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Re-Watching Woody Allen: The newly-chilling themes that you can see throughout his movies
Esquire ^ | February 4, 2014 | Stephen Marche

Posted on 02/08/2014 7:14:11 PM PST by grundle

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To: a fool in paradise

Ha. I don’t know if the whole movie is on YouTube but the sheep scene is fir sure. You can find it easy by entering “ everything you wanted to know about sex sheep” in the YouTube search box. As I recall woody was supposed to be a shrink helping others with their psycho problems but he had a (Greek? ) client who liked sheep and the next thing we see woody the psychologist is checking Into a swank hotel with his furry date for the evening. His suspicious wife and her photographer .....Well, once you get over the disgusting subject matter I have to admit laughing uncontrollably at the scene. See what u think. Whether such a movie helps social morality or not, he certainly did it in a very funny style. Enjoy!


41 posted on 02/08/2014 8:25:55 PM PST by faithhopecharity
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To: grundle

I’ve noticed that the women who are Allen’s romantic interests in his movies are almost always waif-like and boyish.


42 posted on 02/08/2014 8:28:00 PM PST by Carl LaFong (The. Media. Is.The. Enemy.)
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To: grundle

If you look for dragons and sailboats in the clouds, you’ll see them, too.

Big deal.


43 posted on 02/08/2014 8:28:55 PM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: grundle

Woody Allen is the original ‘Pajama Boy’.


44 posted on 02/08/2014 8:32:31 PM PST by Bryan24 (When in doubt, move to the right..........)
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To: Calvin Locke

The two Allen films I always liked are “Sleeper” and “Play Again Sam”. As for most of the rest just can’t watch them.


45 posted on 02/08/2014 8:33:26 PM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Chode
i have never seen any of his movies so i tried to find the Cosell clip on youtube but couldn't, i imagine he prolly was funny though

Howard Cosell - Banannas Opening

46 posted on 02/08/2014 8:37:26 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: faithhopecharity; Revolting cat!
You can find it easy by entering “ everything you wanted to know about sex sheep” in the YouTube search box

May want to reconsider that query search phrase. Google puts it all into your permanent record.

47 posted on 02/08/2014 8:38:52 PM PST by a fool in paradise ("Health care is too important to be left to the government.")
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To: grundle

Actually a lot of Hollywood films and the writings they are based on are full of references to pedophilia... And plenty of it isn’t even subtle. I guess Nabokov and the movie Lolita comes to mind immediately. My fair Lady a little more subtle, Gigi not so subtle. Older men with much younger women is a constant theme in the movie industry with a great deal of older and newer movies presenting a much older men with a much younger women, and it even bears out in reality. The age difference between Mia Farrow and her first husband was a tad disturbing... Frank Sinatra was 30 plus years her senior. So does this make Woody a pervert??? You’re darn right it does. The dude is sick, but then again a great deal of his fellow actors, writer and directors are sick too and Mia and her fellow artist are part and parcel of that industry. A plague on all their houses.


48 posted on 02/08/2014 8:40:24 PM PST by jerod (Pro-Abortion Gun Control Freaks & Environmental Nuts who hated Capitalism? The Nazi's)
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To: Carl LaFong; Revolting cat!
Did women dress like Diane Keaton in Annie Hall before the movie was made or did that seventies fashion trend sweep the country BECAUSE of that film?


49 posted on 02/08/2014 8:41:02 PM PST by a fool in paradise ("Health care is too important to be left to the government.")
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To: Cicero

I was never a fan of his movies. Too creepy for me. I’ve only seen about four many years ago and felt like I needed to shower with Lysol afterward. It all made sense when the afair with his daughter came out and now this with his son leaves no doubt (not that there was) about him.


50 posted on 02/08/2014 8:42:03 PM PST by bgill
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To: jerod
I guess Nabokov and the movie Lolita comes to mind immediately.

That was written specifically as a dirty book for a publisher. Same with Terry Southern's Candy.

Later they were called "high art".

51 posted on 02/08/2014 8:42:10 PM PST by a fool in paradise ("Health care is too important to be left to the government.")
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To: a fool in paradise

Live like a coward and we die as cowards. Googoo can go phuque itself.


52 posted on 02/08/2014 8:45:00 PM PST by faithhopecharity
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To: Vince Ferrer
LOL, DOWN goes El Presidente... i an surprised and yet not surprised that ABC let him wear their logo
53 posted on 02/08/2014 8:50:09 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: Chode

He was funny in the early 70s. My break with him started with Manhattan, where his character takes up an affair with a high school student. Woody’s early movies were just screwball comedies, but his later ones, starting with Manhattan, became autobiographical, and like the article, you can’t really seperate him from the movie. If the movie is disturbing, unlike other directors, it does point to the author.


54 posted on 02/08/2014 8:55:55 PM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: a fool in paradise

Because of the film, and I think she actually really did dress that way and so it was in the film.


55 posted on 02/08/2014 8:56:32 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: Vince Ferrer
absolutely right
56 posted on 02/08/2014 8:58:15 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: WL-law

Did you bring the mayonnaise?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYnA6_-q4BY


57 posted on 02/08/2014 9:44:57 PM PST by BenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire; or both.)
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To: faithhopecharity
I liked the segment with the human body as a society of cells, and the sperm guys trading rumors about "the pills these women take"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGj1smf-_vc

58 posted on 02/08/2014 10:03:23 PM PST by coydog (Time to feed the pigs!)
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To: coydog

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGj1smf-_vc sorry about that


59 posted on 02/08/2014 10:04:34 PM PST by coydog (Time to feed the pigs!)
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To: grundle

His movies were always weird and not surprised he was a strange pervert.

Pray America is Waking


60 posted on 02/08/2014 10:23:21 PM PST by bray (The Republic of Texas: www.braylog.com/id47.html)
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