The reason all the girls fancy him in the future is because he wrote, produced and directed the film. This was my favourite film when I was young. Especially the electric wheelchair scene. Try ‘Bananas’ next.
Yeah, Woody Allen and Diane Keaton made several movies together starting with "Play It Again, Sam" (Woody Allen plays a guy haunted by the spirit of Humphrey Bogart/Rick Blaine from Casablanca who gives him dating advice). My favorite Woody Allen/Diane Keaton movie is probably "Love and Death" - a historical piece set in Russia during the Napoleonic Wars.
Love and Death is my favorite Woody Allen movie too. He has become a very controversial individual (for good reasons), but his movies are mostly very funny.
@@foljs5858 yep. But that was before they made movies together. Allen says in his autobiography said people assumed they were together during the time they made movies together. But they were just friends at that point.
I can't believe it! I can't believe it!!!! Thank you, Dawn!!!!!!! You picked up on the silent movie vibe right away, that was his intention! Yes, he made a bunch with Diane Keaton. But he ALWAYS had great female counterparts. He made two or three with Louise Lasser (his first wife), and they're great together. And he made a whole bunch with Mia Farrow in the 80s and they're great together. But even though we all love those movies and those actresses, there's something extra special about Woody and Diane, they straddle his early "funny" period, and his second funny-serious period, both of which we love. But all three actresses are brilliant, talented and funny. "Love And Death" is the next one Woody and Diane did together and it's really funny.
So many great one-word movies. Bananas, Sleeper, Manhattan, Zelig Woody always incorporates his own real-life neuroses into his movies. Fear of technology, fear of automobiles (he's never had a driver's license or actually driven a car), his disdain for pseudo-intellectuals, his distrust of government... He always finds a way to reference them either overtly or subtextually.
Woody Allen has described his screen personna as Bob Hope with angst That remind me that woody Allen fans might enjoy some of bob hopes earlier movies. My favorites are the princess and the pirate, the son of paleface, the road to Morocco, and fancy pants. Woody has said that fancy pants is about his favorite movie of all time (outside of his obscession with ingmar Bergman)
Yes, a LOT of silent-movie vibes: Woody patterned his big glasses after Harold Lloyd's big nerd-glasses, and Sleeper was his tribute to Lloyd and Buster Keaton's silent slapstick...Especially when Woody is hanging by computer tape like Harold Lloyd hanging off the skyscraper clock. (Oh, and did those of us who'd actually seen "2001" notice that Douglas Rain, aka HAL, voiced the green computer in the operating room?)
DUDE! After I saw you react to Annie Hall i thought " I really hope she does Sleeper, because it's such a great movie and there are barely any reactions to it on YT, and the ones on here are awful and I really enjoy her uploads" My face when I looked on my subscriptions and saw the movie poster! 😃Ah you've made my day, thank you Dawn.
Being frozen for 200 years might not make you forget how to walk, but it could numb your feet, since they've been ununsed for centuries. And it might not make you forget what food is, but could very well give you severe confusion and brain fog upon walking up that means you behave erratically!
When Woody Allen was saying “Stella.Stella”, you stated that you know that from a scene on The Simpson. That was a parody on the original film “A Streetcar Named Desire”, the film that made Marlon Brando a star. Great, iconic film, by the way 👌
I enjoyed your reaction, Dawn. There are many great Woody Allen films, I recommend: 'Take The Money and Run', 'The Purple Rose of Cairo', 'Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (but Were Afraid to Ask)', 'Play it Again, Sam', 'Manhatten', 'Hannah, and Her Sisters', there's plenty of others but these are good ones to continue with.
I would definitely recommend "Take the money and run" by Woody Allen, which is shot in semi-documentary style and has him as a crap gangster. "Everything You Wanted To Know About Sex But Were Afraid To Ask" is another great one, even if it is a but episodic.
Another documentary style film by Allen was the unreleased TV movie "Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story." It was done for PBS, but it never aired because the PBS brass got cold feet because it was satirical of the Nixon administration. There's usually a bootleg version available on RUclips.
When I was a kid in the 70's we got cable for a short period of time. I watched Sleeper 23 times before my parents got rid of the cable. It was my favorite movie for a long time. "Bananas", "Love & Death" and "Play It Again Sam" are more of his early hilarious movies.
22:45 - Haha...Diane Keaton doing a Marlon Brando impression (Brando played Stanley in "A Streetcar Named Desire"), and she played his daughter in law in "The Godfather"...
DM, I saw you enjoying the soundtrack to this film and thought you might like to know that the music was done by the world famous Preservation Hall Jazz Band (from New Orleans) with Woody himself playing clarinet! It is one of my fave movie soundtracks!!
I've been inside the futuristic house in the movie. It's just west of Denver, Colorado USA. For many years after the movie it sat empty. People had broken in and had parties. One day a couple of us were in the area and decided to drive up to it. Unfortunately at that time windows and doors had been broken, so we went inside and looked around. Since then it was sold and fixed up and people live in it.
I LOVE that you're interested in these old comedy classics. It's a kind of education that I see too many people lacking and it shows a real openmindedness. They're also so much fun to vicariously watch for the first time.
Woody Allen was strictly a comedian and comedy writer early on. He patterned his delivery after Bob Hope. Later in his career, his films became a lot more serious, and he was annoyed by fans who complained they preferred his "earlier, funny movies".
Yeah, "Stardust Memories" upset a lot of his old fans when it came out in '80, as they thought he was having a dig at them going on about his earlier comedies.
