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Posted by Derek Janssen on 07/18/06 02:52
Howard Brazee wrote:
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>>>That's why I only half-got it when it came out. The Dr. Zhivago part
>>>was fine, and I didn't yet know what to expect from Woody Allen - I
>>>don't "get" the neurotic New Yorker bit.
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>>Of course, it also helps to have a very specifically backgrounded
>>education on Ingmar Bergman, Leo Tolstoy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Sergei
>>Eisenstein,
(Darn, forgot Anton Chekov--
"But will I be suffocated by marriage?...Ack, ack, can't breathe!")
>>and, Allen's openly confessed influence on the
>>picture...40's/50's-solo Bob Hope. :)
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> All but one of these are obvious.
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>> (any *one* of these references helpfully explained in
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> How about giving me some Hope?
[Napoleonic drill-sargeant:] "From now on, you clean the mess hall AND
the latrine!"
"Uh, yes sir, how will I tell the difference?"
"All right: One-two, one-two, one-two!"
"'Three''s next, if you're wondering."
Not to mention, as Woody explained it, the entire "Accidental hero too
smug about his sudden 'good luck' to realize the bad guy's setting him
up as the fall guy" plot that formed most of Hope's movie work with and
without Crosby...Think "'War and Peace' meets 'The Paleface'".
Derek Janssen
ejanss@comcast.net
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