"Love and Death"
Woody Allen has always wanted to make comedy movies with beautiful pictures. By the 1975 "Love and Death", we can say that Woody Allen has completely completed this task. "Fools in Science City" in 1973 was just a comedy movie with beautiful visual effects, and the whole film of "Love and Death" looked very beautiful. "Fools in Science City" is a movie similar to a vulgar comedy, while "Love and Death" is a comedy movie full of philosophical speculation and literary topics. Woody wanders freely in this "Love and Death" with all his intellectual talents. In the first four films that he directed and acted in, "Fools in Prison", "Banana", "Sex Collection", "Fools in Science City", he tried a little new movie element every time, and every time he was in the movie box office. It paid off. From "The Merry Gentleman", which was first electrocuted in 1965, to the gradually speculative style "Love and Death", Woody's 10 years of experience in film also gave him confidence. He moved forward cautiously and finally came to this speculative comedy. The highly successful "Love and Death".
"Russian literature, Swedish films, French films, Kafka and existential philosophers, everything that excites us comes in handy." —Woody Allen. In "Fools in Science City", the male protagonist Woody and the female protagonist Keaton simply discussed the existence of God, and only proposed a word stem of DOG and GOD; and in "Love and Death", Woody and Keaton's entire movie discusses philosophical issues such as the existence of God, the value of human existence, love and pain. While the film is advancing in the comedy plot, many philosophical and literary discussions have been conducted. "Love and Death" shows Woody's amazing courage: combining pop comedy with literature and philosophy! The movie quoted a lot of famous quotes from Tolstoy, Gogol, Chekhov and others. This film, like the usual style of Woody Allen’s previous movies, is full of imitations of major directors: from Charlie Chaplin to Robert Altman, from "Brothers Karamazov" to "Battleship Potemkin" , From Vladimir Nabokov to the Marx brothers, from Ingmar Bergman to Bob Hope. Woody Allen combined his favorite philosophy and literary topics with the film elements of his favorite film masters, boldly using his lines to express his views on them, which is the core of the speculative comedy "Love and Death" Technology.
On the day of the film's premiere, Woody watched carefully the word of mouth of the film critics. "The New York Times" Vincent Camby praised: "Woody's "Love and Death" is another classic one-person starring and screenwriter after Buster Keaton, Chaplin and Jerry Lewis. And the director’s personal style film." Penero Jin Gillette praised in the "New Yorker": "This is Allen’s most flavorful movie." Judith Christ published in the magazine "New York" The article stated that Allen "finally walked into the inner world of the characters this time, instead of cartoonizing them", and praised Allen's performance as close to perfection. "Love and Death" finally reached $20 million at the box office and won the Silver Bear Award at the Berlin Film Festival. Woody Allen gained victories in both the media and box office battlefields, and the limelight was instantaneous.
Woody Allen gradually realized his film aesthetic needs, trying to show the audience a more layered film. His talents are inexhaustible, and his cautious attitude towards market pragmatism and decades of hard work have made him a master comedy master. From "Fools in Prison" in 1969 to "Love and Death" in 1975, Woody completed his hierarchical transformation from a simple comic comedy movie to a speculative comedy movie in just 6 years and 5 films. Road, and every movie has been a huge box office success. If this is not a genius, what is it?
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