Everyone Says I Love You: Difference between revisions

''Everyone Says I Love You'' is a 1996 musical comedy written and directed by [[Woody Allen]] and starring a large [[Ensemble Cast]].

 

Like a lot of Woody Allen movies, the film is set in [[Big Applesauce|New York]] and features [[Loads and Loads of Characters]]. This particular film distinguishes itself by having the characters randomly break into song. The musical numbers, and the entire tone of the film are a [[Shout-Out]] to the musicals of the 1920s and 1930s.

 

* [[All Girls Want Bad Boys]]: Schuyler dumps Holden to hook up with Charles.

* [[Arc Words]]: The song "I'm Thru With Love" is repeated by every character, leading up to the climactic dance between Steffie and Joe by the Seine. Ends up being a [[Brick Joke]] when DJ's umpteenth love interest ''gangsta raps it on stage''.

* [[Be Careful What You Wish For]]: Von breaks up with Joe because he's ''too'' perfect for her, not knowing that Joe was privvy to all of her deepest secrets and desires.

* [[Breaking the Fourth Wall]]: As [[The Narrator]], DJ does this often.

* [[The Cast Showoff]]: Averted mostly, as the only members of the main cast with musical experience were Alan Alda and Goldie Hawn. [[Woody Allen]] had to instruct Hawn and [[Edward Norton]] to sound worse when they sang, not wanting the main cast to sound like professional singers.

** Applies to the dancing in the film too- while the dancers in the 'My Baby Just Cares for Me' scene dance like professionals, [[Edward Norton]]'s dancing is deliberately clumsy and awkward in comparison.

* [[The Glorious War of Sisterly Rivalry]]: Lane and Laura compete for the attentions of the same boy.

* [[Happily Divorced]]: Joe and Steffie, though they're still in love.

* [[Ironic Echo]]: Holden's melancholy rendition of 'I'm Thru With Love' after Schuyler leaves him being swiftly followed by a rapper performing at a concert DJ's attending.

* [[Jerkass]]: After hooking up with Schuyler, Charles proceeds to dump her in a forest in upstate New York in the midst of a planned robbery heist. Understandably, Schuyler [[First Girl Wins|goes back to Holden and says 'yes' when he proposes to her again]].

* [[The Matchmaker]]: DJ goes to great lengths to fix her father up with Von, giving him advice (courtesy of listening in on Von's therapy sessions) and encouragement.

* [[May-December Romance]]: Joe and Von.

* [[Runaway Fiance]]: Subverted- Schuyler leaves Holden for [[All Girls Want Bad Boys|Charles Ferry]] but then has a change of heart and decides to return to Holden.

* [[Scenery Porn]]: The film was shot in [[New York City]], [[Paris]], and [[Venice]].

** DJ's perfect man? [[Brick Joke|Harpo]].

* [[Show Within a Show]]: Implied by DJ at the end that the entire movie is a musical. She states she was told that if it were made into a movie, no one would believe the incredible coincidences unless it was a musical.

* [[Spontaneous Choreography]]: Everywhere in this film!

** Steffie's "limousine liberalism" is also very much a political stereotype. Lampshaded when she says to Schuyler that Charles Ferry is fine to treat as just a "social project" but not as an ''actual human being''.

* [[Those Wacky Nazis]]: Frieda, Grandpa's nurse, is ''heavily'' implied to have worked under [[Adolf Hitler]].

* [[Title Drop]]: "Everyone Says I Love You" is the final song of the film.

* [[Wacky Marriage Proposal]]: Both times Holden proposes to Schuyler, and both manage to [[Go Horribly Wrong]].

** For the first proposal, Holden hides the ring in Schuyler's dessert, and she ends up swallowing it.

** The second involves him hiding it in a box of candy with virtually the same results.

 

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[[Category:Films of the 1990s]]