Annie Hall (3/12) Movie CLIP - If Life Were Only Like This (1977) HD

[@TFSyndicate]

It's one thing for the main character to break the fourth wall regularly. It's another thing when a complete stranger shows up and shatters it further at the same time!

[@nunanana3884]

@Ralph Macchiato ๅๅๅๅการๅๅการๅๅๅๅการๅๅๅๅๅๅๅๅๅๅๅๅๅๅๅๅๅ

[@eddyvideostar]

Thomas, sir: This is not the fourth wall: They are all performers, he is not from the audience.

[@greenspringvalley]

Not very many people could make that work.

[@ΕίμιστιόλτσΑριστιράςτσΠρουόδκι]

Yeap! Woody Allen at his BEST! 😉

[@larssorensen323]

The sitcom Gimme A Break did it. They were way ahead of their time.

[@douglashott9843]

43-43 years later and I still laugh out loud as this scene builds up. One of my favorite comedy scenes of all time.

[@josephkelley8641]

Watched everything-Woody 100 times apiece decades back.

[@waynej2608]

@@josephkelley8641 Me too. And I still watch his films. They're brilliant and timeless.

[@lilybond6485]

@josephkelley8641: So did I. - until it came out that he had taken pornographic pictures of his stepdaughter. That totally turned me off from Woody Allen.

[@tarstarkusz]

You've got to be kidding me?

[@lilybond6485]

@tarstarkusz: In case you didn’t explore this. She was the step child of Mia Farrow who Woody Allen married. I’m pretty sure remembering Mia Farrow being horrified when finding the photos. - and Woody Allen ended up marrying his stepdaughter. - and they have been together ever since. Quite a long time.

[@Pimp-Master]

I think Annie Hall got the most awards and made the most money of all his films. It was one of those bolts of lightning where he was maturing to making a bittersweet comedy, and the audience was totally ready for that kind of film.

[@josephkelley8641]

Woody means a lot to me.

[@jimmytehgeek]

This was going to be another silly one like "Bananas" or "Take the Money and Run" but his editor (believe it's Wendy Greene Bricmont) saw the poignancy in some of the scenes and they cut it to emphasize the drama while keeping all the best comedic bits.

[@ysgol3]

Brilliantly creative scene - justified the Best Film Oscar by itself. If life were only like this indeed.

[@booberminfranklin3652]

Woody would ,of course, not agree with you. Here let me go get him…

[@ysgol3]

@@booberminfranklin3652 LOL.

[@gregdark5203]

I'm Glad this movie is in the national archives. It is truly a treasure.

[@comabatcameraman]

What is even more incredible about this piece of comic genius is... it was all one take!

[@Revelian1982]

Watch Birdman or Tony Jaa's The Protector pagoda scene for one take mastery.

[@Seamus_Dolan]

​@@Revelian1982and Stalker is sheer brilliance

[@Picklejam08]

@@Revelian1982 I checked out both of the scenes you referenced. Meh! This Annie Hall scene right here, is on a whole other level.

[@Revelian1982]

@Picklejam08 Did you? Cool. Oh, well. At least you actually went and did it, then provided feedback. Most people would have just dismissed my recommendations out of hand. Kudos to you.

[@paulkieran2308]

It's actually a more efficient and economical way to shoot a scene. But, you do have to have confidence in your material because you have few options to cut lines or change pacing.

[@tabbycat8511]

How you got to teach a course in anything is totally amazing!

[@FreshRose-z3s]

This is the best Woody Allen film

[@m.e.d.7997]

Agree

[@michaelroy6630]

So glad my Rhetoric teacher mentioned this film in her lecture on McLuhan. Never heard of this before, but I could barely hold it together watching this scene. Absolutely hilarious.

[@williamgregory1848]

I love how this scene makes fun of pretentious New York intellectuals

[@davidmarks8318]

Gosh this scene is flawless

[@lilybond6485]

Just priceless ! I have never ever forgotten this scene from the first time that I saw it. How many times in your life have you wanted to be able to do something just like THIS ?! HA !!!!

[@Picklejam08]

I like how McLuhan is paraded out while trying to keep a straight face and delivered his lines in a tone so humble and unassuming, yet forceful at the same time.

[@akashsrivastava2796]

This scene, not the famous opening scene, in my opinion is one of the best scenes in Annie Hall. What makes the humour so subtle is that Woody,in a way, is parodying himself. He complains that the other guy is screaming opinions in his ears, although he happens to be doing the same thing. remember how the two ladies, (with woody and the other guy) could barely say anything in the conversation, as both these men are continuously obsessed about their feelings. Later, when the two indulge in a conversation, it becomes about who is more familiar with the filmmaker's works, reflecting their sense of self-importance

[@dougcurtis578]

What's really hammers that point is the guy even resembles Woody. Great stuff.