Diane and Woody appeared together in 6 of his films, and she was also in 2 more of his films where he directed but did not act. They were lovers for a time but have remained friends and colleagues.
Explaining the McDonalds sign gag: Up until the late 1970s, McDonalds used to change the number on their signs promoting the number of hamburgers served. As the number went into the billions, they gradually phased this out and replaced it with the slogan "Billions and Billions Served". The signs shows how many burgers have been sold 200 years later if they had continued counting..
I agree with you about the "future is white" comment. If you want to see a sci-fi film where the future is not clean and white, check out "Brazil" from 1985. Directed by Terry Gilliam.
That fancy house is in Colorado in the foothills near Denver. It was a real house that had been sitting there abandoned for many years by the original architect until not long ago. It is now a finished residential home.
Also, the building that Woody Allen was hanging out of by the computer tape is the NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research) building out side of Boulder Colorado.
@@GairBear49 no WAY! I visited NCAR about ten years ago; I knew it had been a filming location for SOMETHING but totally forgot it was this - so then I missed the opportunity to see the orb house, too, oh well
Another Woody Allen film you might enjoy for its' silliness/nonsense comedy is his 1969 film Take The Money And Run. It is a mockumentary crime comedy film that I showed to my brother and father and I enjoyed watching them laugh along with the film. I especially liked the line from the film: "....after 15 minutes I knew I was in love...and after 30 minutes I even gave up the idea of stealing her purse"...
Take the Money and Run is hilarious. Another silly comedy of his I really like is Bananas, about Woody getting caught up in a civil war in a fictional Central American country, kind of a spoof on Castro and Cuba. Just like Sleeper, it's silly but offers some funny social, political, and relationship commentary.
Woody Allen's hair and glasses were sort of an iconic look for him - sort of like Groucho Marx's glasses, eyebrows and mustache or Charlie Chaplin's bowler hat and mustache.
Hi Dawn, I think you'd love Take the Money and Run, one of Woody Allen's earliest movies. It's very funny. Quite stupid but really funny. Another really good one is Play it Again, Sam. I think you've seen Casablanca, right? Love that one and you will too. It's almost 2024 and I'm still waiting for The Orgasmatron. Sigh...
@@fannybuster He married Soon-Yi Previn, adopted daughter of his ex-girlfriend and mother of two of his children, Mia Farrow. Despite there being a 30+ year age-gap between Allen and Soon-Yi, they're still married more than a quarter of a century later.
You're a rebel, Dawn. When I was growing up in the 70s, there were two writer/director/actor comedians who ruled the box office - Mel Brooks and Woody Allen. Lots of reactors on here do Mel Brooks reactions, but you're the first one I've seen do a Woody Allen reaction. Early in his career, his movies were more silly and slapstick. At some point he turned to more cerebral, poignant, adult humor. I prefer the older movies. I'd recommend Take the Money and Run for your next Woody Allen movie.
@@yournamehere6002 It does seem to be the same 3 or 4 movies. I feel a lot more people have seen Blazing Saddles or Spaceballs than have seen The Twelve Chairs. I've never even heard of The Twelve Chairs.
I saw Sleeper in the theater in Alabama. I never laughed so hard. Might be his most silly. Love And Death was another done in this era. Equally silly but wordier and clever. Slapstick throughout, as in Sleeper.
“Blue testicles” - thanks, Dawn, now I’ll never be able to unsee that. 😄 Sleeper has always been a personal favorite. Glad you enjoyed it. Check out Love and Death, another great Allen/Keaton collaboration.
YES!!! Can’t wait to watch your reaction. If you liked it, his other two from this era - Bananas and Love and Death - are even better. And more recently, Midnight in Paris is amazing. Cheers!
Diane Keaton and Woody Allen have starred together in several films, including: Play it Again Sam (1972) Sleeper (1973) Love and Death (1975) Annie Hall (1977) Manhattan (1979)
If you want to see a future that isn't technically advanced I would recommend Brazil. It's also directed by your old friend Terry Gilliam that made the Monty Python comedies.
“Love and Death” (1975) was my 1st Woody Allen movie at the theater . His funniest work though is in books :”Without Feathers”(1975) and “Getting Even” (1971). 😂
Ha! He cut his hair in the 80s, he had short hair from 1981 onwards! :D "Broadway Danny Rose", "Zelig", "Hannah And Her Sisters", "Crimes And Misdemeanors".....all great ones and all with short hair! :P And "Radio Days" he only narrates so you don't even to look at him. :D
4:29 This house _actually_ exists. To this day. It's in Colorado, where I used to live. It overlooks I-70. I used to catch sight of it every time I drove form Denver up to any one of numerous cities in the Rocky Mountains. I heard it had been featured, once, in a Woody Allen film called _Sleeper,_ I made it a point to look that movie up, and that's how I came to _see_ this movie for the first time.
Another funny one is "Take the Money and Run." It is done in "mockumentary" style, about how a man lives a life of crime, and how it started. It is very Python-esque, like the Pirhana Brothers.
That wonderful soundtrack from the Preservation Hall Jazz Band takes me back to the time I went travelling from Glasgow to as many places in the States I could in 6 weeks overland. In New Orleans, it was all bars and restaurants except for Preservation Hall. Instead of being all flashy lights, it was just an old living room with chairs and benches put down, and if they were taken, you just sat anywhere on the floor. The band came in and you would think they just let in a group from an old folks home. The drummer arrived using a zimmer frame. I sat on the floor wondering what I'd let myself in for, but the moment they started, this middle-aged man was like a toddler who just saw Santa Claus. Just so wonderul! Thank you for that memory I'd forgotten and you gave me back.
