Annie Hall ending

[LedWhisky69]

If someone needs the ending of this film explained to them, they don't know the first thing about love and that's sad.

[thedoctorand]

I guess you could argue that the women already have the eggs...

[rufus10000]

Have you ever noticed the light change from don't walk to walk just in the right moment?

For me that nuance is on purpose and fits perfectly as well.

....you struggle in a relationship, try to save it and keep it....and at a certain point, you internally let it finally go and walk away...great ending to a more than great movie

[RumahDiLaut]

by eggs he means sex right?

[mrionomercy]

Now I'm playing this video over and over again, this scene is always making me down.

[SpanishGuy18]

@mrionomercy dont feel down babo

[kylezcrimsino1969]

Most of us DO need 'The Eggs', but my dating history has been 'Scrambled'.

[mr10am]

is Woody Allen saying that even though relationships are hard and can bring a lot of pain, we still go through them because:

a) of our desire to find love

b) we like the drama and pain that relationships bring

c) we know there is no such thing as "the one", but we still have relationships hoping we are wrong

or maybe i'm way off and none of the above. lol

[redfordforpresident]

@mr10am No, he means that animal-cruel, capital punishment-barbaric humans will end up with egg on their faces. They already have. That's why the novel Charlotte's Web, written by vegan E.B. White, quotes the black widow spider as saying her egg sac is her greatest work. Annie Hall, the only comedy to ever win an Oscar, is shot in pre-9-11 Manhattan. In the movie EVE-ry-One Says I Love You, Woody says humans control nothing and it's later than you think. Eve of destruction--see 2001.

[ChacaritaSenior]

@mr10am I would say : ALL of the above :)

[idealidade]

It's always the same, suddenly my eyes are floating in tears.

[Kingopersia]

I'm celebit and I don't want a relationship with anybody...after seeing this and hearing what he had to say, it made me rethink my celebacy. Woody Allen is not an actor, he's an artist. he stars in these great films and ends them with an ending that makes you think about life and love. this is the best ending to any movie I've ever seen, not becaues it's got a great closure but because it shows that life doesn't always happen the way you want. in the end, they seperated...amazing

[67tr876]

Is that the same place they filmed that sean in taxi driver ?

[0981462]

Always cry watching this. :)

[CEOrko]

"Snoopy and I are very proud of this film. It's a wonderful merger of our creative aspirations best summed up by a joke which is usually attributed to Groucho Marx, although I think it originally appears in Freud's Wit and Its Relation to the Unconscious. It goes something like this—I'm paraphrasing here:

'Old mother Hubbard

went to the cupboard

to fetch her pitbull a bone

When she bent down

the pitbull bit her ass off'

I guess that's why I keep making movies; I need the ass."

[srssantana]

What song is playing?

[mamal868]

@srssantana i guess it is "seems like old times". Annie is singing it.

[RicksonByArmbar]

@srssantana Seems Like Old Times. Annie sings it earlier in the film.

[mayagold10]

i cant put in to words how i feel when i watch that scene, every freaking time...

[illuminatioracle]

this scene contains the kind of feeling nyc used to have, which is now a far cry from the wealthy midwest hipster whitebread white trash playground it has become where all the color character and creativity has been bled dry

[lewislloyd]

perfection.

[JeremyKonstenius]

Doc my brothers crazy he thinks he's a coca bush and the doctor says why don't you turn him in, I would but I need the cocaine.

[uneedtherapy42]

only Woody would think to shoot this shot as though you are observing 2 random people on a street corner from your vantage point of a restaurant or diner... you don't know them and never will but you glance at them see them part and probably go back to looking at the menu or eating...never giving them (and the life they had together) any thought again... what a sad and beautiful ending to this movie... love how Woody looks as though he will say Wait!! but then turns and leaves too... amazing

[67tr876]

@uneedtherapy42 you know why ? Its beacse Of one what he was saying here and then he did this so like if you were eating and saw this it shows life go's on by you going back to eating and him leaving. Its great

[xvoy2002]

Cock roaches and bad plumbing? You say that like it's a negative thing"

got to love it.

[moneybags1972]

This movie somehow pulled off that sad ending that is really great and wonderful at the same time. How they did it I still don't know :)

[jeffmangumisgood]

@moneybags1972 i personally feel it's a perfect metaphor for life itself. sad ending, but worth the effort for the bits of happiness to experience beforehand.

[29filmfanatic]

A perfect ending for this film. It's realistic yet poetic at the same time. Not every movie needs the "Hollywood" happily ever after ending. Sometimes a movie needs an ending that's true

[VinnieG690]

Perfect movie.

[playdiirty]

this movie gives me such a good feeling. the music fits so perfectly with the scene too :)

[nexuspexus]

I love the way they shake hands and then tentatively kiss goodbye.

