Woody Allen's 83

 
Woody Allen's 83. Just seven more years and we could have an American movie director in his 90's. That's all I'm asking for. Think of the inspiration he would be to old people everywhere.

He hasn't been popular in decades. And yet Dylan Farrow is very proud of herself for "bringing him down". He has a net worth of $80 million. She didn't bring him down that far.

She brought some harm to her mother. Mia Farrow has been exposed as a child abuser, there was talk of her being stripped of her UNICEF "ambassadorship", and we know now that she had three-way sex with Woody Allen and a teen model he was dating. People keep bringing up Mia's brother who's in prison for child molesting. She's completely alienated from a number of "her" children and two of them committed suicide.

We have the racist spectacle of Dylan and Ronan Farrow, Mia Farrow's favorite white children, slamming their Asian siblings for talking about the abuse they suffered at the hands of their sick narcissist of a mother. Dylan and Ronan have no idea how Mia Farrow treated Moses and Soon-yi as children--when Ronan was four, Moses was starting high school and Soon-yi was in college. Ronan was three or four when Mia Farrow coaxed Dylan into making her false accusation again Allen----he doesn't know anything except what his mother drilled into him.

I know I'm repeating myself.

The trouble is that Allen is in it for the money. He gets paid his directing fee and his writing fee whether the movies make a profit or not.

He's been steadily downgrading over the years. At one point he started using a cheaper crew. His old crew was working cheap anyway and they were naturally upset when he callously dumped them. They had complained that he cut their pay while he was still living it up with his rich friends on location. He quit doing all the re-shooting he used to do. His movies still cost what seems like a lot considering that they're just scenes of people talking.

He should look at Eric Rohmer. Rohmer kept cutting down on his crew, eliminating jobs. I hear his last movie was just him, a camera operator and a sound guy. 

And there was Manoel de Oliviera. He was 106 and was working on a movie when he died. They were filming it in a garden close to his home to make it easier on him. Woody Allen couldn't do that? Have two guys and some actors at that vacation mansion he bought with his Midnight in Paris money?