Woody Allen should go to the next Oscars and just sit and stare at everyone

Woody Allen will be 87, what else would he do?

Mouth “Mia is a bitch” silently!

The only time he's been to the oscars was in 2002 when he made a speech in tribute to New York after 9/11. I don't think he would show up now.

Woody could go with the Baldwinitó familia and bring Roman Polanski on an IPad via FaceTime.

You have to be invited to go don't you? Or if you're a member of AMPAS you get invited no matter what? I know the rules have been different due to the pandemic

Will Smith should show up.

Now THAT would be delicious.

Bump. I'm watching "Deconstructing Harry" for the first time. Jesus, is it vulgar. Woody must have been incredibly horny making this film. It's more overtly sex-obsessed than anything of his I've ever seen, with the addition of words like "fuck" and "cunt" which he didn't really use in his earlier movies that I can recall. This was 1997, when he was in his 60s. I'm not enjoying it, despite the all-star cast. Oh, and endless attractive women falling madly in love with his character as per ushe. What a racket he had going.

I love this idea!

I love Deconstructing Harry, but to each his own, R7. Kirstie Alley as the unhinged insane ex wife is brilliant, though I despise her as a person. I thought the Robin Williams out of focus idea was a stroke of genius, as well. Plus, the Hell sequences.

Fair enough R9. It's just that last night I watched "Crimes and Misdemeanors," which to me was far superior.

Ok the hell scenes are funny. I always enjoy heaven and hell scenes.

R11, have you seen Rowan Atkinson as the devil?

Of course, R9. Crimes & Misdemeanors is a masterpiece, easily one of the top 10 of Woody’s 50+ films/movies. I’d be so curious to see Sean Young’s cut scenes from that, though she does briefly appear. The cut scenes and re-filmed segments from Woody Allen films could be a fascinating documentary, especially if any of that footage still exists. Famously, September was totally filmed and them recast and re-shot with a different cast, not to mention many other examples (not to that extreme extent).

Who was Sean Young supposed to play?

Sydney Pollack was great in Husbands and Wives

Stanley Kubrick actually offered Sydney Pollack’s role in Eyes Wide Shut to Woody Allen.

It's amazing that Stanley Kubrick considered Woody Allen, Sydney Pollack and Harvey Keitel for the same character. They're three actors with vastly different acting styles, and almost no similarity between them.

[quote]Bump. I'm watching "Deconstructing Harry" for the first time. Jesus, is it vulgar. Woody must have been incredibly horny making this film. It's more overtly sex-obsessed than anything of his I've ever seen, with the addition of words like "fuck" and "cunt" which he didn't really use in his earlier movies that I can recall. This was 1997, when he was in his 60s.

I think he was going through a phase with the language. He commented in his memoir that if he could do Mighty Aphrodite over, he would clean up the talk in it, and Mighty Aphrodite was from the same period. Two before Deconstructing Harry.

The first Allen movie where I really notice a coarsening of the language is Husbands and Wives, one of his masterpieces.

I haven't seen Deconstructing Harry in a long time. I recall some inspired and really funny moments, but overall unevenness and too much self-regard (albeit a covert type -- the Allen stand-in gets criticized a lot, but he's clearly the number-one topic in the mind of everyone around him).

[quote]Famously, September was totally filmed and then recast and re-shot with a different cast, not to mention many other examples (not to that extreme extent).

True. We actually see Michael Keaton as the adventurer movie character who steps down from the screen in at least one long shot in Purple Rose of Cairo. Allen just didn't bother reshooting the scene after firing Keaton and recasting the part with Jeff Daniels, because it's at a distance. If you're not looking for it, you can't tell.

[quote] It's amazing that Stanley Kubrick considered Woody Allen, Sydney Pollack and Harvey Keitel for the same character. They're three actors with vastly different acting styles, and almost no similarity between them.

They’re all really, really Jewish

Eyes Wide Shut is basically about a Jewish Illuminati that preys on women

Love most of his movies. Love Roman Polanski’s too. Sex pests sometimes are quite talented!

Woody in the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s: Almost always good, often great, the occasional dud. Woody in the 2000s, 2010s, 2020s: Many duds, occasionally good, never truly great.

Of course, he's in his eighties now, and maybe no one could keep up his pace forever. His creative fall-off (IMO) started around the time he married Soon-Yi and they adopted children. He seemed less and less engaged with the world. When you watch something like Bananas, those relationship psychobabble conversations he and Louise Lasser have, besides being really funny, are dead on for the movie's time. His latest, Rifkin's Festival, is like Zombie Woody.

Bump

Can someone answer the Sean Young question above? I really can’t imagine who she would have been playing in “Crimes and Misdemeanors.” The Angelica Huston role? I don’t see that working at all.

R23: Usually when an actor is described as being in cut scenes, it means they were playing a character who now isn't in the film at all. It wasn't a case of Young being recast with Huston, Farrow, Gleason, Aaron, etc. She was playing another love interest for Cliff. Cliff and the Sean Young character were going to be making out at the wedding at the end. They would be discovered by the crowd when a curtain opened or something like that.

The Cliff/Halley/Lester portion of the movie, the more comedic half, went through a lot of rethinking and rewriting. There was to be much more of Daryl Hannah too, originally. Also, instead of the documentary about the philosopher who had survived the Holocaust, Cliff's passion project was a documentary about a nursing home where elderly former vaudevillians live. And his young niece was helping him pursue Halley and be Halley's dream man (that part got recycled for Everyone Says 'I Love You').