Annie Hall
Jordan Chodorow
What's your favorite line or scene from "Annie Hall?"
I have to say I loved it when Woody comes over to Diane Keaton's placve at
3 in the morning and sees her bar of black soap and the first thing that
pops out of his mouth is, "What, are you in a minstrel show?"
- jordan
Michael G Callahan
:
: Favorite line (there are so many): "I hear 'Commentary' and 'Dissent' merged
: and formed 'Dysentery'"
: one more: "Oh, yea? I happen to have Marshall McCluhan right here"
I would agree. the Marshall McCluhan scene is the best.
(The whole movie is awesome. Let When Harry met Sally rot in some far off
hell)
just my opinon
Michael G. Callahan
mu...@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu
Stephen O'Connell
: What's your favorite line or scene from "Annie Hall?"
: - jordan
One, nah! two of my favourites:
Woody and Diane are at hi sfriend's (Tony Roberts) studio and Woody is
being shown the canned laughter machine: "Can this thing do booing?"
Also the great scene where Woody sneezes over the powdered cocaine! I
love it!!
Rob
Sean Smith
That same scene has one of my favorite lines:
"You've got a spider in your bath tub the size of a Buick!"
I don't know why I like it, but I do.
Others:
*"What I wouldn't give for a large sock filled with manure."
*"Max, are we driving through plutonium?"
*"No, my, uh, raccoon had hepatitis."
*"Umm, I've forgotten my mantra..."
*(from the school-flashback scene) "I'm into leather"
*And of course:
"Joey Nichols! Joey Five-Cents! Joey Nichols!"
Young Woody (under his breath) "What an asshole..."
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David P. McBride
(Jordan Chodorow) wrote:
> What's your favorite line or scene from "Annie Hall?"
Geez, there are so many. But my fav would have to be (and I'm paraphrasing):
"That's OK. I can walk to the curb."
Cliff Heller
>Favorite line (there are so many): "I hear 'Commentary' and 'Dissent' merged
>and formed 'Dysentery'"
>one more: "Oh, yea? I happen to have Marshall McCluhan right here"
Distraught leisure suit porting Californian on the phone: "I forgot my mantra"
"That's ok, we can walk to the curb from here"
"When did you start reading the National Review? Why don't you get William
F. Buckley over here to kill the spider?"
"Sex with you is a very kafkaesque experience... I mean that as a compliment"
"I said, 'did you eat?' and he said, 'no, jew?'
not 'did you', Max, but 'jew'"
"You can always remember my name, just think of "Joey five cents"
young woody under his breath: "what an asshole"
The school room scene where the kids say what they grew up to be:
"I used to be a heroin addict, now I'm a methadone addict"
"I'm into leather"
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Aimee LaBrie
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>
>What's your favorite line or scene from "Annie Hall?"
>
How about when he's at this concert with Shelly Duval to see some guru she
keeps calling "transplendent" and she goes on and on about how she thinks the
man is like God, and then the little man comes walking out of a door and Alvin
says,"Oh, look, there's God now, coming out of the bathroom." She asks him if
he was at this other concert (Dylan?) and he says no, his "raccoons had hepatitis."
She says,"You have raccoons?" "A few." Then she asks him about another
concert, and he says he heard that 3 people were rushed to the hospital with
"bad vibes." Of course, they end up in bed, even though he can't stand her, and
she says,"I hope I didn't take too long," to which he replies,"No, I think I'm
starting to get some feeling back in my jaw."
I also love the scene when he goes over the Annie's apartment to kill the
spiders, and after he smashes them with a tennis raquet, he finds her crying, and
says,"What did you want me to do? Try and rehabilitate them?"
It's all in the delivery, you know. I could go on and on and on and on.....
irina.bondarenko
OK, next question: how many lines/ideas/visuals can you name that were outright
stolen from "Annie Hall" by "When Harry Met Sally"?
I can only think of her hat right now, but I remember spotting many more
when I first saw it.
David Ng
: What's your favorite line or scene from "Annie Hall?"
In the Snow white sequence: "I'm a cartoon. How can I be having my period?"
irina.bondarenko
When Alvie is visiting Annie's family and he juxtaposes his family dynamics
against hers on a split screen. Also, when Christopher Walken as Annie's
brother is confessing to Alvie, "because as an artist, I feel you would
understand," that he has been experiencing an urge to swerve into approaching
headlights when he's driving late at night; Alvie's reply: "Wayne, I'm
wanted back on the planet Earth" or something like that, followed by
Annie telling her mom that Wayne will take them to the airport, followed by
the scene in the car where everyone but Alvie is at ease.
Roderick Frey
: What's your favorite line or scene from "Annie Hall?"
Now *that is a tough question. The first one that pops to mind
is Jeff Goldblum on the phone saying, "I forgot my mantra."
