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"A Rainy Day in New York" is released ✌️ today
This is the first time woody Allen has been released in mainland China
Known as "Best Dating Movie of 2022"
Last Sunday (February 20), lu yu film group held a "chance encounter special" movie viewing event of "A Rainy Day in New York" at Beijing Wanda Cinema (CBD store), taking some fans into the theater in advance to meet Woody Allen's romance.
This time for fans to customize the "chance encounter" movie commemorative ticket stub -
I also prepared a "dating red umbrella" to take photos for everyone -
After the screening, this red umbrella was also given to a lucky fan who was drawn by Lu Yu on the scene (PS: Lu Yu was still a little reluctant when he sent it, saying that the red umbrella was too good-looking and wanted to "take it for himself")
The brother holding the red umbrella in the picture
I wish you soon to meet someone with whom you hold an umbrella
Back to the movie. It's all said that travel is the most important test of a couple's suitability, and "A Rainy Day in New York" really illustrates that very well.
A young couple who had known each other for a few months had originally planned to go to Manhattan, New York, for the weekend together, but the result was a mistake, the two people's itinerary was constantly disrupted, and the plan to spend the weekend together was in vain, and the two sides experienced different people and things.
When Lu Yu talked about Woody Allen after the screening, he said that he was a person who knew a lot about emotions. In "A Rainy Day in New York", "Gatsby" played by Sweet Tea and "Ashley" played by Fanning in a few scenes in the same frame, with a few dialogues to let the audience see a fact: when two people can't chat on a channel, even the most passionate love will be fleeting.
Lu Yu listed some of the dialogue scenes between the two people in the film:
One is at the beginning of the film, when the young couple discusses how to spend the weekend in Manhattan. Growing up in New York, Gatsby talked endlessly about his weekend plans to his girlfriend — from booking hotels to Broadway musicals, from Central Park to old New York-style bars, from piano playing to Illustration by Ludwig Bimelmans...
Every sentence can be seen that this is a proper literary and artistic young man, the kind that urgently needs spiritual resonance. But his girlfriend Ashley is obviously not the same person as him, and Ashley's response is almost entirely related to the material level - "This is going to cost a lot of money, right?" "I remember going to Manhattan as a kid and being able to buy cheap big-name goods on the street."
In Lu Yu's words: "These two people are basically 'chickens talking to ducks'. ”
Similar dialogue, there are several paragraphs at the end of the film, such as the preference for the weather, the discussion of the sound of traffic outside the window, etc., which Lu Yu will also talk about in detail in the post-screening sharing.
In short, everything is as the male protagonist said to his girlfriend, they are two completely different species - one likes the sound of crickets, one likes the sound of taxis, one must bloom in the sun, and one can only find himself under the gray sky.
Just a very short weekend trip, let the male protagonist realize how inappropriate this beautiful girl he originally planned to marry is with himself.
Of course, the film is not limited to the relationship between men and women, and the director's habitual self-deprecation of his own class and his feelings for his hometown of New York are also ubiquitous in this film.
More than forty years ago, Woody Allen expressed his love and admiration for the city of New York in his film Manhattan, saying that "he is as tough and romantic as the city he loves." ”
Time has passed, but his love for the city has never gone away. After watching "A Rainy Day in New York", you will find that New York is still his city, as always, it belongs to him.
Some fans said bluntly after watching the movie: "New York is the most beautiful in the eyes of people who love it, and even I, who don't love the rainy season, am also contaminated with a little romance." ”
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Review of "A Rainy Day in New York"
@Be bold
It was a great feeling to see Woody Allen on the big screen, and it was a great pleasure to watch the movie, and after the screening, Lu Yu shared a lot of stories inside and outside the movie, which was very inspiring. As shown in the movie story, watch this film with your girlfriend and have a good weekend.
@ Fu Yuhao
The usual and dramatic story, woody Allen's breathing narrative rhythm, a relationship with a rain a day, a little happiness and a little loss, a little irony and a little accident, the perception is balanced just right.
