On January 19, 2018, a 32-year-old American woman publicly accused her adoptive father of sexually assaulting her when she was 7 years old.
She said: "I loved my father, I respected him, he was my hero. But it is clear that this does not counteract what he has done, but rather makes the betrayal and hurt worse. ”
The woman's name was Dylan Farrow, and the adoptive father she accused of was none other than the famous American director: Woody Allen.
In response to this sexual assault case, Woody Allen's only biological son, who also published an article as a veteran political scientist and journalist, denounced by name "why the global film industry and Hollywood still worship Woody Allen".
Eight months later, Woody Allen's wife, Song Yi (a former adopted daughter of Woody Allen, 35 years younger, South Korean) spoke up for the first time in 25 years to support her husband.
In an interview with New York Magazine, she said it was entirely unfair that the accuser had taken advantage of the METOO movement to wrongfully accuse her husband. Woody Allen has also been adamantly denying the incident.
Woody Allen, who is deeply involved in the "sexual assault door", has almost been banned by the industry, and many Hollywood actors who have worked with him have drawn a clear line with him. However, due to the lack of legal basis, the two sides have their own opinions, and the matter has not yet been conclusive.
In the love field, Woody Allen can be described as a master of the love field, not only married his adopted daughter who is 35 years younger, but also was accused of sexual assault by another adopted daughter.
In the face of deep trouble and insults, he said, "The heart wants what he wants." "So what kind of person will he be in the film business?"
Woody Allen has been shooting movies at a rate of one film a year since 1969. Today, he is 85 years old and has made a total of 52 films, making him the most prolific film director in Hollywood.
Today's "Deep in My Heart" is about Woody Allen's more than 30 years of film experience. Through this book, we can learn the real stories and ideas behind his creation.
The book was written primarily in the form of interviews, so the authors were two, one was interviewer Steger Björkman.
He is a Swedish writer, director and film critic. He is not only the author of books such as "Bergmann on Bergmann" and "Von Trier on Von Thiel", but his works have also been shortlisted for the Berlin Film Festival. In 2011, he was also invited by Isabella Rossellini to shoot the Ingrid Bergman Oral History.
In addition to Steger Björkman, there is also an author, who is interviewed, Woody Allen.
Woody Allen was born on December 1, 1935 in Brooklyn, New York. He has multiple identities, not only as a director, but also as a screenwriter, actor, writer, musician and playwright.
He was always good at expressing serious themes with comedic elements, so that the audience could experience the insight in laughter and anger, and was praised as "the only intellectual in the American film industry, the most outstanding comedic genius after Chaplin." ”
What's even more amazing is that since 1969, he has produced more than 50 films at a rate of one film per year, including the classic films "Anne Hall", "Midnight barcelona", "Cairo Purple Rose", "End of the Race" and so on. He has been nominated for 24 Academy Awards and won 4 Academy Awards including Best Director and Best Original Screenplay.
Interestingly, this skinny old man, who is only one meter 69, would rather hide in a small bar and play a clarinet than go to the Oscar to receive the award, and he goes to the bar every night to play the clarinet, which has been a thunderous thing for decades.
In his heart, how do he look at movies and how do you look at life? Let's take a closer look at the book "Deep in My Heart".
We'll break through the essence of the book in three parts to see what kind of inner world the master director Woody Allen has.
The first part, creation, is destined to be a lonely road;
The second part, Art, is useless but can soothe the soul;
The third part, life, depends on how to distort the truth.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > Part I Creation is destined to be a lonely road</h1>
First, let's look at the first part: creation, destined to be a lonely road.
The novelist Kafka once said:
"I need to be quiet so that I can write, not like a hermit, that's not enough, like a dead man."
Quiet can make the creator play unlimited inspiration, and loneliness is the emotion that the creator must bear. A person wants to create good works, whether it is painting, composing music, writing novels, writing scripts... The best way is not to be disturbed by the outside world, I write my heart by hand, and I express my chest directly.
For Woody Allen,
First, writing is a form of self-expression.
Woody Allen loved storytelling from an early age and then dabbled in writing. Slowly, some radio and television stations invited him to write lines, scripts, and passages for comedians.
