"Anything Goes" = Older Version of "Annie Hall"

Dayne 2022-04-20 09:02:00

"Anything Goes" is a comedy that returns to New York on Woody's European creative path. The script, written in the 1970s, is about a pessimistic, failed physics professor living with a young girl. The movie is still the chattering pessimism in "Annie Hall", it is still the way in "Annie Hall" to break the fourth wall and talk directly to the audience, and it is still "Annie Hall" in which the hero is the heroine. Mentor, let the heroine grow up, and then the heroine leaves the story. This is completely the old version of "Annie Hall" upgraded with sarcasm, and you can even find that Woody turned the big lobster joke in "Annie Hall" into a crayfish pie!

Woody repeatedly states that the universe doesn't make sense, art doesn't make sense, politics doesn't make sense, work doesn't make sense, sports don't make sense, and everything doesn't make any fucking sense, but it's the best you can choose. In this cold, violent, incomprehensible universe where luck randomly rules everything, just live in the moment and enjoy it. So the physics professor finally fell in love with the fortune teller. Quantum physics is no different from astrology. In the face of the universe that is about to be destroyed, both are products that will eventually be destroyed and short-lived.

It is worth mentioning that this film is still worth watching. The selling point is the endless sarcasm and sarcasm, which are all excellent.

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Extended Reading
  • Elody 2022-03-27 09:01:12

    That snarky old Woody is back, and this is the Woody Allen I like. The substitution just weakens the influence of the old Woody's personal image and simplifies the role. A lot of self-irony facing the camera, the division strengthens the sense of film, and the style appears more casual and complete. The story goes around in a circle from oneself and then comes back to oneself, those beliefs and stubbornness in the face of life are some interesting farts. "Anything will do", it's good to find yourself anyway.

  • Nicolas 2022-03-28 09:01:06

    WA can completely write and direct it and then act in a bald, wordy, neurotic literary style. It's fantastic to have a blond chick delivered to your door in the middle of the night. Very common actors too.

Whatever Works quotes

  • Boris Yellnikoff: I really like the way these pants fit.

  • John: I can't believe what I'm seein'. I mean, your clothes are different, your speech is a little more affected; but, deep down I know you're the same pretty, small town, God fearin', church goin', pie bakin'...

    Marietta: I'm livin' with two guys.

    John: - girl scout Mom. Your-your what?

    Marietta: I'm an artist. I-I-I don't bake pies. I don't go to church. I-I-I do collages, sculptures, photography. I live in Manhattan with two men who I Love - in a very happy ménage à trois.

    John: A what?

    Marietta: We all sleep together. A ménage à trois.

    John: I knew we should never trust the goddamn French.