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| Never been a huge Woody fan | |
My opinion of Woody Allen changed very recently. I have always watched Woody Allen's movies and thought, "Why do people think these movies are smart? These movies aren't smart. They are people trying to sound smart and mostly just coming off as pretentious. Woody Allan is a knob.
But then one day I was listening to Fresh Air and I heard a Woody Allen interview that changed my mind. At one point he explained that people have a very wrong impression of him. They think that he's an intellectual and that he's like the characters in his movies, and really he likes to sit and watch baseball in a baseball cap and blue jeans and drink a beer. I was floored. It made my new way of thinking to be, "Why do people think these movies are smart? These movies aren't smart. They are people trying to sound smart and mostly just coming off as pretentious. Woody Allan is pretty cool and smart, though.