It is said that he could write thirty or forty paragraphs on his way from his home in Brooklyn to Manhattan, and he was a veritable satirist. The passages he wrote, humorous and ironic, were loved by everyone.
By the time he was 16, he was able to support his family by writing, and his monthly salary exceeded his parents' annual income.
The famous painter Picasso said that when he saw a blank place, he wanted to fill it, and Woody Allen saw a blank piece of paper and had the same impulse, but Picasso used the way he painted, and he used the way he wrote.
Woody Allen says:
"There's nothing more exciting than unfolding a huge piece of yellow or white paper, and I can't wait to fill it!" I love the process. ”
Why does Woody Allen love to create? Because of love. He grew up loving movies, so he fell in love with movies. Later, on a whim, can you create your own?
So he began to read books by famous authors such as Hemingway, Faulkner, Fitzgerald, etc., learned how to write, and began to write some small plays.
Woody Allen had a habit of writing down an idea, whether in a hotel room or walking down the street, as soon as an idea flashed in his head.
Sometimes it's written on sidewalk tables and chairs, or on hotel sticky notes, or even on the back of envelopes and laundry bills.
If he can't write it down immediately because he has other work at hand, he will keep the idea in his mind, and when the work at hand is finished, he will immediately write it in one breath and throw it into the drawer.
He doesn't like to take notes and prefers to write the script directly. Writing about what comes to mind is a complete form of self-expression.
He said:
"Most of the time, I write alone. Writing is a pure joy. But sometimes I also feel a sense of loneliness about writing. ”
When Woody Allen was young, he wanted to be an artist, and he thought art could save him. When he really became an artist, he found that art not only could not save him, but also had no meaning at all.
Because the universe will one day die, even the works of masters like Shakespeare or Beethoven will eventually cease to exist.
At the same time, he also believes that artists are selfish, that they need time to be alone, and that they usually treat others according to their own principles without regard for their feelings.
In order to express his thoughts to the world, he expressed them through the movie "Deep in My Heart".
"Deep in My Heart" is a family ethics drama. It tells the story of three sisters' inner struggles in the face of their parents' divorce.
The eldest daughter Renada is a well-known poet, the second daughter Joey loves literature, but is only a housewife, and the younger daughter, Furlene, dreams of becoming an actress and mixing in the show business.
Woody Allen expressed the thoughts he wanted to express through the role of his eldest daughter, Renada.
Renada is talented and good at expressing her pain, but very selfish. As the poet's fame grew, Renada felt more and more that poetry would not save her precarious marriage.
Moreover, in the face of her parents' divorce, she also seems very selfish, will not take care of her mother who is tormented by divorce, and does not want to listen to her endless nagging every day.
It can be said that the film is the spokesperson of Woody Allen, who indirectly expresses his inner thoughts to the world through the film, and he does not care about whether others accept it or not. Because he only cares about "I write my heart", lonely and focused.
Next, we say that film is also a kind of self-expression.
Any art is a reproduction of an idea. Woody Allen, as a film lover, expresses his view of the world through the form of films.
Woody Allen was born in Brooklyn, New York, and his neighborhood is home to many movie theaters, as many as 25 within walking distance.
Therefore, when woody Allen was a child, in order to avoid the outdoor heat, he often ran to the movie theater to rub the air conditioner and watch movies by the way.
Slowly, Woody Allen fell in love with movies, especially the kind of high-end comedy. So he started writing the script.
In 1969, Woody Allen wrote and directed his first film, "Fools in Prison", and officially entered the film industry.
After that, he made classic films such as "Dumb Goose", "Annie Hall", "Cairo Purple Rose", "Hannah Sisters", "Manhattan" and so on at the rate of filming one film a year.
Woody Allen never cared about the length of time the film, the script story was long, the time was longer, the story time was shorter, the time was shorter, and he never paid attention to the shooting cost due to the length of time.
What is even more amazing is that he never cares about the subsequent popularity or popularity of the film, and he always pays attention to only one thing, that is, whether the film maximizes and expresses his own ideas.
