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Re-used dialogue?

posted 12 years ago by I_Aint_No_Prophet
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After seeing this for the first time a few hours ago, I noticed a few things that reminded me of some of his other films. I would swear that the "Sex without love..." joke was in Annie Hall, and Woody's monologue at the end seemed to have some familiar bits as well, particularly the part about learning not to be bitter, and that if God does exist, it's not an evil God. Isn't that similar to what he says near the end of Hannah and Her Sisters? One other thing is the gag where he gets the bayonet stuck inside the dummy during his training, which I thought I remembered from Bananas. Can any experts out there set this straight for me?

"Why do you find it so hard to believe?"
"Why do you find it so easy?"
"It's never BEEN easy!"

[–] snelling 12 years ago

Occasionally he will re-use jokes from other movies of his, or his old stand-up routines. Some that come to mind are:

Bananas: "Rebels are we, born to be free just like the fish in the sea!"
Sleeper: "Rebels are we, born to be free just like the fish in the sea!"

Annie Hall: "Looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me."
Standup about cheating on his metaphysics final: "Looked within the soul of the boy sitting next to me."

He also used the name 'Victor Shakapopulis' in both "What's New Pussycat?" and "Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex..."

That's all I can think of right now but I am sure there are more.

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[–] Blueghost 11 years ago

They probably are recycled gags.

[–] tyrexden 11 years ago

there was a part, where Woody was describing himself really negatively, word after negative word, then said off-hand to Diane Keaton, "stop me anytime", and she was like "I will, once i disgree with you."

He and she had this exact same exchange in Manhattan Murder Mystery.

[–] tdl797 11 years ago

He asks Death about God. In another movie he does a very similar thing, but I think it was aliens.