Love and Death- Finale

[simplerachel11]

brilliant. anyone? become a better person watching this?

[twingoatsinc]

"Look at death not as an end but as a way of cutting down on your expenses" Brilliant!

[cieplakupka]

Can anyone tell me what was the meaning of this "wheat" in the movie ? ;)

[ShikataGaNai100]

"I liked all of your movies, especially the early funny ones..."

[allegropizzicato]

Did I detect a bit of Homage to Bergman there?

[ShrugMeSilly245]

@Beeguiling Thanks! I'll be blasting this in my own car in the near future. : )

[ShrugMeSilly245]

I like the old-school jazz Woody used for most of his other movies, but I absolutely LOVE the theme music in this one. Anyone know what it's called?

[Beeguiling]

@ShrugMeSilly245 It's marvelous, isn't it?

It's Lt. Kiji Suite, Troika, by Prokofiev. I think I was the only 16-year-old blasting Prokofiev from my convertible, thanks to this film. Yeah - I "placed."

[Milkwokee]

I miss this kind of Allen's films...

[AaronBuzzer]

i should 've known better that love and death go together, i'm sloopy lol

[xaviersabotage]

Oh this says so much bout life...

[LMB222]

I saw my mother ROTFLing to this film when I was a teenager. Needless to say, seeing one's parent in that state made me very curious ;)

I saw this film 17 times before I stopped counting. Now I'm watching it with my son. He sometimes says "wheat" all of a sudden.

[caricatureking]

A great ending to a great film. The look on Diane Keaton's face listening to her cousin is priceless.

[MultiButterfly91]

I LOVE SO MUCH HIS SENSE OF HUMOR :-D

[Bentland]

mine too!!!!!!!!!

[agnernai]

This wonderful film reminds me of a time when dialogue was aloud to breathe without a constant 88 piece orchestra dictating our moods at every beat.

[freelanceivy]

You know if you' ve ever had an evening with an ensurance salesmen yopu know what I mean hahah

[JDCubed789]

the verbal interpretation of molecular bonding, not understandable.

Thank you very much...

[jerryhello100]

That's a great shot at 2:33, where both there faces are half visible, and it kinda looks like one messed up face. I think there's a Picasso like that.

[whitelotusmember123]

@jerryhello100 Its referencing Persona...an Ingmar Bergman film

[hannah2971]

we watched this film in my philosophy class and we al realised that philosophical discourse sound absolutely absurd outside of a book or a philosophy class

[makourass]

that last scene where Woody dances with white-robed Death: BEST.SCENE.IN CINEMA.EVER

[lowellsaur]

always love how he is dancing with death

[TedMichaelMorgan]

"The chicken salad at. . . ."

[TedMichaelMorgan]

@TedMichaelMorgan Worse than the chicken at T

[realenglish1]

when did this film first appear in NYC theatres?

[CaptainAntlers]

Is wheat a reference to something?

[darioshanghai]

@CaptainAntlers there are a few sentences in the movie that just look like out of place or sound very old-style: another one is when they are quit talking about the existence of god. They are references to the book War and Peace :D

[Conwaylude]

The song is awesome

[BrucknerMotet]

I like the Prokofiev "Alexander Nevsky" music track starting at 2:34. I think more films should showcase some of the great recordings of other classical works (hopefully without thereby reducing the film-related work available to contemporary composers and ensembles).

[xanglat]

Beautiful !

Thank you for ...cet extrait !

J'aime beaucoup ce film !

[AJthemoviebuff]

"Wheat....I'm dead; they're talking about wheat."

Quite possibly Allen's most underrated film and one of his five best.

[RichardGiestQue]

best movie ending ever

[mightysmurf]

I never realized all the Ingmar Bergman references in this segment until just now. I see Persona, The Seventh Seal... anyone see any others?

[swansong200]

@mightysmurf  the silence

[Beatnikzombie]

I think that was the whole point.

[DVROFFMAN]

My favorite Allen monolouge there at the end.

[88Jako]

.. ... .wheat... .. .

[Steerpike07]

My brother and I watched this when I was 14 and he was 12 (32 years ago!). I was taping to sound only on an old fashioned cassette tape recorder via a microphone (we didn't even have a video recorder!). I still have the tape of both of us rolling about on the floor in stitches! We missed half the film we were laughing so much!!

[Z200a]

Great story. :)

[lunalovett]

"now if you'll excuse me im dead" XD man i bought this film for my bf for his birthday, he didn't seem to like it as much as I do. I guess we like different things.

