Let's take a look at the lines I love in "Once Upon a Time in the Stars"

Tobin 2022-03-17 08:01:01

"I don't want to go through an empty experience
"
of. Then she bought the concierge and slipped into Woody's bed. Helpless Woody said such a sentence. I think it's the best answer to the relationship between love and sex.

Next is my favorite:
"I think any perfect relationship is not based on either compromise, maturity or perfection or any of that. It really based on luck. You know, that's the key thing. People don't like to acknowledge that because it means a loss of control. But you really have to be lucky."
My translations: I don't think perfect love is based on compromise, maturity, or perfect and so on. It is based on luck. You know, that's the key. People don't want to admit it because it means love is out of their control. But you do have to rely on luck.
This is Woody's answer to a question from the media, and he puts a lot of emphasis on luck and spends an entire movie ("Match Point") expressing it. It would be too passive and deliberate to say that perfect love is based on compromise or maturity. And if perfect love is based on luck, then there is no need for someone to compromise, no need to force yourself to grow up, everything will happen naturally, just right.

"I don't want to make funny movies. All I see is human suffering. It's not funny .
"
Nothing special, but it reflects Woody's pessimism, and his concerns. Too much to my liking. All I see is human suffering. Many of Woody's films have the image of a supplementer. In "The Unreasonable", the heroine Emma Stone is a special favorite for a supplementer.

"You're the best kisser."
"That's my major in college ."
Hee hee.

The next interesting thing is the dialogue between Woody and the alien, and it is strongly suspected that the alien is actually the voice of Woody himself.
"Why is there so much human suffering?"
"That's unanswerable."
"Is there a God?"
"This is the wrong question."
"If nothing lasts, why do I bother to make films or do anything for that matter?"
"We enjoy your films, particularly the early funny ones."
"

"Why do humans suffer so much?"
"It's an unanswerable question."
"Does God exist?"
"It's an inappropriate question."
"If there's no eternity, why would I bother making movies or anything else? thing?"
"We love your movies, especially the early comedies."
"But the human condition is so depressing."
"There are good times."
I think this is Woody's split personality, himself and his own. dialogue. If nothing lasts, why do I bother to do anything, this is also a question I often think about. I always feel that the whole world and everyday life are absurd and empty. Before I was eighteen, I thought adults could answer this question. Later I learned that these are unanswerable.

"I can't be alone. I can't be too close .
" Having seen this film, I can better understand the daily life of a great director with a halo above his head, as well as the subtle feeling emanating from his different films. Maybe no one knows the mysteries of life, what makes you happy, you go to whatever it is. In the clip in the film, Woody's character dies, and then a psychoanalyst remarks that Woody sees reality too clearly for him to successfully use the denial mechanisms. When I saw this, I suddenly understood why Woody always loves Floyd, because both of them are two famous pessimists in the world. The so-called defense mechanism may be essentially the same as the spiritual belief of the old lady in "Encountering Strangers", superstition, believing in past and present lives, living in hallucinations, and living by hallucinations.


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Stardust Memories quotes

  • Sandy Bates: But shouldn't I stop making movies and do something that counts, like-like helping blind people or becoming a missionary or something?

    Voice of Martian: Let me tell you, you're not the missionary type. You'd never last. And-and incidentally, you're also not Superman; you're a comedian. You want to do mankind a real service? Tell funnier jokes.

  • Vivian Orkin: In this film, he played the part of God.

    Ghost of Sandy Bates: This was not easy, folks, because, uh, you know, I-I-I didn't know what the hell I was doing, and I don't have a good voice for God.

    Vivian Orkin: And he received an Academy Award for his convincing portrayal of God... although they had to use another actor's voice.