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Paper Abstract: Comparison of Allen's characters in [Annie Hall] & [Bananas]. Neuroses, relationships, sex; increasing sophistication & complexity of films. Paper Introduction: Woody Allen has been called the greatest comedic filmmaker of the 1970s and 1980s. The most original and brilliant screen conic since Charlie Chaplin, Allen has achieved success and notoriety in a relatively short period of time (Sinyard 8). Film critics and film buffs have tracked his growth as a writer, actor, and director and have seen him become more proficient and clever with the medium while constantly changing and surprising them with a variety of stories. The purpose of this research will be to compare two of his 1970 films, Bananas, 1971, and the Academy Award-winner Annie Hall, 1977. The comparison will center on the main characters, their neuroses, relationships and sexual attitudes and actions. In undertaking this analysis, however, a look at Woody Allen himself, his background and point of view, are necessary for understanding his films. In addition, Text of the Paper: The entire text of the paper is shown below. However, the text is somewhat scrambled. We want to give you as much information as we possibly can about our papers and essays, but we cannot give them away for free. In the text below you will find that while disordered, many of the phrases are essentially intact. From this text you will be able to get a solid sense of the writing style, the concepts addressed, and the sources used in the research paper. a relativelyshort period of time Sinyard Film a variety of stories The purpose In undertaking this analysis however a look at and style will beincluded Born Allen Stewart Konigsberg in also a fighter who loved baseball andbasketball back to first Zolotow Allen first a gag writer for two dollars refused to wear a suit when at work And though because he workedat it all the time Quitting college in his Jewish background Allen began byhimself than others And it was through the constant same time Allen was to find success not ensure success It was thecreation of a whole comic was during thisperiod that the persona of Woody a victim a schlemiel that would sockhimself be Allen's apparent limitless capacity toabsorb new main vehicle As the co-writer director and achieve this power however meantstriking was to become the extremely successfulWhat's New as successful Sinyard However the film was please the difficult Feldman if anyone wanted a Woody Allenscript later development relish the free-wheeling absurdity of his outputin the medium and of hisown comic Chaplin comic in its most realized form Based him a deal with UnitedArtists which included two million in the manner of Chaplin's TheGreat Dictator while observing hilarity and dead patches However visually it was a dramatic Marcos A product tester for an outrages his surgeon father and ends uptrying assassinatehim and win American aid by blaming it on the Marcos he is arrested as a subversive and put audience forget thathe was in reality a mistakes his followers were secretlyrooting for him wanting at everything also but he plant the image of a least asFielding sees it An exaggeration of andneuroses of both sexes This is particularly apparent to address a multitude of issues surroundingrelationships As Allen's second ofthe jokes derive their humor mainly from In addition the eating seduction scene with junkfood is a rebels at a small little but in hishotel cupboard Sinyard But the making a comment on America's s political assassination as sport the disguise he wears upon returning to hero for whom politics becomes an inadvertentsubstitute for social failure discloses to his analyst that he stolea pornographic book in sex and death Sinyard The central conic sot-piece is as a moronic Miss America with Fielding bound and gagged during the trial a copy of Commentary on the subway as muggers Allen's from his nightclub act So in as if the Woody Allen and in persona from stooge best actress Diane Keaton and best screenplay Allen the screenplay from his own This film was followed that revue sketches onsexual themes Allen says The picture contains Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex byTolstoy's War and Peace Here Allen agreed to take the lead called restrained skillful and enormously sympathetic and foreshadowed Allen considered a self-deprecator of the first order love not sex though it is always lurking aroundthe the story Life is rotten butwho wants tomake love last Annie Hill anxious-riddenNew Yorker Alvy falls for a Wisconsin-born and bred Annie essay-like form of the film allows Allen to covera Eisenhower to Kennedy to Nixon and goes through the emotional roller-coaster of trying to maintain a and her singing career in Los Angeles and stays The film's epiloguehas terrible Further Alvy twice mentions the Groucho Marx gag about Allen persona Sinyard Meldingthis philosophy into his relationship a much better script than Bananas aresult of Allen's growth many asides to the camera a laGroucho being arty orsatirizing famous films and his acting does not Annie Hall deals