Manhattan

Top 10 Fun Facts

1. Woody Allen despised his film Manhattan so much once it was finished, that he offered to direct another film for free for United Artists if they would just agree to never release the film. The studio must have liked the film much better than Allen, or maybe they didn't want to work with the director again, because they did release it.
2. Manhattan director Woody Allen decided to shoot his film in black and white because that's how he remembers it from his childhood. Allen is not colorblind but may have memory issues.
3. Even though Manhattan is Woody Allen's least favorite of his movies, it was the most commercially successful film of his career. Proof that an artist is not always the best judge of his own work.
4. The cameras you can see reflected in the cars passing Woody Allen's character during the running scene in the film Manhattan do not belong to Paparazzi, they belong to the camera crew.
5. Woody Allen seems to be conflicted about the brain. He calls it the most overrated body part in Manhattan, but he says that it's his second favorite body part in Sleeper. Maybe he should use it and think through his issues.
6. According to director Woody Allen, the idea for Manhattan originated from his love of composer George Gershwin's romantic overtures. If Allen had been drawn to Gershwin's more popular tunes, like I've Got Rhythm, audiences could have been treated to Allen dancing down the street.
7. Director Woody Allen has said that Manhattan is a mixture of what he was trying to do with films Annie Hall and Interiors. It must have been a bad combination, because Allen said he hated the final result.
8. In order to the get the iconic bridge shot the city agreed to leave the lights lit on the 59th Street Bridge. Things don't always go as planned and the lights went out and Woody Allen was stuck with that take. From the looks of it - it turned out ok.
9. Manhattan was the first video cassette to show a film in letterbox format. It only made an already diminutive Allen smaller on the tiny televisions of the time.
10. A Manhattan drink is a mixture of Vermouth and Whiskey. A Manhattan movie is a mixture of Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Mariel Hemingway, Michael Murphy and Meryl Streep. Both could be considered intoxicating.

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