In 1977, Woody Allen won three awards at the 50th Academy Award for Best Director, Best Actor, and Best Original Screenplay for Annie Hall.
The film tells the story of the comedian Ive Singer, after two failed marriages, meets Anne Hall, who wants to become a singer, and the two gradually develop feelings.
Anne Hall in the film, wearing a men's shirt, a horse clip, and a man's tie on the upper body, wears fat trousers on the lower body, wears a men's hat on her head, and looks like a "man's wife".
Woody Allen said in an interview that the film was based on his then-girlfriend, Diane Keaton. The film's name also comes from her.
Diane Keaton's original name was Diane Hall, but there was already a name in the Actors' Rights Association at the time, so he called the film Anne Hall.
In 1972, 26-year-old Diane Keaton and Woody Allen starred together in the movie "Dumb Goose". The following year, they starred together in the movie "Fools Make a Fuss About Science City".
With frequent contact, the two gradually developed a relationship and developed a lover relationship.
"Diane is the most special person I know, her beauty is not beauty in the traditional sense, her beauty is the beauty of sex, she is really unique." 」
Emotionally, Diane Keaton entered woody Allen's life.
On the film, Woody Allen felt that he had entered a bottleneck period after making a few films, so he began to change his comedic style and seek to make some more realistic and profound films.
With a combination of emotion and film, Woody Allen created the film Annie Hall.
In the film, Woody Allen takes the emotion between Ive Singer and Anne Hall as the main line, using realistic and surreal, memories and dialogue, flashbacks and other shooting techniques, vividly showing the complex inner world of the protagonist.
It was a major turning point in Woody Allen's film career, and the film marked his leap from comedy to reality. Because he feels that the film should not only have the artistry to watch, but also have some practical significance.
On the road to filmmaking, Woody Allen has always been a maverick.
He once said:
"I don't want to make traditional commercial dramas, I want to make high-end drama films. If I fail, that's okay, but I stick to my pursuits. I should bury my head in the work and make the movies I want to make, regardless of the reaction of the outside world. ”
In Woody Allen's view, as a director, film is a kind of self-expression, and I can perform whatever I want, which has nothing to do with the box office and has nothing to do with the audience's preferences.
In his view, artists are usually very selfish and lonely, and they need time to be alone, treating others with their own principles without caring about their feelings.
It is precisely because of this belief that Woody Allen made later classic films such as "Blue Jasmine", "Love in Rome", and "Endgame".
Well, that said, the first part is over. This section is about some of Woody Allen's thoughts and practices on writing and film.
"I usually feel like I'm writing through film, and I prefer this novelization," he says. ”
Writing and film, for Woody Allen, are like people's left and right hands, which can be transformed into each other, but the purpose is to express their inner world, but the road of creation is also destined to be focused and lonely.
Since art forms such as writing and film are lonely, why should we pursue art? This is the second part we will talk about next, art is useless, but it can soothe the soul.
Part II Art is useless, but it can soothe the soul
First of all, we say that art is a combination of virtual and real.
Art comes from life and is higher than life.
As an art of seeing and listening, film combines virtual and real, so that the film has artistry and practical significance.
In 2005, Woody Allen made a movie called "The End of the Race."
The film tells the story of Wilton, a poor boy who came from Ireland to London to become a tennis coach in order to change his destiny. Later, he met and married the daughter of a high-class family, Chloe, and successfully mixed into British high society. But he also has an ambiguous relationship with Nora, the ex-girlfriend of Chloe's brother Tom.
While he was enjoying his wealth and glory in high society, his lover Nora said that she was pregnant and forced him to divorce and marry himself. On one side is the glory and wealth of high society, and on the other hand is the fact that the lover is pregnant.
Weighed, Wilton made a bold decision to elaborate a murder that killed his lover Nora. The film ends with Wilton not being caught as a criminal, but instead continuing to live a life of high society with no worries.
In this film, Woody Allen uses the combination of virtual and real to vividly show the ambivalence of people who have encountered extramarital affairs.
Extramarital affairs are common in real life, which is obviously a real place, but being able to kill a lover without being discovered as desired is simply non-existent in real life, which is the virtual part.
