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Hannah and Her Sisters


             In 1986, Hannah and Her Sisters debuted and Woody Allen won an Academy Award for his screenplay. He not only wrote the screenplay, he directed and starred in the film. Michael Caine who played Elliott, Hannah's husband and Diane Weist, who played Holly, Hannah's sister both won Oscars for their supporting performances in this film. (Dorr 3) For my essay, I chose to describe a portion of the film and focus on the elements of form, how they work and how the director chose to manipulate the elements in this way. In preparation for this paper, I rented the movie from the library, watched it, returned it and thought a great deal about it. I then rented it again and watched a second time as some of the dialogue did not jive and I was convinced I missed something. After the second viewing, I was still left with the unanswered mystery from my first viewing. Did the answer lie on the cutting room floor or did I miss it after viewing the movie twice. Is it important? Was this intentional or an editing error? I hope to find the answer to these questions when I relate the scene I chose to the beginning and ending of the film.
             The portion of the film I chose has five scenes and oddly enough, none of them include the actors that won an Academy Award for their performances. All the scenes occur in the section of the film that is labeled "The anxiety of the man in the booth." which focuses on Mickey, played by Woody Allen. The first scene starts in Mickey's bedroom during the night. The light goes on and you hear Mickey talking about his fears after finding out he has a spot on his topography x-ray and the doctor has scheduled a CAT scan. He is scared of what might happen if the spot is confirmed to be a brain tumor. Mickey gets out of bed and walks across the upper floor and goes down the stairs. In his contemplation of his current situation, he flashes back to a scene when he received medical bad news before.


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