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But too many words are said through quarrels.
The male protagonist and lines have a strong directing style, and the scheduling of the shots is strong. Looking at it from beginning to end, I feel that the whole movie actually has a sense of drama.
In addition, the highlight of the film actually appeared in the supporting characters, Dianne Wiest played Helen Sinclair, Jennifer Tilly played Olive and Chazz Palminteri played Cheech, which literally lit up the whole movie.
Add classic WA-style lines: "I sold out! I am a prostitute! I am a whore!" / "The world will open to you like a great oyster. Oh, no! The world will open to you like a magnificent vagina!", plus my favorite part at the end (I think this is the climax of the whole movie), the dramatic dialogue, full of satire, absurdity and dark humor for the so-called artist, is jaw-dropping, Belly laugh.
The shot dangles between David upstairs and downstairs on both sides (note that it is not a direct edit).
David: "Did you love me as the artist, or as a man?" /
David: You are confusing sex and love.
Allen: No, for me love is very deep. Sex only have to go a few inches. /
Rita: Oh, now, really? Flender, what does quantity got to do with it?
Flender: Quantity, quantity affects quality!
David: Says who!
Flender: Karl Marx!
Rita: Oh, so now we're talking economics.
Flender : Sex is economics!
Flender: Karl Marx!
In terms of plot, David personally seems to have a deep shadow of WA - a Jewish playwright, with glasses on the bridge of his nose, idealistic, neurotic, and sour. In the film, in order to get investment in his script so that he could put it on the screen, he could only reluctantly let Olive play the doctor, but he was also suffering that these compromises were destroying his pure art, and shouted that classic line in the middle of the night. : "I sold out! I am a prostitute! I am a whore!", but Cheech, who appeared later, is actually more artist than David to a certain extent - genius-like talent, keen intuition, for the sake of his own works Perfect does not hesitate to kill the destructive factor, and the last sentence before death after being shot is still an entrustment to the change of the ending of the play.
This dramatic contrast is hilarious, but behind it is a series of poignant ironies.
In addition, the love and sex of the artists are also one of the topics discussed in the film. For example, the "Artist TO Artist"-style attraction between David and the ex-star actress Helen is full of dreams, short-lived passions and substantial emptiness; For example, when David and Allen had emotional conflicts, he went to his good friend Flender to talk to him. When Flender reasoned, there was such a sentence: "An artist creates his own moral universe." Comparing the situation together, echoing the front and back, people screamed, "It's really a dog."
But in the end, there was still positive energy, and the little old man always had to take a sigh of relief when he finished sarcasm. Let's end with the last paragraph.
"Those self-righteous people, full of shallow opinions about art, music and literature, always want to impress each other with their half-baked "intellectualism". They don't know that they have already lost their lives. The true meaning of life is to discover and nurture those simple and loving relationships."
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