1. Crime and Punishment
director Woody Allen has many works related to the theme of the novel "Crime and Punishment". The author of the novel is the Russian writer Dostoevsky (1821-1881). It is about the college student Raskolnikov who believed that he was not a mortal and could do whatever he wanted. At the same time, he was forced by life to personally kill someone who had bullied him. Granny usury. However, he had a mental breakdown and voluntarily surrendered...
Woody Allen's previous movies "Crimes and Misdemeanors" (1989), "Match Point" (2005), "Exclusive" News (Scoop, 2006) and "Cassandra's Dream" (Cassandra's Dream, 2007) all involve more or less "crime and punishment." These films also show the topic of "luck". For example, in this film, the male protagonist Abe often tries his luck, and he has to wait before agreeing to surrender to see how lucky he is. The protagonists of different movies have different luck, "good luck" is at large, "bad luck"... these movies have murders, but at the same time they are comedies, even Bgm is very light: whether it is the soundtrack of the film , Or the Four Little Swans and Polka in The Exclusive News, are always accompanied by the serious matter of murder...
2.
Existentialism Existentialism is one of the main schools of Western philosophy. The title of the film Irrational Man comes from an existentialist book "Irrational Man: A Study in Existential Philosophy", which was completed in 1958 by William Barrett (1913-1992). The author was a professor of philosophy at New York University before his death.
The male protagonist Abe mentioned in the film Kierkegaard as the originator of existentialism, and Heidegger and Sartre are masters of existentialism. The main ideas of these philosophers are all introduced in the book "Irrational Man". And Dostoevsky also had a profound influence on existentialism. The male protagonist Abe also has a line expressing his love of Dostoevsky's works.
It is said that the title Irrational Man may also be related to a famous quote by the Irish writer George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950): “Rational people adapt themselves to the world, and irrational people adapt the world to themselves. Therefore, all progress All have to rely on irrational people. (The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.)"
3. In the judge
film, the male lead Occasionally heard a woman cry to her friend in a restaurant that she was arguing with her husband for custody of the children but was treated unfairly by the judge, and she felt murderous.
In reality, Woody Allen was involved in a custody lawsuit with his ex-girlfriend Mia Farrow in 1992. In 2014, a letter from adopted daughter Dylan Farrow caused her to be caught up in the scandal of "obscene adopted daughter" again. At that time, both the state prosecutor and the judge's verdict stated that WA may have molested Dylan (at the age of 7). Although there was no substantive evidence in the end, WA lost the lawsuit and lost custody.
However, in this film, there is a scene made by WA's current adopted daughter, Manzie Tio Allen, as a guest star, in the scene of the piano performance by the heroine Stone Sister. She is the adopted daughter of WA and his current wife, Soon-Yi Previn, who was the adopted daughter of WA and Mia Farrow. The reason why Mia Farrow suddenly left WA and filed a lawsuit with him in 1992 was because of Song Yi.
4. The actor
and actor Joaquin Phoenix gained 33 pounds (about 30 kg) for the role in the film, and his belly is all genuine. This is also based on his interpretation of the role of Abe. The director said that Joaquin can show that full of emotions and pain, even if he is asked to pass a salt, it will be like Oedipus gouging...The
heroine actor Emma Stone and the director have had it last year. A collaboration: "Magic in the Moonlight" (Magic in the Moonlight), the male lead is Uncle Colin Firth.
5. The Rhode Island
movie was shot in Rhode Island (maybe because of tax incentives). Of course Rhode Island itself is beautiful. There is the famous Brown University there, but the school scene in the film was shot at Salva Regina University, a private university.
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The birthday gift given by the male protagonist to the female protagonist in the Wenqing drama is a collection of poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950). She is the first woman in American history to receive the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry. Thomas Hardy once said: "The two charms of America: skyscrapers and Edna's poems."
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