Kelly Jane Torrance
Torc
>What's your favorite line or scene from "Annie Hall?"
You asked for it:
"I'm a cartoon character, I don't have a period!"
"Honey, there's a spinder in your bathroom the size of a Buick."
"...And he falls asleep, and never wakes up. So he's just dead...
yeah...pretty said story."
"You're mother's name is Ralph?"
"Touch my heart...with your foot."
"You're using this conspiracy theory to avoid intamacy."
[How often do you have sex?]
[Woody:] Hardly ever, maybe three times a week.
[Annie:] Constantly, I'd say three times a week.
[After the tennnis match:] "Hi. Hi." "Oh, hi." "Hi. Well, bye."
"We use a large vibrating egg."
"What I wouldn't give for a large sock filled with manure."
"Just don't take any class where they make you read Beowulf."
BUT my favorite scene has got to be Annie auditioning at the night club:
"It had to be you..."
Lorenzo
>
>What's your favorite line or scene from "Annie Hall?"
"Love is like a shark, it has to keep moving or else it will die. What we have on our hands is a dead shark."
I actually parphrased this to someone in a real life situation...heh.
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> In <D4Eq7...@nntpa.cb.att.com> ir...@cbnews.cb.att.com (irina.bondarenko) writes:
>
>>Favorite line (there are so many): "I hear 'Commentary' and 'Dissent' merged
>>and formed 'Dysentery'"
>
>>one more: "Oh, yea? I happen to have Marshall McCluhan right here"
>
> Distraught leisure suit porting Californian on the phone: "I forgot my mantra"
That is a great line -- and do you remember who spoke it? -- Jeff Goldblum!
Greg Noel
Snazel/Van BC. <76502...@CompuServe.COM> writes:
>[ One of ]My favourite(sic) lines are: [ ... and obscure references ]
Alvie ( still rubbing jaw ): "I feel there is too much emphasis put on the
male orgasm"
Duvall: "Oh, Wow, Who said that?"
Alvie: "Uh, I don't know....Leopold and Loeb?"
I find it amazing that this movie is even considered in the same ballpark
as "When Harry Met Sally". I work at a video store on weekends, and the
consensus of the staff is that Harry/Sally is a better movie ( I cringe
ala' Harvey in Bad Lieutenant ).
I find, since Woody's fall from grace, a lot of customers refuse to rent
his stuff when recommended.
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Noah Meyerson
: What's your favorite line or scene from "Annie Hall?"
Annie: "I'll have the corned beef on white with lettuce, tomato and
mayonaise." (or was is pastrami? I'm sure someone can set me straight)
(I don't know if they stole it from Annie Hall, but in the Simpsons
episode where Krusty tries to make peace with his father the rabbi, we
find out that the Krusty the Klown special is ham, bacon and sausage on
white bread with mayonaise.)
Steven Zawid
At the dinner with Annie's family:
Mother: So I hear you have been seeing a therapist for twenty years
Woody: Yes, but I'm making excellent progress. Soon I won't have to wear
the lobster bib.
And of course the joke falls dead flat with the family :-)
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David Hunter
> In <D4Eq7...@nntpa.cb.att.com> ir...@cbnews.cb.att.com
(irina.bondarenko) writes:
>
> >Favorite line (there are so many): "I hear 'Commentary' and 'Dissent'
merged
> >and formed 'Dysentery'"
>
> >one more: "Oh, yea? I happen to have Marshall McCluhan right here"
>
> Distraught leisure suit porting Californian on the phone: "I forgot my mantra"
Just thought you'd like to know that that guy was Jeff Goldblum
Dave
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"He's just a few sandwiches short of a picnic."
"The cheese fell off his cracker a long time ago."
a rain dog too
"You know nothing of my work." -Marshall McLuhan, _Annie Hall_
Matthew Abrams mab...@pomona.edu
"Shut up," he explained. -Ring Lardner
"Mirrors would do well to reflect before sending back images." -Sang d'un Poete
John Gushue
as the wicked queen.
John
JMacd
wrote:
The scene when Woody Allen says he is not able to attend the awards
ceremony that evening, and is lying down in his hotel room, the doctor
comes in and says he is ok. Room service arrives, and as alternate
arrangements are being made so he doesn't have to go, he is eating and
saying, "hey, this chicken isn't bad..."
Karen - Toronto
CURT FREEMAN
>I find, since Woody's fall from grace, a lot of customers refuse to rent
>his stuff when recommended.
Most people are stupid.
Curt
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Thomas Guide
: ANNIE HALL just might be my all-time favorite movie. When I bought a VCR,
: it was the first tape I purchased. I watch it once or twice a year--it
: never loses its magic.
Gosh, I watch my copy about once a week. It jsut makes me feel better.
