I watched this scene with Marshall McLuhan and we had a good laugh together. (After that, we read some James Joyce and engaged in a little friendly sodomy.)
When I went to see Midnight In Paris, as I was leaving, some twit was criticizing the relationship between Owen Wilson's character and his wife. I felt just like Woody in this clip and I loved it.
Star Wars...... pffffffft. Such terrible acting. It was great for it's time because of the "EYE CANDY" and 'cause not much had been done like it before, but it's got so many flaws in terms of everything else.
Just like the "new" star wars film. They were terrible because we'd seen all the 3d bullshit and it wasn't anything "new" for it's time, and still retained the same god awful acting, and again a pretty lackluster script / storyline.
@staphinfection annie hall is a great film in its own right (one of the quissential comedies and deserved the best picture oscar) you can't honestly say A New Hope is anything less than extraordinary and can't be judged by the inevitable prequels it spawned.
What a marvellous line. Woody, you are the most talented comedic writer / playwright of our times. From wiki: Woody Allen has won three Academy Awards and been nominated a total of 21 times: 14 as a screenwriter, six as a director, and one as an actor. He has more screenwriting Academy Award nominations than any other writer; all are in the "Best Original Screenplay" category. He is tied for fifth all-time with six Best Director nominations.
@drmaco Maybe he's not going for LAUGHS, he's going for smiles.... And he's the king of satire, cynicism, and life lessons.
I get more from watching a Woody Allen movie than watching any other bullshit Hollywood crap out there these days. His movies make me think because they always deal with REAL life issues that I can relate to, and that's what keeps me coming back. The only thing Avatar made me think was ".............(insert cricket sound here)...............".
When I was very small, I was in the airport in Miami and my older brother recognized Woody Allen. He told me to go over and ask him for his autograph. So, I did, even though I had no idea who Woody Allen even was. Woody signed the back of the Charlie Brown book that I had. I really didn't know until years later that he was a famous comedian/filmmaker/writer.
One big build-up to bring Marshall McLuhan onstage. "You, you mean my whole fallacy is wrong." Instead of, "my whole theory is based on a fallacy." McLuhan flubbed the lines, making it sound more outraged and flustered, but Woody Allen liked this take the way it was.
But the scene wouldn't work if McLuhan had not been a presentable guy. Somebody you'd want to sign off on your thesis. You could show him off anywhere.
If Marshall M could have lived to have seen this day when his only Woody Allen film appaearance would be disseminated to the world on a new medium called the internet, he'd be smiling like the Cheshire Cat.
hey always cracked me up how woody is always setting upself up across ridiculously cute girls in these movies lol... talk about abusing his position of power XD
I love star wars. It was an amazing achievement that moved special effects forward 20 years and created the modern big budget herioc film as we know it. But I agree Annie Hall was the better film in every other way. (Slightly scared someone will say I don't know anything and that I have George Lucas/Woody Allen right here.)
@agneumeyer Wow. What a relief that worked out this time. Actually something similar happened to me once in the 90s...I was going on and on about SNL was going down hill in a bar and someone managed to produce Jim Brewer on the spot. Pretty funny.
@agneumeyer Wow. What a relief that worked out this time. Actually something similar happened to me once in the 90s...I was going on and on about SNL was going down hill in a bar and someone managed to produce Jim Brewer on the spot. Pretty funny...the booze cushioned the blow nicely.
Everyones got an opinion. I wish they'd just keep it to themselves and stop trashing my eears or my brain with their ramblings. If your opinion doesn't save lives then SHUT UP.
@UppityQueer Are you kidding? Sure, it lacks depth in it's story, but the cinematography and sets are beautiful. Not to mention it's a lot more to watch that Annie Hall. You can't compare them. Why are people comparing them? STOP COMPARING THEM!
Idk, very though call in my opinion on star wars vs Annie hall for best picture. I don't see why ppl are in such a debate because a) it happened 34 yrs ago and u can't do anything about and b) they are bth just such good movies so stop being haters out there!!!
Diane Keaton is awesome in this movie (as she is in every film)! But in general movie is just a fucking wasting of time with that stupid jerk in the leading role.
I love this scene! one reason being I had a teacher at university who was just like the guy in this scene and he also loved quoting McLuhan. He also loved trashing any film work that wasn't to his personal taste. There were so many days I'd sit in class rolling my eyes and thinking if only I could what Woody Allen did here!
Woody Allen's movies never really appealed to me. I don't know why. Maybe because I am from California and I don't really get the whole East Coast way of talking and thinking.
The movie's great. These comments below are Marshall McLuhan proofs - things turned upside down. I for one, know nothing of Allen's work. But I've seen a bunch of his movies. I'd keep my mouth shut on line: if only I could afford to go to a damned movie, anymore. $12.00 in Manhattan
Marhsall McLuhan: one symbol-figure (of many) who would remind us to "tidy our grammar," and to be considerate of our fellow standee on line. Woody Allen, Self-Indulgence Icon that he remains (despite many embarrassing life events) has a very witty dialogue playing in the background.
