About to turn 80 on December 1, has spent decades making millions of people laugh. And what is more important, making them smile
Woody Allen is the living embodiment of the cliché of a Jewish New Yorker. Skinny, cultured, intellectual, creative, full of self-doubt same, melancholy and even depression. For over half a century intrepreta the same role: that of a charming and unlucky loser is the only one trying to get ahead, a kind of Jewish Charlie Brown. Yiddish to such loser
Allen, whose real name is Allan Stewart Konigsberg, it is called “nebbish” and Woody Allen represents perfectly. Grew up in a family Orthodox Jew where Yiddish was spoken and even a little German. “My mother always said I was a happy kid until I was five years,” he said once. As a young man he met the cliché of intellectual and went to the New York psychoanalyst. Apparently both suffered agoraphobia and claustrophobia … impossible clarified.
But the genius found his horn-rimmed glasses medicine. “Making movies is a good distraction from the torment of life,” he confessed, and he was simpre creative and productive. At school and wrote satirical articles for newspapers, then it did for comedians like Bob Hope and at 30 he was already one of the most famous comedians in the United States and earned thousands of dollars each performance.
When he got behind the microphone, he did it with his insecurities and his performances were not a succession of jokes but practically monologues. He invented the maxim of every stand-up comedians: “It’s funny because it’s true.” All who have since been in New York, from Jerry Seinfeld to Louis CK, are actually descendants.
In real life he adopted a boy and a girl near the which for many years it was her partner, actress Mia Farrow, and had a son, Satchel. As if one of his films is concerned, the filmmaker is in love with another adoptive daughters Faroow, Soon Yi, 35 years his junior. After separating from Farrow, she accused him of abusing his daughter Dylan when he was seven. But Allen was never alone with the girl and the doctor who evaluated the testimony of Dylan determined that the allegations were invented or inculcated small.
Finally, the filmmaker went to you live with Soon Yi, whom he married in 1997 -a 61 years of Allen and 26 and adopted her two girls. According to Allen, it’s the best thing that ever happened. But for others it was something rather embarrassing and marked the end of its golden age, in which he created masterpieces like “Annie Hall,” “Manhattan” and “Hannah and Her Sisters.”
But Allen has always managed to reinvent itself. Rolled across the Atlantic and in Spain “Vicky Cristina Barcelona”, with Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem, London (“Match Point,” “Scoop”) in Rome and even the then French first lady, Carla Bruni, which He included in the cast of “Midnight in Paris”. The script of the latter earning him his fourth Oscar, after the two got with “Annie Hall” (Best Director and Best Screenplay) and he achieved with “Hannah and Her Sisters” (Best Screenplay).
At a rate of one film a year, now Allen has again proposed “too” in his words. This is a series produced for Amazon, “the curse” of his life, he confessed. It is not surprising, since this is his first series, and not only as a director or actor. “I’ve never seen a TV series and I have not thought about it,” he said.
About to turn 80, do you think about death? Actually Woody Allen has spent decades making. “I have no fear of death, I just want to be there when it happens,” he once said. The director has become a legend, which for him is a small problem: “Someone recently told me that he would live in the hearts of the people But I want to live in my apartment.”
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ALLENIANO | 29/11/2015 15:59:10
The last sarcastic comedian, intellectual and humorous sofisticado.Ningún American filmmaker has had such a passion for New York like him. See Manhattan and will enter into the mind of this genius. If Freud had met Woody I can not even imagine.
students | 29/11/2015 8:49:36
Maniac-depressive-anxious and a little crazy, but in love with life !! Commentators and employees who do it for pure vocation of confusion right are gross, closed trancados inside. To maintain hope, do not stop reading between the lines.
Long life to Woody Allen. | 29/11/2015 6:37:47
Big Woody Allen! It would be nice that artists who practice stand up to read the plays he has written and seen his films. Surely they understand that it is not standing with the public, microphone in hand, having forced and full of vulgarities to get an easy laugh jokes. Genius and ingenuity, with Woody go hand in hand.
Many years of life! Do not die never
Professor! | 28/11/2015 23:41:56
Hopefully this newspaper commentators saw Allen’s films. And perhaps begin to laugh at themselves
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