational, and absurd, but we keep going through it because we need the eggs.�
Annie Hall es sobre las relaciones, sobre afrontar, sobre seguir y tomar decisiones. Está bien bueno y juro que no es mi favoritismo hablando. En lo personal Manhattan me gusta más (quizás es mi parte cursi hablando por mi), pero este guión tiene lo suyo.
August 21, 2007
اوایل فکر می کردم هر فیلم را باید قبل از خواندن کتاب مربوطه دید. تمام مدت بازیگران فیلم، بجای شخصیت ها می رفتند و می آمدند. بعد به این نتیجه رسیدم که کتاب را پیش از دیدن فیلم، بخوانم. حالا شخصیت هایی که موقع خواندن متن، در ذهنم مجسم کرده بودم، با شخصیت های فیلم جدل داشتند، گاه نمی پسندیدم، گاه بکلی متفاوت بودند... بالاخره دیدم هیچ فرمولی کامل نیست.
در مورد آثار وودی آلن، به ویژه آنها که خود کارگردانی کرده، هیچ تفاوتی نمی کند کتاب را اول بخوانید، یا فیلم را ببینید، چون تقریبن همیشه شخصیت ها در فیلم و کتاب، همان ها هستند و همان شکل بازی می کنند و کمتر مشکلی پیش می آید. به همین دلیل هم از اغلب کارهای وودی آلن، دوباره لذت برده ام، به ویزه آنی هال.
در مورد آثار وودی آلن، به ویژه آنها که خود کارگردانی کرده، هیچ تفاوتی نمی کند کتاب را اول بخوانید، یا فیلم را ببینید، چون تقریبن همیشه شخصیت ها در فیلم و کتاب، همان ها هستند و همان شکل بازی می کنند و کمتر مشکلی پیش می آید. به همین دلیل هم از اغلب کارهای وودی آلن، دوباره لذت برده ام، به ویزه آنی هال.
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November 7, 2007اين فيلم را خيلي دوست دارم. آني هال(با بازي عالی دايان كيتون و تيپ منحصر به فردش در اين فيلم) يكي از شخصيتها� جاودان سينماي جهان شد
وودی آلن را با این فیلم دوست دارم
وودی آلن را با این فیلم دوست دارم
November 15, 2016
woody Allen always gives me a sweet feeling and reminds me of someone special...
he is a real genius.
he is a real genius.
October 29, 2019
"Sun is bad for yuh. Everything our parents said was good is bad. Sun, milk, red meat, college".
September 18, 2018
...."most of us need the eggs", indeed!!
February 7, 2025
Annie Hall � Screenplay by Woody Allen � this has been included on some of the most important lists of Best Movies, from The New York Times to Variety, you find on my blog a few reviews on other Allen films
8 out of 10
This used to be one of my favorite motion pictures, and there should not be any change, except some the innuendo, not all of it proved, yet a lot of the personal life of Woody Allen has become public in the meantime, and what with marrying the adopted daughter of his wife, seeing his films again is a different experience now
- Hannah and Hers Sisters is very good
Nevertheless, take the scenes with the children, at the beginning of Annie Hall � and for that matter, in any Woody Allen movie � you can try and be ‘funny� about it, if it is gruesome humor, and say about the context
- ‘I hope they took good care of those little people�
If the man was so inclined � he married this very young woman, not quite his daughter, but still, the adopted child of his wife, and they fought for so long, Woody Allen and Mia Farrow, by the way, what contrasting choices did she make, she was in a relationship, maybe the spouse of…Frank Sinatra and there is a story with that
Robert Evans wrote The Kid Stays in The Picture, about his involvement in movies, as actor, producer and head of Paramount
- He was the man behind The Godfather, Chinatown, Rosemary’s Baby and other great motion pictures
Mia Farrow has the leading role in Rosemary’s Baby, but Frank Sinatra � a chauvinist we gather � wanted her to end her participation, and abandon the movie, which she refused, and then this went on to become a big hit, commercially and with the critics, while the film Sinatra was doing tanked, hence the idea:
- Mia Farrow wanted a two-page ad, on one side the takings of Rosemary’s Baby and on the other, the meagre box office of the Sinatra flop
Intellectuals by Paul Johnson is a marvelous book, the author explains the fact that great people have a very dark side, Leo Tolstoy, Henrik Ibsen, Ernest Hemingway, Jean Jacques Rousseau were terrible in their private lives, especially the latter.
