Reminder that film is a visual medium and this man has never made anything visually interesting or stimulating in his entire career. His "films" are vehicles for words and characters, nothing more, they would work just as well on a stage.
Woody Allen is a Playwright, Not a Director
Blake Nelson
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Carson Bailey
Was there a point to this post?
Jeremiah Wright
How can one pedophile look that Jewish?
Jayden Cooper
>they would work just as well on a stage.
Purple Rose of Cairo absolutely could not work on a stage. You have outed yourself.
Landon Hernandez
annie hall wouldn't
Zachary Howard
to remind you fools.
Henry Davis
Annie Hall is good. The rest are just variations of it but that shouldn't take anything away from it.
Henry Phillips
>1 movie out of 80
yes it would
Easton Bailey
>making one or more movies per year
The mark of a hack
Blake Anderson
I LIEK MOBIE WIF BREDDY COLER
Elijah Carter
but plays have directors too. there's more to directing than deciding what the camera does.
Camden Martinez
Zelig wouldn't have worked on a stage either. That's two ;) want me to keep going?
Oliver Rodriguez
No it wouldn't. The various jumps in time throughout the story couldn't be done on stage without rewriting the film a shit ton. Vafious visual gags also wouldn't work, such as Woody dressed as a steteotypical jew at the dinner scene.
Cooper Hughes
This can apply to a lot of acclaimed directors but not Allen. Elia Kazan is probably most guilty of this.
Angel Wilson
Guilty? What exactly makes you think On the Waterfront is "guilty" of anything other than being a good fucking movie?
Caleb Morales
>Elia Kazan
He looks just like Mel Brooks.
Carson Anderson
>This can apply to a lot of acclaimed directors but not Allen.
prove it.
Evan James
Nothing that visually impressive or inspired about it. He doesn't really try to exploit the strengths of the medium much. It's all about the story, characters and performances, which are also present on stage. Kazan got started in theatre and it shows.
Dylan Rodriguez
Does it lessen the quality of the performances, the characters, and the themes because there's not enough pretty pictures in it?
Christian Richardson
he's a stupid drumpftard, just let him be
Parker Ortiz
No, I'm just saying it would work just as well on stage, just like Streetcar did. Don't worry, I'm not accusing your old timey manly communist hating movies of being shit because they don't look like they were directed by Refn.
Kevin Diaz
Could the huge brawl at the end of the movie be done on the stage? Answer me that.
Ethan Jenkins
Probably
Carson Sanchez
Wrong!
Jaxson Hughes
the visual aspect of films is usually the least important and most overrated one
this
Isaac Lewis
It goes: Intention > Theme > Dialogue > Visuals > Pacing (editing) > Sound > Plot
Sebastian Gutierrez
O.W.: I hate Woody Allen physically, I dislike that kind of man.
H.J.: I’ve never understood why. Have you met him?
O.W.: Oh, yes. I can hardly bear to talk to him. He has the Chaplin disease. That particular combination of arrogance and timidity sets my teeth on edge.
H.J.: He’s not arrogant; he’s shy.
O.W.: He is arrogant. Like all people with timid personalities, his arrogance is unlimited. Anybody who speaks quietly and shrivels up in company is unbelievably arrogant. He acts shy, but he’s not. He’s scared. He hates himself, and he loves himself, a very tense situation. It’s people like me who have to carry on and pretend to be modest. To me, it’s the most embarrassing thing in the world—a man who presents himself at his worst to get laughs, in order to free himself from his hang-ups. Everything he does on the screen is therapeutic.
Landon Green
You make that sound like a bad thing.
Ayden Bailey
Came here for this. I work with a guy that exemplifies this to a tee. It's pathetic.
Robert Flores
This, the man has quite literally never made a film in his entire career.
Matthew Rivera
>the visual aspect of films is usually the least important and most overrated one
Robert White
>this man has never made anything visually interesting or stimulating in his entire career
Sleeper
Manhattan
Purple Rose of Cairo
Zelig
Radio Days
Midnight in Paris
Cafe Society
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Parker Phillips
Isn't that *mostly* the same for Quentin?
Nathan Reed
>caring about future oven occupants
for what purpose
Christopher Bailey
no?
Joseph Butler
Retard comment of the year right here
Benjamin Hill
Woody Allen has not made one interesting movie. Prove me wrong.
Angel Foster
through quick thinking, Allen married his retarded step-daughter to keep from going to jail for his child molesting past with the under-age, half-Asian Cretin girl
Oliver Garcia
>Goes to see a movie, an inherently visual medium and says it's the least important and most overrated aspect of the medium.
Functionally retarded I see.
Tyler Garcia
Really?
Cooper Foster
Did you never see Manhattan? Shadows and Fog? Matchpoint?
I know what you mean, but there are a number of his movies which have great sets and clever shots.
Oliver Mitchell
It is.
Tyler Taylor
Broadway Danny rose
Stardust Memories
Zelig
Deconstructing Harry
are all worth a watch if you don't like his more serious "Hannah and her sisters" type movies
Crimes and misdemeanours is his masterpiece though and stands on its own regardless.
Landon Sanders
the one where the glasses distorts his view/changes the films theme or mood or whatever
i forget
that wouldnt work on stage or simple speach
Oliver King
HE'S A CHIIIIIIIILD MOLESTER
Jeremiah Clark
Nothing else needs to be said
Gabriel Jenkins
You obviously haven’t seen Manhattan
Blake Jones
Okay? I mean theatre>film anyway.
Blake Sullivan
I don't really understand this.
Asher Bell
He has directed movies, though. Characters are part of movies; words are part of dialogue which are part of movies.
I... don't get your criticism.
Elijah Murphy
Not true. During the late part of his filmography he tried hard to make visually well crafted movies. But he just doesn't have the talent for. It's probably because he's jewish. Very few visual achievement movies have been directed by jewish directors. They probably have difficulties seeing visual beauty. A counter example could be Kubrick but he was completely atheist.
Brayden Williams
I'm not sure I entirely agree but Allen is a fucking unfunny hack and a criminal pedophile who will be a nice decoration on a street light when the time comes.
Ryder Diaz
>Sup Forums calls you a playwright
>the only play you've ever written is Death Knocks
>it's never been performed
What did he mean by this?
Joseph Powell
>marries his victim
>damn, poetry in motion my friend, poetry in motion, indeed
Thomas Anderson