...McLuhan did not know that we would be able to replay sections of movies and gain the same insights & benefits that the printed word could afford us.
How many media are operating at the same time, here?
Then why is it that Bogart doesn't sound exactly like Raines in CASABLANCA, or Daste exactly like Simon in L'ATALANTE, or Lockwood exactly like Redgrave in THE LADY VANISHES? No, sound quality isn't what I'm referring to. It's vocal inflection: Woody gets all of his actors to simulate a variant of his own shtick, and I find it deadening.
@goback3spaces I think I understand. The taught "New York" dialect is an exaggerated form of a constantly changing set of vocal inflections. There is a prominent use of a slighlty-greatly exaggerated Upper West Side secular Jewish style, and Mr. Allen is the major exponent of the dialect. His own exaggeration, which is fun to do, comes from 1950s comedians up in the Catskills, "The Borscht Belt." Since that is not popular today, it may annoy more people than amuse them. Intensity is part of it.
@goback3spaces Because you're ignorant and can't get your mind around the fact that it takes place in New York and the sound quality of 1970's movies is worse than today.
But before I go i'd like to say we all are guilty of something. I think that Woody is also being somewhat self-deprecating. He himself talks a lot and has a lot of opinions. If you watch his movies, he talks more than anyone else in the film. He can't talk without expressing an opinion. And I can't say people can't have an opinion about world war II unless they were there when it happened or have extensively met world war II veterans and visited world war II sites. That would be indulgent.
I challenge any of you that instead of criticizing someone or something that you dislike so much that you find this person or thing in person and see it for yourself on an intimate level. I guarantee you that your demeanor and attitude will change.
Again, I think the internet is a great thing for science and information in business. But for people it's a train crash because people aren't very rational and attack eachother too easily. Put it away. Explore the real thing for a change.
I feel the same way about bush haters. They wasted 8 years tarnishing a man who is now redeemed and spitting on a man who deserves respect. I'm just so tired of it. I even shut my television off because there's so much of it on tv. You need to put down the computer and the tv and the books an all of this junk that impersonates real world knowledge and actually travel the world and learn for yourself what hte truth is. that's the best and only trustworthy way to find out.
I really don't like how europe gasbags throw their regurgitated garbage all over the media and trash america. I think that in a broad sense what wood allen is saying here is that some people talk too much and depend on status more than actual real world hand on experience.
Whilst England was still such a stuffy place, America used to be the perfect mix of cool informality and old fashioned intelligence/articulacy... at some point in the last 25 years it tipped over into stupidness and over-informality, prime time broadcasters saying "That's awesome man" like a 15 year old boy.
@tomsega i think the people who went downhill are the ones who are so concerned and critical of everyone else's way of thinking instead of just living there own life.. i feel sorry for those people...
@aAntho101 - I think you've got it the wrong way around. It's the people who are concerned and critical about thinking who've gone missing, the ones who love like to believe what they want to believe (the religious, the consumerists) who are the problem..
@tomsega they are a problem for believing what they want to believe? I'm sorry i don't follow that logic.. so everyone should be brainwashed to the 'ideal way of thinking'? ya, I don't agree with a lot of people's opinions and what is of value to them but that would happen no matter what.. you should just try to better your own way of thinking if that's important to you.. but not everyone has the same priorities as you.. if everyone thought the same way the world would be a pretty boring place
@aAntho101 Wow. I never said anything about freedom of speech. And why should everyone necessarily end up being 'the same' if everyone were merely encouraged to use their critical faculties? I think it'd have quite the opposite effect. Except, perhaps, with a general decline in religiosity.
@tomsega i just wrote exactly what you said word for word.. apparently not in the right context.. so i missed your point and you apparently missed mine.. i don't want to be arguing with someone on youtube on a daily basis.. i come on here just to watch entertaining videos.. all i was trying to say was that i was annoyed about people always complaining about how society is on a downfall.. but next time ill just keep my mouth shut and enjoy the video like i always do lol
Actually this scene in the movie is attacking those intellectuals who lack respect for what they teach. They trash or attack great artists (Fellini, Beckett) just to be contrarian or suspicious of tradition and so on. It actually is predictive on Allen's point of certain trends that would come to dominate in the academy.
@dandiacal NO I THINK ITS MORE BASIC THAN THAT, I REMEMBER THOSE DAYS, AND THE GUY BEHIND HIM WAS JUST PORTRAYING SOME LAME GUY WITH POOR MANNERS IN LINE, THE GUY WAS KIND OF LIKE THE GUY WHO SITS IN THE SEATS AND NARRATES WHILE HE DRIVES PEOPLE IN THE SEATS AROUND HIM NUTS....SO THE WHOLE THING WAS FUNNY AS HELL. ALSO A LOT OF PEOPLE BACK THEN WOULD TALK ABOUT MCLUHAN JUST TO IMPRESS PEOPLE AND THEY WERE OFTEN REALLY JUST TALKING TO HEAR THEMSELVES TALK, THE WHOLE BIT WAS FUNNY AS HELL
@marvelswe THOSE DAYS WERE GREAT, ALLAN WATTS, WAS ANOTHER ONE WHO HAD DIED IN 73, JUST BEFORE THIS MOVIE, WOODY'S EARLY SEVENTIES MOVIES WERE FUNNY AS HELL AND THEY WERE GREAT CONTEMPORARY REFLECTIONS OF THE TIMES, I DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM, LIKE DYLAN HIS CREATIVITY KIND OF EVAPORATED, MAYBE HE HAD DIFFERENT MOTIVATIONS, WHO KNOWS, I VAGUELY RECALL, AFTER ANNIE, HE DID LOVE AND DEATH WHICH WAS MILD AND SORT OF DROPPED OFF AFTER THAT, INTERIORS WAS ALL I COULD TAKE, MEANING IT WAS BAD.
