WHEAT

Woody Allen's Love and Death

[@NoaLives79]

I haven't watched this in more than 25 years and it's still as fun and funny and classic.

[@blackcharles1996]

This is like the perfect Ingmar Bergman parody, one of the best movies made by Woody Allen if not the best

[@johnpriceuk]

"no not that one! the one in the bathroom!" Diane Keaton is such a superb comedic actress

[@digitalboomer]

There is virtually a joke every single minute of this movie and sometimes more than that. Everything from cheesy one-liners to sophisticated tongue twisters. Supposedly Allens favorite movie, and it certainly is my favorite. Watch every year around the same time I watch the Godfather.

[@owenmcgee8496]

I never heard Allen say this was his favourite, but I'd agree that it is probably the funniest. I remember renting this on dvd as a distraction just after having finished a 19th century history project, and I thought it hilarious. Allen and Keaton as two nutty neurotic New Yorkers in the middle of a 19th century Russian novel type scenario...and it works! But, actually, every character in this film is funny (including the Napoleon guy). Previously, the only Allen I'd seen was "Annie Hall" on tv and I didn't care for it at all, so I switched off the idea of watching another Allen. I enjoyed Love and Death so much, though, I started checking out his other movies until eventually I saw them all. Maybe "Love and Death" is his last pure comedy, played only for laughs. A good follow on from "Sleeper" (his 2nd best early comedy) and "Play it again, Sam" (the other nutty one with Keaton, pre-Annie Hall etc.).

[@martinbooda1593]

Same time you watch the Godfather...now I'm going to compare the scenes between Diane Keaton and Al Pacino vs. Diane Keaton and Woody Allen...

[@rossl5908]

@@martinbooda1593 There’s no difference, she acts like she’s still in Annie Hall. Ladi da Michael Ladi da

[@mdarrenu]

Diane Keaton keeps up and really surpasses Allen in this film. Such a versatile actor she still is.

[@Prateek-hp7sg]

*NO BACKGROUND MUSIC* Apart from the brilliant writing and their performances, what makes this scene so good is that there is no unnecessarily loud background Music or fake laughter

[@jamesperry7834]

In my english class we were picking words out of a hat and my teacher pulled out 2 words and read "Love Wheat" and i, and my friend laughed histarically while everyone ells watched.

[@NevadaBoss]

An absolute master class in film comedy--technically Annie Hall may be a more 'well-rounded' flick, but scene for scene, Woody's high water mark for laughs. Btw...At its core, life really IS still about a "tremendous amount of wheat!"

[@dandaniels9777]

a TREMENDOUS amount of wheat

[@Jungla694]

CREAM of wheat!

[@icakulev]

my youth gone living with Swiss cheese and rented children :)

[@StephenDeagle]

Soon, we shall be covered by wheat.

[@IsaacWatson]

Love this film.

[@louiso.4325]

"CREAM of wheat"

[@dixonpinfold2582]

"No, it would be a greater honor for me."

[@muralin239]

Of course not darling ..lol

[@tommyt1971]

“Subjectivity is objective...”

[@juliaelena7489]

Ja ja ja

[@preflex3502]

Moral notions imply attributes to substances which exist only in relational duality.

[@chuckcelemin4345]

Swiss cheese and rented children: sounds like my wedding night

[@michaeliacangelo9423]

"No, I shall RUN through the shadow of the valley of death!"

[@preflex3502]

I'm very good at that. I was the men's freestyle fleeing champion two years in a row.

[@michaeliacangelo9423]

@@preflex3502 🤣🤣🤣

[@davisphillips993]

This is gold 😂

[@femgoo]

Cream of wheat! 🤣🤣🤣

[@Turn420]

Cream of Wheat !

[@raydow3439]

the story of my life.

[@SA-ff9uc]

Is this where Mia Farrow got the idea for renting children?

[@suikaibuki7620]

It's also an incredibly hamfisted metaphor for death parodying the manner of old theater. He's guilt-tripping her.

[@dixonpinfold2582]

I thought it was a cinematographic reference.

[@AventuraLuver]

So that he learns from his mistakes.

[@LMB222]

Pokazałem ten film mojemu nygusowi i teraz ciągle słyszę "Wheat. Fields of Wheat". Why did I have to be gifted with such a son? ;)

[@cjschmidt1494]

What's the point of pointing out if his response has a point? Do you get my point?

[@benny4333]

Ya me too. Also, wheat.

[@Clint945]

@MisiurSB A Tremendous amount of weed!

[@cinemastupid]

Cream of wheat.

[@Clint945]

Me and my Partner Rented some Children once. Wouldn't reccomend it.

[@premanadi]

No, it cannot be explained. You either find it funny, or you don't. It's like singers, you either love the sound of their voice, or you don't. I think it might be a parody of something out of Tolstoy or Dostoyevsky, but I don't know.

[@guepardiez]

#WeToo

[@cjschmidt1494]

How did he make a mistake?

[@AventuraLuver]

@premanadi there was no point to your response.

[@coralarch]

Is this a parody of one of Ingmar Bergmann's wanky scenes?

[@CommonGroundser]

And how!

[@komarude]

failblog bring anyone else here?

[@AventuraLuver]

Can someone please explain the whole wheat thing and why it is funny? Thanks in advance.

[@donaldpierce6877]

Marla Singer Van Gogh painted the Wheat Fields (a.k.a. The crows) before he walked out into those fields and shot himself, ending his life. Ever since then, fields of wheat have been an archetype for depression and loneliness, mental instability, confusion, and sorrow.

[@pappy374]

@@donaldpierce6877 It's more of a reference to Russian literature. Wheat is discussed heavily in War and Peace, Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov where characters talk about "fields of wheat".