Woody+Allen

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 * Frequently casting himself
 * Playing a neurotic New Yorker
 * A lot of his movies feature one character who is a writer (Often Woody himself)
 * Setting his films in NYC
 * Opening narrations in the beginning of movies
 * Talking directly to the audience (breaking of the fourth wall)
 * Lots of references to famous writers and classics
 * As an actor having stuttering and awkward phrasing
 * His characters tend to be semi-famous, film/tv writer, director, producer, or comedian
 * His movies tend to have characters that are funny, but the over all theme of the movie isn't.
 * Often a jazz soundtrack
 * Cinematography is naturalistic
 * Camera typically looks at an object at the eye-level of the actors
 * Sometimes the camera doesn't move between two subjects when they are having a conversation, but rather stays on one subject, even if the other subject goes off camera

Lucia, Cynthia. "Status and Morality in Cassandra's Dream: An Interview with Woody Allen." //JSTOR//. N.p., 2008. Web. 27 Apr. 2013. Schwarz, Michael Victor. "On the Construction of Reality and Imagery in Jan Van Eyck and Woody Allen." //JSTOR//. N.p., 2004. Web. 27 Apr. 2013.

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