[ItaloBen]

Still makes me cry every time I see this!

[etbella3]

What's up doc?

[Zach3066]

one of the best endings of one of the best movies ever

[razorsharpandonpoint]

didnt like ending only because it hit me right in the heart he loved her and was happy they could be friend but he wanted her back,i had the same situation and i still never found anybody like her, man just cause of that im not ever watching this movie again its a classic though

[rmr2001]

@razorsharpandonpoint Very touching comment you wrote. Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz had a similar relationship. Although they divorced and both remarried, they were still in love. After Lucy died (in 1990) Gary Morton (her second husband) said, "Now she's with Desi" (who had died 4 years earlier).

[razorsharpandonpoint]

@rmr2001 yeah, i just dont believe people in love can fall out of love sure you can be your sick in tired of someone , but is not real love to me if you just leave that person and get treat that person like nothing happened between them and Lucille Ball diddnt want to leave Desi Arnaz she really loved him

[rankamateur66]

i love allen's symbolism here. as they're leaving eachother, the "don't walk" sign changes to "walk," freeing them up for the next egg.

[antaresche]

In the spanish translation, the joke said "light bulb or candle" instead of chicken; and "illuminate" instead of eggs, so the phrase is something like this: "The most of us need someone to illuminate".

[pnull]

What is the name of the restaurant this scene was shot from. I seem to recall a place called O'Neil's Balloon or just O'Neil's was at that location.... corner of W. 63rd..across from Lincoln Center.

[michaelin2008]

i'm taking the ending line literally: yes, the sperms they need the eggs.

[dudeabidez]

Eggs go rotten..

As Tommy Cooper said egg,egg,egg,.

[BeatlesFetish09]

"we all need the eggs"...but what about vegans?

[limeginger]

@BeatlesFetish09 SOL

[etbella3]

@BeatlesFetish09 They don't get salmonella like the egg eaters. Easter. Eat the eggs and die. Salmonella. Whoa Nellie. Dial M (upside down W (George Bush Junior and Senior)) for murder. You are what you eat. Eat dead things and you will soon be dead.

[waitfornod1924]

What a downer to learn that. But still an incredibly satisfying movie.

[ErikCartman]

i just learned this movie was probably one of the worst of allen and the editor rescued it cause it was supposed to be a mistery/drama.

they edited out a lot of material and changed the story the ending was so depressing allen had to rewrite that (this bit) on the way to the editor room.

what a delusion he wasn't at the oscar cause he didn't feel this was his movie

[vanessafabulay]

@ErikCartman Actually, none of that story is actually the truth. Woody Allen is famous (infamous) for shrouding his movies in secrecy, and will deliberately film scenes that have nothing to do with the movie in order to keep even the actors guessing as to what the movie is actually about. Allen always wants his actors to feel like they just fell into the plot, and they never know more than what is in their own scenes. He also had many different names for his movies before he shot them.

[Jonas42]

@ErikCartman That's not exactly right. It did start out as a murder mystery, but the idea evolved while he was still working out the script with Marshall Brickman. The first actual draft of the script was called "Anhedonia" and was meant to show the inner thoughts of the Alvy Singer character, so that one moment would trigger another thought, which would lead to another scene, regardless of chronology. Very stream of consciousness. And you can see some of that in the finished movie (cont'd)

[Jonas42]

@Jonas42 (cont'd) In that version the Annie Hall relationship was just one part of the thing. They finished the movie that way, but when Allen screened it for some people, they were confused by it and were invariably more interested in the parts with Diane Keaton, so he re-edited the movie to focus on that & put it more in chronological order. But to say the editor saved it is not right. Allen has more control over his films than any other American filmmaker & he works with the editor closely.

[Jonas42]

@Jonas42 (cont'd) This is all from Eric Lax's biography of Allen, btw.

[idiotstale]

Best ending ever. This movie is the greatest masterpiece of all times.

Woody Allen is a genius.

[kcrystalle]

is that diane keaton singing? perfect way to end this beautiful movie.

[kirk92270]

one of the best films of all time gess movies such as this will never happen agin...

[cattycakes64]

If you need to ask about the eggs joke then baby you'll never know.

[GaryKole12]

Im sorry if im a complete moron to the ending but what exactly does he mean about that we need the "eggs"?

[RealityClo]

@GaryKole12

He's saying basically that love is a painful and absurd thing, but that we all need it. :)

That's the eggs stuff.

[SarahRyan2002]

Check out 'sarah ryan deluded' You will either love it or hate it.

[21dandandan12]

i love this movie so much. This ending makes me feel sad, but in a happy way. Does anyone know what I mean?

[Blossom89Sk]

exactly how I feel :-)

[dashofchutmeg]

@21dandandan12 My girlfriend just saw it for the first time last night, and according to what she said, you're not alone.