with the Jewish theme throughoutwhereas were Jewish but his girlfriend Annie is verywaspish and that he does so was that the film itself lacked some one can surmise that Annie Hall was sohighly praised at the Academy Awards ceremony at whichthe film received red light so Allen snubbed for no money or recognition a shy man whogoes his this complex man Allen's female co-stars the s camea new actress Mia Farrow the background becoming a stronger presence behind thecamera When asked made When it comes to directing Allen is the first inthe case of Annie Hill and in combining comedy and philosophy his unusual Allen Rolling Stone Apr Kauffmann Stanley Before My Eyes Woody Allen New York Exeter Books Zolotow Maurice Woody and brilliant screen conic sinceCharlie become moreproficient and clever with will center on the maincharacters at Allen's other filmmaking as short with redhair and a a conscience I used to his teachers he began to send jokesto columnist Earl Allen also began to establish himselfas watched him through the years Allen succeeded Mel Brooks Carl Reiner andNeil Simon Developing comedy that has never been surpassed Sinyard However Allen's own material in nightclubs Afraid laughs he was tolearn the true comic personality the WoodyAllen now hilarious exaggeration of allthe characteristics of himself was born his first marriage to HelenRosen whom he divorced after his generation And it was this would be the case Allen's caught the eye of producer Charles If they had let me make it I could his own ticket It was Allen's attitude are more appreciatednow than they were at comic his materialnever changed As a filmmaker his comedy grew a film Made for million the samecostumes sweater horn-rimmed glasses and scared rabbit look It Bananas Described as an equally bizarre mating of Chaplin critics thought it was funny it becomes caughtup in the guerrilla war and impending as in hisprevious films Constructed like a series of However he wanders into a buteventually becomes their leader Sinyard this film his humor almost exclusivelyplayed most really liked was his at times more a mime sexual hangups and his fear of death the women Then in walks Nancy played by to risk all for including getting arrested at politicaldemonstrations Through that Fielding is just not for her with noanswer and what many call scatterbrained plot the jokes range the manner of the OdessaSteps exploits a convention or ideato its illogical absurdity such as President cut short when he discoversthat televisionsporting event Though it is theBay of Pigs fiasco CIA activities All the while however Allen distances himself from as much as he is analyzingpersonal himself of other secrets this scene focuses on thetwo a statement of the times a commercial forNew Testament cigarettes is the defendants Bobby Seale was the film this scene is really a s while opening the door on what is to become screenromance of the late s Sinyard became hugely popular andwent on to films betweenBananas and Annie Hall each contributing to was Allen's firstplot-oriented story as well as in which he directed as well as wroteand acted In he made Sleeper from a script he co-wrote which and Deathfollowed in A period piece set isbecoming much more ambitious Many would argue that Allen's left-wingsympathies during the McCarthy era in the word to describe what made Annie Hall maintains it consistentlythroughout Annie Hall Kauffmann Further in his review of the film uses the movie'sopening Allen's character goes through life hecontinually nature Allen and hischaracter Alvy both the similarities to his own life the film is much Annie In addition he is and his dislikes in literature and film he has fallen in love but her to bring her back to New The ending is left open-ended Such the hum race yet the longing for assimilation Alvy is a little envious and disoriented byAnnie's success as judged finally in terms of its gags and for the first time Allen's direction does not interfere role to fit what can do comes through every time he that anti-semitism still exists believes that Allen some of the supportingtalent an he did including Christopher Walken himself thought Annie Hall was rather overrated and had wanted If Annie Hall caught the critics' fancy advantage is that you canmake he has done every Monday held onanother night Allen still Bananas and Annie Hall one seen in a number of his other has made a noticeable change in he says Geist And then like any other end is worth the aggravation Allen is Hall represent onlya small part of his library of film are yet to come from this prolific filmmaker Press Sancton Thomas A Play It Again Woody Time Woody Allen has been called the greatest comedic filmmaker of critics and film buffs have trackedhis growth of this researchwill be to compare two of his films Woody Allen himself hisbackground and point of view are Brooklyn New York in into aJewish family Allen He now jokes When I vas playing baseball fell in love with comedy when he saw Bob an hour Zolotow Able to writeup many of his early jokes were not after the first year when he flunked out Allen soonfound writing for the Sid Caesar show urging of hisagents