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The most beautiful scene in any Woody Allen Movie

posted 19 years ago by blaze1-1
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The scene where he just meets his new girl and they go on a walk through the woods. This is without a doubt the most touching, enchanting, beautiful scene in any Woody Allen movie that I have ever seen. The music is so.........amazing. The voice over is perfect and the montage is genius.

Brilliant Film. None of his other films are like this. Narrative combined with Documentary style storytelling. Brilliant Film.

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[–] TheRetroCritic 19 years ago

I agree. I thought this film was surprisingly sweet and touching at times, like the scene you mentionned, that was a beautiful little moment. And yes, she was very cute.

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[–] Chwelve 17 years ago

I thought it was more Woody making fun of that sort of romantic montage in other movies, myself. It was rather tender-hearted (even if it did ring a bit of parody, at least for me), but I personally think there are many many more moving and romantic sequences in his vast career. Not to put "Take the Money and Run" down in any way, it's still great.

[–] noveltylibrary 17 years ago

Agreed there are better (as great as Take the Money is)...namely the ending in Hannah and Her Sisters when Dianne Weist tells him she's pregnant and he kisses her.

[–] wheresjohnny 17 years ago

I think the scene with Janet Margolin is the most romantic I've ever seen in an Allen film too. Very surprising and adds a depth of feeling to it all. It works great. This movie seems to have changed a lot in the editing according to the book "When The Shooting Stops, The Cutting Begins" by Allen's editor Ralph Rosenblum. This sequence was just meant to be a long romantic montage at first and it was Rosenblum's idea for Woody to add the monolog on top of it. I think it all still works beautifully from every angle. Hamlish did a great job, too.

[–] Chwelve 17 years ago

"...namely the ending in Hannah and Her Sisters when Dianne Weist tells him she's pregnant and he kisses her."

That's top of my list as well. That whole film is absolutely, heartbreakingly, wonderfully beautiful.

[–] LuciaJoyce 17 years ago

Actually I hate the ending of Hannah and Her Sisters. Dianne Wiest tells him she's pregnant, after her history of screwing about and his lack of history of fertile sowing, and he just looks at her dewy-eyed and kisses her? He should've said, Who knocked you up? 'Cuz it sure as hell wasn't me! And then cue the neurotic fireworks.

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[–] movieghoul 9 years ago

Yes, Woody liked to spoof other movies in his early films, and this scene appears to be spoofing Elvira Madigan, an extremely romanticized Swedish film from a few years earlier.

[–] jlam888 (582) 2 years ago

The romantic scenes are nods to A Man And A Woman, by Claude Lelouch.

[–] brefane 17 years ago

Re: "Brilliant film none of his others are like it "

I would say ZELIG is a documentary style narrative film. And like Take the Money and Run, it's one of Woody's most enjoyable.

[–] AlphaOmega0-9 16 years ago

Pick any scene in Manhattan. Here are a few of my favorites:
When Woody and Keaton stay up all night looking & talking about NYC in front of the bridge. Or at the end when Tracey tells Allen's character that he's just gotta have a little faith in people. Or the scene in the planetarium. Or when Allen and Tracey are sitting in his apt and she tells him she thinks she loves him; he jokes about this & they go up his winding staircase. Or... :)

[–] gerrywos 11 years ago

"after 15 minutes i wanted to marry her,after 30 minutes i gave up all thoughts of robbing her purse".
pure romance,lol

[–] amer9001 9 years ago

"after 15 minutes i wanted to marry her,after 30 minutes i gave up all thoughts of robbing her purse".

classic line!! rofl.. really rofl!