[@uberneanderthal]

oh yeah? you think that's what this scene was about? well I happen to have Mr. Allen right here: "you know nothing of my work."

[@exnihilonihilfit6316]

a.k.a. egoTists.

[@akashsrivastava2796]

@@uberneanderthal atleast im not the one teaching a course on woody

[@nikhilsanghotra9062]

Not a filmmaker but a media theorist 🥲

[@cinephile9885]

We all have that person who is trying to act smart.

[@TheWelchProductions]

How is he trying to act smart?

[@Sprite_525]

Poxow - constantly talking about “high-brow stuff” with really abstract blowhard phrases, with a weird tone like they’re giving a public speech. I had a few friends like that in college, mostly they were actors and self-appointed “poets.”

[@NewAgeSlaves]

@@TheWelchProductions that's how ☝🏾

[@paulatreides6218]

@@TheWelchProductions Bragging loudly about writers,directors,science so that people gathered there would think about him as an intellectual.

[@dunningkruger3774]

@@paulatreides6218 Like in Good Will Hunting....

[@CinemaphiliaTees]

Still an absolute masterpiece ❤

[@ColKurtzknew]

"He's spitting on my neck." Lolol

[@martm216]

Such a talented guy, Woody Allen.

[@josephkelley8641]

Funny all of the people lighting-up in line. Having a quick smoke before they go in.

[@p28-e7j]

When he steps out of the line Diane is laughing. She also looks gorgeous in this scene.

[@johnbowman1076]

Sorry... but look again. She does not smile or laugh at all. (not that it;s all that important).

[@doncallangher6177]

Brilliant scene. Bravo, stands the test of time.

[@TerryUniGeezerPeterson]

I had a school teacher tell me he watched this clip and didn't find it funny. My reply was, "you know nothing of Woody Allen's work. you mean his whole comedy approach is wrong. How you got to teach a course in anything is totally amazing."

[@robertk6640]

Nice !!!

[@ΕίμιστιόλτσΑριστιράςτσΠρουόδκι]

😄

[@flippert0]

Whoa, what a meta-gut punch!

[@DrAmazing]

I'm a teacher and I constantly fear that this will happen to me

[@Braddicusfinch]

r/theneveryoneclapped

[@windsorkid7069]

That scene never gets old. 🤣👍

[@773SleepyHollow]

This is one of those scenes that I'd love to have seen in the theater when it came out... people must have roared at the end.

[@regancopple4085]

They did, I was there.

[@ggilvis]

it pretty well set everybody free

[@doncallangher6177]

I was in the "business" long ago and screened this in three places. In NYC they chuckled. In Hollywood they laughed. In Denver they didn't get it. (but all three cities laughed at the cocaine scene)

[@waynej2608]

Yes, we sure did.

[@m.e.d.7997]

@@doncallangher6177Thanks. Interesting info❤

[@krisscanlon4051]

Woody's usage of some type of fantasy is very subtle. Woody defuses their relationship squabbles with this moment of hilarity.

[@Anvanho]

1:39 I like the lady right behind Woody, who manages to keep the most deadpan face the entire skit - with the one exception of the slightest "sigh" at 1:39 .. but that's as far as she goes off pan!

[@MCO18]

At one point they talk about Federico Fellini and some of his films. Fellini himself was originally supposed to appear in this scene instead of McLuhan.

[@davidsheriff9274]

Did you notice Mcluhan flubbed his line?

[@waynej2608]

That would have been 'magnifico'.

[@MeesTW]

Such a funny moment in a lovely film

[@brunoantony3218]

For those interested, the actor playing the man in line is Russell Horton, you can enjoy his fine voice in several CBS Mystery Theater episodes, The Black Door is one of them.

[@johnbowman1076]

He's also a Twilight Zone alum.

[@ianrastoski3346]

​@@johnbowman1076he's also in The Scary Door. Sorry, the reference was perfectly set up.

[@Nick-ty9us]

He also took over the voice of the tricks rabbit

[@criticalbil1]

A great scene. Feels like social media! 😆

[@AngelCintiaRockgirl]

The professor leans on his credentials to win an argument. "How you got to teach a course in anything is totally amazing!" (Woody's words going through the artist, in his fantasy)

[@grzegorzkuderski8940]

I think she looks really pretty, that Keaton girl

[@chrisalfaro667]

Her name is Diane

[@pontuseriksson4533]

At 1:13 I think Diane Keaton is reading her lines.