the sad thing is, next morning the loudmouth dork would go to class crowing to his teenaged students, "Soooooo I attended a film review with Marshall McLuhan yesterday, and my unique viewpoints really seemed to make an impression on him...." =/
intelligence tastes sweeter with a modesty garnish, lol ;)
There is a lot to hate about critics, but when someone uses "self-indulgent" as a criticism, that's when I want to start throwing the gut level punches.
god if youve ever taken a history of film class ull know how allen feels here listing to all the dumb asses in class scream there opinions in your ear
I was recently having a discussion with a friend about the Academy Awards, and he said "Star Wars should have won best picture in 1977; does anyone even remember that silly little movie that won? I most certainly wanted to hit him on a gut level.
@TheAlmightySmurf I am not too interested in the Academy Awards but if anyone asked me which movie won, I would certainly have opted for Star Wars. I prefer this but I think most people would prefer Star Wars.
Actually, Federico Fellini was supposed to be in this scene, however, he wasn't able to. Hence, Woody Allen got Marshall McLuhan to fill in for Fellini. Had Fellini had the opportunity to participate in the film, the discussion of McLuhan's works wouldn't be mentioned and Alvy would have dragged Fellini right after the guy-in-line discusses about Fellini's films. Imagine what might have been.
The opinions stated are , .. I don't know artistically there is the gap of the Jean Luc Godard gen. and the Audrey Tautou it struck me like Fellini just sold on being gay, a futuristic one or escape from a mansion I don't know. but he classroom in this movie is priceless the talk of analysis sometime's you have to talk about in not prozac. though Woody's always talked openly about prescription Manhatten the talk of the Met in there is a national treasure.
God how I hate these movie experts with their phd's on film theory. A bunch of pretentious idiots who have never made a film in their life, but feel they know more about films than the people who actually make them.
One thing that strikes me MOST about this clip is can you IMAGINE if someone lit a cigarette in a theatre INDOORS today?!! I'll still take the 70's over today ANY day though :).
I love how the guy looks to the audience first as Woody walks off screen in shock and then is out of the frame as the camera sticks with Woody! This third wall break reminds me of The Purple Rose of Cairo. It's so funny you can almost do an ENTIRE movie on it!
It's the fourth wall broken when the character talks to the viewer/reader isn't it? Sorry, just confirming I could be wrong anyway. But yup, The purple Rose of Cairo is a great movie =)
Movies don't get much better than Annie Hall.
YogaforCynics 5 days ago
Awkward when you watch a film, and realise how many spoofs Family Guy made of it...
thedoctorand 1 week ago
The best! Thanks for sharing a film a year Woody. He's about the only one I still go to the theater for.
DodsworthMcGilicutty 2 weeks ago
Fellini, indulgent? That guy should watch some Godard.
blablaidontcarewhour 2 weeks ago 3
i miss the days i never even experienced...
evz92 2 weeks ago
I watched this scene with Marshall McLuhan and we had a good laugh together. (After that, we read some James Joyce and engaged in a little friendly sodomy.)
7beers 3 weeks ago
Does WA have Aspergers?
karezza6 1 month ago
@karezza6
No. It's called a sense of humor that you obviously lack.
zendoking 1 month ago
@karezza6 that is the general consensus!
karmalevel 2 weeks ago
Woody Allen is a creepy dwarf who preys on young women.
karezza6 1 month ago
@karezza6
He has been MARRIED to Soon-Yi for 14 years. Hardly a case of preying on young women anymore.
zendoking 1 month ago
my god he is rigth!!!
meetdoctordoom 1 month ago
When I went to see Midnight In Paris, as I was leaving, some twit was criticizing the relationship between Owen Wilson's character and his wife. I felt just like Woody in this clip and I loved it.
RoyalColaNews 2 months ago 3
do people outside of new york like this movie?
BobbyD167 2 months ago
@BobbyD167 Yes. Even outside the US.
LaVFdeJL 2 months ago 6
@BobbyD167 Love this film, totally get it and I'm from Dublin, Ireland
thasnap 2 months ago
Mozart, James Joyce and sodomy.
terratrema 3 months ago
Woody originally tried to get Fellini for this scene. That would have been amazing, but I will more than settle for Marshall McLuhan.
pjbrubak 3 months ago 2
Marshall McLuhan sent me here.
bertonglacy 3 months ago
Star Wars...... pffffffft. Such terrible acting. It was great for it's time because of the "EYE CANDY" and 'cause not much had been done like it before, but it's got so many flaws in terms of everything else.
