Woody Allen

[baseballgirl]

He makes my skin crawl. ::shudders:: Look, there it goes!

I have no problem separating his work from his art, since I find both repugnant. His movies are pretentious and supremely unfunny. I will hate him forever for writing and directing the whole scene in Play It Again, Sam ending with Diane Keaton's character saying, "I'll never be lucky enough to get raped."

There are no words.

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Ooh, BaseballGirl, that's horrible! I've never seen that movie, so I had never heard that quote, but...yuck.

I still stand by my love for Annie Hall and Radio Days, though.

Edited to add does anyone know when Woody and Soon Yi's relationship began? Was she still a minor, and if so, was there ever talk of prosecuting Woody? I remember when Mia Farrow accused him of molesting two of their kids after they had broken up and he was already dating Soon Yi...Horrible accusations, don't know who to believe since their relationship had quite a prickly ending.

[baseballgirl]

I'll summarize it for you, Frances, as if I can prevent one person from watching that crap, I can die fulfilled.

Woody and Diane (characters' names long since irrelevant) are sitting on the couch in his/her apartment, in a wooing-type situation. Striking up a current events-type conversation, Woody asks, "Hey, did you hear about that rapist on the loose?" (this being a recurring bit throughout the movie) Diane says indeed she has. Woody: "Boy, a guy must really have something on the ball to rape all those women and get away with it." Diane agrees, and they continue on the romantic aspect of it all, and she oh-so feels sorry for herself because, "I'll probably never be lucky enough to get raped."

Damn.

I had to write a paper on that movie for an English class in college, lo those many years ago. I rented it, and kept rewinding that scene to get the exact wording for my paper. Mr. BG was in the other room and overheard it, came out and said, "Why are you rewinding that shit?"

[sugarhigh]

He's a sack of crap. But I listened to his stand up for the first time a couple of weeks ago and I was on the floor. Man used to be funny.

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What I don't understand about WA is, why wouldn't he want to marry a woman his intellectual equal?
Frances, I believe the affair was discovered when Mia found the nude pictures of Soon-Yi. I believe she was a minor when the affair started, but that has never been admitted. Mia claimed that Soon-Yi was 16 when it started, but Mia's camp also claimed Soon-Yi was "borderline retarded".
Soon-Yi spoke out saying, "Andre Previn is my father; Woody Allen was never my father."
Soon-Yi's brothers and sisters remember that she liked being driven to school in a limo, that she liked the publicity, and the attention and that she liked "that life".
I'm not saying that Mia's children were brought up to value celebrity, but rather, this life style fit Soon-Yi's tastes.
Woody Allen loved New York. He used to play oboe in a jazz band in some bar on Tuesdays. Why didn't he pick up some lady there if he wanted to cheat on Mia?
He wouldn't have had to leave the country and live in Venice and make crummy commercials trying to get us to like the French if he had.



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[johnboysmole]

I know this is unpopular in certain crowds, but I've never liked him or his movies. However, it kills me that I'll have to go see Melinda Melinda because I am so Will Ferrell's bitch.

[snarkyfish]

Soon Yi comes off as a deluded bitch to me. I don't know what she was like when she was a minor and he started sleeping with her, but she seems to have grown up into a real piece of work.

Woody? He's a pig! Disgusting skeevy manwhore.

His deplorable behavior and personality aside - his films? They were really good back in the day but recently his shit has been so played out. No brilliance left in the man. It's been that way for a while now.

A collegue told me he watched Melinda, Melinda and it was good. I might check it out on recommendation. But I've learnt not to expect much from Woody Allen films anymore.

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He's a vile, selfish prick. Sleeping with his stepdaughter may not technically be incest, but it is ugly and nasty, like sleeping with your sister's husband. Except it's even worse! Just so gross. And mean.

Anyway, I used to love his movies, but not anymore, I can't look at him without thinking of what a perv he is, taking nudie pix of his girlfriend's daughter.

[Inkyblott]

I have never seen a Woody Allen movie, at least not all the way through as I was always put off by the reports of the 'whiteness' of his New York. It didn't help that the one bit of Mighty Aphrodite that I saw featured a Black woman as a prostitute giving Woody a blowjob.

I was pretty skeeved by the Soon-Yi situation, too, just because it's so inappropriate on a certain level. There's something so wrong about the idea of a man having an affair and then marrying the daughter of a woman he has also been with. It's especially skeevy if Soon-Yi was seriously underage. I don't know if I see it as an incest thing because Woody Allen has never struck me as the kind of man who would want to have anything to do with kids. It is possible that there was no father-daughter relationship and that Soon-Yi possibly saw him as a sexy older man who could provide her with a flashier lifestyle.

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How refreshing to see a thread where everyone appears to hate him as much as I do. I have never really been able to get into his movies, but I don't regret it. I think his view of women is warped at best and misogynostic at worst.

Here's a recent interview with German newspaper Der Spiegel that continues to affirm that he is a "vile, selfish prick," to quote Tia Maria.

Oh, and I definitely believe he molested Mia's daughter.