Charles Joffe performing live However having always assumed that personality that would provide him withlongevity Allen a clown in the in autobiographical stints covering subjects ranging from theprivations ideas that allowed him to grow from the wisecracking Brooklynboy star of Bananas Allen had completecontrol over the project it rich on an earlier writing assignment and Pussycat Allen has spoken disparagingly sopopular at the box office that it in the future it would be on his terms Zolotow this period' Sinyard Whatever the sentiment however the movieswere to potential In he got his first clearly on hisstand-up comic persona Allen dollars for his next film plus a political revolution with lunaticsurrealism as seen improvement over his earlier work The American company Fielding is a nebbish to find some meaning to rebels This crazy plot goesawry and Fielding not only ontrial Bananas represents the first appearance of what critic success He seems to have him to win because if still manages to become arevolutionary leader Further guy who is totally unsuited for the job and afailure the period's hippie a social andpolitical activist becomes when Nancy cannotseem to get comfortable in the bedroom directorial attempt Bananas lacks a certain recognition of film quotation Anexample is the spin-off of the now famous cafe or his lyrical reverie darkest joke is the pre-credit scenewhere a political assassination for live prime-time television Bananas makes a point of America as a rebel leaderbeing and disappointed love In the braille I rubbed the dirty parts' Fielding's trial which brings togethermany themes and stylistic characteristics of and a J Edgar Hoover disguised as Allen spoofs thecontempt trial of terrorize thetravelers speaks to the universality of conclusion Bananas is at times a hilarious film critics had all been waiting formaterialized in the to philosopher Toldwith penetrating insights into modern relationships and liberally withMarshall Brickman Osborne To got to play and acted in Play It same year by Everything You Always every funny idea that I'veever had andelaborated them into a complete feature Sinyard Here Allen revealsthe is still playing the endearingincompetent the reluctant in The Front a movie attackingthe blacklisting thedeepening seriousness and artistic ambition of his future who gets laughs by holding himself up toridicule corner Annie Hall gives one hope less of it and Life is crazy is about Alvy Singer a Brooklyn Jew who Hall Annie astruggling singer is filled wide range of his life including his childhood insert his own personal interestssuch as his preference for love relationship In the opening Alvylets He stillwants her though and actually flies something he her returning to New York later and refusing tojoin any club which would with Annie proves to be both humorousand But as Kauffmann says in his the script's form is just that a include physical comedysuch as pratfalls it was relegated to a minor role and that bothers him The scene where he meets her only to continue his persona of the intellectualand comic range of his prior film Love the time because it fit top honors As Alvy disparages Los Angeles in the the city on its biggestnight Zolotow He was just forthe pure joy of it Many believe own way In comparing and usually have been his off-screen leadingladies as well who became Allen's romantic ideal She what he enjoys most about filmmaking Allen responds thatit to admit that he does not enjoy the process the Oscar-nominated Hannah and Her Sisters have even persona of aclown and his Film Criticism and Comment New York Harper Rowe Osborne and His Movies Reader's Digest Chaplin Allen has achieved success and notoriety in the medium while constantly changing andsurprising them with their neuroses relationships and sexual attitudes and actions relates to both Bananasand Annie Hall and his developing sophistication big nose but he was steal second base and then feelso ashamed I'd run Wilson and Walter Winchell and soon was working afterschool as somewhat of an eccentric for he because he wasserious hard-working brilliant intensely ambitious and a style of humor rooted material always seemed funnier when delivered of crowds terrified and intriguedat the hard way that delivery did infamous through his many films surfaced It The nightclub performer recreated in his film became five years of marriage Sinyard It was and continues to to be theworld of films that would be his demand for creative control isalmost unparalleled in the business To Feldman who hiredhim to write the script for what have made it twice asfunny and half that after struggling onthe script to the time Those critics who are suspicious ofAllen's tremendously with each filmrepresenting quantum leaps in his understanding of Take the Money and Run displayed theCharlie alsomade money and critical reviews thus getting and the MarxBrothers Bananas satirizes dictatorships was also obvious that thepacing was inconsistent alternating between revolution taking place in the LatinAmerican country San dream sequences Allen loseshis politically-active girlfriend plan by the country's dictator to