[btgreypaws]

Sadly, I guess all good things come to an end

[broiledwolf]

You, sir, are a codfish.

[AttakkanAusSchnelsen]

the german ending is accusticly 100 times better

[m3talmilitia15]

Beautiful movie.

[curbyourwife]

'Manhattan' has my favourite opening sequence and 'Annie Hall' has my favourite ending. That shot from the diner window and that shot of the fireworks and skyscrapers set to gershwin, made me fall in love with the city. Truly amazing. Sad it seems that Allen will never make a better film than Annie Hall i guess some of us just, need the eggs.

[KingMoses3]

this post could have come from my fingertips

[broiledwolf]

I couldn't agree more.

[MissNormaDesmond]

I just wish more people would recognize the contribution that Marshall Brickman made to this script. There's a reason this is the best movie Allen ever made.

[barrytron3030]

agreed, but marshall brickman didn't write hannah and her sisters, crimes and misdemeanors, radio days and a basket of other brilliant woody allen movies.

[leiferickson08]

one of the greatest endings I have ever seen.

I got choked up when I saw this splendid shit.

[ItBrandonSilver]

Uh, no. It's highly overrated, and not at all entertaining.

[WetKant]

Your girlfriend said the same thing about you

[ShadowCrashed81]

Go back to your transformers and other summer blockbusters.

[mr10am]

@leiferickson08 i agree. Annie Hall has one of the best movie endings ever.

[ontheconcourse]

this reminds me that i definitely have to rewatch this movie.. guh.

[mattincalifornia]

The end of this movie saddens me

[furtador]

my brother is crazy

[lonelygnome1]

...I told myself I wasn't gonna cry.....

[RogerKaputnik]

That's great writing.

[steveocanevo]

good shit.

[misskimmy3]

the best movie ever. and this final scene is one of the best ever made

[RevolverScot]

This ending gets me everytime. It reminds me of the only person I ever loved and who loved me the right way. It is sad but a reminder that life has meaning

[jack19790]

Actually life doesn't have meaning. You're not taking into account the kids who die in Africa from malaria. They never get to fall in love and die a cruel preventable death.

[MissNormaDesmond]

The fact that their lives are cut short doesn't prove that they don't have meaning. I'm kind of stunned by the arrogance of this pronouncement. It's precisely because people refuse to recognize that others' lives have meaning that children are allowed to live in poverty and die cruel, preventable deaths.

[xionixio]

"I guess we keep on ... because most of us need the eggs" Anybody can complete the sentence please?!! What is the word after "keep on"

[nahonee]

through??

[mclennon1]

keep going through it

[xionixio]

are you sure?? I think is keep on through it...

[nmitchell98405]

He says, "We keep going through it because we need the eggs."

[kevincosne]

We keep going through it because most of us need the eggs.

[queenastilon]

It's not "keep on", It's "...we keep going through it because..."

[kernmount]

Important words to remember when your trying to figure out why your relationship is screwed up. We all need the eggs. It seems to me to be a message of forgiveness.

[PoeticalNonsense]

forgiveness isn't the right word. that's too...i dunno...noble? woody's kind of saying that we're too selfish to stop the pointlessness of relationships. we keep going through it to get what WE want out of it.

[adelinomalveiro]

I know that Sigourney Weaver made her first screen appearance on movies in Annie Hall, for about 6 seconds, but I never could locate her and I've watched this movie several times. Does anyone knows in which scene she appears? I have no clue. Thanks

[yanapingu]

yeah, you can't tell it's her, but she appears as alvy's date when they meet annie and her date outside the cinema when she's dragging him in to see the 'sorrow and the pity'. it's not long before the final scene. hope that helps.

[adelinomalveiro]

Hi yanapingu, I've checked it and she's there alright. Very tall with a beije overcoat. Thanks for the help!

[bebe1001]

a masterpiece

[martinhoh]

Woody Allen needs the eggs.

[kywonitro]

martinoh, wow you are such a fucking homo

[LOLUK]

This last scene says so much in such a small amount of time. I love this movie!

[ChachiTelevision1979]

I love this movie.

[thebigsleep14]

true, and so original.

[AStopMotionChannel]

What GREAT movie

[artyflap]

a brillant ending to a brillant film - one could not find an ending that befits a film such as this one....

[Falstaff1972]

@artyflap

Sono completamente d'accordo. Abbiamo tutti bisogno di uova.

[cerzule]

This is one of the most perfect and poignant endings I've ever seen - it always brings tears to my eyes. I love every minute of this movie, and its conclusion is as brilliant as one could hope for after such a wonderful film.

[bake33]

We all need the eggs my friends..

[RideMyBMW]

"We all need the eggs my friends..." - Bake

Yeah, yeah. I`m taking a break for a while. Walking away from this combat zone...