@iky**008
The story is smooth and brisk, the humorous golden sentences in the dense line dialogue are frequent, the high-quality story completion degree + comfortable line image soundtrack, who can not be moved by this pleasant romance~
@User 7072892537
Intellectuals or illiterate people. I think What Woody is satirizing is just those deliberately arrogant "pseudo-literary". The name of a dish does not necessarily mean that they are affectionate, but it is already a miracle in itself.
@JP decanter unitary
Very strong Woody Allen-esque romance, the three young protagonists are in place, and the simple and eccentric youthful atmosphere and the mysterious temperament of New York produce unexpected chemical reactions.
@Lazy Tanukis
New York is the most beautiful in the eyes of people who love it, and even I, who does not love the rainy season, is also tainted with a little romance. Chicken and duck talk is too boring, the same frequency is precious, in the weather is very good days spent a pleasant rainy day.
@Angel
Walk through Paris, Manhattan, Barcelona, and this time follow Woody Allen to New York. The picture is so beautiful that every frame can be used as a screen background. The all-star lineup is quite eye-catching, and Sweet Tea is charming when she plays the piano and sings.
@Rice soybean oil W exists
The collision of reality and absurdity, that is, the old man, the most worthwhile romantic urban love movie to watch after Valentine's Day, is it.
@Blue-80301
Like the chatter of the lines, Woody Allen's many films are not like chattering to tell the audience how to love, how to cherish love, and how to say goodbye to love. "Rainy days" and "people willing to accompany you to the rain" have always been the most romantic fantasies and interpretations of love in his works.
(The above is from the fan Weibo)
About this movie, there are more interesting details worth talking about, let's see Lu Yu's post-screening sharing -
-Lu Yu talks about movies-
"A Rainy Day in New York"
New York was like breathing, like love for him
I'm a big fan of Woody Allen's films, but this is only the second time I've seen his films in the cinema and would love to contribute to his box office, but unfortunately I haven't had the chance.
We all know what New York means for his films, but it's interesting that in his previous independent feature films, "Broadway" appeared twice— "Bullets On Broadway" and "Danny Rose on Broadway"; "Manhattan" appeared twice — "Manhattan" and "Manhattan Murder Mystery"; and "A Rainy Day in New York" was his first film to have the word "New York" in the title.
The importance of New York to Woody Allen is that he never bothered to attend the Oscars, even when "Annie Hall" won the award. But in 2002, he attended the Oscars, because just the year before (2001) New York suffered "9/11", the Oscars wanted to broadcast a short film to pay tribute to New York, Woody Allen as a landmark of New York, a cultural icon, he was obliged to go.
So New York is not just a backdrop for him, like the other cities in his films. New York was more like breathing to him, like love.
Woody Allen-esque "matching":
You know what I'm talking about
If you're particularly familiar with Woody Allen, you might think the movie is a bit like Manhattan from that year. Ellie Fanning has a lot of small movements in the film that are very similar to Diane Keaton of the year, including the rhythm of the "sweet tea" speech, a bit of hunchback, and also like imitating the Woody Allen of the year.
But what I think is most similar is that each character in this movie has to find their own emotions and happiness from another person. In "Manhattan", the happiness and happiness of each character does not come from the partner who is with him at this moment - either an extramarital relationship, or a "friend" who likes a friend, in short, he must find emotional sustenance in another person. And "A Rainy Day in New York" also has some similarities.
Woody Allen is a man who knows a lot about emotions. In "A Rainy Day in New York", "Gatsby" played by Sweet Tea and "Ashley" played by Fanning have several dialogues, which fully illustrate how crazy this emotion can make you when two people are not frequent.
At first, the two of them talked on campus about going to New York for the weekend, and Gatsby grew up in New York, and he began to plan, saying that he would book The Carlyle, where he would play the piano, sing Broadway tunes, and so on. He didn't want his parents to know that he had returned to Manhattan, so he said, Let's stay at The Pierre, we can see the view of Central Park, and after dinner we will sit in the bar on the other side of the Carlisle Hotel, saying that he likes the old New York style there, and the murals on the walls are by Ludwig Bimermans...
