Annie Hall

Annie Hall is a ruthless hilarious romantic comedy.It’s different because of Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman(co-writer).I think it’s everybody’s favorite Woody Allen movie.I just love it because of Woody Allen and his sense of humor which is quite different form of comedy.This movie can be described as a turning point for Allen as a director and as a screenplay writer. It won four Academy Awards.

The film plot is rather simple but brilliantly executed.

Alvy Singer (Woody Allen) is a neurotic comedian, attempting to maintain a relationship with the seemingly ditzy but exuberant Annie (Diane Keaton). The film chronicles their relationship over several years, intercut with various imaginary trips into each other’s history (Annie is able to “see” Alvy’s family when he was only a child, and likewise Alvy observes Annie’s past relationships).

It’s a talking movie,people just talk ,they go out make love and talk,they had lunch and talk ,they talk to camera ,they talk to their dead parents and the most important of this movie is all the way talk.

In one scene, Allen’s character, standing in a cinema queue with Annie and listening to someone behind him expound on Marshall McLuhan’s work, leaves the line to speak to the camera directly. The man then speaks to the camera in his defense, and Allen resolves the dispute by pulling McLuhan himself from behind a free-standing movie posterboard to tell the man that his interpretation is wrong.This scene describes the art of movie making and a unique kind of humor wrapped in it.

As I said talk is the soul of movie so take a look of some of the talks and enjoy.

Annie Hall: It’s so clean out here.
Alvy Singer: That’s because they don’t throw their garbage away, they turn it into television shows.

Alvy Singer: I don’t want to move to a city where the only cultural advantage is being able to make a right turn on a red light.

Alvy Singer: I was thrown out of N.Y.U. my freshman year for cheating on my metaphysics final, you know. I looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me. When I was thrown out, my mother, who was an emotionally high-strung woman, locked herself in the bathroom and took an overdose of Mah-Jongg tiles. I was depressed at that time. I was in analysis. I was suicidal as a matter of fact and would have killed myself, but I was in analysis with a strict Freudian, and, if you kill yourself, they make you pay for the sessions you miss.

Alvy Singer: I remember the staff at our public school. You know, we had a saying, uh, that those who can’t do teach, and those who can’t teach, teach gym. And, uh, those who couldn’t do anything, I think, were assigned to our school.

Just check this movie out and you will be addicted with it .