Now that you have graduated by watching this, go to get your grad degree and watch, "Stardust Memories", which is my favorite Woody Allen movie. Fun fact, Sharon Stone made her screen debut in the opening scene. The movie is very "dense" with very subtle jokes. After that, watch, "Take the Money and Run".
Other Woody Allen movies id recommend are: "all you wanted to know about sex and were afraid to ask", "bananas!", "live and death" and if you want something very silly and very different "Zelig"
I worked for a place called Fantasy Cars in the 80s and we bought restored and rented out cars from movies. I have driven one of these "bubble cars". (Actually a 1970s Volkswagen chassis with a fiberglass body on it. Built by Gene Winfield.) They are impossible to see out of! When they are being driven in the movie the driver was given directions by walkie talkie and that took a lot of trust!
Diane Keaton & Woody Allen were a couple for a short time in the early 70s. In fact, the "Annie Hall" character was based on Keaton in real life. "Love & Death" is my favourite of the early movies and was next after this one. Other good early ones are "Take the Money & Run", "Play it Again, Sam", "Bananas" & "Everything you wanted to know about Sex, but were afraid to Ask". After "Annie Hall" Keaton also stared in Allen's classic magnum opus"Manhatten", as well as others like "Interiors" (A serious movie in the vein of his love of Ingmar Bergman) Then again in '93 for "Manhatten Murder Mystery", which is a good laugh. I'd recommend "Hannah & Her Sisters" as well, which has an excellent cast like Michael Caine, Max Von Sydow, Barbara Hershey & Mia Farrow. Less comical than the earlier stuff, but still full of one liners.
14:51 Woody Allen has different types of films. Some are zany, wacky comedies that are not a million miles away from The Marx Brothers. You'd love those ones especially. Sleeper is one. And also *Love and Death* and *Play It Again Sam* are two more that are excellent.
I live about 30 minutes away from the round house where the movie was filmed. Woody Allen is quite an accomplished clarinet player and did the music in the movie.
Much of the film riffs off silent movies (See also BBCs "The Goodies"). You picked up on him doing a Charlie Chaplin act, but when dressed as a robot he does a brilliant Stan Laurel. The sterile look was probably inspired by 2001, which influenced many other movies throughout the 70s.
Cossell also appears as himself in "Bananas" At the very begining he announces the play by play during the asassination of a Latin American dictator, and at the end gives the play by play and post game interview for Woody and Louise's honeymoon.
I was well younger than 10 years old the first time I saw this movie. I'm sure I didn't understand all the humor at that age, but it introduced me to Woody Allen's neurotic comedy style early on.
I always had the impression that Allen's films always starred Allen and whatever woman he was dating at the time, at least through the 1990s. That's probably a caricature, but it was the way it felt at the time.
Into the early 90s pretty close. You had the Diane Keaton era and then when they broke up Mia Farrow was in pretty much all of them. He made some of his best movies in the Mia Farrow era despite her.
Well done, madame. I can't recall any other instance of a reaction to this film, one of the crown jewels in Allen's career and the height of Rip van Winkle-type satire, and I commend you for the effort (not that it seemed at all disagreeable to undertake). If you wish to continue with other gems from Allen's roster, I should like to suggest 1983's *Zelig* first and foremost, for two reasons: first, it was my introduction to Allen in the movie theater, and I saw it twice more during its run; second and more importantly, it is just an astounding piece of the cinematic craft. It's a "mockumentary" - and that's all I dare say about it without lessening the impact. Following that, I should definitely hold up 1966's *What's Up, Tiger Lily?* since it probably is the Woody Allen film that I have seen and quoted the most - many dozens of times. 1980's *Stardust Memories,* another dear to my heart, is his hilarious commentary on the travails that come with success at one's craft - namely, his own. And as for 1987's *Radio Days* - well, you just know a film is great when, at the conclusion, you're not yet ready to leave the people in it. 🤓
Absolutely! Not only did Woody's casting director find an actor that looks and sounds unusually close to Humphrey Bogart, but also, Woody had a talent for writing what the Bogart character (Rick Blane) really would say in the various situations!
Keaton and Allen are in several movies together. Including Love and Death, Play It Again Sam, Manhattan, and Manhattan Murder Mystery. I particularly like Love and Death and Play It Again Sam.
A movie about the future that is also about going back to the past is DUNE. It a future where they reject computers and artificial intelligence and instead chose to expand the human mind using a spice found on the planet Dune/Arrakis.
Wow! What a left field, outta nowhere film to react to. I saw this on TV back in the 70s when I was like 10 and I nearly peed my pants with that wheelchair scene.
Being frozen for 200 years would definitely screw up your muscle memory and coordination, not to mention your faculties. Plus being cryogenically frozen is different than regular sleep.
The same year (1977) that 'Annie Hall' came out, so did 'Star Wars.' (As well as 'The Spy Who Loved Me, AND 'Smokey and the Bandit.' - it was a good year for film!). Those two films competed with one another at the Oscars, and 'Annie Hall' took home almost every award. I think you can fairly argue that both films changed cinema, but 'Star Wars' had the much greater, long-term impact. Another weird element that connects 'Star Wars' and Woody Allen and Dawn Marie: Dawn said she wanted to see a movie about the future where everything wasn't always so damn white, shiny and brand-new. That was precisely what George Lucas was aiming for with his Star Wars universe. (I understand that the Star Wars stories take place "a long time ago," and were never intended to connect at all with Earth or with our future. But, it's hard to think of a world with more solid 'strange and futuristic' details, hat also left the 'cold-white-antiseptic hospital look' far behind.