What Woody Allen wants to express is the contradiction between ideals and reality when encountering extramarital affairs.
This is woody Allen's film art, that is, through the fictional and real plot, people are tormented in the contradiction between ideals and reality, psychological or life states are expressed, so as to resonate with the audience and trigger deeper thinking.
Secondly, we say that art does not solve the practical problem, but it can make people peaceful.
In terms of social value, art is useless because its role is limited to entertainment. Artists are not like politicians or scientists who can drive social change and bring practical benefits to people, but art can give people special meaning.
When a person is depressed, he may find the strength to continue to move forward from a character in the movie; when a person is in trouble, he may find a solution to the problem from a book.
In The Purple Rose of Cairo, Woody Allen expresses a point through the characters of the story: "People in reality always crave fiction, and fictional characters crave reality." ”
Because the human heart needs art to be constantly nourished. He even believes that art can change a person and even become a lifesaver for a person.
The heroine of "The Purple Rose of Cairo" is cecilia, who lived during the Great Depression in the United States and was a restaurant waitress.
Although she is very careless in her work, either yelled at by guests, scolded by her boss, and often beaten by her rough husband, she is still optimistic.
After work, she often goes to the cinema alone to watch movies, because she likes the luxurious and passionate life in movies. When watching the movie, she forgot the bitterness of real life and was full of hope for a better life.
Fortunately, her vision came true. Tom, the gentle and handsome male protagonist in the movie, actually walked out of the movie and had a relationship with her.
He takes her around, to fancy restaurants, and to dance to romantic music, much to Cecilia's excitement, and she temporarily forgets her real-life misfortunes.
But reality is reality after all, and fantasy is only fantasy after all. Soon after, Tom was back on screen and Cecilia was back in reality.
Although real life is more frustrating than before, she discovers that her husband has cheated on her and is also fired by her boss.
In the face of life's difficulties, Cecilia still chooses to face them bravely, because the film gives her a lot of courage and vision, so that her heart can still get peace in the face of difficulties.
Woody Allen is the same, who brings childhood dreams, memories, and things or ideas that are impossible to achieve in real life to the screen one by one through film. For example, "Radio Age", "Once Upon a Time in the Stars" and so on.
He said that we have been doing the same thing all our lives, which is to constantly go back in time and correct our problems.
Through film, Woody Allen regains the simplicity and purity of his childhood, and in his view, art, although of little practical use, can make people feel at peace.
Okay, so that's the second part of what we're going to talk about.
This section is about Woody Allen's views on art. He believes that on the one hand, art is a dual combination of fiction and reality, and only in this way can the meaning of art be reflected.
On the other hand, compared with other industries, art has neither promoted the role of social change nor brought practical benefits to people, so it is useless.
However, art has a very important role in people's minds, and people can obtain spiritual comfort through fictional stories to realize ideas that cannot be realized in real life.
The fictional life in the movie can be arbitrary, but after all, it is fictional, only for people to fantasize, and real life is what people have to face every day. So, how can we make real life tasteful?
This is the third part we'll talk about next, life, depending on how the truth is distorted.
The third part, life, depends on how to distort the truth
There is only one truth in life, and everyone knows that truth.
As social people, each of us faces the same contradictions, such as the gap between ideals and reality, the entanglement of various emotions, the responsibility of having children, etc., but each of us faces life in a variety of ways.
Some people are naturally optimistic, always ignoring the bad factors in the cruel reality, grasping the good factors, and living happily every day; while some people are pessimistic and will live a mess of what was supposed to be a good life.
From this point of view, the truth of life is the same, that is, everyone has to face all kinds of contradictions in life. Everyone will distort this real life in their own way, either glorifying it or ugly it.
For life itself, either overestimated or underestimated. To put it bluntly, our current life is not real life, but an unreal life distorted by our own will.
Writing and making movies is what Woody Allen wants to do most in his heart, so he puts most of his time and energy into creating and making movies, in addition to constantly thinking and writing, he is constantly doing directing and making movies.