[SickThing9]

As in the case of most Woody Allen moments, It's funny because it's true.

[RideMyBMW]

I`m at that point where I think I`ll find my eggs somewhere else...

[uhdope]

going gay, huh?

[golfdog42]

such a good movie.

[RevolverScot]

This is the possibly his best movie. The DK singing "Seems Like Old Times" is just too beautiful

[0jenseits0]

i really don't know anyone who can talk about love like woody does...exspecially in this scene!!!

it's a shame but i always cry like a baby! :)

good posting!

bye

[DaRiceking]

Notice the "one way" and "dont walk"?

Woody Allen ftw

[DaRiceking]

Notice the "one way" and "dont walk"?

Woody Allen ftw

[twafu]

wow!

everybody needs the eggs....

[rambles06]

I love the soft piano music at the end

[TkrB]

I really don't get the egg joke.. even after watching it three times :\

[catbird007]

Those things that cannot be cured, must be endured. if you want to pass along a kid before you die Women are the only game in town....We need the Eggs

[TkrB]

Thanks for the explanation... Hmmm, I don't understand why people would give me thumbs down when all I have said was that I don't get the last joke :\

[skylash]

the egg joke is really just about how we want love and relationships no matter how crazy they make us feel. it's a no win sitaution. to really love someone is to risk it all and with that comes the risk of going a little nutty in the process. hope that helps.

[humblestile]

@skylash I think that the egg joke comes in to justify the injustifyed reason to love... Without eggs we cant do the omelet....

[erisdragon]

wonderful...

[meropale]

I've come to the conclusion that I lurve this.

[dbell962]

lurve... touche, you get it!

[lordalessan]

U cud also say that u "luff" this

[meropale]

Words cannot begin to express...

[Alfarc83]

fantastic movie

[Thecrow914]

one of my fave films of all time

allen and keaton truely remarkable

[dnice31]

greatest last line in movie history...

[Thecrow914]

this ending is so perfect

[lamorale]

i truly love this movie :)

[RogerKaputnik]

The perfect ending...

[jamesviola79]

Does anyone know which street this is? And is the cafe is still there?

[Roman888]

Broadway @ W 63rd st. There is still a diner at that corner, but I'm not sure if it's the same one (businesses change very fast and very often in NYC).

[coolitababy]

The cafe was called O'Neill's then. It moved in about '82...don't know if it still exists in the new location.

[amobass911]

Yeah, O'neils moved to 64th and Columbus. The location in the film (which is like a block from my house) has gone through many stages, but as of recent it is has turned into a restaurant called p.j clarks. This is probably the 3rd clarks in the city to be opened.

Still crazy to see my home in the 70s at the end of a beautiful film.

[CheckItOut41]

This may seem random, but I am not from New York, and when i visit next, I'd like to see where this was shot... What intersection is this (in the clip)?

[amobass911]

The intersection is 63rd and Columbus (in the clip they standing on the north west part of the street which is pretty much in a little park in between Broadway and Columbus called Dante park) You will know where it is - just cross the street from lincoln center and you will see this little park with the statue of dante) Hope that helps out

[Schattenjager83]

I think it's on the north east part of the street...

[amobass911]

I'm sure it is on the north west part of the street

[Schattenjager83]

Where they are both standing?

Columbus Avenue (9th Avenue) traffic is from North to South, and the park between Columbus and Broadway (which begins at 63rd St. and finishes at the junction near 65th St.) is located East of Columbus. Annie leaves for Lincoln Center as we can see, as Alvin (Woody) goes towards Broadway or Central Park...

[yanapingu]

I think it's on the north east part too. columbus runs downtown. so in the final scene we're facing uptown (roughly), so they must be standing on the north east part.

[amobass911]

Yeah, they start on the north east part of the block and head south. you got it

[rtdevl]

Shot from the SE Corner of 63rd & Columbus. From inside what is now P.J. Clark's Irish Pub.

[Pierpigi68]

pls american guy could u be more precise about the lpace_ I cannot find it out in a google map....if u tell me more, n show smtg like a pic of this pub I ll be yr personal guide in Rome one day...

PIerluigi, n ciao

[shybuttcute]

thanks for the information. I must visit that place ;)

[coolitababy]

& what was then O'Neill's

[choomanfoo]

Those damned eggs!

[boxing1000]

What a fantastic movie...

[spinozacelt]

Hmm- a tearjerker indeed,cause we all need the eggs.Ohh F*ck it!:-)

[MinkStoler]

I love the end but I always get a little teary.

[Caulfield789]

Always brings tears to my eyes.

[unoundici]

i absolutely love this end

[meredumais]

I love the opening joke as much as the closing joke.

I need the eggs too...and I identify with the women at the Catskills resort !

[freymaroto]

I need the Eggs...who Doesn't?