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Why would Woody do a film like this?

posted 17 years ago by DrMulholland
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It's a really unusual move of Woodys to do a film like this. It's like an expressionistic Fellini'que (considering the circus-theme) film and if not the only Woody Allen-film where a murder is committed, this and Scoop are it's the only to focus on the investigation/capturing of a killer, instead of the Crime and Punishment-point of view he usually treats this subject with.

Arguable Woody was in a sort of minor experimenting-era when making Shadows and Fog (along with Husbands and Wives) but why would he choose the style he did? Why would he decide for this Mack the Knife story?

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[–] dan989 17 years ago

As it says in the trivia section, this film was based on a play that Woody wrote, which was in turn greatly influenced by Kafka's The Trail. This is not the first time Woody has made a Felliesque film (ie. Celebrity based on La Dolce Vita, and Stardust Memories). Plus he was always experimented.

[–] elenamuti 14 years ago

"this and Scoop are it's the only to focus on the investigation/capturing of a killer"
wrong. what about manhattan murder mystery?

[–] killdawabbittn 13 years ago

I don't know why Woody did it. But I'm glad he did.

[–] Prismark10 13 years ago

I think Allen wanted to challenge himself and explore some of his European film heroes.

Its that man again!!

[–] tyrexden 11 years ago

It also had remnants of Ingmar Berman's The Seventh Seal... John Malkovitch and his wife reminded me of the traveling performers from that other film.