Take the Money and Run (1969)
Directed by Woody Allen
Virgil Starkwell is intent on becoming a notorious bank robber. Unfortunately for Virgil and his not-so-budding career, he is completely incompetent.
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It's all very cute and innocuous, reminding one of Woody Allen's first movie, "Take the Money and Run," but not as funny.
The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared (2013)
Directed by Felix Herngren
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Echoes of the hilarious ineptitude of Woody Allen 's "Take the Money and Run" and the historic kookiness of "Forrest Gump" turn up throughout "The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared," starring Sweden's beloved comic actor Robert Gustafsson.
The holdup couldn’t go worse if they were Woody Allen in Take the Money and Run (“I have a gub.”)
It doesn't bode well that the exchange of written notes begins to look like the famous scene in Woody Allen's Take the Money and Run - "I have a gub, what's a gub?" Almost miraculously they get out with some money but things unravel.
Allen, remember, used this in "Zelig" and "Take the Money and Run."
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With its low-key and note-perfect performances, with the filmmaker's keen eye and ear for the zany and apt detail, and with Anderson's surprisingly sophisticated visual and narrative style (think of Antonioni crossed with Woody Allen of the Take the Money and Run period), Bottle Rocket is a blast.
On paper, Paul D. Zimmerman's screenplay reads like Woody Allen in his "Take the Money and Run" period.
Other movies with a similar style predate this one; Woody Allen’s Take the Money and Run, and the Mel Brooks genre spoofs like Young Frankenstein and Blazing Saddles come to mind.
He was in his 30s when he made Take the Money and Run, which was followed by a series of singularly literate knockabout comedies.
I prefer his really early stuff (like Take the Money and Run) or his more recent stuff (like Curse of the Jade Scorpion and Match Point), where he was working outside of the box.
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For all of Mr. Allen's growth as a writer, director and actor, "Annie Hall" is not terribly far removed from "Take the Money and Run," his first work as a triple-threat man, which is not to put down the new movie but to upgrade the earlier one.
Brickman was the one who, along with editor Ralph Rosenblum (who had worked with Woody since his first film Take the Money and Run in 1969) spoke up about the original cut of Annie Hall being incomprehensible and in desperate need of reworking.
Its tale of the eagerly criminal career of Virgil Starkwell is as unpredictably structured as Annie Hall, if not yet anything like as sustained in tone and mood.