Just like the "new" star wars film. They were terrible because we'd seen all the 3d bullshit and it wasn't anything "new" for it's time, and still retained the same god awful acting, and again a pretty lackluster script / storyline.
Annie Hall is a complete package. Great film!
staphinfection 4 months ago
@staphinfection annie hall is a great film in its own right (one of the quissential comedies and deserved the best picture oscar) you can't honestly say A New Hope is anything less than extraordinary and can't be judged by the inevitable prequels it spawned.
getlikemc 2 months ago
@staphinfection I found the Star Wars films incredibly indulgent.
benarobinson 1 month ago
I love how this is one take.
pokefreak525 4 months ago 5
There's a scene in "Midnight in Paris" that reminds me of this one. Woody loves to expose pretentious frauds.
slickvguy 4 months ago
"interested in Mozart, James Joyce, and Sodomy."
What a marvellous line. Woody, you are the most talented comedic writer / playwright of our times. From wiki: Woody Allen has won three Academy Awards and been nominated a total of 21 times: 14 as a screenwriter, six as a director, and one as an actor. He has more screenwriting Academy Award nominations than any other writer; all are in the "Best Original Screenplay" category. He is tied for fifth all-time with six Best Director nominations.
slickvguy 4 months ago
Allen really doesn't hit me in gut level, sorry, he just doesn't make me laugh. A smile yes, but a laugh, no. is it a crime?
drmaco 5 months ago
@drmaco
I'd like to hit you on a gut level. jk
help4343 5 months ago
@drmaco Maybe he's not going for LAUGHS, he's going for smiles.... And he's the king of satire, cynicism, and life lessons.
I get more from watching a Woody Allen movie than watching any other bullshit Hollywood crap out there these days. His movies make me think because they always deal with REAL life issues that I can relate to, and that's what keeps me coming back. The only thing Avatar made me think was ".............(insert cricket sound here)...............".
staphinfection 4 months ago 2
ALLTIME Great Scene ...Bravo !
smizzman 5 months ago
When I was very small, I was in the airport in Miami and my older brother recognized Woody Allen. He told me to go over and ask him for his autograph. So, I did, even though I had no idea who Woody Allen even was. Woody signed the back of the Charlie Brown book that I had. I really didn't know until years later that he was a famous comedian/filmmaker/writer.
hkhilner 5 months ago
"You know nothing of my work" this one of the funniest moments ever in movies.
pschroeter1 6 months ago 4
Marshall McLuhan ftw. lol!
theGhoulman 6 months ago
One big build-up to bring Marshall McLuhan onstage. "You, you mean my whole fallacy is wrong." Instead of, "my whole theory is based on a fallacy." McLuhan flubbed the lines, making it sound more outraged and flustered, but Woody Allen liked this take the way it was.
But the scene wouldn't work if McLuhan had not been a presentable guy. Somebody you'd want to sign off on your thesis. You could show him off anywhere.
margotdarby 6 months ago
If Marshall M could have lived to have seen this day when his only Woody Allen film appaearance would be disseminated to the world on a new medium called the internet, he'd be smiling like the Cheshire Cat.
DrRestezi 6 months ago 2
proto-hipster fight.
chomskyrow 6 months ago
Happy 100th, Marshall.
RussBP1981 6 months ago 8
Wiener dogs in outer space
WienerDogsOuterSpace 6 months ago
hey always cracked me up how woody is always setting upself up across ridiculously cute girls in these movies lol... talk about abusing his position of power XD
great scene
IcyScythe 6 months ago
Granero sent me here !
95douglas 6 months ago 11
@95douglas Granero sent us all!
luckysori 6 months ago
I love star wars. It was an amazing achievement that moved special effects forward 20 years and created the modern big budget herioc film as we know it. But I agree Annie Hall was the better film in every other way. (Slightly scared someone will say I don't know anything and that I have George Lucas/Woody Allen right here.)
rdouglas41 6 months ago
@rdouglas41 You don't know anything, I have George Lucas right here.
George Lucas: Rdouglas is right.
Me: Damn it.
agneumeyer 6 months ago 2
@agneumeyer Wow. What a relief that worked out this time. Actually something similar happened to me once in the 90s...I was going on and on about SNL was going down hill in a bar and someone managed to produce Jim Brewer on the spot. Pretty funny.
rdouglas41 5 months ago
@agneumeyer Wow. What a relief that worked out this time. Actually something similar happened to me once in the 90s...I was going on and on about SNL was going down hill in a bar and someone managed to produce Jim Brewer on the spot. Pretty funny...the booze cushioned the blow nicely.
rdouglas41 5 months ago
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nerfmyaccount 7 months ago
LOL hilarious
DamnitRecords 7 months ago
In 1977 I was five, and I probably would be upset if I knew that Star Wars lost to Annie Hall. But looking back, Annie Hall is a much better movie.