[aMUSEher]

Yes, this was a wanna be spoof on Bergman's direction...brilliant!

I love Woody Allen.

[HurleyBurleyGirl]

This is the BEST Woody Allen film ever! My family quotes this movie allllll the time.

[mev186]

Mine too!

[cree8vision]

This is possibly one of Woody's best written and funniest movies. Not only is it fast paced but how often do you seen such a smart AND funny period piece?

[mev186]

Yeah, It's one of those rare movies that is funny even after multiple viewings ^_^

[Tigerlily21]

Diane Keaton is I think her funniest ever in this movie. I just lov the way she delivers those hilarious lines all playing it straight. "I hope you're getting this down" ha ha.

[chiefnut48]

Love the music and really great comedy writing and so funny

[deansusky]

Woody is the greatest where on line can we watch tis

[stoneandeddie]

^^ 3:07 ^^ .. cutting down on your expenses!!

[Jones060207]

This is freaking hilarious!!!!

[DougPatton1]

To lower the tone of this comments page. Where on Y-Tube is the greatest NON-PC line in a major movie ? In impish Woody's own 'Love & Death' where he asks a still vigorous ancient priest about the secret of a long life. " The secret of a long life my boy is... to have a 12 year old blonde in bed.... no, no, better still... TWO 12 year old blondes ! ! " No one, but maybe Woody Allen, could express that in today's PC/Pure-Cowardice crippled-creek uptight Anglo-zone.

[billtc3tv]

What a glorious movie! One must feel blessed if one can simply understand and appreciate how inteligent some w.a. films are. Like this one.

[Batadawada]

Simply HILARIOUS!!!

[mrbuch]

I love that - You know the chicke at Tretsky's restaurant? It's worse.

Best description of death ever.

[32doors]

Wheat

[kittykazoo1212]

Does anyone know the name of the ending song?

[Gabbrany]

It's the Troika by Prokofiev from Lieutenant Kije

[Artistspop]

The best.

[aviomaster]

-- Dostoyevskies boooks are  magnificent ,,.,

[Rollman1]

This is a a greater honer for me

[mev186]

No, It is a Greater "Honor" for me ;)

[Bearod35]

This has to be one of the best Woody Allen movies.

[Nicecatholicgirl]

I'm dead, they're talking about wheat."

[jackb1973]

Does anyone know what the wheat joke is parodying, specifically? Frank Norris's The Octopus contains a lot of speeches about wheat, but that's not a Russian novel.

[123writerlady]

I believe he's spoofing Ingmar Bergman films a great deal, especially the thing about Death--that's from the Seventh Seal.

As for literature, I think it's also spoofing Tolstoy's War and Peace.

[Taskat]

Odds are he wasn't specifically parodying Norris, but rather Bergman and Tolstoy, as writerlady said. But, it is quite possible that Norris' work falls into the parody, despite the lack of specific reference, because his writing does come under a similar realist umbrella as the few writers that Allen is directly satirizing.

Odds are, Norris' references to wheat were within the cohort of other writers' references to wheat

The love triangles at the beginning are definitely a Tolstoy reference.

[AJthemoviebuff]

One of Allen's best movies, possibly his best....or at least the best of his all-out comedies.

I will never be able to see or say "wheat" without thinking about this movie. lol

[greenpurplebluewhite]

C'est magnifique

[sherlockholmes4]

sheer brilliance! u can see how woody was obviously influenced by bergman

[JalousYet]

AAAH I LOVE THIS MOVIE.

Wheat. WHEAT.

[fuzzypanda36]

AHAHAHAH

"the key thing here is to not think of death as an end, but more as a very effective way on cutting down on your expenses"

This movie is a masterpiece of a satire.

[stabo10]

I got screwed!

[LMB222]

Definitely worth adding. Can't wait to watch the film again, and listen to Prokofiev.

[padssit]

merveille

"ce n'est pas la quantité qui compte, en amour, mais la qualité... Quoiqueeeeuhh..."

Woody est LE grand antidépresseur moderne

[relentlesswrx]

Wheat... Fields of wheat. I love this film - ever since I was a kid, ironically I mill wheat as an adult and truely understand its point in woodys film

[mev186]

Everything in Life is Wheat.

P.S. I want this Speech played at my Funeral.

[mamal868]

@mev186 is it referring to sperm? because in songs of songs, a Jewish religious text, it is used as a metaphor for sperm.