The skinny old Jewish talk show man has always insisted that he is not an intellectual. At the Cannes Film Festival that year, he said at the premiere of "Hollywood Ending": "The French have always had two misunderstandings about me: first, they think I am an intellectual just because I wear glasses; Two, they always think I'm an artist because my movies are always losing money." Of course, he said with a smile. Hard to tell if Woody was an intellectual or not. He became a humor columnist at 15, dropped out of college at 19, was called an "intellectual comedy pioneer" at 29, and won the "Palm Of Palms" special at 67. Achievement Award (this is the second time someone has won this special award after Swedish national treasure director Ingmar Bergman). But one thing is certain, Woody has always observed the world with the eyes of an intellectual, and used his films to describe the sorrows, joys, joys and sorrows of life. Although most of his films are comedies, but behind the laughter and cursing What we see is still thinking about life and human nature.
Alright, let's get to the point now. "Hollywood Ending" is Woody's 36th choreographer and director. It's still a comedy, it's still in New York, it's still the jittery, dancing old Jewish man, this time to make fun of Hollywood. Val was a famous director, but now he has to do commercials for things like deodorant just to make ends meet. So when his ex-wife Ellie and her fiancé Hal, a typically savvy Hollywood studio, asked him to direct a major production, he reluctantly signed on. But the unfortunate Val suddenly lost his sight shortly after the film started, but under the persuasion of the manager and various pressures, Val decided to conceal his situation and continue filming, so the comedy began.
Don't expect Woody Allen's comedies to make you laugh like Jim Carrey's or Stephen Chow's, most of the time you'll find this wordy little man annoying, but his inadvertent action or sentence Words will make you find your own shadow in him, and then you will feel as funny as him. There are two episodes that I find very interesting. One is that Val and his ex-wife are discussing the plot in a restaurant. Val tries to talk to her about the plot seriously, but he can't help but complain about why his wife left him and chose stupid. Producers and so on, Woody's performance is almost without trace; another part of Val hired a Chinese photographer for the film (in fact, Woody Allen has asked Zhao Fei to do photography many times in recent years), and later the photographer Dissatisfied with the filming, he resigned in anger. In standard Mandarin: "TMD (national curse), I haven't done it yet. Ang Lee has a few plays waiting for me to start filming." The
film mildly mocks Hollywood's operating system , pointed out that the director in Hollywood is just a working boy of a big production company, and he has no way to realize his artistic ideal. So Woody Allen insisted on filming in New York and refused to integrate into the Hollywood system. This may be the reason why he has never been favored by the Oscars except for "Annie Hall", but does he really need those golden statues? The night "Annie Hall" won three Oscars, Woody was playing the clarinet at a club in Brooklyn, New York. As a Jew, Woody often mocks Jewish ethnicity in his works, showing rare national introspection and cognition. But Woody is really old. "He has restrained his critical edge and just quietly tells one innocuous but fascinating story."
How does the movie end? All I can say is this is Woody Allen's 36th non-Hollywood ending.
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