What did Ashley say at this time? "I've only been to Manhattan twice with my family and I only remember we got great bargains," she said. My parents didn't believe they could buy a Hermès platinum bag and Rolex at a street stall for $200. ”
These two people are basically "chicken and duck", at this time you will find that Gatsby is silent, do not speak, this day there is no way to talk. That's probably the case for everyone — if every conversation you have that needs to be annotated, if it needs to be explained, everyone will be crazy.
And at the end of the film, the two ride in the carriage together, the girl said I didn't sleep well yesterday, did you hear the sound of those fire trucks? The boy said he heard it, then said two words: "The roaring traffic's boom, Silence in my lonely room." (The streets were bustling with traffic, and there was silence in my house.) The girl said, I know, it was written by Shakespeare, and the boy immediately stopped talking—it wasn't written by Shakespeare, but a lyric from Cole Porter.) But by this time Gatsby didn't want to explain, he was completely dead set on the relationship
Conversely, Chan, another girl played by "Gome" (Selena Gomez) in the film, is particularly compatible with Gatsby on this point. Its practical "Gome" to play this girl was something I didn't expect. Because just in terms of appearance, I think "Gome" may be more suitable for playing a "new money" girl, similar to Ashley's role. Ellie Fanning is more suitable for playing a girl who grew up in the East Side of New York, USA, from a privileged family with relatively rich money.
I don't know what the director did to make this choice, maybe he wants to make people understand that the final decision on whether two people are suitable or not is not "appearance", but "inside". Just like Ashley hates rainy days, Chan and Gatsby are so compatible on this point – they both love to rain. And, compared to Gatsby and Ashley's "chicken and duck talk", every time Gatsby talks to Chan, the reaction of both of them is - I talk about it, you can understand.
This "inner match" can also be seen in his past films. Watch Woody Allen's movies and you'll see that he's really a very confident person. The actresses he assigned to him were all goddesses — Diane Keaton, Julia Roberts, Meryl Streep, and others, including his former girlfriend, Mia Farrow.
You know, the audience's vision is sometimes a little "snobbish", you always feel that the two people in the film are not enough to match, there is no so-called "chemical reaction". But strangely enough, I don't feel inappropriate when I watch every movie by Woody Allen, and he pairs him with every actress. He did make one of the best explanations: Interesting souls are probably more important than good-looking skin bags—at least just as important.
Details see strength:
The director doesn't make a movie, he breathes a movie
I've seen this movie several times at home, and today is the first time I've seen it on the big screen. There's a detail in the film: Gatsby went to play cards and won a lot of money, and when he got back to the hotel, he pulled out all the money and threw it on the table. When I watched it on TV at home, I thought, if this pile of money is a piece, it is not much. As a result, I found out today that it is all $50 a piece. So he won a lot of money, and the movie says he won $15,000. So why do movies have to be seen in movie theaters? Because details like this can only be felt on the big screen.
There is another detail that I personally appreciate, and that is also important to me, probably because I do TV. In most of the films I've watched in the past, when a person needs to know through the news about some kind of crisis that is happening, it is always a coincidence - turn on the TV, and the news must start from scratch.
Where is such a coincidence? Not so coincidental. I went home and turned on the TV, and you had to wait 10 seconds after I turned it on, and you probably missed the news. Woody Allen did a very good job of this: in the performance of Gatsby discovering the "crisis" through the news, the director first laid a weather forecast for you - it is also very important, rainy days, points, not irrelevant news. Then there are reports of his girlfriend being with movie stars.
This detail is very inconspicuous, but it was especially good for me, who has OCD and does TV. It shows that Woody Allen is not making movies, he is breathing movies, he is a person who makes a living from movies. At this point, I will always be his audience.
It's OK for a person to be "weird"
Woody Allen is a particularly peculiar presence among world directors. Beginning in 1969, he released a feature film almost every year, many of which were both directors, writers, and actors. There has hardly been a year off, only in recent years there have been no movies. Such a workload is very peculiar - not that I can do it with special efforts, and someone has to invest money in you.
