Towards the end of february, a rainy day in new york, 2019, landed on the national courtline, which was the first official domestic screening of a film by the american director, woody allen. Woody allen likes to write in the context of new york, and half of his films tell stories about new york. Not only did he present new york in movies and other works, he created a styled new york image, but he was also an irreplaceable incarnation of the city. There is no doubt that woody allen has become a cultural symbol in new york。
New york: love that ends without disease
" a rain day in new york " is a romantic love film that tells the story of young men and women in love moving away over a weekend. Along with music, the film begins at a long-established arts college in the east of the united states. Old-school campuses, elite academic atmospheres, family expectations and personal conflicts, and young male hero gatesby brought his viewers into the film world quickly with personality monologues. Gatsby's girlfriend, ashley, was given the opportunity to interview famous directors in new york as a reporter. Gatsby, a middle-class family from new york, was very familiar with it and decided to take the opportunity to hang out with his girlfriend at a cultural resort in new york for weekends. The idea that ashley, the banker's daughter from arizona, wanted to go to new york's cultural show and fantasized that she would win the pulitzer prize or enter the show, turned her extended interview into a farce: first, to go to a movie at the director's invitation, then to play with the writer to find an cheating wife, then to spend the night with an occasional male star, and finally to leave in the rain in new york. Gatsby's elaborate new york cultural trip was overshadowed by her girlfriend's failure. He was able to hang around, first in a film shoot, then occasionally in contact with his ex-girlfriend's sister, in a speculative conversation, and finally in a frank exchange with his mother. The next day, gatsby and ashley remained in the carriage as planned, but after ashley used the song of cole porter as a shakespeare quote, gatesby broke up。
If ashley's day was the day when the new elite tried to break into new york society and failed, gatesby's day was the day to say goodbye to rebellion and return to her own. While ashley's family is rich, the vision and values of the west are at last different from those of the upper and upper middle classes of the eastern elite. When gatsby carefully planned cultural tourism, including visits to ancient hotel buildings, the museum of modern art (moma), ashley thought about how much it would cost to focus on new york's paper-drunk fans. Her rhetoric was flawed, revealing a lack of cultural upbringing and making many jokes. Gatsby, on the other hand, read a wide range of sensory arts and can laugh at so-called celebrities. At the end of the film, gatsby was in the rain with his ex-girlfriend's sister, which was a return to his own life。
How can love last forever? This is a question that woody allen repeatedly asked. The famous anne hall of woody allen more than 40 years ago (anne hall, 1977, won the 50th oscar best film, best director, best written, best woman), also tells how a couple's relationship ends in new york. In the film, the hostess arvie of woody allen, a philosophies, neurotic and pessimistic jewish comedian, who had been through a number of emotional failures in his middle years, came from the midwest, young and dynamic, to new york in search of opportunities. They happen to meet and become obsessed with each other, and they get warmer quickly. But annie, with alvi’s help, became a good and independent singer, and began to aspire to hollywood, “free and hopeful” – a place no longer attached to conservative and elite new york. Also unwelcome is alvi, who can no longer retain her heart even if he puts down the mindset of the enlightening man and humbles himself to accommodate annie's preferences。
Anne hall is not a novelty, but the dramatic and multifaceted presentation and underlying philosophical thinking make it an immortal classic. The film uses the male master's perspective of memory, with a great deal of spiritual monologue and self-analysis. This psychoanalytical self-examination has a strong elite culture and has been manifested in self-criticism many times. In the film, annie cheated on arvie, who stopped the three passers-by and asked what was wrong with him. One of the lovers said that the secret to being a happy partner was “slight, empty, uninterested”. The unsustainable defeat of love and the pain of arvid are attributed to a wealth of emotion and deep thought. While wise words bring with them a strong laugh, the film touches on many deep questions: for example, the differences between jewish and christian cultures, the image of the intellectual male “trainer” and the enlightenment and autonomy of women, the loss of the old elite's sense of superiority and the rise of new values in the contemporary world, and the nature of the love that the leading actor and even woody allen film has been asking about。
New york: pluralism and tradition, corruption and rebirth
Interestingly, new york's role in love that ends without disease. "whatever works 2009" zenium the young girl melody from the south of the united states, who got married very quickly and was broken up by a third person, started a new relationship; melody's parents broke up and came to new york soon after both of them boldly started the second spring. People in the play follow their heart and try to please themselves, and are encouraged by the environment. In new york's rain day, the difference in values and habits between gatesby and ashley was, of course, long-standing, but nothing happened until that weekend. It was the cultural arena in new york that magnified the difference between the two, and the strong affection for young people at the beginning of the film finally melted in the rain in new york. An active movement towards a world of seemingly radiant and impenetrable celebrities, and a return to a life that is at least seemingly culturally rich in the elite, until it is crushed by the last straw and divided. As woody allen has shown in many films about new york, new york is a place where dreams grow and where dreams break, where cultural diversity gives people multiple choices and offers more temptations, and where the “compatibility of hearts” becomes more rare。
