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According to Woody Allen, this is one of his worst movies because he's leading it.
He couldn't find anyone to play the lead and had to do it himself, even though he felt he wasn't a good fit for the part.

Дело не в этом. Возможно дело в самой истории. Не очень она интересна, к сожалению.
Внимания достойны только традиционные шутки в стиле Вуди:

The New York city Police want to give me a lifetime achievement award

А если уж и говорить о плохой игре, остановимся на Хелен Хант.
Она здесь просто ужасна. Я в полном недоумении, как её вообще взяли и почему не сменили.



C.W.: I found the Picasso. It wasn't easy. I was looking for a woman with a guitar and it was all cubes.
It took me two hours to find her nose.

C.W.: We'll have lunch. I know a great restaurant you'll love. Gestapo food.

C.W.: It's a match made in heaven... by a retarded angel.

C.W.: I hate her just like I hate that German Chancellor with the moustache.

C.W.: I may be a scummy vermin but I'm an honest scummy vermin.

C.W.: Hide in the bedroom.
Betty Ann: Can I sit down in there or will I catch something?
C.W.: Germs can't live in your blood - it's too cold.

Laura Kensington: I have a strawberry birthmark on my thigh. Want to see it?
C.W. Briggs: Sure, when can I take the full tour?

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“My ex-husband and I fell in love at first sight. Maybe I should have taken a second look.”

Cliff Stern: Last time I was inside a woman was when I visited the Statue of Liberty.

more quotesLester: Comedy is tragedy plus time!

Clifford Stern: A strange man... defecated on my sister.
Wendy Stern: [pause] ... why?

Lester: If you play your cards right, you could have my body.
Halley Reed: Wouldn't you rather leave it to science?

[On Lester]
Halley Reed: He wants to produce something of mine.
Clifford Stern: Yeah. Your first child.

Clifford Stern: [to his wife] Honey, you're the one who stopped sleeping with me, ok. It'll be a year come April 20th.

I remember the date exactly, because it was Hitler's birthday.

Clifford Stern: [on Professor Levy's demise] He left a note. He left a simple little note that said "I've gone out the window."
This is a major intellectual and he leaves a note that says "I've gone out the window." He's a role-model. You'd think he'd leave a decent note.

Ben: It's a human life. You don't think God sees?
Judah Rosenthal: God is a luxury I can't afford.

facts:facts:

One-third of the film had Woody Allen's character shooting a documentary on old vaudevillians,
with Mia Farrow as the head of the institute to which they belonged. Allen didn't like the scenes in the final cut.
During postproduction he cut an entire third of the film, then rewrote and re-shot that section from scratch.
As a result, Sean Young's scenes were cut out, and Daryl Hannah's role was reduced to a brief cameo.

The role of Prof. Louis Levy, subject of Cliff Stern's documentary in this film, is played by non-actor and therapist friend of Woody Allen's ,
world-renowned Martin Bergmann, clinical professor of psychology in New York University's post-doctoral program.

Originally, Alan Alda was only supposed to appear in the opening party scene with Daryl Hannah.
Woody Allen expanded Alda's part after he asked Alda to improvise and Allen liked the improvisation.
Allen wrote Alda's part as they went along.

Woody Allen felt that he had been too "nice" to the characters in the end of Ханна и её сёстры, so he wrote this film as a response to those feelings.

Lester is based on Larry Gelbart, whom both Woody Allen and Alan Alda worked with and reportedly disliked because of his
despotic ways. Lester's various comments such as "Comedy is tragedy plus time" and "If it bends, it's funny; if it breaks, it's not funny" were actual Gelbart quotes.
In spite of this reputed dislike for Gelbart, Allen called him "the best comedy writer that I ever knew and one of the best guys" in a statement shortly following Gelbart's death.

Martin Landau was originally cast as Jack Rosenthal.

During an argument with Cliff, Lester says he has a closet full of Emmys.
In real life, Alan Alda had won four Emmys prior to appearing in the film and got another one after the movie.

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Я всегда поражаюсь тому, как от шутки, можно перейти к очень серьезному, печальному моменту. Я, я, я, я расплакалась ...
Это вечная и грустная история, когда прославленные своими агентами, звезды, покидают их ради рыб покрупнее.



The reason Mia Farrow wears sunglasses most of the film is that Woody Allen did not feel she could pass herself as a tough Italian "broad",
so he had her wear the sunglasses most of the film to hide her eyes, making her seem more sultry and mysterious.
The only time she removes the sunglasses is when her character is supposed to be more vulnerable.