Ego, we could look at Annie Hall and other Woody Allen works and be tolerant, perhaps, only as I said, I cannot help but remember his penchant � euphemisms � for very young women something that he puts in his movies over, and over again
Some works - such as Broadway Danny Rose - do not follow the same stereotype, nevertheless, Manhattan and others have this much older chap, who seduces the young female, and that is Allen projecting his fantasies
- That is how it looks, with hindsight
Some thespians that have worked with him have distanced and regretted the collaboration, albeit Woody Allen was once so celebrated � Annie Hall won Best Picture, Best Screenplay, Best Director � both for Woody Allen � and Best Actress in a Leading Role, for Diane Keaton, she was so fantastic back then, only she made some really bad pictures after that
There was this story about Diane Keaton and Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty and maybe Peter Fonda, who made a bet concerning her and their charms � I will not put it here, maybe someday, the way this Orange Emperor works, stating he will take the Panama Canal, Greenland, and yesterday, Gaza, who knows�
- Maybe he will annex this place too, and then he will put me in charge
However, that means I have to be careful with my public notes…oh, wait, it does not work this way, the more offensive one is, the better chances to get a duchy, some domain, look at the crazy Kennedy Junior, the woman to lead the NSA, or the drunkard head of the Pentagon�
Now for my standard closing of the note with a question, and invitation � maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this � as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the befits from it, other than the exercise per se
There is also the small matter of working for AT&T � this huge company asked me to be its Representative for Romania and Bulgaria, on the Calling Card side, which meant sailing into the Black Sea wo meet the US Navy ships, travelling to Sofia, a lot of activity, using my mother’s two bedrooms flat as office and warehouse, all for the grand total of $250, raised after a lot of persuasion to the staggering $400…with retirement ahead, there are no benefits, nothing…it is a longer story, but if you can help get the mastodont to pay some dues, or have an idea how it can happen, let me know
As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is
Some favorite quotes from To The Hermitage and other works
‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…�
8 out of 10
This used to be one of my favorite motion pictures, and there should not be any change, except some the innuendo, not all of it proved, yet a lot of the personal life of Woody Allen has become public in the meantime, and what with marrying the adopted daughter of his wife, seeing his films again is a different experience now
- Hannah and Hers Sisters is very good
Nevertheless, take the scenes with the children, at the beginning of Annie Hall � and for that matter, in any Woody Allen movie � you can try and be ‘funny� about it, if it is gruesome humor, and say about the context
- ‘I hope they took good care of those little people�
If the man was so inclined � he married this very young woman, not quite his daughter, but still, the adopted child of his wife, and they fought for so long, Woody Allen and Mia Farrow, by the way, what contrasting choices did she make, she was in a relationship, maybe the spouse of…Frank Sinatra and there is a story with that
Robert Evans wrote The Kid Stays in The Picture, about his involvement in movies, as actor, producer and head of Paramount
- He was the man behind The Godfather, Chinatown, Rosemary’s Baby and other great motion pictures
Mia Farrow has the leading role in Rosemary’s Baby, but Frank Sinatra � a chauvinist we gather � wanted her to end her participation, and abandon the movie, which she refused, and then this went on to become a big hit, commercially and with the critics, while the film Sinatra was doing tanked, hence the idea:
- Mia Farrow wanted a two-page ad, on one side the takings of Rosemary’s Baby and on the other, the meagre box office of the Sinatra flop
Intellectuals by Paul Johnson is a marvelous book, the author explains the fact that great people have a very dark side, Leo Tolstoy, Henrik Ibsen, Ernest Hemingway, Jean Jacques Rousseau were terrible in their private lives, especially the latter.
