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* PowderGag: The coke-sniffing scene. One sneeze from Alvy and tens of thousands of dollars' worth of cocaine are scattered all over the room.

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* PowderGag: The coke-sniffing scene. One sneeze from Alvy is sniffing coke. One SneezeOfDoom later and tens of thousands of dollars' dollars worth of cocaine are scattered all over the room.
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''Annie Hall'' is a 1977 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Creator/WoodyAllen, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Marshall Brickman. The cast includes Allen, Creator/DianeKeaton, Tony Roberts, Creator/CarolKane, Music/PaulSimon, Creator/JanetMargolin, Creator/ShelleyDuvall, Creator/ChristopherWalken, and Colleen Dewhurst.

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''Annie Hall'' is a 1977 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Creator/WoodyAllen, who also co-wrote the screenplay with Marshall Brickman. The cast includes Allen, Creator/DianeKeaton, Tony Roberts, Creator/TonyRoberts, Creator/CarolKane, Music/PaulSimon, Creator/JanetMargolin, Creator/ShelleyDuvall, Creator/ChristopherWalken, and Colleen Dewhurst.
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A young Creator/JeffGoldblum can be seen for a few seconds as a vapid LA type, telling someone on the phone that "I forgot my mantra." Creator/SigourneyWeaver made her film debut, in a non-speaking bit part as Alvy's date.

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A The film also contains several instances of RetroactiveRecognition: a young Creator/JeffGoldblum can be seen for a few seconds as a vapid LA type, telling someone on the phone that "I forgot my mantra." mantra," and Creator/SigourneyWeaver made her film debut, debut here in a non-speaking bit part as Alvy's date.
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* ADateWithRosiePalms: "Don't knock masturbation, it's sex with someone I love!"
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* MediumBlending: Alvy and the Evil Queen from ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs''.

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* MediumBlending: MediumShiftGag: Alvy and the Evil Queen from ''WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs''.
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-->-- The first words of '''Alvy Singer'''[='=]s opening monologue

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-->-- The first words start of '''Alvy Singer'''[='=]s opening monologue
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* LeaveTheCameraRunning: The rare positive example. One scene has the camera, sitting motionless, as Alvy has one of his typical animated conversations with his friend Rob. The scene and the conversation continues as the film keeps running without a cut, and eventually it becomes clear that Alvy and Rob are walking up the sidewalk and approaching the camera. Eventually they make it to the foreground, and the movie finally cuts. As [[http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-annie-hall-1977 noted]] by Creator/RogerEbert:

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* LeaveTheCameraRunning: The rare positive example. One scene has the camera, sitting motionless, as Alvy has one of his typical animated conversations with his friend Rob. The scene and the conversation continues as the film keeps running without a cut, and eventually it becomes clear that Alvy and Rob are walking up the sidewalk and approaching the camera. Eventually they make it to the foreground, and the movie finally cuts. The movie theater scene where Alvy is irritated by the man droning on endlessly behind him was also done in a single unbroken take. As [[http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-annie-hall-1977 noted]] by Creator/RogerEbert:

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* CallBack: One scene shows Alvy and Annie spill some lobsters on the floor; they laugh and joke. Later, near the end, Alvy's dating another woman and spills some lobsters on the floor (in the same place), and she rolls her eyes at him and finds him totally unfunny. It underlines just how well-suited Annie was to him, if not he to her.



* CelebrityParadox: Alvy is being pestered by a couple of Italian guys who have seen him on TV; he tells Annie that he's been talking to "the cast of ''Film/TheGodfather''. Diane Keaton, of course, starred in both ''Godfather'' films.



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%%* SilentCredits* SilentCredits: Both the opening and the closing credits play completely silent.
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A young Creator/JeffGoldblum can be seen for a few seconds as a vapid LA type, telling someone on the phone that "I forgot my mantra."

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A young Creator/JeffGoldblum can be seen for a few seconds as a vapid LA type, telling someone on the phone that "I forgot my mantra."
" Creator/SigourneyWeaver made her film debut, in a non-speaking bit part as Alvy's date.
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A young Creator/JeffGoldblum can be seen for a few seconds as a vapid LA type, telling someone on the phone that "I forgot my mantra."
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* FishOutOfWater: Alvy feels this very acutely when he visits Annie's extremely [=WASPy=] family and they all have dinner.
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* UnreliableNarrator: Alvy, by his own admission, has "some trouble between fantasy and reality".

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* UnreliableNarrator: Alvy, by his own admission, has "some trouble between fantasy and reality". In one scene, he approaches a random couple and asks them how they make their relationship work, and they both tell him that they are shallow and uninteresting and they have nothing to say so they're a good match.
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* WordOfGod: Invoked in-story with Marshall [=McLuhan=].

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* WordOfGod: Invoked in-story with Marshall [=McLuhan=]. Some gasbag in line for the movies behind Alvy and Annie is droning on about film and television, and after he gets to the ideas of Marshall [=McLuhan=] Alvy, his patience exhausted, tells the gasbag that he's got it all wrong. The gasbag then counters that he actually teaches a class about [=McLuhan=]. Alvy shoots back "Well, I happen to have Marshall [=McLuhan=] right here," and he actually pulls Marshall [=McLuhan=] from behind an advertising exhibit into the frame. [=McLuhan=] says that Alvy's right and he wonders how the gasbag could be teaching anything.

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%%* AnachronicOrder* AnachronicOrder: The first scene has Alvy talking to the camera about how he and Annie have broken up. The rest of the movie has chopped-up scenes from various stages in their relationship--the film is a third of the way through before we see their first meeting--mixed in with other flashbacks, mostly of Alvy's childhood and past but also a scene from Annie's past where she was dating an actor.



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* LeaveTheCameraRunning: The rare positive example. As [[http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-annie-hall-1977 noted]] by Creator/RogerEbert:

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* LeaveTheCameraRunning: The rare positive example. One scene has the camera, sitting motionless, as Alvy has one of his typical animated conversations with his friend Rob. The scene and the conversation continues as the film keeps running without a cut, and eventually it becomes clear that Alvy and Rob are walking up the sidewalk and approaching the camera. Eventually they make it to the foreground, and the movie finally cuts. As [[http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-annie-hall-1977 noted]] by Creator/RogerEbert:



* RacistGrandma: Grammy Hall.

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* RacistGrandma: Grammy Hall. Alvy calls her a "Jew-hater" and she has a brief ImagineSpot of him in Hasidic garb with the usual long beard.



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-->Bordwell tells me ''Annie Hall'' has an ASL[[note]]average scene length[[/note]] of 14.5 seconds (he says other 1977 films he clocked had an ASL of from 4 to 7 seconds). By comparison, the recent film ''Film/{{Armageddon}}'' has an ASL of 2.3 seconds, a velocity that arguably makes intelligent dialogue impossible.

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-->Bordwell tells me ''Annie Hall'' has an ASL[[note]]average scene length[[/note]] of 14.5 seconds (he says other 1977 films he clocked had an ASL of from 4 to 7 seconds). By comparison, the recent film ''Film/{{Armageddon}}'' ''Film/Armageddon1998'' has an ASL of 2.3 seconds, a velocity that arguably makes intelligent dialogue impossible.

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