Månedens klassiker - Mig og Annie (1977)

Woody Allen er en af vor tids mest produktive instruktører med en ny filmpremiere hvert år, og i denne måned er der premiere på hans You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger.

Allens kunstneriske højdepunkt var dog allerede at finde i 1977, hvor Mig og Annie modtog en Oscar for bedste film, bl.a. foran den først Star Wars-film. Han har selv skrevet manuskriptet til denne nyklassiker.

Stand-up-komikeren Alvy Singer (Woody Allen) er på date med Annie Hall (Diane Keaton), og de venter i kø for at købe billet til en biograffilm. Efter samtaler om deres sexliv og terapiforløb hos hver deres psykolog, bliver manden, der står bag dem i køen, og hans højlydte meninger om Federico Fellini og medieteoretikeren Marshall McLuhan for meget for Alvy.

Mand i biografkø: You know what it is? It’s the influence of television. Marshall McLuhan deals with it in terms of it being a high intensity, you understand? As a hot medium opposed to a…

Alvy Singer: What I wouldn't give for a large sock with horse manure in it!

Mand i biografkø: … as opposed to a print…

Alvy Singer: [direkte henvendt til publikum] What do you do when you get stuck in a movie line with a guy like this behind you?

Mand i biografkø: Wait a minute, why can't I give my opinion? It’s a free country!

Alvy Singer: He can give it... do you have to give it so loud? I mean, aren’t you ashamed to pontificate like that? And the funny part of it is, Marshall McLuhan, you don’t know anything about Marshall McLuhan!

Mand i biografkø: Oh, really? Well, it just so happens I teach a class at Columbia called “TV, Media and Culture.” So I think my insights into Mr. McLuhan, well, have a great deal of validity!

Alvy Singer: Oh, do ya? Well, that’s funny, because I happen to have Mr. McLuhan right here, so, so, yeah, just let me...

[trækker den rigtige McLuhan frem fra en nærtstående plakat]

Alvy Singer: Come over here for a second... tell him!

Marshall McLuhan: I heard what you were saying! You know nothing of my work! You mean my whole fallacy is wrong. How you got to teach a course in anything is totally amazing!

Alvy Singer: Boy, if life were only like this!