But he added that his films weren't actually very profitable. He once told a reporter what I've earned in my life — selling a house. Woody Allen sold his home twice, and he used to have a large penthouse on Fifth Avenue in New York, which was $600,000 when it was bought and sold for $17 million. There is also a house that sold for $7 million. He said that I have made money from these two real estate projects for so many years, and movies are not very profitable.
He has only won the "global box office champion" once – in what year? It's 2020, it's "A Rainy Day in New York." In 2020, due to the new crown epidemic, most theaters around the world were closed until the end of April, when Korean theaters resumed business, and Woody Allen's "A Rainy Day in New York" was released in South Korea in early May, selling more than $300,000 at the box office in the first week, resulting in a "global box office champion".
This is the only "global box office champion" for so many years, but he should not care too much about these, after all, he has another record, no one can surpass - he has so far won 16 Oscar nominations for screenwriting, plus best director and best actor, has received a total of 24 Oscar nominations, 4 awards.
There's another record — he's worked with 17 people who've won the Shadow Queen' Film, and 7 of them have personally given him the Emperor's Queen's throne—which is why he's always been able to sign a lot of big names at a particularly low price. Almost all of Woody Allen's films are star-studded, because making a movie with him always has a good chance of being nominated for an Oscar.
I think Woody Allen is a fantastic director, and one of the reasons is that his annual working state is particularly enviable. He set himself the rules for dividing the year into four parts: perhaps 1/4 writing the script and preparing the film; 1/4 shooting; 1/4 post-editing, doing some publicity that was not there; and for a while he would perform jazz performances with his band every week in New York, where he would play clarinets. The bar he plays is the same bar where Gatsby meets prostitutes in the film.
In Woody Allen's films, there are many themes and elements that are constantly being repeated. For example, he would mock his own class— he often mocked the middle class in New York, including intellectuals. Woody Allen, a former stand-up comedian who writes passages, once said that there are two misconceptions about me: first, that I am very cultured because I wear glasses; and second, that I am an artist because my films are very unsold.
He would taunt himself in such a way, but what was behind this taunt? It is a special self-confidence, a sense of intellectual superiority and cultural superiority. For example, in this film, his character dialogue will mention a lot of names, we call it "name dropping", and many of the people he mentions include writers, film directors, painters - he doesn't care if the audience knows enough. And if you write down all these names and go back and search, they may be part of film history, part of New York culture.
Woody Allen also always plays that particularly nagging role in his own movies, sometimes to the point of driving you crazy. He has said that as long as he is there in the film, he will take on a very neurotic comedy role. With the exception of him, he was only relieved to hand over comedic elements to Diane Keaton. He believes that Diane Keaton is an actress with a special talent for comedy. There's a scene in the movie Manhattan Murder Mystery where the hero and heroine are trapped in an elevator, and Diane Keaton is completely possessed by Woody Allen — even more nagging than he is. She's probably one of the few actresses who can hold woody Allen in comedy scenes and isn't worse than him.
And rainy days, which are also an element that is often used for Woody Allen. There are rainy elements in many movies such as "The End of the Race" and "Midnight in Paris", and "A Rainy Day in New York" is even more so. The director thinks that rainy days are romantic, and may also use this to tell us that it is OK for a person to be "weird".
Many people may think that the sun is shining brightly, but some people like the kind of weather that is rainy and makes people feel "very sad". Woody Allen is a very "mournful" person, and he himself has said: I am a very sad person, very unhappy a lot of times, and other times I am completely unhappy.
"Bereavement" versus "bereavement" is right.
When "mourning" is the background of your life, maybe you are indestructible.
-Extended Viewing-
Annie Hall (1977)
Manhattan Manhattan (1979)
Danny Rose Broadway Danny Rose (1984)
Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)
Bullets Over Broadway (1994)
Match Point (2005)
Midnight in Paris (2011)
-Lu Yu Film Group · Recommended Reasons-
As you continue to nag, as you continue to satirize, as you continue to love rainy days. After watching the movie, you'll find that New York belongs to Woody Allen as always, as he says: he's as tough and romantic as the city he loves. It's a rare opportunity to experience "Woody Allen-esque romance" on the big screen.
"A Rainy Day in New York" was released nationwide on February 25
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