Besides, every Monday with his band, going to bars to play clarinets, was also something he liked to do, and for decades, thunder didn't move.
Attending the awards ceremony is something he does not want to do, so even though his films have been nominated for Oscars many times, he rarely attends. Whether he makes a movie or not, whether he wins an award, how the box office is, whether the audience likes it or not, he only follows his heart, writes what he thinks in his heart, and shoots what he wants in his heart.
Deconstructing Love Mania is a film about how people distort the truth of life.
The film is about a talented and famous writer named Harry, who has been living a fragmented, chaotic life because of his nervousness and madness.
Most crucially, he wrote about the real life of himself and the people around him in his novels, including his love life with multiple women.
For example, there was a woman who had a leg with his brother-in-law, and her sister didn't know it at first. However, after seeing the novel written by Harry, the sister learned that the story in the novel was about her husband cheating on her sister.
When the East Window incident occurred, my sister was very angry, and my sister was also very guilty, so she scolded Harry, the writer who wrote the novel, and threatened to shoot him.
Harry, the film's writer, also wrote a novel called Max Pinker's Black Secret.
In this novel, Max and Dolly are a loving couple who have lived together for 30 years. But one day, Dolly's friend told her that her husband Max had a secret.
The secret is that Max was married in Florida and had two sons with his wife. Later, because he owed a lot of money, he hacked his wife and two sons to death with an axe. In order to destroy the evidence, Max also ate the bodies of the three men
The film is through the constant overlapping lens of novel and reality, using the character of Harry to deconstruct real life and deconstruct the characters in the novel.
The final conclusion: "Everyone knows the truth, and life depends on how we distort that truth." ”
It is intended to remind us that no matter what kind of people we are and what kind of life we live, we must know ourselves, not fool ourselves, and accept all powerlessness and live well.
In a word, to save life, you must follow your heart.
Attending the awards ceremony is something he does not want to do, so even though his films have been nominated for Oscars many times, he rarely attends.
Whether he makes a movie or not, whether he wins an award, how the box office is, whether the audience likes it or not, he only follows his heart, writes what he thinks in his heart, and shoots what he wants in his heart.
For a person who likes to write, or likes to make movies, only by following their hearts and doing what they like to do, such as writing or making movies, can they calm them down and thus save their lives.
Well, with that said, we're done with the whole of this book. Now let's review. The book "Deep in My Heart" is divided into three parts.
The first part is about the fact that creation is destined to be a lonely road. Whether it is writing or filming, it is creation. On the road to creation, if you want to succeed, the most fundamental thing is to focus on your heart, how you think in your heart, how to show it.
Of course there are many forms, painters use paintings, writers use novels, and filmmakers use films. But no matter what form you take, on the road of creation, the creator is lonely, no one will fully understand you, no one will give you advice at any time, the creator, just completely according to their own inner thoughts to create.
In the second part, we talk about some views on art. Woody Allen believes that art has no practical role relative to other industries, but can only immerse the soul. Because art comes from life and is higher than life.
This essence determines that art is a non-realistic thing that combines virtual reality and reality, and it contains some of people's unrealistic fantasies, but it is precisely this fantasy that allows people to realize, in real life, things that cannot be realized, so that the soul can get temporary comfort.
In the last part, we return to real life itself. Although everyone lives in different time and space, they all face the same life contradictions, such as the gap between ideals and reality, the emotional problems of love and hate, and trivial family life. While the truth is the same, everyone approaches the problem differently.
In order to adapt to life, everyone distorts real life in one way or another, some people are optimistic, some people are pessimistic, some people are steadfast, and some are opportunistic. However, if you want to make life tasteful, the only remedy is to follow your heart and do what you like to do.
Woody Allen tells us in his story that art is the only way to comfort life, and that following your heart is the most successful art.
On the road to pursuing dreams, no matter what others think and evaluate, we must not forget our original intentions and continue to move forward.
At the same time, understand that dreams can comfort a life of ruin, follow your heart, and your dreams have come true.
To realize this, but also to understand the true meaning of life, Woody Allen is worthy of being known as the "master of the American film industry", and is still being worshipped by the world film industry and Hollywood.
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