Play It Again, Sam

Play it again, Sam is an American film comedy from 1972, directed by Herbert Ross, starring Woody Allen who also has written the script . The original title was ' Aspirins for Three.



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == Allan Felix, a film critic with a warm place in his heart for movies with Humphrey Bogart in the lead role, is in divorce with his wife. He is unhappy, need support in his friends Dick and Linda. They try all again to link and arrange a date for him. All, however, is so shy that he braked and search for help with his help and stay, the spirit of Humphrey Bogart, that is visible only to the blighted film critic. Bogart gives Allan all kinds of opinions out there only result in the date in haywire. Linda, however, not to link and try all kinds of girls to all. It is a distraction for her because, Dick, her husband, hardly has time for her. Allan and Linda realize that eventually they in love with each other. After the initial euphoria Allan realizes that he never wants to stand between Linda and Dick. In the spirit of the movie Casablanca with Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, Allan sacrifices his love and let Linda return to Dick. ==Division Of Roles[ Edit] == ==Background[ Edit] == Although Woody Allen has swapped his beloved New York for San Francisco, this remains a typical Woody Allen comedy. The character Allan crosses the Dragon with the world of intelligentsia and the business world in the United States. His friend Dick is constantly working with all sorts of business deals and feels so important that he comes the phone number wherever he passes to his Secretary (this was in the era of the mobile phone). Allan himself seeks his girlfriends in circles of the artists ' world and museums. During one of those trips, he meets a girl that for a painting by Jackson Pollock and then develops the following dialog:
 * 2 Cast
 * Background 3
 * 4 Title
 * Woody Allen – Allan Felix
 * Diane Keaton -Linda
 * Tony Roberts – Dick
 * Jerry Lacey – spirit of Humphrey Bogart

The film is also filled with all kinds of references to other films. For example, some scenes are directly taken from Casablanca, especially the scenes in which Allan against Dick says that nothing happened between him and Linda and Allan with the spirit of Humphrey Bogart in the fog disappears. Also, there are references to all kinds of movie genres. For example, Allan ponders what could happen as Dick finds out his wife is cheating on you. So Allan sees itself face an Italian movie where the pizza maker Dick him with a bread knife tail, or he sees Dick in a romantic drama walk into the sea to commit suicide. ==Title<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.399999618530273px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Also the title is a reference to Casablanca. In this film leans Ingrid Bergman on the piano and ask the pianist to play a song from the past, the song ' As times goes by '. Literally she says: "Play it once, Sam, for old times ' sake." And a little later, "Play it, Sam". Later the idea arose that Bergman had said, "Play it again, Sam". That quote stuck and Woody Allen used the expres as cliché.
 * Allan: that's quite a lovely Jackson Pollock, isn't it?
 * Girl: Yes, it is.
 * Allan: What does it say to you?
 * Girl: It restates the negativeness of the universe. The hideous lonely emptiness of existence. Nothingness. The predicament of man forced to live in a barren, godless eternity like a tiny flame flickering in an immense void with nothing but waste, horror, and degradation, forming a useless, bleak straitjacket in a black, absurd cosmos.
 * Allan: What are you doing Saturday night?
 * Girl: Committing suicide.
 * Allan: What about Friday night?