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...A “demented lunatic” could be a Republican. Allen thinks this is a big laugh line. He’s right! The tiny audience that will see this movie will laugh. They know exactly what to expect from an Allen movie and they come to have their prejudices reinforced. Almost like they’re ….closed-minded reactionaries.
ALVY: Boy, those guys in the French Resistance were really brave….(Barry Rubin)Unfortunately, most of the Western elite today — including Woody Allen himself — has failed what might be called the Bloomingdale’s credit card test. They are good at fantasizing heroism but not very good at doing much in real life. Their specialty is posturing against non-existent or ludicrous threats against which everyone they know is also arrayed. I can’t prove it but I sort of think they would not only have rejected joining the French Resistance, they would have been on the other side in order to keep their jobs and prestige. (How I Learned About Courage From an Arab Marxist and About Cowardice From Western Phony “Liberals”)
ANNIE: I don't know, sometimes I ask myself how I'd stand up under torture.
ALVY: You? You kiddin'? If the Gestapo would take away your Bloomingdale's charge card, you'd tell 'em everything.”
--Woody Allen, “Annie Hall”