Fav line: the little kid talking about what he does now as an an adult:
"I sell talises" (sic)
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Gabriel Busillo
>From: ir...@cbnews.cb.att.com (irina.bondarenko)
>Subject: Re: Annie Hall
>Date: Wed, 22 Feb 1995 22:13:47 GMT
>In article <3ifq99$g...@news.ecn.bgu.edu>,
>Michael G Callahan <mu...@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu> wrote:
>>irina.bondarenko (ir...@cbnews.cb.att.com) wrote:
>>:
>>: Favorite line (there are so many): "I hear 'Commentary' and 'Dissent' merged
>>: and formed 'Dysentery'"
>>
>>: one more: "Oh, yea? I happen to have Marshall McCluhan right here"
>>
>>
>>I would agree. the Marshall McCluhan scene is the best.
>>Michael G. Callahan
>>mu...@uxa.ecn.bgu.edu
I just got done reading Luis Bunuel's autobiography, _My Last Sigh_, and
found an interesting (IMHO) bit of Annie Hall trivia. Woody
originally had planned for Bunuel and not Marshall McCluhan to make the
cameo appearance at the movie theatre. As it turned out, Bunuel's schedule
didn't allow it, and what resulted was probably the funniest cameo in movie
history. So go figure.
This is a real stretch, but does anyone have any idea as to what the exchange
would have been like had Woody used Bunuel?
Also, while we're on the subject, is there anyone else who thinks Bunuel's
"The Phantom of Liberty" is an incredibly underrated classic? The lecture
on social mores/dinner/bathroom scene had me laughing so hard my neighbor had
to check in to make sure I was still breathing (Of course, after replaying it
for him, another Bunuel fan was born on the spot).
- Gabriel
tgbu...@omni.voicenet.com
"I drank what?"
- Socrates
Cedric BOULAY
|> Favorite line:
|>
|> At the dinner with Annie's family:
|>
|> Mother: So I hear you have been seeing a therapist for twenty years
no... 15 !!!
Thomas Guide
: I just got done reading Luis Bunuel's autobiography, _My Last Sigh_, and
: found an interesting (IMHO) bit of Annie Hall trivia. Woody
: originally had planned for Bunuel and not Marshall McCluhan to make the
: cameo appearance at the movie theatre. As it turned out, Bunuel's schedule
: didn't allow it, and what resulted was probably the funniest cameo in movie
: history. So go figure.
Really?
I was just flipping through some new Woody Allen Bio at Bookstar (it was
conversations between te wood-man and some swedish film maker), and when
the Mcluhan scene came up Woody swore that his original choice was
Fellini. He went on to say that Fellini was asked but didn't want to
come to the states for such a small amount of work.
Nope. It's oak.
Gilbert) wrote:
> >: What's your favorite line or scene from "Annie Hall?"
>
WA: I don't understand. If you have a car, how come you
said "do you have a car?", like you needed a lift?
DK: Oh, I don't know. <various mumblings and utterances>
Oh, God, Annie. Well. La de da. La la...
Graham Pereboom
: In article <3ij690$a...@earth.njcc.com> no...@pluto.njcc.com (Noah Meyerson) writes:
: >From: no...@pluto.njcc.com (Noah Meyerson)
: >Subject: Re: Annie Hall
: >Date: 23 Feb 1995 23:38:08 GMT
: >Jordan Chodorow (jcho...@leland.Stanford.EDU) wrote:
: It was pastrami.
: Warren Gilber
that's your favorite line? Some one ordering a sandwich? I must have missed
something profound there.
I really liked the bit in 'take the money and run' about Woodies Uncle who
had a very new, unknown decease, everwhere he went, people gave him
fish. Even people who didn't know him, if they saw him they got an
uncontrolable disire to give him fish. And his wife wanted to devorce him
because she really, really hated cleaning fish.
Graham
Richard Schultz
Graham Pereboom <pere...@prl.philips.co.uk> wrote:
>that's your favorite line? Some one ordering a sandwich? I must have missed
>something profound there.
You did, but unfortunately, it's of the "if you gotta ask, you ain't
ever gonna know" variety, so I'd just let it pass if I were you.
--
Richard Schultz
"How many boards would the Mongols hoard if the Mongol hordes got bored?"
Ooyen
the one where he sneezes and blows all the cocaine away. And Christopher
Walken's confession goes without saying.
Uyen Phan
San Ho-Hum, CA, USA
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Henry Ma
: Jordan Chodorow (jcho...@leland.Stanford.EDU) wrote:
: : What's your favorite line or scene from "Annie Hall?"
But, of course, my favourite can only be:
"'Dissent' and 'Commentary' have merged. It's now 'Dissentary'".
As I never tire explaining to friends, what I love about it is that it
encapsulates the Jewish-American contribution to American culture:
(1) the brilliant wordplay in humour
(2) the commitment to intellectual advancement, evidenced by reading
those journals
(3) the intense engagement with politics (usually leftwing).