Posted on 09/07/2013 9:07:11 PM PDT by qwertyz
There’s a lot to like in “Manhattan” but I have to admit the May/December romance made me shutter. And not in a good way.
Totally off topic ......... but how a woman can choose both Frank Sinatra and Woody Allen as significant others/bedmates is light years beyond me.
Roman Polanski or maybe that fat guy who owns a comic book store.
She was the teen aged adopted daughter of his girl friend (Mia Farrow) with whom he had children at the time. Woody Allen initially lied about his sexual relationship with the under aged Soon-yi. Mia Farrows’s other adopted daughter Dylan claimed Woody Allen also sexually molested her when she was 7 years old.
If the woman is looking to advance her acting career it makes more sense.
Kids and the mom’s boyfriends? Bad mix!
Personally, I couldn't get past the blecch factor.
“...the May/December romance made me shutter. And not in a good way.”
Agreed. When it came out I thought it was just another example of a guy making a movie thinking he looked better next to a young pretty girl. Never dreamed he was not only realizing that dream. Though many think years later I’m pretty sure he was doing so then and likely for years by then.
I find Woody Allen very likeable and wish he was not making the mistakes he does, or the actual choices is a better way to put it. I do believe there is a lot of that in Hollywood and it’s more prevalent than we’d like to know about. As my mom would say, the dirty old goats.
Btw, Soon Yee is in Hannah and her sisters, about 8 yrs old or so. She is at the beginning Thanksgiving dinner and in the end Thanksgiving dinner party. Short cropped haircut.
Mia Farrow claimed he molested Dylan. I’ve never heard that Dylan testified to it in any forum, public or judicial.
By the way, did you know that Mia Farrow wrote a character reference to the LA DA for Polanski, when they were prosecuting him for raping that 13 year old girl? She defends Polanski to this day.
I’d have to REALLY want an acting career to be with Allen. And even then it would be a struggle.
I was thinking of going to see Riddick. I liked Pitch Black and Chronicles. So why not.
Both of those films are highly undervalued and truly creative science fiction. I’ve been surprised that they hadn’t done that well, whereas Diesel’s mindless car movies bring in automatic big bank. IMO, this says more about the audience than the actor or the quality of the films.
Barf. Blecch. Ptui.
Religion Moderator I do believe this film review has no basis in being in the Religion Forum.
I think he's a strange little man but I love many of his films.
Step-fornicator?
Forgot to mention, Midnight in Paris.
Just loved the way Alison Pill played Zelda Fitzgerald.
Loved the music in that one.
I couldn’t give that one a fair appraisal because I dislike Owen Wilson so much.
So, while Woody’s sense of humor and insight into human nature are indeed masterful, he always disappoints me when he brings real truth to the fore, but then backs away from the obvious answer to the spiritual malaise. He appears to just not want to accept that answer. Possibly it’s too simple an answer to him, or he just wants to continue in his unbelief.
You're too good a person to see what Woody is doing.
He's deliberately teaching despair, and very carefully lying to do it.
He's evil.
“I think he was sending Farrow a huge message in “Hannah” about his true feeling towards her and, consciously or subconsciously, ending up acting them out.”
I think you’re right about that. Some thought there were some sentiments about Mia in Blue Jasmine.
The wife that had a habit of looking the other way when it was convenient for her, then when she was about to be inconvenienced blew the whistle.
Dylan was very young at the time of the hearings. Who knows what really happened. This article gives some details.
http://www.vanityfair.com/magazine/archive/1992/11/farrow199211
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