Ridley Scott's 1982 classic sci-fi film "Blade Runner" definitely did not have a sterile white look to it. It had a more dreary, dystopian environment.
A school friend from my University days summed up Woody's appeal to women; he's 'ugly-sexy'. Great little dystopian comedy and I adore the New Orleans jazz music, it was the perfect aesthetic touch. And if you want a futuristic movie that goes back in time, try 1968's 'Planet of the Apes;, the original. That perfectly matches your description. It takes place in the future in an ancient civilization. Of APES!
There is a 2018 (I think) film called A Quiet Place which is set in the future and it doesn't look white and sterile at all. But is is one of those post-apocalypse films where disaster has struck humanity. Not many laughs in that one but it did have the effect of making the cinema audience I was in become very quiet indeed.
I agree with everyone here, Woody's early comedies are great, especially films like Bananas and Love & Death (Countess: "You are the greatest lover I have known." Woody: "I practice a lot when I'm alone."). I love these. He works constantly, and he had a great period in the late 80's/early 90's with The Purple Rose of Cairo, Hannah and Her Sisters, *Radio Days*, *Crimes and Misdemeanors*, Shadows and Fog, Manhattan Murder Mystery, *Bullets Over Broadway* (my personal fave), Mighty Aphrodite, and Everyone Says I Love You. These nine films span the era 1985-1996, a 12-year period in which he released 14 movies. The 5 I did not mention are all worthy of the list as well.
I think Woody Allen made some exceptional films he directed but didn’t star in much later in his career. Sweet and Lowdown and Midnight in Paris are great films you could show to someone and not even mention they’re Woody Allen films.
He's earlier films are a snoozefest to me. He nearly killed his career trying to go back to that style in the late 90s early 2000s. Sleeper is okay as a light film but Annie Hall its not.
There is a movie set in the future that goes back to the past- "Westworld" it is a little scary and dark though. By the way your giggles make me chuckle!
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The reason all the girls fancy him in the future is because he wrote, produced and directed the film. This was my favourite film when I was young. Especially the electric wheelchair scene. Try ‘Bananas’ next.
My favorite scene is where they find that VW bug that's been sitting in a cave for 200 years, and he starts it right up.
Yeah, Woody Allen and Diane Keaton made several movies together starting with "Play It Again, Sam" (Woody Allen plays a guy haunted by the spirit of Humphrey Bogart/Rick Blaine from Casablanca who gives him dating advice). My favorite Woody Allen/Diane Keaton movie is probably "Love and Death" - a historical piece set in Russia during the Napoleonic Wars.
They were a couple as well
Love and Death is my favorite Woody Allen movie too. He has become a very controversial individual (for good reasons), but his movies are mostly very funny.
Absolutely Love&Death! 😜&👿
Woody had a typical going bald reaction... Grow everything that's still there!
@@foljs5858 yep. But that was before they made movies together. Allen says in his autobiography said people assumed they were together during the time they made movies together. But they were just friends at that point.
Love and Death
I can't believe it! I can't believe it!!!! Thank you, Dawn!!!!!!! You picked up on the silent movie vibe right away, that was his intention! Yes, he made a bunch with Diane Keaton. But he ALWAYS had great female counterparts. He made two or three with Louise Lasser (his first wife), and they're great together. And he made a whole bunch with Mia Farrow in the 80s and they're great together. But even though we all love those movies and those actresses, there's something extra special about Woody and Diane, they straddle his early "funny" period, and his second funny-serious period, both of which we love. But all three actresses are brilliant, talented and funny. "Love And Death" is the next one Woody and Diane did together and it's really funny.
So many great one-word movies. Bananas, Sleeper, Manhattan, Zelig
Woody always incorporates his own real-life neuroses into his movies. Fear of technology, fear of automobiles (he's never had a driver's license or actually driven a car), his disdain for pseudo-intellectuals, his distrust of government...
He always finds a way to reference them either overtly or subtextually.
Woody Allen has described his screen personna as Bob Hope with angst
That remind me that woody Allen fans might enjoy some of bob hopes earlier movies. My favorites are the princess and the pirate, the son of paleface, the road to Morocco, and fancy pants. Woody has said that fancy pants is about his favorite movie of all time (outside of his obscession with ingmar Bergman)
25:15 - Wow, they actually got Douglas Rain, the voice of HAL in "2001: A Space Odyssey"!
Just for watching a Woody movie I give you a thumbs up!
Yes, a LOT of silent-movie vibes: Woody patterned his big glasses after Harold Lloyd's big nerd-glasses, and Sleeper was his tribute to Lloyd and Buster Keaton's silent slapstick...Especially when Woody is hanging by computer tape like Harold Lloyd hanging off the skyscraper clock.
(Oh, and did those of us who'd actually seen "2001" notice that Douglas Rain, aka HAL, voiced the green computer in the operating room?)
"I want a movie set in the future that is not so white, like in a hospital..." You want, "Blade Runner", with Harrison Ford.
it's funny she said howard cosell has a monotone voice since he was known for his distinct way of speaking
"Checking the cell structure!" God I've been saying that since childhood when doing tasks and getting micromanaged by someone annoying 😂
Woody Allen starred in, wrote, directed...and played clarinet along with the Preservation Hall Jazz Band for the soundtrack!
