Woody Allen, award-winning director and actor in the United States; satirical writer and playwright who is keen to contribute to The New Yorker; clarinet musician in the New Orleans Jazz Band. The only intellectual in the American film industry (Oscar award speech) is a diligent and productive director. This 165cm tall little man has created a large number of excellent films with different subjects enough to make him famous at the Oscars (although Woody Allen himself quite despises the Oscars). His films have different styles and forms, but audiences can always find Woody Allen-style "realistic satire", "pessimism", "humorous wit" and other style clues in most of his works. He is erudite, unusually diligent, witty, witty, insightful, and ironic. . . . . . I can't describe in words how much I love this great filmmaker. Woody Allen and Hitchcock are two of my favorite directors.
Woody Allen was born on December 1, 1935 in Brooklyn, New York. At the age of 16, Woody Allen made money by writing jokes and jokes, and then began writing for radio, television and comedians. Later, Woody Allen himself became a comedian, created and acted by himself, and eventually became a screenwriter, actor, and director. This is the simple thread in which Woody Allen got into the film industry.
It all started with The Merry Gentleman, so let's start with The Merry Gentleman.
Synopsis of "The Merry Gentleman": Peter O'Toole plays the editor of a fashion magazine. When he sees a beautiful woman and loves the other, he is troubled, so he goes to the psychiatrist Peter Sellers for advice. Unexpectedly, the genius doctor is more crazy than him. . In addition, the relationship between him and his fiancée Romy Schneider is even more chaotic. The film was written by Woody Allen, who later became a famous American director. This is also his debut in the film industry, and he also starred in it. The film is directed by British director Clive Downer. The film deduces a sexual satirical comedy with the absurd plot of a man whose love scene is too unfavorable, but he keeps trying to keep his fiancée festive. The whole film is full of snatch-and-stealing jokes, the actors are walking around like ants on a hot pan, and the atmosphere is quite lively. The film stars the famous British comedian Peter Sellers as the funny doctor, while the British actor Peter Otto, famous for his role in Lawrence of Arabia...
Young Woody Allen was performing in a small bar, and a few people came to see him, thinking that he wrote the humorous lines himself, so it should be good for him to write the script. So he hired him to write the script for "The Merry Gentleman". However, this comedy film directed by young British director Cliff Downer was regarded as a failure by Woody Allen. One is that the director Cliff Downer lacks prestige, all the staff are procrastinating, and the stars are pestering him, forcing him to meet his own conditions. The second is because the film's producer, Charles Feldman , is a typical Hollywood manufacturing machine and has absolute control over the film, turning the film into a boring work on the commercial assembly line. Actors even want to pull their girlfriends into the movie. So Woody personally hated the movie and hated the experience. He even saw the demo and said, "This is too bad!" and vowed never to write a screenplay again unless he was hired as a director.
It can be said that the failed scriptwriting experience of "The Merry Gentleman" made Woody Allen determined that he must become a director who wrote and directs himself and has absolute control over the script.
"The Merry Gentleman" was Woody Allen's first screenplay, and in it he played the third male lead, "Victor," a little smart, funny-looking little guy. This image is also a classic image of Woody Allen. He gets bullied by girls, chases girls who are taller than him, and competes with tall male competitors. . . . . . This original character look is Woody Allen's most original and best character image. A little Chaplin's shadow, funny, but very clever.
Woody Allen wanted to write a bourgeois love story, but 1965's "The Merry Gentleman" ended up being a beautiful Hollywood assembly line fireworks, a typically useless farce. But the great Woody Allen in history made a shy appearance in this film, and the little shrewd boy began to show his talents in Hollywood and seek a job. People say that standing at 30, Woody Allen is 30 years old at this time, and he is in full bloom and ready to go. From this we can conclude that genius always suffers, but gold always shines.
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