![]() In the process, numerous funny lines and bits of business were modified or replaced by better ones. While this draft, entitled Woody Allen Autumn Project, is an exceptionally well written screenplay, and contains almost all of the scenes and characters that will appear in the completed movie, it is clearly a work in progress, one that was significantly polished and refined before shooting began. Notably, the sequence with the extraterrestrials – arguably the most famous and oft-quoted scene of STARDUST MEMORIES – does not appear in this screenplay draft. Notwithstanding its essential seriousness, STARDUST MEMORIES is as witty as anything the screenwriter has ever conceived. ![]() A metafictional movie about a filmmaker (played by Allen), written and directed in the style of Federico Fellini’s 8 ½ (1963), STARDUST MEMORIES even acknowledges its place in Allen’s oeuvre in a fantasy sequence where a group of visiting extraterrestrials tells the director protagonist that they really enjoy his movies, “ particularly your early funny ones“. STARDUST MEMORIES, released in 1980, was the tenth feature film written and directed by actor/comedian Woody Allen (born Allan Stewart Konigsberg, Brooklyn, NY, 1935), and his fourth “serious” film, following the Oscar-winning ANNIE HALL (1977), INTERIORS (1978), and MANHATTAN (1979). An exceedingly scarce Woody Allen script. ![]() With holograph ink corrections on 5 pages, all deletions of lines or sets of dialogue. Woody Allen (screenwriter, director) Vintage original film script, quarto, leatherette stenciled covers, brad bound, 105 pp., VERY GOOD+. ![]()
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