DUDE! After I saw you react to Annie Hall i thought " I really hope she does Sleeper, because it's such a great movie and there are barely any reactions to it on YT, and the ones on here are awful and I really enjoy her uploads" My face when I looked on my subscriptions and saw the movie poster! 😃Ah you've made my day, thank you Dawn.
Being frozen for 200 years might not make you forget how to walk, but it could numb your feet, since they've been ununsed for centuries. And it might not make you forget what food is, but could very well give you severe confusion and brain fog upon walking up that means you behave erratically!
I guess it's like The Bride spending a few years in bed in Kill Bill. The muscles atrophy
When Woody Allen was saying “Stella.Stella”, you stated that you know that from a scene on The Simpson. That was a parody on the original film “A Streetcar Named Desire”, the film that made Marlon Brando a star. Great, iconic film, by the way 👌
I enjoyed your reaction, Dawn.
There are many great Woody Allen films, I recommend:
'Take The Money and Run',
'The Purple Rose of Cairo',
'Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex (but Were Afraid to Ask)',
'Play it Again, Sam',
'Manhatten',
'Hannah, and Her Sisters',
there's plenty of others but these are good ones to continue with.
I'll add "Bananas" to the list. 😊
@@bobbuethe1477 I love 'Bananas' as well, in fact I like the vast majority of his films.
I would definitely recommend "Take the money and run" by Woody Allen, which is shot in semi-documentary style and has him as a crap gangster. "Everything You Wanted To Know About Sex But Were Afraid To Ask" is another great one, even if it is a but episodic.
I took up the cello because of Take the Money and Run. 😆
@@reverbscherzo7850Did you ever try to blow in it?
@@rl12345 LOL. Why, no. I suppose I’ve blown ON it to clear rosin dust, which doesn’t really work. 🙃
Another documentary style film by Allen was the unreleased TV movie "Men of Crisis: The Harvey Wallinger Story." It was done for PBS, but it never aired because the PBS brass got cold feet because it was satirical of the Nixon administration. There's usually a bootleg version available on RUclips.
When I was a kid in the 70's we got cable for a short period of time. I watched Sleeper 23 times before my parents got rid of the cable. It was my favorite movie for a long time. "Bananas", "Love & Death" and "Play It Again Sam" are more of his early hilarious movies.
my early favorite is 'take the money and run'
22:45 - Haha...Diane Keaton doing a Marlon Brando impression (Brando played Stanley in "A Streetcar Named Desire"), and she played his daughter in law in "The Godfather"...
The house that looks like a spaceship is an actual real house. You can see it heading west on I-70 to the mountains from Denver, CO
DM, I saw you enjoying the soundtrack to this film and thought you might like to know that the music was done by the world famous Preservation Hall Jazz Band (from New Orleans) with Woody himself playing clarinet! It is one of my fave movie soundtracks!!
Yay, more Woody Allen! I love you Dawnie Marie!
And I’m watching Back to the Future this very moment! You’re just finishing up!
I've been inside the futuristic house in the movie. It's just west of Denver, Colorado USA. For many years after the movie it sat empty. People had broken in and had parties. One day a couple of us were in the area and decided to drive up to it. Unfortunately at that time windows and doors had been broken, so we went inside and looked around. Since then it was sold and fixed up and people live in it.
It's so cool looking! I wish I had it. I wonder how much they paid for it?
I LOVE that you're interested in these old comedy classics. It's a kind of education that I see too many people lacking and it shows a real openmindedness. They're also so much fun to vicariously watch for the first time.
Woody Allen also did the script for What's Up Tiger Lily.
"Why are people always attracted to him?" Because he's the writer and director.
That does tend to help a bit.
Involuntary, meaning he didn't consent to be turned into a frozen TV dinner.
And the Birds Eye brand, no less.
Woody Allen was strictly a comedian and comedy writer early on. He patterned his delivery after Bob Hope. Later in his career, his films became a lot more serious, and he was annoyed by fans who complained they preferred his "earlier, funny movies".
"Later" was 7 years later.
Yeah, "Stardust Memories" upset a lot of his old fans when it came out in '80, as they thought he was having a dig at them going on about his earlier comedies.
Diane and Woody appeared together in 6 of his films, and she was also in 2 more of his films where he directed but did not act. They were lovers for a time but have remained friends and colleagues.
Sleeper was funnier than Annie Hall, but Annie Hall was a better movie.
Explaining the McDonalds sign gag: Up until the late 1970s, McDonalds used to change the number on their signs promoting the number of hamburgers served. As the number went into the billions, they gradually phased this out and replaced it with the slogan "Billions and Billions Served". The signs shows how many burgers have been sold 200 years later if they had continued counting..
I’ve always hoped they would replace it with “We Lost Count, But It’s A Lot”
I agree with you about the "future is white" comment. If you want to see a sci-fi film where the future is not clean and white, check out "Brazil" from 1985. Directed by Terry Gilliam.
That fancy house is in Colorado in the foothills near Denver. It was a real house that had been sitting there abandoned for many years by the original architect until not long ago. It is now a finished residential home.
Also, the building that Woody Allen was hanging out of by the computer tape is the NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research) building out side of Boulder Colorado.
