加上经典WA式的台词:"I sold out! I am a prostitute! I am a whore!" / “The world will open to you like a great oyster. Oh, no! The world will open to you like a magnificent vagina!”,加上结尾时个人最喜欢的那段(个人认为这才是整部电影的高潮),戏剧化的精彩对话,充满着对所谓artist的讽刺、荒诞和黑色幽默,让人瞠目结舌,捧腹大笑。
镜头在两侧楼上和楼下的David之间晃来晃去(注意不是直接剪辑)。
David:“Did you love me as the artist, or as a man?”/
David: You are confusing sex and love.
Allen: No, for me love is very deep. Sex only have to go a few inches. /
Rita: Oh, now, really?Flender, what does quantity got to do with it?
Flender: Quantity, quantity affects quality!
David: Says who!
Flender: Karl Marx!
Rita: Oh, so now we’re talking economics.
Flender: Sex is economics!
Flender: Karl Marx!
剧情方面,David个人看来其实有很深的,WA的影子——犹太剧作家,鼻梁上架着眼镜,理想主义,神经质,一身酸腐气。他在影片中,为了自己的剧本得到投资从而可以搬上荧幕,只能忍痛让Olive饰演医生,但却又痛苦于这些妥协正在毁掉他纯粹的艺术,在深夜大喊出那句经典台词:“I sold out! I am a prostitute! I am a whore!”,但后来出现的的Cheech,在某种程度上比David其实更加artist——天才般的天赋,敏锐的直觉,为了自己作品的完美不惜将破坏因素杀掉,被枪杀后死前的最后一句话竟然还是对于戏剧结尾改动的嘱托。
这种充满戏剧感的对比令人啼笑皆非,但背后其实是一系列的辛辣讽刺。
除此之外,艺术家们的爱与性也是影片中讨论的话题之一,比如David与过气女星Helen“Artist TO Artist”式的互相吸引,充满梦幻、短暂的激情与实质上的空乏;比如David在和Allen出现感情矛盾时去找好朋友Flender倾诉,Flender讲道理时里面有这样一句话:“An artist creates his own moral universe.”,若把这句话话和后来Allen和Flender搞到一起的情况做出对比,前后呼应,让人拍案大叫“真特么是日了狗了。”