The famous director of cinema American Woody Allen said on Tuesday that making movies no longer excites him as before due to the appearance of streaming platforms. streaming and that he will retire soon, probably to devote himself to writing.
This is how the reserved filmmaker spoke in a conversation with actor Alec Baldwin that he shared on Instagram and that covered many topics, although none were controversial, such as the accusations of sexual abuse by Allen’s daughter, Dylan Farrow, against her father.
The architect of successful films, such as Annie Halltold Baldwin that he is preparing a film that he will record in Paris in the fall, but stressed that it will be one of the last of his career, because at 86 he considers that “things are not the same as before” in the entertainment world.
“I’ll probably do at least one more movie, but a lot of the excitement is gone (…). When I started, films would hit theaters across the country and hundreds of people would go in large groups ”while they stayed at the box office for months, he explained.
Now, he said, the films stay in the theaters for two weeks, six with luck, and then they go directly to the platforms of streamingespecially after the time at home imposed by the coronavirus pandemic, which Allen described as “the end”.
“It’s not like when I entered the movie business, I don’t enjoy it as much or have fun,” he added, anticipating an upcoming withdrawal and “perhaps a turn to writing,” either with a novel or with essays like the ones he has recently published, called Zero Gravity.
In the same way as the cinema, the director lamented the present of theater and Broadway, and recalled a “variety” that in his opinion no longer exists because the famous downtown district of New York has become “a shopping center frightening”.
“Now all the works are musicals, revivals, shows in which there are stars …”, reeled Allen, who said he misses playwrights of the quality of Tennessee Williams or Arthur Miller and showed disgust with multimillion-dollar productions.
“The world I grew up in, the world of cinema and Broadway, is not the same anymore. It is less pleasurable for me, and it is combined with the experience that I like to be at home writing, enjoying my free time, ”she added.