[@joel8583]

LOL

[@AmericasComic]

where? on the guy's back? like Brando on the Godfather?

[@ranchump]

i noticed that too.

[@allys744]

I just realized that!

[@franzhaas6889]

IT LOOKS LIKE SHE IS READING ON HER RIGHT SIDE BEHIND WOODY.

[@douglashott9843]

One of my favorite movie scenes of all time.

[@hydrofilms]

0:54 I think the guy behind Woody brushed against his radio mic.

[@kamuelalee]

Brilliant scene, love this movie.

[@m.e.d.7997]

Have seen it at least 50 times. First saw it in the theatre in 1977. Loved it then and to this day. I will continue to watch it as I grow older. It never gets old. Still as funny as ever.

[@dddlll1614]

Woody is a genius

[@stevepaul6955]

Annie Hall and Hannah and Her Sisters are like bookends.

[@m.e.d.7997]

This is Tops but ‘Hannah and her Sisters. Great rewatchable scenes. It is just as funny. My second fave Woody film.

[@joshgellis3292]

I had finally gotten to see 'Annie Hall' in a film class for a humanity grade- Family Guy interweaves everything that is hilarious, smart and otherwise amusing! LOL!

[@ryanstevens3932]

Woody Allen has most Jewish voice I’ve ever heard

[@valerieniosi935]

Not Bernie Sanders?

[@robertk6640]

Its am Old School Brooklyn Accent. You just think that its Jewish,

[@ΕίμιστιόλτσΑριστιράςτσΠρουόδκι]

I find it Old School ”Italianized” NY accent like Robert De Niro’s accent with my “foreign” ears!

[@WhiteRabbitMysteries]

I thought it was a Brooklyn accent too.

[@AvuncularFeldspar]

It's a fun accent.

[@unwindout]

Looks like Marshall McLuhan couldn't keep from cracking up right after he delivered his lines.

[@MrFtge]

It is honestly super impressive that in a long single take they had the non-professional actor do the button at the very end. I wonder if they had to do this several times. You never know when a non pro will flub or have bad timing but this whole scene was just so smooth and built up beautifully

[@patrickgrengs7594]

"What I wouldn't give for a large sock with horse manure in it..." The visual right there and then, if suddenly, Woody was holding such a sock, blinked toward the camera, and quickly released the sock... but I am no screen-writer - this scene is so delightfully relatable.

[@mesisson]

I identify with Woody here. And my wife gets mad when I'm like this.

[@stopthatnow]

Love this scene. Shame the cut at the end is about a second too early.

[@artykohl1118]

I like it because in the end Woody's words come out of the filmmaker, "How you got to teach a course in anything, is totally amazing!"

[@fabiobonetta5454]

At his best Woody Allen is the greatest comedian to ever live

[@basedbattledroid3507]

It's sadly even harder to do nowadays, R.I.P. Marshall McLuhan

[@61Slughi]

Looks like he had a stroke 2 years after the movie and passed away a year later at 69.

[@ktxed]

The Woody Allen Cinematic Universe

[@deanallen927]

I was 15 when I first saw this, when it it was new. It blew me away when he walks out and talks to the camera. It simply wasn't done then. Still catches me by surprise.

[@pruthvish007]

Deadpool's got nothing on this 4th wall break.

[@yaweno9555]

I guess the medium is the message here. Whatever that means. Love this movie and Allen is a genius in film.

[@simonrees9441]

Simply, his best film.

[@daviedovey]

Juliet of the Spirits is not only my favourite Fellini film, it's in my Top 20

[@Gorboduc]

I found it... *indulgent*.

[@daviedovey]

@@Gorboduc because you have no style

[@kingamoeboid3887]

Only seen 8 1/2 but hope to see more.

[@davidsheriff9274]

@@daviedovey he was quoting the guy in the movie.

[@daviedovey]

@@davidsheriff9274 I thought he was quoting Groucho Marx

[@perrymalcolm3802]

😂😂😂SUCH A GREAT SCENE!!!!

[@jjrj8568]

In my opinion, Woody was always at his best when he broke film conventions and toyed with postmodernist ideas (early comedies, Annie Hall, Zelig, Deconstructing Harry, etc). This scene destroyed the fourth wall like a ballbreaker.

[@rudyslifeandmusic8366]

If only life could be so perfect as to arguing with a pseudo-intellectual, having them passionately defend their point, then instantly crush their argument with an perfect response to their disguised nonsense. If this movie was filmed today Woody Allen would “drop the mic” .