Ego, we could look at Annie Hall and other Woody Allen works and be tolerant, perhaps, only as I said, I cannot help but remember his penchant � euphemisms � for very young women something that he puts in his movies over, and over again
Some works - such as Broadway Danny Rose - do not follow the same stereotype, nevertheless, Manhattan and others have this much older chap, who seduces the young female, and that is Allen projecting his fantasies
- That is how it looks, with hindsight
Some thespians that have worked with him have distanced and regretted the collaboration, albeit Woody Allen was once so celebrated � Annie Hall won Best Picture, Best Screenplay, Best Director � both for Woody Allen � and Best Actress in a Leading Role, for Diane Keaton, she was so fantastic back then, only she made some really bad pictures after that
There was this story about Diane Keaton and Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty and maybe Peter Fonda, who made a bet concerning her and their charms � I will not put it here, maybe someday, the way this Orange Emperor works, stating he will take the Panama Canal, Greenland, and yesterday, Gaza, who knows�
- Maybe he will annex this place too, and then he will put me in charge
However, that means I have to be careful with my public notes…oh, wait, it does not work this way, the more offensive one is, the better chances to get a duchy, some domain, look at the crazy Kennedy Junior, the woman to lead the NSA, or the drunkard head of the Pentagon�
Now for my standard closing of the note with a question, and invitation � maybe you have a good idea on how we could make more than a million dollars with this � as it is, this is a unique technique, which we could promote, sell, open the Oscars show with or something and then make lots of money together, if you have the how, I have the product, I just do not know how to get the befits from it, other than the exercise per se
There is also the small matter of working for AT&T � this huge company asked me to be its Representative for Romania and Bulgaria, on the Calling Card side, which meant sailing into the Black Sea wo meet the US Navy ships, travelling to Sofia, a lot of activity, using my mother’s two bedrooms flat as office and warehouse, all for the grand total of $250, raised after a lot of persuasion to the staggering $400…with retirement ahead, there are no benefits, nothing…it is a longer story, but if you can help get the mastodont to pay some dues, or have an idea how it can happen, let me know
As for my role in the Revolution that killed Ceausescu, a smaller Mao, there it is
Some favorite quotes from To The Hermitage and other works
‘Fiction is infinitely preferable to real life...As long as you avoid the books of Kafka or Beckett, the everlasting plot of fiction has fewer futile experiences than the careless plot of reality...Fiction's people are fuller, deeper, cleverer, more moving than those in real life…Its actions are more intricate, illuminating, noble, profound…There are many more dramas, climaxes, romantic fulfillment, twists, turns, gratified resolutions…Unlike reality, all of this you can experience without leaving the house or even getting out of bed…What's more, books are a form of intelligent human greatness, as stories are a higher order of sense…As random life is to destiny, so stories are to great authors, who provided us with some of the highest pleasures and the most wonderful mystifications we can find…Few stories are greater than Anna Karenina, that wise epic by an often foolish author…�
January 7, 2014
Mi primera experiencia leyendo un guión, pensé que sería un poco aburrido, pero fue genialidad pura, y es que no por nada Annie Hall está catalogada como una de las mejores comedias románticas del cine, un fiel retrato sobre las relaciones que fácilmente se puede resumir con el siguiente párrafo:
"...me acordé de aquel viejo chiste, ya saben, el del tipo que va a ver al psiquiatra y le dice: «Doctor, mi hermano se ha vuelto loco. Se cree que es una gallina». Y el médico le contesta: «Bueno, ¿y por qué no hace que lo encierren?». Y el tipo le replica: «Lo haría pero es que necesito los huevos». En fin, yo creo que eso expresa muy bien lo que siento acerca de las relaciones entre las personas. ¿Saben? Son completamente irracionales, disparatadas, absurdas y� pero, ah, creo que las seguimos manteniendo porque, ah, la mayor parte de nosotros necesitamos los huevos"
December 6, 2015
سأقتبس هنا كلام صديق
"هذا الرجل حالة فريدة من نوعها فى السينما فهو من ضمن فئة المخرج الذى عليك ان تقرأ قبل ان تشاهد وليس العكس فهو فيلسوف منحوه كاميرا فلك ان تتصور ماذا سيصور؟ لا تنتظر من آلان إنحياز الى معنى او إتخاذ موقف او عرض حلول بل هو ينقل لك الوجود كما هو وليس كما ينبغى ان يكون..النمط الفريدة لوودى آلان هو ان افلامه غير صالحة للتأويل لأنه ببساطة هو المخرج الذى يطرح سؤال : لماذا التأويل أصلا؟
وودى آلان لديه القدرة العبقرية على تصوير خيارات الحياة المتعددة مع اختزال العواقب لما بعد كلمة (النهاية) ليترك للمشاهد (حرية إرادة) اختيارها"
"هذا الرجل حالة فريدة من نوعها فى السينما فهو من ضمن فئة المخرج الذى عليك ان تقرأ قبل ان تشاهد وليس العكس فهو فيلسوف منحوه كاميرا فلك ان تتصور ماذا سيصور؟ لا تنتظر من آلان إنحياز الى معنى او إتخاذ موقف او عرض حلول بل هو ينقل لك الوجود كما هو وليس كما ينبغى ان يكون..النمط الفريدة لوودى آلان هو ان افلامه غير صالحة للتأويل لأنه ببساطة هو المخرج الذى يطرح سؤال : لماذا التأويل أصلا؟
وودى آلان لديه القدرة العبقرية على تصوير خيارات الحياة المتعددة مع اختزال العواقب لما بعد كلمة (النهاية) ليترك للمشاهد (حرية إرادة) اختيارها"
December 7, 2013
One can learn a thing or two from Woody Allen.
