I can see "Deconstructing Harry" as a spinoff from Bergman's "Wild
Strawberries" and "Celebrity" as a spinoff from Fellini's "La Dolce
Vita" . . . it is not going to be that unusual for people to do
things that reflect things they have been exposed to . . .
jazzplayers used to often have quotes of other songs in their
solos . . . a lot of Shakespeare takes its plots from earlier
sources . . . there are also only so many plot variations you can
have, only so many ways you can shoot two people talking to each
other . . . I suppose the big thing is how you handle it all . . .
there are some things that distract me, though, like there is a
gunfight in a train station in De Palma's "The Untouchables" and
there is a baby-carriage going down the steps, it is almost certainly
lifted from Eisenstein's famous Odessa Steps sequence in "The
Battleship Potemkin", the babycarriage itself has appeared in Woody
Allen's "Bananas" and I believe one of the Naked Gun or Police
Academy movies, I think when you are trying to be serious, it
distract from a mood . . .

--- In thewoodyallenadorers@yahoogroups.com, markholmes_99
<no_reply@y...> wrote:
> hi! this is a first post from a first-time member. first of all, i
> can't believe that i found this group -- this is so great. i've
been
> dying to talk about woody allen's films for a while and it's nice
to
> finally have an outlet for that. that said, i have to admit that
i'm
> really into woody's more dramatic oeuvre -- my favorite
> being 'interiors' -- i personally feel that this film is unfairly
> maligned, especially with stupid comments referring to it as a
> bergman rip-off. well then so what if it's a bergman rip-off? it's
> still freaking good -- it's so haunting, especially that shot of
the
> three sisters looking out the window, and geraldine page...anyway i
> just wanted to know what other people think of this film and
whether
> you guys also wish that woody would make these types of films in
the
> future...
>
> by the way another savage comedy along the lines of the very funny
> deconstructing harry would not be so bad either...