"Fools Havoc in Science City"
1973 's "Sleeper," Woody Allen is a self-directed and starred in the first 4 movies, Woody Allen is also the first Yi times beat sci-fi comedy. This movie is very different from the previous three . This time Woody wants to make a movie similar to a vulgar comedy , a movie that pursues visual effects . Woody's previous movie comedies are largely derived from life, the kind of jokes Woody Allen is good at performing on stage. But in "The Book of Sex", the scene where Woody Allen fights the 15-foot-tall "killer milk" is a hilarious piece with visual effects. Perhaps it was the successful test of "Sex Collection" that made Woody decide to thoroughly play a vulgar comedy film pursuing visual effects. If you compare carefully, you will find that the ending of "Fools in Science City" is very hasty compared to "Fools in Prison", "Banana", and "The Book of Sex". The hero and the heroine escape from the Science City and confess each other. The movie stopped abruptly. "Fools in Science City" does not ask for deep connotations, it looks simple, beautiful, and funny and it's over.
It is really difficult to shoot a sci-fi movie pursuing visual effects at low cost. United States hopes that the movie can be released before Christmas. If the final shooting cost exceeds the budget or fails to complete the shooting on time, Woody will have to pay huge compensation. Woody Allen started filming on April 30. By the end of August, he had lost a total of $350,000 in personal income, and the filming time was overdue for 41 days. The props, sci-fi scenes, and special effects in the movie cost a lot of money. In the movie, Woody driving a flying vehicle and wearing a space suit requires a steel cable. The steel cable continuously enters the camera screen. Woody reluctantly said: "This is a film about ropes." But we are watching the movie today. In the final picture, there is no steel cable at all, and it can be said that the processing is very good. The cost of the film was finally controlled within the low-cost 3 million US dollars, and was released as scheduled, Woody once again won the success of the comedy film genre exploration.
"Fools in Science City" is a comedy movie with a beautiful picture. Before Woody Allen, it was unacceptable for mainstream Hollywood to make beautiful comedies. Allen himself admitted: "In most cases, good-looking things are not funny." It seems that photography that is as simple as a fool can make the audience give up aesthetic thinking and concentrate on the jokes on the screen. But Allen always has dreams. He always insists on making comedies with beautiful pictures. This is the biggest difference between him and his previous comedy masters. With this persistence until "Anne Hall", Woody became more ambitious, and he learned to use film methods to get a breather from endless jokes. He began to try to make the film more in-depth, and began to explore other values, and that was how the transformation began.
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