ItchythaWookiee 7 months ago
Everyones got an opinion. I wish they'd just keep it to themselves and stop trashing my eears or my brain with their ramblings. If your opinion doesn't save lives then SHUT UP.
gukonni 7 months ago
I'm working in a cinema where they're showing Midnight in Paris. Honestly, every other person who goes to see it has been this guy.
TulseLuper 7 months ago
@TulseLuper The Michael Sheen guy in the movie is like that, too.
ItchythaWookiee 7 months ago
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matthewjamal 8 months ago
Do you folks realize how much this discussion resembles the clip we just saw? Oh, great, now you've got me doing it.
sumwunhuis 8 months ago 3
Star Wars ? LOL , how old are you, twelve ? Star Wars has no artistic merits.
UppityQueer 8 months ago
@UppityQueer Are you kidding? Sure, it lacks depth in it's story, but the cinematography and sets are beautiful. Not to mention it's a lot more to watch that Annie Hall. You can't compare them. Why are people comparing them? STOP COMPARING THEM!
FetaCheese222 8 months ago
turn off
tune out
drop dead
watch?v=FmgKwJhodZw
psycomedia 8 months ago
Country singer Gretchen Wilson must be a Woody Allen fan. She even makes reference to Annie Hall in the chorus of her smash hit "Redneck Woman."
bucky468 9 months ago
why are these people not on their cell phones?
yosoytacoseasoning 9 months ago
@yosoytacoseasoning Because the force of gravity made them almost impossible to lift to the mouth in those days. (If only the same were true now)
ewaf88 9 months ago
Star Wars and Annie Hall cannot be compared
Dalek1230 9 months ago 22
@Dalek1230 The force of gravity made them almost impossible to lift to the mouth in those days.
ewaf88 9 months ago
Idk, very though call in my opinion on star wars vs Annie hall for best picture. I don't see why ppl are in such a debate because a) it happened 34 yrs ago and u can't do anything about and b) they are bth just such good movies so stop being haters out there!!!
moneybags1972 10 months ago
Star Wars should not have won!!! because an Academy Award is not worth the film!!!
bakbergenov 10 months ago
Diane Keaton is awesome in this movie (as she is in every film)! But in general movie is just a fucking wasting of time with that stupid jerk in the leading role.
bakbergenov 10 months ago
@bakbergenov that's Woody Allen at his peak. Buy a clue.
steveconn 10 months ago 2
What is this, a master card commercial?
bondheli 10 months ago
I love this scene! one reason being I had a teacher at university who was just like the guy in this scene and he also loved quoting McLuhan. He also loved trashing any film work that wasn't to his personal taste. There were so many days I'd sit in class rolling my eyes and thinking if only I could what Woody Allen did here!
popaddict 10 months ago
95% of writings about art is pure bullshit. I am serious.
neonaction 10 months ago 2
@neonaction
i totally agree! some/most writers just want to sell, not teach anything...so they BS their way through...regretful
cheers from Brazil amigo
duduvissotto 10 months ago
I definitely think Star Wars should've won best picture, but i LOVE this movie!!! especially this movie!!!
RUnerdy 10 months ago
LOL
Elenkhos 11 months ago
Woody Allen's movies never really appealed to me. I don't know why. Maybe because I am from California and I don't really get the whole East Coast way of talking and thinking.
rpena728 1 year ago
@rpena728 Well i'm British and i get it. You probably just don't like his style.
soph9 11 months ago
@rpena728 He'd like to hit you at a gut level.
kentonlarsen 11 months ago
The movie's great. These comments below are Marshall McLuhan proofs - things turned upside down. I for one, know nothing of Allen's work. But I've seen a bunch of his movies. I'd keep my mouth shut on line: if only I could afford to go to a damned movie, anymore. $12.00 in Manhattan
wagerfilmART 1 year ago
Marhsall McLuhan: one symbol-figure (of many) who would remind us to "tidy our grammar," and to be considerate of our fellow standee on line. Woody Allen, Self-Indulgence Icon that he remains (despite many embarrassing life events) has a very witty dialogue playing in the background.
...McLuhan did not know that we would be able to replay sections of movies and gain the same insights & benefits that the printed word could afford us.
How many media are operating at the same time, here?
wagerfilmART 1 year ago
Then why is it that Bogart doesn't sound exactly like Raines in CASABLANCA, or Daste exactly like Simon in L'ATALANTE, or Lockwood exactly like Redgrave in THE LADY VANISHES? No, sound quality isn't what I'm referring to. It's vocal inflection: Woody gets all of his actors to simulate a variant of his own shtick, and I find it deadening.
goback3spaces 1 year ago
@goback3spaces I think I understand. The taught "New York" dialect is an exaggerated form of a constantly changing set of vocal inflections. There is a prominent use of a slighlty-greatly exaggerated Upper West Side secular Jewish style, and Mr. Allen is the major exponent of the dialect. His own exaggeration, which is fun to do, comes from 1950s comedians up in the Catskills, "The Borscht Belt." Since that is not popular today, it may annoy more people than amuse them. Intensity is part of it.
wagerfilmART 1 year ago
@wagerfilmART That's a very sophisiticated response. An alternate view is that Allen is simply a megalomaniac.
goback3spaces 1 year ago
I think anyone who is even bothering to comment about this clip... has missed it's point entirely. (this is called, hypocrisy)
DAVN121 1 year ago
@DAVN121 isn't that irony?
