Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Jewish Annoyances

I have now seen a couple completed film by Woody Allen and i can firmly can state that i am tired of his form of comedy. Now his form of characters is what really angers me now that i have seen basically the same character about 3 different times. With every great comedian they have to have new material, and Allen has new material in his films, yet in film the character has to be different or else it is the exact same film. If you look at Dane Cook, you might not like his comedy but that doesnt really matter. If you look at the characters hes played in different films such as Waiting or Employee of the Month, his brand of comedy is still the same but the characters he plays are completely different in morals, looks, and ways in which they bring forth Cook's brand of comedy. Allen seems to have difficulty not playing a nerotic, whiny, sex-crazed, jewish boy. I understand the comedy in that type of character but it gets incredibly stale if you see it over and over again. The similarities between the two films of his Manhattan and Annie Hall are astounding. He starts of loving somebody else, falls in love with that actress, then has so many problems that he himself couldve easily solved that the relationship eventually breaks up and it is never quite healed. If you look at his films compared to the modern romantic tales, his are darker in many ways because in the end he does not really get the girl. I am not sure if this is because he wants to prove that not all good love stories have a happy fairy tale ending, but it gets incredibly boring and depressing after so many times.

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