All the accolades and praise encouraged me to pick up this script. I was hoping to get some valuable insights or life changing epiphanies during the couple of hours of reading.
I enjoyed the beginning and ending, but I often got frustrated the rest of the time. There were too many things going on for me and too much of him...
I sympathize more with laconic and restful authors
All the accolades and praise encouraged me to pick up this script. I was hoping to get some valuable insights or life changing epiphanies during the couple of hours of reading.
I enjoyed the beginning and ending, but I often got frustrated the rest of the time. There were too many things going on for me and too much of him...
I sympathize more with laconic and restful authors
September 16, 2021
One of my favorite movies, reading the script just made it better.
April 5, 2022
“Right now it’s only a notion, but I think I can get money to make it into a concept, and then later, turn it into an idea.�
March 29, 2024
" era stato grandioso rivedere Annie, no? Mi resi conto che donna fantastica era e di quanto fosse divertente solo conoscerla. E io pensai a quella vecchia barzelletta, sapete... Quella dove uno va dallo psichiatra e dice:
«Dottore mio fratello è pazzo, crede di essere una gallina» e il dottore gli dice: «perché non lo interna?», e quello risponde: «e poi a me le uova chi me le fa?».
Beh, credo che corrisponda molto a quello che penso io dei rapporti uomo/donna. E cioè che sono assolutamente irrazionali, ehm... e pazzi. E assurdi, e... Ma credo che continuino perché la maggior parte di noi, ha bisogno di uova."
«Dottore mio fratello è pazzo, crede di essere una gallina» e il dottore gli dice: «perché non lo interna?», e quello risponde: «e poi a me le uova chi me le fa?».
Beh, credo che corrisponda molto a quello che penso io dei rapporti uomo/donna. E cioè che sono assolutamente irrazionali, ehm... e pazzi. E assurdi, e... Ma credo che continuino perché la maggior parte di noi, ha bisogno di uova."
December 7, 2024
Halfway through, I knew I was reading a masterpiece. I saw the movie once about ten years ago, and I loved it. Some scenes have stuck with me ever since, and as I read, I remembered others. There were even moments I’d completely forgotten that felt like I was experiencing them for the first time. It made the whole experience amazing.
I’ve skimmed a few pages of scripts from some of my favorite films before, but this was my first time sitting down and reading an entire script. It was incredible.
It was a smart move by Woody Allen to cowrite the story with Marshall Brickman—it definitely made it stronger. I’d assume it also helped Allen grow as a filmmaker later in his career.
I’ve skimmed a few pages of scripts from some of my favorite films before, but this was my first time sitting down and reading an entire script. It was incredible.
It was a smart move by Woody Allen to cowrite the story with Marshall Brickman—it definitely made it stronger. I’d assume it also helped Allen grow as a filmmaker later in his career.
April 5, 2024
Ovviamente non è da considerare come un libro normale, dato che si tratta della sceneggiatura dell'omonimo film. Però ha avuto il suo perché la lettura, metà piece teatrale, metà prosa. Chiaramente, non si può leggere senza averti visto il film e dopo averlo visto le varie battute non possono non essere lette con la cadenza di Woody Allen; e, se l'avete visto in italiana, con il doppiaggio leggendario di Oreste Lionello.
October 29, 2021
Guion de la película, que me parece una obra maestra, como tantas de Allen. Incluso sin entrar en la cinematografía, la excusa de la comedia romántica oculta grandísimas reflexiones sobre el amor y la existencia, que se deslizan sin ser detectadas entre las escenas cotidianas (o no tanto) de pareja. Muy entretenida.
May 16, 2023
this is such a good screenplay.
I read the final draft, rather than the version they put on screen. Nonetheless, while the ending of this draft was not the same as the film, a lot of the charm that I found in the movie still remained
I read the final draft, rather than the version they put on screen. Nonetheless, while the ending of this draft was not the same as the film, a lot of the charm that I found in the movie still remained
May 14, 2017
I have read the screenplay because this is one of my favourite movies and I find it as equally funny as the movie itself :) Just love the on-liners!
May 13, 2019
It was fine, but didn't live up to the hype, although that may be the hype's fault more than the script's.
October 10, 2021
Hated all of it but read it for the eggs!
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October 13, 2021Hi!
like making by reading this book, here you say that is free, because when on, don't let me reading
like making by reading this book, here you say that is free, because when on, don't let me reading
July 29, 2024
Weirdly less noxious in screenplay form
September 28, 2024
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