Lumberjack12321 1 year ago
i love how starting from 0:02 , the camera keeps rolling. that's a nice long take.
RawbThatPunk 1 year ago 3
Why does every individual in every God Damn Woody Allen movie talk exactly like Woody Allen?
goback3spaces 1 year ago
@goback3spaces Because you're ignorant and can't get your mind around the fact that it takes place in New York and the sound quality of 1970's movies is worse than today.
Ice9195 1 year ago
the last 20 seconds had me rofl
RandomEdge 1 year ago
AWESOME, i was looking for that
OldMacFlai 1 year ago
"you know nothing of my work" - such a good bit, my parents have quoted that line all my life...
basehead617 1 year ago 8
I'm here because of Family Guy :D
trekkie441 1 year ago
But before I go i'd like to say we all are guilty of something. I think that Woody is also being somewhat self-deprecating. He himself talks a lot and has a lot of opinions. If you watch his movies, he talks more than anyone else in the film. He can't talk without expressing an opinion. And I can't say people can't have an opinion about world war II unless they were there when it happened or have extensively met world war II veterans and visited world war II sites. That would be indulgent.
gukonni 1 year ago
I challenge any of you that instead of criticizing someone or something that you dislike so much that you find this person or thing in person and see it for yourself on an intimate level. I guarantee you that your demeanor and attitude will change.
Again, I think the internet is a great thing for science and information in business. But for people it's a train crash because people aren't very rational and attack eachother too easily. Put it away. Explore the real thing for a change.
gukonni 1 year ago
I feel the same way about bush haters. They wasted 8 years tarnishing a man who is now redeemed and spitting on a man who deserves respect. I'm just so tired of it. I even shut my television off because there's so much of it on tv. You need to put down the computer and the tv and the books an all of this junk that impersonates real world knowledge and actually travel the world and learn for yourself what hte truth is. that's the best and only trustworthy way to find out.
gukonni 1 year ago
@gukonni You are incorrect and cannot know why.
andomamern 11 months ago
I really don't like how europe gasbags throw their regurgitated garbage all over the media and trash america. I think that in a broad sense what wood allen is saying here is that some people talk too much and depend on status more than actual real world hand on experience.
gukonni 1 year ago
Great movie. Where is actress Sigourney Weaver?
Khultan 1 year ago
@Khultan She's at the very end of the film, just an establishment shot of her standing next to Woody as his date. No lines.
Tazzy5 1 year ago
@Tazzy5 Thanks, so she's not in this clip then. And on a sidenote, I have encountered guys like this.
Khultan 1 year ago
Whilst England was still such a stuffy place, America used to be the perfect mix of cool informality and old fashioned intelligence/articulacy... at some point in the last 25 years it tipped over into stupidness and over-informality, prime time broadcasters saying "That's awesome man" like a 15 year old boy.
tomsega 1 year ago
@tomsega And nothing is worse than 'my bad' and 'frickin'. Horrible phrases each.
Tazzy5 1 year ago
@tomsega i think the people who went downhill are the ones who are so concerned and critical of everyone else's way of thinking instead of just living there own life.. i feel sorry for those people...
aAntho101 1 year ago
@aAntho101 - I think you've got it the wrong way around. It's the people who are concerned and critical about thinking who've gone missing, the ones who love like to believe what they want to believe (the religious, the consumerists) who are the problem..
tomsega 1 year ago
@tomsega they are a problem for believing what they want to believe? I'm sorry i don't follow that logic.. so everyone should be brainwashed to the 'ideal way of thinking'? ya, I don't agree with a lot of people's opinions and what is of value to them but that would happen no matter what.. you should just try to better your own way of thinking if that's important to you.. but not everyone has the same priorities as you.. if everyone thought the same way the world would be a pretty boring place
aAntho101 1 year ago
@aAntho101 Wow. I never said anything about freedom of speech. And why should everyone necessarily end up being 'the same' if everyone were merely encouraged to use their critical faculties? I think it'd have quite the opposite effect. Except, perhaps, with a general decline in religiosity.
tomsega 1 year ago
@tomsega i just wrote exactly what you said word for word.. apparently not in the right context.. so i missed your point and you apparently missed mine.. i don't want to be arguing with someone on youtube on a daily basis.. i come on here just to watch entertaining videos.. all i was trying to say was that i was annoyed about people always complaining about how society is on a downfall.. but next time ill just keep my mouth shut and enjoy the video like i always do lol
aAntho101 1 year ago
That woman he's with; what kind of woman would go see a movie with a guy like this?
