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About three minutes into Larry David's opening monologue I started checking my watch...and I didn't stop.
Much has been made of the fact this was written in 1977, the year Jaws came out and cinema changed forever. But not Mr. Allen. The opening speech is four minutes long and kinda dull. Comedy doesn't look or sound like this anymore. Inchworm ? Really, as an insult in 2009 ? Not just a lyric from a Danny Kaye movie.
I remember loving Manhattan, but being puzzled about a forty year old guy dating a seventeen year old year [ was that illegal in the US at the time ? ] but assumed it was a writer examining an unusual relationship.
Then his private life became very public, and it just started to look like he genuinely believed it was okay.
Here is another toe curling example of a beautiful young girl [ 21] falling for an old man [ Larry David is 62 and looks it ]. Yes, what young girls really like is being taught how great the past was and how everything that's modern is rubbish. Music and movies that Woody loved when he was 21 , he reveries as untouchable icons . Everything else sucks.
Shameful and embarrassing . It was not a surprise to see that Woody has signed the petition to release Roman Polanski.
Worst of all, and this really is unforgivable, he steals a joke. In Parenthood [ 1989 ]written by Lowell Ganz & Babaloo Mandel. Keanu Reeves character says something like 'You need a licence for a car, you need a licence to own a dog but anyone idiot can have kids...' Near enough the same line appears at 01.01.00 into the movie.
When Woody Allen steals from Babaloo, you know something is amiss.
score 1/10
dv-65 10 October 2009
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27-2-2021 18:06:09