Cheech says to have the last line of the play to be "I'm pregnant".
Wasn't that the last line of "Hannah and Her Sisters"?
Maybe this is common knowledge, I just rewatched the movie this week and it is the first time that I noticed it.
[deleted]
yeah I noticed that too, and was surprised not to find it in the trivia section.
shareExcellent catch, I hadn't noticed that. I did like that Woody in this movie recycles the name "Cheech", which he originally used in "Annie Hall". During the scene in which Alvy Singer is waiting in front of the movie theater for Annie, who is late, Alvy is approached by first one working-class guy and then another who recognize him from his television show. As he's trying to escape their attentions, Alvy mutters "I'm surrounded by two guys named Cheech." I guess Allen thought that name was still funny 20 years later.
shareAnd...I read on the IMDB trivia section for this film that Chaz Palminteri actually improvised his VERY last line, Helen Sinclair's mantra, "Don't speak." This wasn't in the script. BRILLIANT!!!
shareOhmigod yes! And BTW Allen has said that he thought ending Hannah and Her Sisters the way he did was a bit of a cop-out. So Cheech's dying suggestion takes on an extra layer of irony...
"I've always found that writing comes from a deep inner pain." Barton Fink
Woody was wrong, a sad ending is not always better.
share<<And BTW Allen has said that he thought ending Hannah and Her Sisters the way he did was a bit of a cop-out.>>
___________________________________________________________________________________
Really? Boy, is he ever wrong about that!
<<Cheech says to have the last line of the play to be "I'm pregnant".
Wasn't that the last line of "Hannah and Her Sisters"?
Maybe this is common knowledge, I just rewatched the movie this week and it is the first time that I noticed it.>>
____________________________________________________________________________________
Brilliant! Brilliant catch! I am so proud of you and I don't even know you. And of course the "I'm pregnant" line at the end of Hannah and Her Sisters is THE perfect last line in that movie -- it enriches the movie with that much more joy and meaning. It would still be a wonderful movie without it -- but it becomes truly great with it. And that is what Cheech's line does for the play. And you caught that. Oh, well done!
You're entitled to your opinion and Woody is entitled to his. His feeling was that he wrapped things up too neatly for his character, Mickey. There's a really interesting post on the Hannah And Her Sisters board applying a biblical interpretation to Holly's pregnancy at the end of that movie. It's a stunning, almost tour-de-force example of the "reader response" school of criticism, where the audience applies its own layer of meaning to a work of art, giving relatively less and sometimes almost no weight to the intentions of the artist.
Discussion continued on the Hannah And Her Sisters board.
---
See my WA collection http://www.imdb.com/mymovies/list?l=27745071
[deleted]
[deleted]