@@GairBear49 no WAY! I visited NCAR about ten years ago; I knew it had been a filming location for SOMETHING but totally forgot it was this - so then I missed the opportunity to see the orb house, too, oh well
I heard they had to get a new orgasmatron installed. The first one had been completely worn out.
Another Woody Allen film you might enjoy for its' silliness/nonsense comedy is his 1969 film Take The Money And Run. It is a mockumentary crime comedy film that I showed to my brother and father and I enjoyed watching them laugh along with the film. I especially liked the line from the film: "....after 15 minutes I knew I was in love...and after 30 minutes I even gave up the idea of stealing her purse"...
Take the Money and Run is hilarious. Another silly comedy of his I really like is Bananas, about Woody getting caught up in a civil war in a fictional Central American country, kind of a spoof on Castro and Cuba. Just like Sleeper, it's silly but offers some funny social, political, and relationship commentary.
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Woody and Diane are really good together in "Play It Again Sam" and in "Love and Death". You'll enjoy both of these movies!
Woody Allen's hair and glasses were sort of an iconic look for him - sort of like Groucho Marx's glasses, eyebrows and mustache or Charlie Chaplin's bowler hat and mustache.
Hi Dawn,
I think you'd love Take the Money and Run, one of Woody Allen's earliest movies. It's very funny. Quite stupid but really funny. Another really good one is Play it Again, Sam. I think you've seen Casablanca, right? Love that one and you will too.
It's almost 2024 and I'm still waiting for The Orgasmatron. Sigh...
Not seen this for many years, but I still remember how much "That's a big chicken..." just cracked me up the first time I saw it.
Awesome pick! Whenever I watch this I get a craving for Peter Sellers' The Party.
Great film
"Birdy num nums."
The Sleeper House is near me in Genesee Colorado. Everyone has always called it the UFO house because the way it looks
I know Woody Allen is a but controversial these days, but this is one of my favourite films.
Did he marry his adopted daughter..?
No he did not@@fannybuster
@@fannybusterNo. He dated her adoptive mom.
@@fannybuster He married Soon-Yi Previn, adopted daughter of his ex-girlfriend and mother of two of his children, Mia Farrow. Despite there being a 30+ year age-gap between Allen and Soon-Yi, they're still married more than a quarter of a century later.
He was accuse o f molesting Soon Yi when she was only 7 years old according to Mia Farrow@@ftumschk
Add his LOVE AND DEATH n CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS!
Btw, Woody was highly influenced by all the great comedians, especially Groucho, whom he knew
You're a rebel, Dawn. When I was growing up in the 70s, there were two writer/director/actor comedians who ruled the box office - Mel Brooks and Woody Allen. Lots of reactors on here do Mel Brooks reactions, but you're the first one I've seen do a Woody Allen reaction. Early in his career, his movies were more silly and slapstick. At some point he turned to more cerebral, poignant, adult humor. I prefer the older movies. I'd recommend Take the Money and Run for your next Woody Allen movie.
The Casual Nerd has been reacting to Woody Allen movies. He recently diud The Purple Rose of Cairo.
No one reacts to Mel Brooks' HIGH ANXIETY or SILENT MOVIE, or THE TWELVE CHAIRS
@@yournamehere6002 all of which are better than Men in Tights and Dracula, Dead and Loving It, which inexplicably get a lot of reactions.
@@yournamehere6002 It does seem to be the same 3 or 4 movies. I feel a lot more people have seen Blazing Saddles or Spaceballs than have seen The Twelve Chairs. I've never even heard of The Twelve Chairs.
@@richardb6260 True. Honestly, I really don't like Spaceballs very much.
12:15 "I just saw her butt"
YOUR HEAD WAS IN THE WAY😭
Woody; with that white face makeup; reminds me of Silent film comedian, Harold Lloyd.
I saw Sleeper in the theater in Alabama. I never laughed so hard. Might be his most silly. Love And Death was another done in this era. Equally silly but wordier and clever. Slapstick throughout, as in Sleeper.
“Blue testicles” - thanks, Dawn, now I’ll never be able to unsee that. 😄
Sleeper has always been a personal favorite. Glad you enjoyed it. Check out Love and Death, another great Allen/Keaton collaboration.
YES!!!
Can’t wait to watch your reaction. If you liked it, his other two from this era - Bananas and Love and Death - are even better. And more recently, Midnight in Paris is amazing. Cheers!
Diane Keaton and Woody Allen have starred together in several films, including:
Play it Again Sam (1972)
Sleeper (1973)
Love and Death (1975)
Annie Hall (1977)
Manhattan (1979)
If you want to see a future that isn't technically advanced I would recommend Brazil. It's also directed by your old friend Terry Gilliam that made the Monty Python comedies.
“Love and Death” (1975) was my 1st Woody Allen movie at the theater . His funniest work though is in books :”Without Feathers”(1975) and “Getting Even” (1971). 😂
1. Bananas ("I got bitten by a snake!"). 2. Take The Money and Run ("i. have a gub -whats a gub?). 3. Play it Again Sam. 4. Love and Deatn.
Ha! He cut his hair in the 80s, he had short hair from 1981 onwards! :D "Broadway Danny Rose", "Zelig", "Hannah And Her Sisters", "Crimes And Misdemeanors".....all great ones and all with short hair! :P And "Radio Days" he only narrates so you don't even to look at him. :D
4:29 This house _actually_ exists. To this day. It's in Colorado, where I used to live. It overlooks I-70. I used to catch sight of it every time I drove form Denver up to any one of numerous cities in the Rocky Mountains.
