I never realized it until I saw the trailer but Jesse Eisenberg is so much like Woody Allen back in the day. His mannerisms, fast-talking wit is so similar. The similarities just seemed to reveal themselves through Allen's writing.
shareI've long felt that Topher Grace would make a good Woody Allen in a biopic.
sharepretty sure he is just doing a Woody impersonation in this film. I don't believe he acts like this in true life. He isn't the first, nor will he be the last, particularly since Woody has stopped appearing in his own films. Jesse is simply playing the Woody character because the real Woody is too old.
shareExactly, there were many actors doing Woody character for the past 15 years or so.
shareHe likes diddling kids?
shareHey, hey, HEY. Nobody has accused Woody of diddling any kids except for his own seven-year-old daughter. Unless you count the two high school aged girls he's on record as having affairs with, Soon-Yi Previn and the woman who was the basis for Mariel Hemingway's character in "Manhattan."
You forgot to mention the ugly
shareWoody Allen = ugly and untalented
Jesse Eisenberg = ugly and untalented
Yeah I can see the similarities.
I second that, but I had thought of it before the movie was even in works. Their mannerisms are so alike.
It Worked wonderfully for Woody, lets see how it does for Jessie.
Eisenberg is Zelig?
I don't know everything. Neither does anyone else
Do not care for Eisenbergs acting. In fact, he almost made me nod off. In addition, he has a serious hunchback in the making as his shoulders looked so odd in his costumes that I found it distracting. If he was supposed to be a young Woody in this, he didn't pull it off.
shareI thought Jesse Eisenberg is one of the best of the young actors who have played the role that Woody Allen would have assumed when he was younger.
I have to agree with an earlier posting -- Topher Grace would be a wonderful Woody Allen character. Adam Driver, too.
Yeah, I definitely thought that the protagonist was functioning as a young Woody Allen.
shareEvery single Woody Allen movie that he doesn't actually appear in ... he has someone cast who acts exactly like him. From Owen Wilson to Scarlett Johansson. But I think Jesse Eisenberg has done the best Woody Allen imitation I've seen so far.
shareKenneth Branagh in Celebrity comes pretty close as well.
shareThere are films of his in which his persona does not appear. Blue Jasmine, Vicki Christina Barcelona, Interiors, September, Another Woman, Cassandra's Dream and Match Point come to mind. In VCB, each of the characters displays some elements of his humor, but that's limited to a couple of lines.
shareI don't understand why he's continually casting surrogates of himself in his films. It's so distracting to watch Eisenberg doing a Woody Allen impression throughout this movie. He does a fine job. It just reminds me I'm watching an actor act.
shareSheldonCooper_Bazinga is correct - that's for lack of a better word, the schtick. And personally, I think its worked out great for majority of his films.
I also agree, Kenneth Brannagh was one of my favorites (I never saw that coming)
I hate Woody Allen acting and Jesse Eisenberg is one of my favorites,
Here however it was pretty obvious that Eisenberg was playing a version of a young Woody though, so that's possibly why you would think that.
Death to mainstream cinema!