When he returns to Americato seek aid for San on his meekness and timidity Allen made his subliminalquality of strength In spite of his then a verbal comic and appearto be failing His activities as a product-tester his second wife Louise Lasser and all that changes at their relationship Allen points out the sexual conflicts as to why allows Allen widely in quality and style Many sequence in Eisenstein's revolutionary movie Battleship Potemkin Sinyard when Fielding orders a take-out mealfor a thousand the mood-setting harpist is not simply on the soundtrack comparable to Stanley Kubrick's Dr Strangelove Allen is also shady alliances and judicial farce aswell as any specific political commitment ororientation Sinyard Fielding Mellish is a anxieties such as when he central anxieties of Allen's future work and includes an array of witnessessuch a reference to Allen's distaste for television And similarly bound and gagged Lastly Fielding's hidingbehind visualization of an oldroutine of Allen'sforte in the future man's anxieties It seems With this film Allen shifted insubject to self-revelation win four Academy Awards including best picture best director Allen his growth as a filmmaker In he wrote showcasing his now co-star Diane Keaton Interpreting Dr Ruben's book in a series of took the sci-fi elements of in this story was inspired head-on dealings with the realities oflife began when he s His work here was such as successin the minds of critics it is consistency unlike Bananas thecentral subject here is and closing jokes to summarize scrutinizes these two commandments for some hint of how have been divorced twice A cynical more realisticand structured than Bananas Sinyard Further the almost able to reference the periodsfrom In Annie Hall Allen's character has losther to some producer-type York Annie however is happy in her new California lifestyle is the human dilemmaaccording to Woody Allen life is is afundamental dichotomy of the Woody a singer Critics herald Annie Hall as not by conventionalcriteria With bits such as the in thestorytelling Unlike Bananas there are no attempts at really well behave entirely credible In addition is with a gentile male or female His wives is clinging to something thathas at least subsided and Colleen Dewhurst thegeneral consensus liked Love andDeath better as well However though Allen gained newnotoriety when he refused to attend a right turn on a night since Sancton Obsessedwith New Orleans jazz Allen plays wouldn't come He is basically can see the multifacets of films in the s With Allen ashe steps more into cooperative artistic endeavor realitystarts to creep in and compromises are a one-man industry His film have never lost money and Thus it can be assumed that with hisoriginality Works CitedGeist William E Woody Oct Sinyard Neil The Films of the s and s The most original as a writer actor and director and have seen him Bananas and the AcademyAward-winner Annie Hall The comparison necessary for understanding his films In addition a look didn't have it easy growing up He was I could run realfast But I had Hope in The Roadto Morocco Sinyard Encouraged by to fifty good jokes in two hours really that funny to thosewho have himself in the company of comedy greats which many believe set astandard for American television and Jack Rollins that he decided he should performhis good material would get the Once he was able to develop this tradition of CharlieChaplin a personality that was a subtle and of his early life his family and to the most popular comedian of This was the second of many films to come inwhich that he did His stand-up act of the movie claiming that gave its writer the power necessary towrite In looking back on the early Allen movies they be Woody Allen's natural home As a stand-up chance to direct as well as write and starin plays the born loser wearing three-film contract The stage was set for in the Marx Brothers' Duck Soup Sinyard And while film's hero is Fielding Mellish Woody Allen who character but not such an all-out loser his life by traveling to San Marcos falls into the hands of the rebels Pauline Kael callsAllen's closet potency Before believed that his appeal wasbased on his weaknesses when what he can we can Hischaracter may be zany Allen displays his neuroses about being Jewish as well ashis though he won't admit it with his romantic interest She is a woman he iswilling In the end the discussionfollowing Nancy's confession levelof sophistication Throughout the unstructured pram careening down some steps in scene from Tom Jones Further there are scenes where Allen whenhe is invited to dinner with the taking place is designed as a playing on the politics of the times a cross between Fidel Castro and Groucho Marx script Allenis not really analyzing political realities while lying onthe couch Unburdening the movie Sinyard Thescene also is a blackhousewife In addition the delaying of the verdict by the Chicago Ten in where one of this behavior As with so manyother actions in response to theturbulence of the form of Annie Hall which turned out to be the sprinkledwith Allen's unique dead-pan humor Annie Hill this point Allen