Let's talk about classical music

Rating: 2/10 (1 March 2007)

This movie is truly a disappointment to watch. I find the acting by Meyers and Johansson are dreadful, one with a plain face throughout the film and another seems to be a little girl slip into mom's dress and pretend to be sexy.
But let's talk a little bit about the classical music Woody Allen used in this film, and how wrong they are:
1, There are two scenes in the Royal Covent Garden opera house, with what I believe "La Traviata" and "La Boheme" on the stage performing, and Woody Allen actually used Piano Accompanied opera singing in the sound track. This mistake is laughable! Anybody who has being to an opera house would know there be a full orchestra in the pit playing.
2, Piano playing opera score music is also used in the big party scene in Hewitt family country house. I think this is an obvious mistake too because the plot implies that the Hewitt family is playing their proud old opera collections, not that they hired a pianist to play the opera score in the party.
3, There were great opportunities for Woody Allen to choose opera music that can related to the story line, and represent Meyers's character, or even Johansson's gold digger character. But instead, Woody Allen just used whatever he could find old sounding LPs, and patch them here and there randomly in the film. Every time the movie uses Donizetti's "Una furtiva lagrima" from opera L'Elisir d'Amore, (for example during the title credit,) it starts with this aria's Second verse. One just have to wonder whether there is Anybody knows about classical music at all in Woody Allen's crew.