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Why did everybody suddenly turn against Woody Allen?

posted 6 months ago by TMC-4 (20121)
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1. Allen’s disastrous relationship with Mia Farrow - Women were never huge Allen fans and this pretty much closed that door. Many men were also uninterested in Allen and that lack of interest seems to have increased.

2. Allen’s marriage to his partner’s adopted daughter - No only did he f*ck his partner’s adopted daughter, he married her. That locked the door and bricked over the entrance with many other people.

3. Allen’s lack of reasonable affect throughout the entire matter - Allen needed to say SOMETHING following the above imbroglios. Unfortunately for him, he managed to say of the wrong things at the wrong times. It wasn’t helped by HOW he said it.

4. Allen was never much on casting minorities in his films, mostly set in a minority-filled NYC - Chiwetel Ejiofor (A British man) was the last major Black actor in one of his features. That was in 2004. Basically minorities have never been Allen fans and that’s only decreased over time.

5. Woody Allen’s films star women…whose agency seems to be taking care of their men, especially HIM - Allen remakes the same film over and over again with only slight changes in the dialogue and perhaps a different setting. And he was the protagonist or a major costar far too often. That hasn’t drawn in younger generations of females who either didn’t know about Allen’s personal life or who are impressed by his filmmaking and so Allen has moved further into the background.

6. Allen’s films were never big moneymakers - Wood Allen’s films earn profits, but not big ones. He eschewed the major blockbusters that could have made it easier to finance his preferred films and Allen wasn’t circumspect when it came to describing the modern films preferred by Hollywood and its audiences. Nobody is a fan in the entertainment business of people who don’t make money and who sh*ts on the projects that do.

[–] Aylmer (417) 4 days ago

I went through a phase in High School when I was really crazy about his early films and plowed through most of them. I thought SLEEPER was particularly hilarious and wanted to see more as I found them just to be as insane and fun as the Monty Python movies I had recently discovered at the time. I got about as far as ZELIG but didn't find the film to be too interesting or funny and just kinda gave up with him.

The big questions I have had since, is who, outside of snooty film buffs and arthouse nerds, actually watches his recent movies? He has made a career on autopilot for the past two decades making a low budget movie per year and somehow getting massive casts of big-name actors to be in his films for a fraction of their usual fee. I think his name and the prestige of having been in an Allen film, coupled with the low budgets, has been the whole schtick since the 1990's, but somewhere along the line the prestige dried up (for the most part) because practically nobody was seeing these movies and the modern puritanical cancel culture movement fully absorbed Woody Allen largely thanks to the Farrows and his "son" Ronnan Sinatra. This made him toxic, at least among the big-name-actor community who care about their image and don't want to look like they are on the wrong side of history.

I think the movement is slowly sputtering out though so there's a chance Allen may have a minor comeback in him still. There's a lot of actors who would die to be in a Woody Allen movie even after all the negative chaff, just because they "got a chance to work with him", similar to Roman Polanski.