[@sirob1193]

Mozart , James Joyce, and Sodomy ! I love how Woody Always describes people and things in threes with one of them Totally Not related.

[@turpeau2229]

That's right. James Joyce doesn't belong here.

[@richarddavis8863]

@@turpeau2229 James Joyce is a spook

[@turpeau2229]

@@richarddavis8863 Spooky Scary James Joyce

[@vicinvesta8349]

Why not related?

[@sirob1193]

@@vicinvesta8349 It’s part of Woodys comedy Shtick

[@TheRealGnolti]

I happen to teach a course at Columbia called TV, MEDIA, and CULTURE. Priceless.

[@61Slughi]

0:59 "It's like Samuel Beckett"........ (Woody's reaction)

[@Tindometari]

"You mean my whole fallacy is wrong." 😂

[@roderickcortez138]

How I feel when most people talk in public.

[@mikesmith-pj7xz]

Woody has been gracing us with his genius for decades and the cowards at Hachette should be ashamed of themselves but without a conscience that’s impossible.

[@charliepanayiotou4305]

Those same people had no issue publishing books by a war criminal and a guy once charged with sexual battery the previous year but as soon as their idol Ronan got upset they were all up in arms, embarrassing stuff all round

[@Fantasmo77]

Well, in times of Twitter life is exactly like this. I had a discussion with some guys about covid and rapid testing and suddenly commendable epidemiologist Michael Mina joined in to support my point of view :-D

[@manjacovus5342]

And DK 's range of expressions, esp that thing with the eyes at 53sec.

[@quinton7263]

Every "i love movies" KZbin channel

[@danielherman8377]

Such a great scene!

[@uberneanderthal]

fourth-wall breaks are the most obnoxious and over-used thing in modern media (though there's several contenders for that crown). but it works in this scene because the joke is that Woody Allen is such a neurotic narcissist that even though he's the writer, director and lead actor, and therefore constructed every aspect of this scene to be in his favor, he still needed to stop the movie and directly address the audience to make **sure** that they were on his side, even using his directorial powers to summon the subject of their argument to also side with him. this scene was the birth of meta-irony

[@davidsheriff9274]

He also did it at the dinner scene with Annie's family.

[@adamklase8547]

So relatable when going to college for writing and literature.

[@sleuthentertainment5872]

Damn, Woody, I want to make a film like yours. He was my inspiration, but I always preferred Love & Death

[@waynej2608]

Wheat. Fields and fields of rippling wheat. Golden wheat. Cream of wheat. I'm dead, and they're talking about wheat!

[@lucinae8512]

I brought this up in a theatre class, where we happened to be discussing Samuel Beckett so that part felt really personal.

[@waynej2608]

When they brought up Beckett, did you say 'what I wouldn't give for a large sock, filled with horse manure'. Lol.

[@robo4231]

1:13 looks like Diane's reading her lines here.

[@phillaysheo8]

Woody Allen made some funny movies back in the day

[@lt4324]

Very relatable!

[@maison33253]

Fellini was supposed to do this, not McLuhan. But he changed his mind because of all the time travelling for a 10-second appearance.

[@davidrodgersNJ]

Is anyone else here not surprised when the guy lights a cigarette and nobody flips out? We are OLD! : )

[@robertk6640]

1977 What do you expect?

[@trentpettit6336]

People smoked in movie theater auditoriums back then, AND in the lobby such as we see here!

[@johnbowman1076]

I had a guy doing this at a major league ballgame recently... and he knew nothing about the game. It was making me crazy and my reaction was annoying my niece next to me. But it is like nails on a blackboard.

[@jonSM99]

An ignorant guy pontificating behind me at a Mariners game tonight is exactly what brought me to this clip.

[@clydedonovan4421]

2:01 R.I.P 4th wall

[@matthewdunham1689]

"Whoever wrote this this doesn't know the first thing about Kurt Vonnegut."- "Back to School"

[@lilybond6485]

Interesting trivia - the know it all Columbia Professor in this scene - was one of the students in one of Rod Serling’s best Twilight Zone Episodes titled “The Changing of The Guard”.

[@andyrose5616]

He was also the voice of the Trix rabbit.

[@lilybond6485]

@andyrose5616: Ha ! Did not know that.

[@mpacino1224]

I miss when NY was like this.

[@MarianMurphy-rz8ej]

I miss it too even though I don’t think it ever was and I never visited…

[@nickotto-bernstein7267]

Truly incredible film! One of the best scenes for sure! The family guy reference to this scene is also priceless where he brings out Jesus Christ when George Bush says he answers to higher power, def recommend it!

[@lilybond6485]

Thanks for that information.