Woody Allen initially offered the Nick Apollo Forte role to Sylvester Stallone.

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Woody Allen wrote the role of Ariel for Diane Keaton, but she couldn't take the part
because she was busy promoting her film Krasnye and preparing for Alan Parker's Shoot the Moon.

The first time Woody Allen appeared in one of his own films as part of an ensemble cast.
Prior to this, he was either the main character or not in the film at all.

The first time Mia Farrow appeared in a Woody Allen film.

Woody Allen wrote the screenplay in 2 weeks.

José Ferrer found himself the object of a practical joke while making this film.
Dustin Hoffman visited the set while made up as Dorothy Michaels in the film Tootsie,
and proceeded to make sexual advances on Ferrer, who politely refused -
- but was completely unaware that Hoffman was not in fact a woman.

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This film is about magic of cinema! PURE MAGIC!

Mia is soo adorable! Boy, she is a wonderful actress!
And Jeff Daniels I must say was really good. I didnt expect that from him.
And the ending - well I was crying there really!



Woody Allen has said more than once that this is his favorite of the movies he's made.

After this film was previewed, word got back to Woody Allen that if he just changed his ending, he could have a big hit.
Allen declined, saying that the ending is one of the reasons he made the film.

читать дальшеIn an interview in Esquire, Woody Allen was asked why he didn't make a happy ending to the film.
Allen replied, "That *was* the happy ending."

Michael Keaton was originally cast in the lead role, and footage was shot.
Director Woody Allen decided it wasn't working, and replaced Keaton with Jeff Daniels.

In an interview in a Belgian magazine, Viggo Mortensen said that he was very proud to have played a small role in this movie
during a difficult time of his life. When he proudly took his entire family to a movie theater to see it, he was extremely
disappointed to find out that all of his scenes were cut from the final movie.

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The one-liner ending of this film is one of the best that I had ever seen!

- Хорошо, теперь вы скажите - почему вы развелись?
- Почему? Я развелся потому, что моя жена бросила меня ради другой женщины, понятно?
- Правда? Боже представляю, как это деморализует!
- Не знаю, по-моему, я воспринял это довольно стойко. Я попытался задавить их обеих машиной.

- Кажется, мне нужно навести порядок в жизни. Донни мой психоаналитик говорит мне …
- Вы зовете вашего психоаналитика Донни?
- Да, Донни.
- Психоаналитика вы зовете Донни?
- Да.
- Я своего зову доктор Чомски, иначе он бьет меня линейкой.

- Вы вышли замуж за преподавателя?
- Ну да. Он поставил мне «неуд», а я в него влюбилась. Изумительно?
- Да, изумительно.
- Представляете, я сплю с ним, а он имеет наглость ставить мне «неуд».
- Правда? Нет, серьезно. Т.е. вы спите, а он всё равно неудовлетворен?

- Давай каким-нибудь странным способом, о котором ты всегда мечтал, но никого не мог уговорить
- Я шокирован! Услышать такое от ребенка твоего возраста. Сейчас достану акваланг и действительно покажу тебе …



This was Woody Allen's first film shot using the widescreen (2.35:1) anamorphic Panavision process.

читать дальшеWoody Allen disliked his work in this film so much he offered to direct another film
for United Artists for free if they kept "Manhattan" on the shelf for good.

Stacey Nelkin, whom Woody Allen dated while she was at New York's Stuyvesant High School,
was reportedly the inspiration for the character of Tracey.

While this is Woody Allen's least favorite of the movies he has directed, this was the most commercially successful film of his career.
He said years later that he was still in disbelief that he "got away with it".

When released on video, it was the first cassette to be encoded with the letterbox format.

While talking to Mary in the museum, Issac (Woody Allen) says that the brain is the most overrated body part.
While in Allen's film Sleeper, his character Miles Monroe says that it's his second favorite body part.

Jodie Foster was considered for the role of Tracy.

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Обожаю хорошие содержательные, трогательные и интересные документальные фильмы.
Узнала очень много о жизни & работе Вуди. И он не перестает меня удивлять.
Его отношение к жизни во многом схоже с тем как я её вижу.

Woody in conversation with Dick Cavett: «I have endless ideas for movies» .

Marty Scorsese about Woody: «Not everybody has so much to say about life continually» .

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