Ah, that's the name of the musical, couldn't remember it. Yes, also one of my favorites - adored Edward Norton in it - an actor I haven't seen much of in recent years but followed from movie to movie for a while. Even some not so great ones.
I'm one of the few people I know who liked Deconstructing Harry - sections of it make me roar with laughter - but it may be a mood thing and I just identify. I don't anyone else who likes this movie.
What blew me away about that wedding ring wasn't which side it fell, I could see that coming, but the end result of it falling on the side it did - that result, I did not expect. And made me laugh. It was so real, and so against type, that it worked.
I almost wish I could see this movie and the old Montgomery Clift film "A Place in the Sun", back to back. Two period takes on same topic.
I think Allen's choice of "Opera" is to emphasize class. Jazz tends to be identified more with a middle or lower class, working class, while Opera is identified with "wealth" and "prestige". Also note that the musical they see is by Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber and operatic in style - so you hit both the class themes and the melodrama of lust and love played out, which Allen ever so subtlely pokes fun at.
This may be his most subtle comedy. He hints at things, when they happen, they happen quickly, no double takes, no hammers over the head. Was quite impressed.
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I'm one of the few people I know who liked Deconstructing Harry - sections of it make me roar with laughter - but it may be a mood thing and I just identify. I don't anyone else who likes this movie.
What blew me away about that wedding ring wasn't which side it fell, I could see that coming, but the end result of it falling on the side it did - that result, I did not expect. And made me laugh. It was so real, and so against type, that it worked.
I almost wish I could see this movie and the old Montgomery Clift film "A Place in the Sun", back to back. Two period takes on same topic.
I think Allen's choice of "Opera" is to emphasize class. Jazz tends to be identified more with a middle or lower class, working class, while Opera is identified with "wealth" and "prestige". Also note that the musical they see is by Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber and operatic in style - so you hit both the class themes and the melodrama of lust and love played out, which Allen ever so subtlely pokes fun at.
This may be his most subtle comedy. He hints at things, when they happen, they happen quickly, no double takes, no hammers over the head. Was quite impressed.