DonZabu 1 year ago
Actually this scene in the movie is attacking those intellectuals who lack respect for what they teach. They trash or attack great artists (Fellini, Beckett) just to be contrarian or suspicious of tradition and so on. It actually is predictive on Allen's point of certain trends that would come to dominate in the academy.
dandiacal 1 year ago
@dandiacal NO I THINK ITS MORE BASIC THAN THAT, I REMEMBER THOSE DAYS, AND THE GUY BEHIND HIM WAS JUST PORTRAYING SOME LAME GUY WITH POOR MANNERS IN LINE, THE GUY WAS KIND OF LIKE THE GUY WHO SITS IN THE SEATS AND NARRATES WHILE HE DRIVES PEOPLE IN THE SEATS AROUND HIM NUTS....SO THE WHOLE THING WAS FUNNY AS HELL. ALSO A LOT OF PEOPLE BACK THEN WOULD TALK ABOUT MCLUHAN JUST TO IMPRESS PEOPLE AND THEY WERE OFTEN REALLY JUST TALKING TO HEAR THEMSELVES TALK, THE WHOLE BIT WAS FUNNY AS HELL
whothehellgivesadamn 1 year ago
THE OTHER FUNNY THING IS THAT MOST YOUTUBE POSTER MORONS WOULDN'T EVEN HAVE THE REMOTEST CLUE WHO MARSHALL MCLUHAN WAS
whothehellgivesadamn 1 year ago 4
@whothehellgivesadamn That is why it is awesome that they watch this movie, so that they can go find out who he is and learn about his work.
marvelswe 1 year ago
@marvelswe THOSE DAYS WERE GREAT, ALLAN WATTS, WAS ANOTHER ONE WHO HAD DIED IN 73, JUST BEFORE THIS MOVIE, WOODY'S EARLY SEVENTIES MOVIES WERE FUNNY AS HELL AND THEY WERE GREAT CONTEMPORARY REFLECTIONS OF THE TIMES, I DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM, LIKE DYLAN HIS CREATIVITY KIND OF EVAPORATED, MAYBE HE HAD DIFFERENT MOTIVATIONS, WHO KNOWS, I VAGUELY RECALL, AFTER ANNIE, HE DID LOVE AND DEATH WHICH WAS MILD AND SORT OF DROPPED OFF AFTER THAT, INTERIORS WAS ALL I COULD TAKE, MEANING IT WAS BAD.
whothehellgivesadamn 1 year ago
@whothehellgivesadamn Even thought he screwed up his lines, McLuhan created an iconic shot, ironic if you know what he stood for and what he taught.
RussBP1981 6 months ago
@somebutthead dude... Woody Allen is poking fun of himself too... even more than the other guy... and anyone who watches his movies...
nimanimche 1 year ago
I couldn't turn my brother in, because I needed the eggs.
JeremyKonstenius 1 year ago
Sequel to turn of the skrew. Fantastic.
scarfprickles 1 year ago
If I get to choose who I get to be in the next life, it would be Woody. What a genius of film making.
waiting4smtin 1 year ago
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My deduction precisely!
SIngli6 1 year ago
the sad thing is, next morning the loudmouth dork would go to class crowing to his teenaged students, "Soooooo I attended a film review with Marshall McLuhan yesterday, and my unique viewpoints really seemed to make an impression on him...." =/
intelligence tastes sweeter with a modesty garnish, lol ;)
alexp9999 1 year ago
"My whole fallacy is wrong"
hahaha
pfflam 1 year ago 2
woody are great comic actor better than a director
max65251 1 year ago
This is exactly why I try to keep my opinions short and snappy.
orangejuuz 1 year ago 3
The key word here is indulgent
gimpoid1985 1 year ago
funniest scene in a woody allen movie...well I guess that means funniest scene in any movie.
couldwinarabbit 1 year ago 2
I love this scene (and hate it) because the douche behind him reminds me of me.
Except I don't yell my opinions out in public - I'm at least self aware.
hedonism13 1 year ago
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GayFoxxx 1 year ago
this bea t star wars in 1977 what a crock
lifewithdeath 1 year ago
I would love to have this scenario wnenever someone starts spouting off about what the Founding Fathers meant.
smichelle65 1 year ago
awesome scene
vasyazadov 1 year ago
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Greatest film of all time...for pseudo-intellectual cunts
This shit beat star wars for best picture
Fuck that hooknosed pedophile and his shitty movies
stonebridge999 1 year ago
probably the best movie ever made in nyc
buenosdiers 1 year ago 4
There is a lot to hate about critics, but when someone uses "self-indulgent" as a criticism, that's when I want to start throwing the gut level punches.
bassman462 1 year ago
god if youve ever taken a history of film class ull know how allen feels here listing to all the dumb asses in class scream there opinions in your ear
tottenhm4lyf 1 year ago
"30ish academic, wishes to meet a woman who's interested in mozart, james joyce and sodomy..."
quandrax 1 year ago 7
reminds me of internet battles where people suddenly have all these degrees that make their arguments valid. hah.
faithm 1 year ago 6
Anyone notice that the jabbering critic looks very similar to Mr.Allen. Maybe Woody is trying to represent two sides of himself.
IndieMovieChannel 1 year ago 5
I was recently having a discussion with a friend about the Academy Awards, and he said "Star Wars should have won best picture in 1977; does anyone even remember that silly little movie that won? I most certainly wanted to hit him on a gut level.