In the cultural landscape of the united states, new york is a central expression of the spirit of the east, which, on the one hand, accommodates a rich and diverse human landscape as a result of the high levels of migration and the development of cultural industries in various countries and, on the other hand, is unable to move away from the long-standing elite of white males. New york is called the “city of the world”, which allows for breakthroughs, but is more traditional; it is everywhere an opportunity, but sometimes it is too high to climb. In anne hall, the conservative style of new york was tired of growing annie, who chose hollywood as an independent woman seeking a career and emotional breakthrough that welcomed free exploration and new values. Thirty years later, with changes in film production patterns, this conservativeism in new york was defended in the hollywood ending. The film mocked the industrialization and institutionalization of hollywood films, implying that artists there had to abandon their adherence to art and integrate into established patterns and patterns. On the contrary, new york represents a classical artistic belief and serves as a haven for artists who uphold their personal values. The celebrity, 1998 was set against the background of the star circles of the new york cultural industry, and the many realities in which celebrities played in a crowd that broke the boundaries of fiction and reality. The master is an ordinary man who walks at the edge of the star circle, whose emotional failure shows the illusion of the glory of the recreational circle。
In an early classic film depicting new york, manhattan, 1979, middle-aged comedian isaacs had a lot of emotions between young girlfriend tracy, friend mary and ex-wife gil. When he finally realized that his favorite person was tracy, he tried to fix it, and tracy was on her way to london. This is how the young girl, whom isaac has always been the subject of enlightenment, says goodbye to him: “not everyone will fall”, “you should have more faith in people”. Here, new york is a place to become secular and “defeating”. In " a rain day in new york " , gatsby's mother told him that she was a mid-western drinker when she met gatsby's father, and that the gatsby family's wealth had originally come from her savings. This private historical reminder that so many unknown secrets have been buried and decorated in new york, ultimately giving the city a bright look。
Woody allen, new york cultural representative
Woody allen, born in 1935 in brooklyn, new york, a middle- and lower-level jewish family, began to publish jokes and humors at the age of 15, then entered the television industry, wrote programme plays, participated in directors and performances. He is also well known in the field of theatre, has written many broadway comedys and performs comedy and talk shows. As a writer, he has written nearly 100 novels and shorts of humor for high-quality cultural journals, such as the new yorker, published a single play and essay, and published nearly 10 essays and memoirs. In the 1960s, they began to write and direct their own films and participated in many of them. In addition, he is an ingenious jazz player and a regular member of the band. In 1979, anne hall had a grand festivities at the oscar award ceremony, but he had not attended, precisely to attend the clarinet performance. Woody allen is not a student of science, he studied dissemination and cinema at new york university in his early years, and dropped out of school because he failed to pass the exam for the subject “facemaking”. His achievements in the film make this very ironic。
Woody allen's work has a strong original style and personal colour, precisely because of his wealth of work in many artistic fields and his film displays a distinct artistic quality. Styled jazz is one of the hallmarks of the film, and jazz is part of new york culture. At the beginning of the twentieth century, jazz originated in new orleans, but in the twentieth century, new york attracted the best jazz musicians with its flair and freedom. The great gatesby is a novel that reflects the “sir age” in new york. Today new york is the home of the world's jazz that is not allowed. Woody allen's favorite of jazz is everywhere, creating a romantic artistic smell. Many fans admired his musical taste and bought his records by tuso, and he himself said, “the greatest achievement of my film may have been to enrich the audience's record collection”. The creation of the manhattan film was inspired by george gershwin, the founder of american national music, whose title was "the blue paranoia." matched with this, the film was made in black and white, and the famous new york-based empire hotel (established in 1946), central park (opened for the first time in 1858) added a nostalgia to the film. United states filmmakers often appreciate the fact that woody allen's scenery, layout, etc., is a moving element, and undoubtedly he has a high degree of vision. Of all these characteristics, perhaps the most visible are the male intellectuals in woody allen's lens, who are often as neurotic, ascorrigible as they are with the traits of inquiry and conjecture, and who are happy to talk about the monologue of woody allen, who has a sense of humor and depression。
“in hollywood, actors learn to perform by watching tv. And in new york, they can learn more by hanging out on the streets." woody allen's film shows new york's historical relics, culture, because this is his city, his life. Manhattan is known by many commentators as woody allen, a love letter to new york and a “hymns of praise”, and the opening of a new york bird view, centred on manhattan, is regarded as classic, with landmark buildings such as the empire state building, the statue of liberty and the new york central railway station. This set of montages was accompanied by a narration of a book read by the man: “he loves new york city. He worships every part of it. No, it should be said, "he, he romanticized everything." yeah. For him, whatever the season, this is a city in black and white, moving in the great tune of george gshwin.” it was also clearly woody allen's own monologue, when he said, “new york is truly a great city. I don't care what people think." hannah and her sisters, 1986, whatever you want, blue jasmine, 2013), café socity, 2016, etc., recurrent films such as central park, queens bridge and many new york piers, art cinemas, bookstores, restaurants, museums and historic hotels, many of which are the places where woody allen himself lives, thus making the scene in the film a special record of the life of the intellectual class in new york. Many fans sought inspiration for travel from his films, and there were numerous versions of the “woody allen film card guide” on the internet, and national geographic produced an album for him in new york, and even tour companies run the woody allen theme city tour year on year。
The highly productive woody allen has made 49 big screen films since 1966. Since the great success of anne hall in 1977, he has maintained his creative energy by making new films at an almost annual rate. Many european and american viewers are used to watching woody allen's new work every year. For the chinese audience, the launch of " a rain day in new york " was a good thing, as a meeting with woody allen led to an important page in american film history。
