7. Woody Allen Never Stops Talking About Death And Sex
Death and sex are two things you can count on to be present in film made by Woody Allen, or at least people having conversations about them. The most famous example is probably from Annie Hall, in which Allen's character Alvy Singer buys The Denial Of Death for Diane Keaton's Hall and tells her that he thinks it's a "very important" subject, which really isn't the half of it. He also made Love & Death, which proves the argument rather succinctly without you even needing to watch the film, and Allen's preoccupation with the slim mortal coil can be seen from his earliest stand-up and prose comedy right up to his most recent films Blue Jasmine and Midnight In Paris - most of the characters from the latter of which are, themselves, actually dead. There's also more often than not Mr. Allen himself in the film, a bundled-up mess of neuroses that still manages to have a more active sex life than that of your average charming, handsome writer, and if the prolific filmmaker doesn't make an appearance himself you can bet he's got a similarly nebbish surrogate to play the part for him, like Owen Wilson's nostalgic writer in Midnight In Paris or Jesse Eisenberg's pretentious would-be adulterer in To Rome With Love.