(Editor’s note: Owf’s Stu Cummins unfortunately had some personal issues to resolve this week, so our Top 10 Tuesday has now come on a Thursday! Tom Barnard has stepped in with this top ten list celebrating Woody Allen…)
To celebrate the release last week of You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger, the following is my top ten selection of the famous neurotic’s greatest cinematic individuals. Entries are listed in chronological order, and aren’t specific to characters played by Allen himself.
10. Miles Monroe (Woody Allen), Sleeper (1973)
There’s a tendency to pigeonhole Woody Allen characters as reoccurring versions of himself. After all, they often share mannerisms and a unionised sense of morality, but real pleasure can be gained from spotting the fundamental personality differences in these very individual creations. The aforementioned similarities became somewhat of a negative critique in Allen’s work as his career hit its peak in the late 70s.
To celebrate the release last week of You Will Meet A Tall Dark Stranger, the following is my top ten selection of the famous neurotic’s greatest cinematic individuals. Entries are listed in chronological order, and aren’t specific to characters played by Allen himself.
10. Miles Monroe (Woody Allen), Sleeper (1973)
There’s a tendency to pigeonhole Woody Allen characters as reoccurring versions of himself. After all, they often share mannerisms and a unionised sense of morality, but real pleasure can be gained from spotting the fundamental personality differences in these very individual creations. The aforementioned similarities became somewhat of a negative critique in Allen’s work as his career hit its peak in the late 70s.
- 3/24/2011
- by Tom Barnard
- Obsessed with Film
Woody Allen’s You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger follows a pair of married couples, Alfie (Anthony Hopkins) and Helena (Gemma Jones), and their daughter Sally (Naomi Watts) and husband Roy (Josh Brolin), as their passions, ambitions, and anxieties lead them into trouble and out of their minds.
After Alfie leaves Helena to pursue his lost youth and a free-spirited call girl named Charmaine (Lucy Punch), Helena abandons rationality and surrenders her life to the loopy advice of a charlatan fortune teller. Unhappy in her marriage, Sally develops a crush on her handsome art gallery owner boss, Greg (Antonio Banderas), while Roy, a novelist nervously awaiting the response to his latest manuscript, becomes moonstruck over Dia (Freida Pinto), a mystery woman who catches his gaze through a nearby window. Despite these characters’ attempts to dodge their problems with pipe dreams and impracticable plans, their efforts lead only to heartache,...
After Alfie leaves Helena to pursue his lost youth and a free-spirited call girl named Charmaine (Lucy Punch), Helena abandons rationality and surrenders her life to the loopy advice of a charlatan fortune teller. Unhappy in her marriage, Sally develops a crush on her handsome art gallery owner boss, Greg (Antonio Banderas), while Roy, a novelist nervously awaiting the response to his latest manuscript, becomes moonstruck over Dia (Freida Pinto), a mystery woman who catches his gaze through a nearby window. Despite these characters’ attempts to dodge their problems with pipe dreams and impracticable plans, their efforts lead only to heartache,...
- 3/11/2011
- by Kat
- Nerdly
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