vas involved in five AgainSam Trusting the direction to Herbert Ross this piece Wanted toKnow About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask about sex including several that led to my divorce Sinyard absurdity of modern life from the perspective of Love revolutionary but the artistic context of show-business personalities for allegedly work Sinyard If there is one perfects this method of humor and for the possibility of successfullove Stanley Kauffmann but it's crazier not to goalong with the craziness As is a successfultelevision-nightclub comic Autobiographical in with her own anxieties and neuroses As aresult of his two marriages and hisrelationship with New York over Los Angeles his hatred oftelevision the audience know right away that hates to do out toCalifornia to reclaim they link up again but only for amoment accept him as a member The reluctance toaccept membership of insightful While Annie is intimidated by Alvy's intellectualsuperiority and condescension review the scriptstill has to be series of bits But for themost part they work And or muggings Kauffmann In fact Allen has tailoredhis in Bananas In the film Allen'sparanoia about being a Jew family strikesat the heart of his paranoia Kauffmann while acknowledging ofthe self-deprecator And while Allen also was criticized for using and Death Sinyard In fact Allen so well the prototype Woody Allenfilm which the critics film describing it as a place whose only cultural playing his clarinet at Michael's Pub something however that even if the Academy Awards were contrasting two such diverse films Louise Lasser in Bananas and Diane Keaton in Annie Hallwere broughtwith her a nurturing effect that is the writing It always seems great in the writing However having control over his writing in the made a substantial profit Bananas and Annie genuine romantic idealism and considerable intellect thatother great film Robert Years of the Oscar New York Abbeville Feb a relativelyshort period of time Sinyard Film a variety of stories The purpose In undertaking this analysis however a look at and style will beincluded Born Allen Stewart Konigsberg in also a fighter who loved baseball andbasketball back to first Zolotow Allen first a gag writer for two dollars refused to wear a suit when at work And though because he workedat it all the time Quitting college in his Jewish background Allen began byhimself than others And it was through the constant same time Allen was to find success not ensure success It was thecreation of a whole comic was during thisperiod that the persona of Woody a victim a schlemiel that would sockhimself be Allen's apparent limitless capacity toabsorb new main vehicle As the co-writer director and achieve this power however meantstriking was to become the extremely successfulWhat's New as successful Sinyard However the film was please the difficult Feldman if anyone wanted a Woody Allenscript later development relish the free-wheeling absurdity of his outputin the medium and of hisown comic Chaplin comic in its most realized form Based him a deal with UnitedArtists which included two million in the manner of Chaplin's TheGreat Dictator while observing hilarity and dead patches However visually it was a dramatic Marcos A product tester for an outrages his surgeon father and ends uptrying assassinatehim and win American aid by blaming it on the Marcos he is arrested as a subversive and put audience forget thathe was in reality a mistakes his followers were secretlyrooting for him wanting at everything also but he plant the image of a least asFielding sees it An exaggeration of andneuroses of both sexes This is particularly apparent to address a multitude of issues surroundingrelationships As Allen's second ofthe jokes derive their humor mainly from In addition the eating seduction scene with junkfood is a rebels at a small little but in hishotel cupboard Sinyard But the making a comment on America's s political assassination as sport the disguise he wears upon returning to hero for whom politics becomes an inadvertentsubstitute for social failure discloses to his analyst that he stolea pornographic book in sex and death Sinyard The central conic sot-piece is as a moronic Miss America with Fielding bound and gagged during the trial a copy of Commentary on the subway as muggers Allen's from his nightclub act So in as if the Woody Allen and in persona from stooge best actress Diane Keaton and best screenplay Allen the screenplay from his own This film was followed that revue sketches onsexual themes Allen says The picture contains Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex byTolstoy's War and Peace Here Allen agreed to take the lead called restrained skillful and enormously sympathetic and foreshadowed Allen considered a self-deprecator of the first order love not sex though it is always lurking aroundthe the story Life is rotten butwho wants tomake love last Annie Hill anxious-riddenNew Yorker Alvy falls for a Wisconsin-born and bred Annie essay-like form of the film allows Allen to covera Eisenhower to Kennedy to Nixon and goes through the emotional roller-coaster of trying to maintain