January 17, 2016

Fuck you too, Woody Allen!


The above image comes from a brief scene in Woody Allen's film Irrational Man (2015), where one of the principal characters gives a piano recital at a small college auditorium.
     Assuming Woody Allen had not become senile by the time he made this film, I can think of only one plausible explanation for what seems to be an embarrassing display of cultural illiteracy by one of America's distinguished filmmakers.  Allen simply liked this particular composition of the scene and decided that viewers who insist that the purpose of a raised piano lid is to project sound toward the audience can go fuck themselves.

3 comments:

Kolya said...

It's a joke!

laybl said...

America's "Father of the Year"-pick one--and comedic plagiarist--is guilty of much more than piano misplacement...

Lenny said...

Perhaps the music being played was so awful that the raised piano lid was there to PROTECT, rather than project to, the audience. Or Woody Allen thought so, at least.