meaningless

Apropos of Nothing

His name is Woody Allen. He wears glasses, always frowns, and never stops chattering.
He makes a film every year, including "Midnight in Paris," "Annie Hall," and "Manhattan." He writes the scripts for each one himself, a perpetual motion machine of creativity. He has been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay sixteen times, winning three times, a feat no one has achieved to this day.
He is a master of urban romance, depicting lovers who meet and miss each other on the streets of New York, only to be transported back to Hemingway's Paris by horse-drawn carriage. He said that walking is the most important part of the day, and he prefers rainy days to sunny ones.
He is a genius of unrestrained humor. You will see him play robots, thieves and sperms. He loves to ridicule everyone, including the powerful and the petty bourgeoisie, including himself. He said, I will never join a club that allows me to join.
However, movies are only a small part of his life.
In an era when jokes were still taboo, he taught himself stand-up comedy and could write twenty jokes in just one subway ride; he was short and thin, but loved sports and was a master of baseball, basketball and rugby; he was a wild ambassador for promoting jazz, and he learned the clarinet halfway through his career and even formed a band that toured Europe; he loved writing more than acting, and dropped out of college twice, but became a columnist for The New Yorker; he was hailed by the French as "the only intellectual in Hollywood", and his explanation was that he wore glasses and his films were box office failures.
However, he said all of this was meaningless.
He doesn't read film reviews or books, and he never watches his own films after they're finished. He avoids award ceremonies, avoids socializing, suffers from a fear of entering doors, and at parties, he just wants to escape through the window. He can't use a computer and prefers to lie in bed and write on an old typewriter. He's a professional homebody philosopher, fond of fantasy and loathing reality, and he began contemplating suicide at the age of five. He said, "Rather than continue to live in the public's mind and memory, I'd rather continue to live in my apartment."
Now, he was ready to step out of his apartment and begin a paper talk show, telling everything, just for once.

2022-12-01

新星出版社

New Classic Culture

368

9787513349604