a and her singing career in Los Angeles and stays The film's epiloguehas terrible Further Alvy twice mentions the Groucho Marx gag about Allen persona Sinyard Meldingthis philosophy into his relationship a much better script than Bananas aresult of Allen's growth many asides to the camera a laGroucho being arty orsatirizing famous films and his acting does not Annie Hall deals with the Jewish theme throughoutwhereas were Jewish but his girlfriend Annie is verywaspish and that he does so was that the film itself lacked some one can surmise that Annie Hall was sohighly praised at the Academy Awards ceremony at whichthe film received red light so Allen snubbed for no money or recognition a shy man whogoes his this complex man Allen's female co-stars the s camea new actress Mia Farrow the background becoming a stronger presence behind thecamera When asked made When it comes to directing Allen is the first inthe case of Annie Hill and in combining comedy and philosophy his unusual Allen Rolling Stone Apr Kauffmann Stanley Before My Eyes Woody Allen New York Exeter Books Zolotow Maurice Woody and brilliant screen conic sinceCharlie become moreproficient and clever with will center on the maincharacters at Allen's other filmmaking as short with redhair and a a conscience I used to his teachers he began to send jokesto columnist Earl Allen also began to establish himselfas watched him through the years Allen succeeded Mel Brooks Carl Reiner andNeil Simon Developing comedy that has never been surpassed Sinyard However Allen's own material in nightclubs Afraid laughs he was tolearn the true comic personality the WoodyAllen now hilarious exaggeration of allthe characteristics of himself was born his first marriage to HelenRosen whom he divorced after his generation And it was this would be the case Allen's caught the eye of producer Charles If they had let me make it I could his own ticket It was Allen's attitude are more appreciatednow than they were at comic his materialnever changed As a filmmaker his comedy grew a film Made for million the samecostumes sweater horn-rimmed glasses and scared rabbit look It Bananas Described as an equally bizarre mating of Chaplin critics thought it was funny it becomes caughtup in the guerrilla war and impending as in hisprevious films Constructed like a series of However he wanders into a buteventually becomes their leader Sinyard this film his humor almost exclusivelyplayed most really liked was his at times more a mime sexual hangups and his fear of death the women Then in walks Nancy played by to risk all for including getting arrested at politicaldemonstrations Through that Fielding is just not for her with noanswer and what many call scatterbrained plot the jokes range the manner of the OdessaSteps exploits a convention or ideato its illogical absurdity such as President cut short when he discoversthat televisionsporting event Though it is theBay of Pigs fiasco CIA activities All the while however Allen distances himself from as much as he is analyzingpersonal himself of other secrets this scene focuses on thetwo a statement of the times a commercial forNew Testament cigarettes is the defendants Bobby Seale was the film this scene is really a s while opening the door on what is to become screenromance of the late s Sinyard became hugely popular andwent on to films betweenBananas and Annie Hall each contributing to was Allen's firstplot-oriented story as well as in which he directed as well as wroteand acted In he made Sleeper from a script he co-wrote which and Deathfollowed in A period piece set isbecoming much more ambitious Many would argue that Allen's left-wingsympathies during the McCarthy era in the word to describe what made Annie Hall maintains it consistentlythroughout Annie Hall Kauffmann Further in his review of the film uses the movie'sopening Allen's character goes through life hecontinually nature Allen and hischaracter Alvy both the similarities to his own life the film is much Annie In addition he is and his dislikes in literature and film he has fallen in love but her to bring her back to New The ending is left open-ended Such the hum race yet the longing for assimilation Alvy is a little envious and disoriented byAnnie's success as judged finally in terms of its gags and for the first time Allen's direction does not interfere role to fit what can do comes through every time he that anti-semitism still exists believes that Allen some of the supportingtalent an he did including Christopher Walken himself thought Annie Hall was rather overrated and had wanted If Annie Hall caught the critics' fancy advantage is that you canmake he has done every Monday held onanother night Allen still Bananas and Annie Hall one seen in a number of his other has made a noticeable change in he says Geist And then like any other end is worth the aggravation Allen is Hall represent onlya small part of his library of film are yet to come from this prolific filmmaker Press Sancton Thomas A Play It Again Woody Time If this paper is not what you are looking for, you can search again: Search for: or Click here to request an essay written just for you.