[@thebigsuperbeatle]

St Johnsbury trailer… wow what a flashback

[@EM-lz9kg]

His daughters come forward during the movie & say how they really feel “ oh if life was really like this “

[@DavidCarroll-t5g]

Still makes me laugh.

[@seferino]

He is spitting on my neck. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@ysgol3]

Despite this scene's brilliance, Mcluhan got his lines wrong didn't he ? 'You mean my whole fallacy is wrong'. Eh ? A fluff surely ? Surely he meant to say something like 'my whole theory is a fallacy'. (Of course Fellini himself was meant to appear and pulled out at the last minute, so Marshal was a replacement.) The actor playing the nuisance said this took at least 18 takes because of Mcluhan's inability to get it right - so possibly this was the nearest he got.

[@sageinit]

Most insightful comment right here. Should be way higher up.

[@zanti4132]

Allen is such a perfectionist. This scene is one continuous shot. If McLuhan couldn't get the line right, you'd think they'd film his15-second part at the end of the scene separately, so that they didn't have to keep repeating the 2 1/2 minutes leading into it. But no, this had to be one shot!

[@brettfawcett9391]

No, McLuhan would regularly throw out witticisms like "you mean my whole fallacy's wrong?". He would often makes remarks such as "I don't agree with everything I say" and "if you don't like those ideas, I've got others!". He had a very playful, Cheshire cat attitude towards his own thought and often implied he was deliberately exaggerating or making provocative claims to elicit thought from his hearers and readers that weren't strictly logical (from the perspective of the trivium, he favored grammar and rhetoric over dialectic). So this wasn't a flubbed line; it was a standard McLuhanism. ....oh, gosh, I sound just like the guy in line behind Allen, don't I? :-S

[@ysgol3]

@@brettfawcett9391 LOL thanks for your interest ! Well, I suppose only Woody knows the truth, and to my knowledge he hasn't told it. I'm going to stick to my (admittedly weakened) guns, by saying that the point of the scene was to brutally destroy Mr Knowledgeable, and to do that and justify the glorious final line to camera word play from McLuhan wasn't comedically appropriate.....oh dear...... Perhaps my whole fallacy is wrong.

[@waynej2608]

@@brettfawcett9391 Did you spit this comment onto your screen? J/k. Nice insights.

[@lonepineronin]

i used to practice aikido with a guy by the name of jason read, a teacher of philosophy at a small local college in maine. he could well be the real life version of the guy in this scene: pontificating on what he perceives to be his areas of expertise, commenting on culture, politics, and economics using a strange interpretation of the philosopher baruch spinoza, filtered and alchemized through the thought and works of marx, the frankfurt school, deleuze, althusser, and critical race theory, impervious to the reality that he may be completely wrong.

[@AA-sn9lz]

Happy birthday legend

[@yacovlevi]

“How can you possibly oversleep”?

[@LosBidels]

Isn’t it funny Woody Allen was that guy on the line most of his career? Trying to be Bergman or look smart through celuloide

[@allosaurusfragilis7782]

A bit funnier than bergman, you have to admit....

[@waynej2608]

@@allosaurusfragilis7782 A lot funnier.

[@DadgeCity]

When McLuhan says "You mean my whole *fallacy* is wrong" didn't he mean to say *thesis*?

[@davidsheriff9274]

Yes,he blew the line.

[@OxfordStreetWinnipeg]

He preferred the word fallacy and this was a common phrase he used. He didn’t take criticism of his thinking very seriously. He told more than one skeptic, « you don’t like my ideas? I’ve got others! »

[@Elfspeth1]

I was ushering in 1977 when this was released. It won Best Picture that year, as well as Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Original Screenplay and Best Director, so San Bernardino audiences had high expectations. Let me just speculate that these people didn't really grok New York culture. Some claimed that "it wasn't a real movie," and demanded refunds.

[@waynej2608]

From the folks who added laugh tracks to their lame sitcoms.

[@cesarjom]

Woody Allen at his best

[@becomepostal]

"Well, if life were only like this"

[@williammorris584]

I wouldn’t have to remember so many quotes.

[@jean-francoisbrunet2031]

One of my favorite film scenes of all times. But I never understood McLuhan's prior to last sentence: "You mean my whole fallacy is wrong?".

[@faygosupreme]

this is just standing in line at the american cinematheque in LA lol

[@PatrickKehoe-j3j]

Kurbick would have MM doing 63 takes with MM loving it... :))

[@jonathanfunnell4167]

EXCELLENT FILM 10 STARS

[@manjacovus5342]

Diane Keaton heartbreakingly beautiful.