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This 6-page report discusses Woody Allen's 1985 movie starring Mia Farrow and Jeff Daniels. In “The Purple Rose of Cairo,” Allen presents the issues that revolve around escapism and the need to escape a world that one finds as far too mundane and the challenges of defining what is real and what is an illusion. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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Woody Allen, it has often appeared that Allen has had an on-again-off-again in terms of his attitudes about women and interpersonal relationships. In terms of his personal life, it
has become remarkably difficult to separate the artist who has created some of the 20th centurys funniest and most interesting movies with the man who married a woman who had
been raised as his daughter. In the illusory world of the movies and the "real" world, it seems clear that Woody Allen "has issues" with and about women. In one
movie he may adore the quirky neurosis of Diane Keaton in the title role of "Annie Hall" (1977), in the next, he may seem to be celebrating his own neurosis
through having an affair with a 17-year old who loves him as he did in "Manhattan" (1979). Regardless of the setting, even the surrealistic realm of "Zelig" (1983), "The Purple
Rose of Cairo" (1985), or "Bullets Over Broadway" (1994), Woody Allen is fascinated by women who are just bit "off." In
"The Purple Rose of Cairo" Allen presents the issues that revolve around escapism and the need to escape a world that one finds as far too mundane and the challenges
of defining what is real and what is an illusion. For example, the character of Tom Baxter (Jeff Daniels) knows that he will have to defend Cecilia (Mia Farrow) because,
as he tells her: "Im sorry. Its written into my character to do it, so I do it." The movie revolves around perceptions, dreams, imagination, and reality and the places
and ways that they all inter-relate with each other. It is worth pointing out that Woody Allen has claimed, on a number of occasions, that this is his favorite of
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