![]() ![]() And wasn't Wonder Wheel inspired by a play by Clifford Odets or Eugene O'Neill, someone like that? My sense is that To Rome With Love is probably influenced by one of those episodic omnibus Italian films of the early 50s like Variety Lights or The White Sheik but I've never actually seen that one. ![]() Blue Jasmine can be seen as a contemporary re-working of A Streetcar Named Desire. If memory serves Match Point draws heavily on Room at the Top (with some elements lifted from Crimes and Misdemeanors). Manhattan Murder Mystery is Allen's version of one of the Thin Man movies. Thu 12:15 pm Crimes and Misdemeanors deals with themes and plot elements drawn from Crime and Punishment. It does make me wonder if almost all of his films can be matched up with a strong primary inspiration, some of which just have not been widely discussed or noticed by many (even serious) film fans. I didn't mean that they were remakes or something, perhaps I put it too strongly. I should clarify that I haven't seen ALL of the source films I mentioned, I've just seen them discussed in the context of the Woody film as having strong similarities and clearly being inspirations. And also like Dylan, Woody is a post-modernist in that he WANTS you to find out his sources and to go view / read / listen to them so that the meaning culled from the sources adds additional meaning and insight into their new works.įantastic, thank you for some of these I wasn't aware of! I forgot to put Scenes From A Marriage => Husbands & Wives in the original list as I've seen that discussed a lot too. and also like Dylan, if you don't have a source identified yet, it's because you haven't dug deep enough yet. ![]() Like Bob Dylan, there is ***always*** more than one layer going on in sourcing. I've even seen some theorize that it draws on Play It Again, Sam, with Woody's Briggs character being someone who is taking on a Bogart-esque role.įor additional Bergman influenced films not already listed, one not mentioned here yet is Scenes From A Marriage, which is definitely a primary influence on both Husbands & Wives (very much so) and Annie Hall (less so). The Curse Of The Jade Scorpion is based on folding together some of Bob Hope's films with a bit of The Maltese Falcon. In fitting with a common theme in Woody's work, about how the same sorts of stories can be told as both comedy and drama (reusing a dramatic plot line from Another Woman as a comic one in Everyone Says I Love You, all of Melinda & Melinda, etc), he reused the same source material from Dreiser for the film that followed Match Point, but this time as a comedy - Scoop.Īnother one that doesn't get cited enough is Small Time Crooks being based on the very funny 1942 film Larceny, Inc. Of course, Chekhov is also likely Bergman's source on his film too as Bergman borrowed ideas like any great artist does.Īnother example is Match Point drawing on Room At The Top, Crimes & Misdemeanours, Dostoevsky's novels (especially Crime & Punishment) but, perhaps more than any other source, it is drawn from Theodore Dreiser's novel An American Tragedy. While sometimes one film might be the main piece of what makes up his films, Woody's films are always drawing on a variety of different influences, both film and literature.įor one example, While Autumn Sonata is definitely a primary influence on September, unquestionably so is Chekhov's play The Seagull. Smiles of a Summer Night - A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedyįanny and Alexander - Hannah and Her Sisters ![]() I have this idea that some lesser known Fellinis or something might have inspired other Allen films.Ĭasablanca - Play It Again, SamĨ 1/2 - Stardust Memories This is well-trod territory, but - Woody is often accused of basically lifting entirely from another film to create his films, especially those of Fellini + Bergman.īelow are the ones that I've seen discussed most - but given how much of a pattern it is, I'm wondering if anybody else knows other touchpoints he's used? I'm referring to the structure and rough premise being a major part of the film, not just references or single scene homages, of which there are endless examples. ![]()
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