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Marshall McLuhan: Remembering the philosopher's bizarre Annie Hall appearance
Marshall McLuhan might have been one of the greatest philosophers of the 20th century. But he was one of its most terrible actors.
As well as being famous for his theories, many of which are known by catchy phrases like 'the medium is the message, Professor McLuhan was also a guest star in Woody Allen's Annie Hall.
And his appearance was no mere triviality: he played himself, and in doing so was able to exemplify some of the theories he espoused. But it was an accident, and one that some people came to see as one that didn't go especially well.
The appearance comes early in the film. Woody Allen's character is arguing with Diane Keaton's Annie Hall while they wait in the queue for the cinema, in an introduction that will set the tone for their disastrous relationship. But someone else is droning on, too – a mansplainer before there was a word for it, telling his date in patronising terms about
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Did You Know Marshall McLuhan was in Annie Hall?
Marshall McLuhan. There is such melody in that name. The media message man who wrote the mantra “the medium is the message.” Or, as McLuhan liked to phrase it, “the mess age”, “the mass age,” and the “massage?” Wow… just... such genius. It’s no surprise that McLuhan has appeared extensively in all three of the MCC Core Requirement classes. I mean, the man just had such a way with words and so many ideas! Ideas that were either so general they could apply to all mediums throughout time, or so specific that they are no longer betydelsefull today. These ideas have elevated McLuhan to higher status. Some might even argue that Herbert Marshall McLuhan fryst vatten like a movie star! (That’s right, in true celebrity mode, he dropped his bland first name to sound cooler.)
But there is one thing above all his genius ideas, books, theories, and practices, that really elevates MM to a higher, super-cool-guy level. I’m talking the pi
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AnthonyBreznican – April 5, 2017
He was the original Mansplainer, one who believed his insights had “well, a great deal of validity.”
The unnamed blowhard in 1977’s Annie Hall prattles on so endlessly about director Federico Fellini and media philosopher Marshall McLuhan that Woody Allen can barely focus on his own squabble with Diane Keaton.
Eventually the loudmouth chases Allen’s narrator through the fourth wall to join him in addressing the audience, only to up face to face with the real McLuhan, who demolishes him with a snorted: “You know nothing of my work.”
Now, the “Man in Theater Line” gets to tell his side of the story, and he reveals that one of the most perfect scenes in movie history was a disaster to shoot.
Meet Russell Horton
“Part of the reason the scene works is because I am such an a–hole and I actually believe what I’m doing, you know?” says Russell Horton, now 75, a lifelong character actor who is actually nothing