I heard it had been featured, once, in a Woody Allen film called _Sleeper,_ I made it a point to look that movie up, and that's how I came to _see_ this movie for the first time.
Another funny one is "Take the Money and Run." It is done in "mockumentary" style, about how a man lives a life of crime, and how it started. It is very Python-esque, like the Pirhana Brothers.
If you can find it, you really need to watch... (What's Up, Tiger Lily).
The best! An egg salad so good you could plotz
That wonderful soundtrack from the Preservation Hall Jazz Band takes me back to the time I went travelling from Glasgow to as many places in the States I could in 6 weeks overland. In New Orleans, it was all bars and restaurants except for Preservation Hall. Instead of being all flashy lights, it was just an old living room with chairs and benches put down, and if they were taken, you just sat anywhere on the floor. The band came in and you would think they just let in a group from an old folks home. The drummer arrived using a zimmer frame. I sat on the floor wondering what I'd let myself in for, but the moment they started, this middle-aged man was like a toddler who just saw Santa Claus. Just so wonderul! Thank you for that memory I'd forgotten and you gave me back.
20:30 "How short are their dresses?!?" Those are bathing suits of the period the film was made. :)
Now that you have graduated by watching this, go to get your grad degree and watch, "Stardust Memories", which is my favorite Woody Allen movie. Fun fact, Sharon Stone made her screen debut in the opening scene. The movie is very "dense" with very subtle jokes. After that, watch, "Take the Money and Run".
"Why are people attracted to him? I don't get it." Answer: because he wrote it for himself that way. :)
The house used for this movie is in Colorado. You can see it from the highway as you head up into the mountains on I-70.
Woody's biggest influence is Charlie Chaplin. You definitely see that here.
Woody Allen put whoever his girlfriend was at the moment in his movies. Diane Keaton and Mia Fartow both were in multiple films.
Other Woody Allen movies id recommend are: "all you wanted to know about sex and were afraid to ask", "bananas!", "live and death" and if you want something very silly and very different "Zelig"
Sleeper is freaking hilarious
I worked for a place called Fantasy Cars in the 80s and we bought restored and rented out cars from movies. I have driven one of these "bubble cars". (Actually a 1970s Volkswagen chassis with a fiberglass body on it. Built by Gene Winfield.) They are impossible to see out of! When they are being driven in the movie the driver was given directions by walkie talkie and that took a lot of trust!
Genius. One of the greatest film makers in history. Crimes and Misdemeanours
Damn, I love that Preservation Hall music!
"Why is anyone attracted to him I don't understand" 😆 savage!
Diane Keaton & Woody Allen were a couple for a short time in the early 70s. In fact, the "Annie Hall" character was based on Keaton in real life. "Love & Death" is my favourite of the early movies and was next after this one. Other good early ones are "Take the Money & Run", "Play it Again, Sam", "Bananas" & "Everything you wanted to know about Sex, but were afraid to Ask". After "Annie Hall" Keaton also stared in Allen's classic magnum opus"Manhatten", as well as others like "Interiors" (A serious movie in the vein of his love of Ingmar Bergman) Then again in '93 for "Manhatten Murder Mystery", which is a good laugh. I'd recommend "Hannah & Her Sisters" as well, which has an excellent cast like Michael Caine, Max Von Sydow, Barbara Hershey & Mia Farrow. Less comical than the earlier stuff, but still full of one liners.
14:51 Woody Allen has different types of films. Some are zany, wacky comedies that are not a million miles away from The Marx Brothers. You'd love those ones especially.
Sleeper is one. And also *Love and Death* and *Play It Again Sam* are two more that are excellent.
I live about 30 minutes away from the round house where the movie was filmed. Woody Allen is quite an accomplished clarinet player and did the music in the movie.
Much of the film riffs off silent movies (See also BBCs "The Goodies"). You picked up on him doing a Charlie Chaplin act, but when dressed as a robot he does a brilliant Stan Laurel. The sterile look was probably inspired by 2001, which influenced many other movies throughout the 70s.
I thought with the glasses and the white face he was a dead ringer for Harold Lloyd.
The man on the screen at 6:56 was Howard Cosell, a famous sportscaster from the 1970s. It's fun to do impressions of him.
Cossell also appears as himself in "Bananas" At the very begining he announces the play by play during the asassination of a Latin American dictator, and at the end gives the play by play and post game interview for Woody and Louise's honeymoon.
I was well younger than 10 years old the first time I saw this movie. I'm sure I didn't understand all the humor at that age, but it introduced me to Woody Allen's neurotic comedy style early on.
Woody Allen’s hair was part of his persona. He’s 87 now so not much hair left the cut.
I always had the impression that Allen's films always starred Allen and whatever woman he was dating at the time, at least through the 1990s. That's probably a caricature, but it was the way it felt at the time.
Into the early 90s pretty close. You had the Diane Keaton era and then when they broke up Mia Farrow was in pretty much all of them. He made some of his best movies in the Mia Farrow era despite her.
Well done, madame. I can't recall any other instance of a reaction to this film, one of the crown jewels in Allen's career and the height of Rip van Winkle-type satire, and I commend you for the effort (not that it seemed at all disagreeable to undertake). If you wish to continue with other gems from Allen's roster, I should like to suggest 1983's *Zelig* first and foremost, for two reasons: first, it was my introduction to Allen in the movie theater, and I saw it twice more during its run; second and more importantly, it is just an astounding piece of the cinematic craft. It's a "mockumentary" - and that's all I dare say about it without lessening the impact.