TheAlmightySmurf 1 year ago 23
@TheAlmightySmurf I am not too interested in the Academy Awards but if anyone asked me which movie won, I would certainly have opted for Star Wars. I prefer this but I think most people would prefer Star Wars.
alanheath2 7 months ago
@TheAlmightySmurf I'm the biggest Star Wars geek you can find (it should be obvious from my nick) and I would say Annie Hall is the better movie.
Star Wars is one of my *favourite* movies, but I realize that it is flawed. The dialogue is pretty silly, and the acting aint great either.
ItchythaWookiee 7 months ago
Awesome.
dontknow252 1 year ago 2
@1:14 - Woody should have stopped him from smoking and poisining everyone's air!
tripjet999 1 year ago
@tripjet999 Wish someone would poison your air
stanleykneecap 1 year ago
"Boy,if only life here were like this"......IF movies were only as half as good, mr allen!!!
lucagracias 1 year ago
That guy sounds pretty smart. I'm not familiar with Fellini but his insights sound pretty good.
ObamaBiden20082012 1 year ago
@ObamaBiden20082012 it's not because you have culture that you're smart
teuffeu 1 year ago
@somebutthead Yup, we surely are!!
tommyt1971 1 year ago
"Mozart, James Joyce and Sodomy" ha
hobbsk 1 year ago 4
Actually, Federico Fellini was supposed to be in this scene, however, he wasn't able to. Hence, Woody Allen got Marshall McLuhan to fill in for Fellini. Had Fellini had the opportunity to participate in the film, the discussion of McLuhan's works wouldn't be mentioned and Alvy would have dragged Fellini right after the guy-in-line discusses about Fellini's films. Imagine what might have been.
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SarahRyan2002 1 year ago
awesome.
Lion117 1 year ago
ctm hahahaha
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islam is a mental disease
jingel89 1 year ago
@jingel89 And what religion, pray tell, do YOU practice?
tommyt1971 1 year ago
keyword: indulgent
Mazun 1 year ago
Where can I adopt one of them "Back Walkers"?
GomerDose 1 year ago
The only thing better than this clip is the one with Christopher Walken...
jamasianman 1 year ago
One of the most satisfying moments in movies.
willerror 1 year ago
The greatest, funiest and most memorable scene in film history!
letsif 2 years ago 4
Are you an idiot or just retarded?
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barquedust 2 years ago
"what i wouldnt give for a sack of horse manure right now" LOL!!!!
kitten112481 2 years ago 3
The opinions stated are , .. I don't know artistically there is the gap of the Jean Luc Godard gen. and the Audrey Tautou it struck me like Fellini just sold on being gay, a futuristic one or escape from a mansion I don't know. but he classroom in this movie is priceless the talk of analysis sometime's you have to talk about in not prozac. though Woody's always talked openly about prescription Manhatten the talk of the Met in there is a national treasure.
newnameism 2 years ago
I'd forgotten what an art form kvetching became in Allen's hands.
jackal59 2 years ago 2
A large sock full of horse manure. I should travel with one!
stargell777 2 years ago 3
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Ironic considering Woody Allen is a large sock full of horse manure.
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One of the worst actors ever hatched from a chicken egg! oh yes he's a legend alrite? a legendary child rapist!
piromx2 2 years ago
do you write this stupid shit to every single Woody Allen clip?
whsonic 2 years ago
awesome
lukeloseth 2 years ago
you know nothing of my work. lol
onexero1 2 years ago 3
God how I hate these movie experts with their phd's on film theory. A bunch of pretentious idiots who have never made a film in their life, but feel they know more about films than the people who actually make them.
illbetilbake 2 years ago 5
One thing that strikes me MOST about this clip is can you IMAGINE if someone lit a cigarette in a theatre INDOORS today?!! I'll still take the 70's over today ANY day though :).
Yapostadodat 2 years ago 7
"You mean my whole fallacy is wrong"
chanacochina 2 years ago 4
I love how the guy looks to the audience first as Woody walks off screen in shock and then is out of the frame as the camera sticks with Woody! This third wall break reminds me of The Purple Rose of Cairo. It's so funny you can almost do an ENTIRE movie on it!
Yapostadodat 2 years ago
It's the fourth wall broken when the character talks to the viewer/reader isn't it? Sorry, just confirming I could be wrong anyway. But yup, The purple Rose of Cairo is a great movie =)
metoren 2 years ago
hahaha
catra195 2 years ago
Mozart, James Joyce, and Sodomy.
spooksmagee 2 years ago 8
"Boy, if life were only like this".
ErichoTTA 2 years ago 63
People who don't find this hilarious have a comedic-privation- disorder, or CPD.
I think there are drugs for this.
helenrose234 2 years ago 10
cannabis namely.
asinkingship 2 years ago 5
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OMG my english teecher said this was the gratest movie ever made but i tryed watchin it and its BOOORRRING!!
seriusly dis guy is a huge nerd he prolly never got laid in high school LOL...Transformers was way more gooder den this piece of shitt.
Urmomgoes2collige 2 years ago
woody would make short work of a speller like you
louiecostello 2 years ago