WOODY ALLEN – ANNIE HALL
Despite many critics and film historians agreeing that Woody Allen‘s four-time Oscar winning romantic comedy Annie Hall was, and maybe is, his greatest achievement. Allen himself would be hard pressed to agree with that assessment.
He felt that his original vision was lost. A vision that saw the film play out like a stream of consciousness from the mind of his main character Alvy Singer, instead the audience drew their attention more towards the relationship between Allen’s Alvy and Diane Keaton’s eponymous female lead, Annie Hall.
The director would later admit that he was disappointed with the movie, critical praise and the public, despite being overwhelmingly positive, response. “The film was supposed to be what happens in a guy’s mind, and you were supposed to see a stream of consciousness in his mind and I did the film and it was completely incoherent,” Allen said.
“Nobody understood anything that went on and the relationship between myself and Diane Keaton was all anyone cared about. That was not what I cared about. That was one small part of another big canvas that I had. In the end, I had to reduce the film to just me and Diane Keaton, and that relationship, so I was quite disappointed in that movie.”