Following that, I should definitely hold up 1966's *What's Up, Tiger Lily?* since it probably is the Woody Allen film that I have seen and quoted the most - many dozens of times. 1980's *Stardust Memories,* another dear to my heart, is his hilarious commentary on the travails that come with success at one's craft - namely, his own. And as for 1987's *Radio Days* - well, you just know a film is great when, at the conclusion, you're not yet ready to leave the people in it. 🤓
15:16 _"That's_ how it ends. The _chicken_ army. The chicken army takes _over."_
Flyin' the coop, huh?
The UFO house in the movie is a real house. It is a landmark home above I-70 about 25 miles west of Denver
Kust noticed one of the lab workers is Candy from Cuckoo's Nest.
Since you've seen "Casablanca" i think you would very much enjoy Woody's "Play it Again Sam".
Absolutely! Not only did Woody's casting director find an actor that looks and sounds unusually close to Humphrey Bogart, but also, Woody had a talent for writing what the Bogart character (Rick Blane) really would say in the various situations!
OK, you brought it up, Dawn: seven years. Now you have to watch The Seven Year Itch, with Marilyn Monroe. Thanks for doing another Woody Allen film.
Keaton and Allen are in several movies together. Including Love and Death, Play It Again Sam, Manhattan, and Manhattan Murder Mystery. I particularly like Love and Death and Play It Again Sam.
A movie about the future that is also about going back to the past is DUNE. It a future where they reject computers and artificial intelligence and instead chose to expand the human mind using a spice found on the planet Dune/Arrakis.
That was, of course, after a long trial and error process, leading to the conclusion that paprika just wasn’t getting the job done.
Great Woody Allen:
"Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask" (1972)
"Midnight in Paris" (2011)
Wow! What a left field, outta nowhere film to react to.
I saw this on TV back in the 70s when I was like 10 and I nearly peed my pants with that wheelchair scene.
My son and I LOVE this one‼️☮️
Being frozen for 200 years would definitely screw up your muscle memory and coordination, not to mention your faculties. Plus being cryogenically frozen is different than regular sleep.
I was in a coma for 10 days and I had to figure out how to walk again after
The same year (1977) that 'Annie Hall' came out, so did 'Star Wars.' (As well as 'The Spy Who Loved Me, AND 'Smokey and the Bandit.' - it was a good year for film!). Those two films competed with one another at the Oscars, and 'Annie Hall' took home almost every award. I think you can fairly argue that both films changed cinema, but 'Star Wars' had the much greater, long-term impact.
Another weird element that connects 'Star Wars' and Woody Allen and Dawn Marie: Dawn said she wanted to see a movie about the future where everything wasn't always so damn white, shiny and brand-new. That was precisely what George Lucas was aiming for with his Star Wars universe. (I understand that the Star Wars stories take place "a long time ago," and were never intended to connect at all with Earth or with our future. But, it's hard to think of a world with more solid 'strange and futuristic' details, hat also left the 'cold-white-antiseptic hospital look' far behind.
Ridley Scott's 1982 classic sci-fi film "Blade Runner" definitely did not have a sterile white look to it. It had a more dreary, dystopian environment.
A school friend from my University days summed up Woody's appeal to women; he's 'ugly-sexy'. Great little dystopian comedy and I adore the New Orleans jazz music, it was the perfect aesthetic touch. And if you want a futuristic movie that goes back in time, try 1968's 'Planet of the Apes;, the original. That perfectly matches your description. It takes place in the future in an ancient civilization. Of APES!
There is a 2018 (I think) film called A Quiet Place which is set in the future and it doesn't look white and sterile at all. But is is one of those post-apocalypse films where disaster has struck humanity. Not many laughs in that one but it did have the effect of making the cinema audience I was in become very quiet indeed.
I agree with everyone here, Woody's early comedies are great, especially films like Bananas and Love & Death (Countess: "You are the greatest lover I have known." Woody: "I practice a lot when I'm alone."). I love these.
He works constantly, and he had a great period in the late 80's/early 90's with The Purple Rose of Cairo, Hannah and Her Sisters, *Radio Days*, *Crimes and Misdemeanors*, Shadows and Fog, Manhattan Murder Mystery, *Bullets Over Broadway* (my personal fave), Mighty Aphrodite, and Everyone Says I Love You. These nine films span the era 1985-1996, a 12-year period in which he released 14 movies. The 5 I did not mention are all worthy of the list as well.
I think Woody Allen made some exceptional films he directed but didn’t star in much later in his career.
Sweet and Lowdown and
Midnight in Paris are great films you could show to someone and not even mention they’re Woody Allen films.
He's earlier films are a snoozefest to me. He nearly killed his career trying to go back to that style in the late 90s early 2000s. Sleeper is okay as a light film but Annie Hall its not.
Salut from Cannes. The french title of this movie is " Woody et les robots ". Bonne soirée tout le monde.
I love Woody's "Take the Money and Run"
There is a movie set in the future that goes back to the past- "Westworld" it is a little scary and dark though. By the way your giggles make me chuckle!
Great Reaction! Love and Death could also be right up vour alley
When he says “at least after death you’re not nauseous” it’s a joke(!) J-O-K-E
26:16 Dang .... I was waiting for ... "That's what she said."
The spaceship house is outside Denver and can be seen while traveling along Interstate 70.
"Love and Death": the last of the Allen 'screwballs'. Worth watching.