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21 Q1 2017 / CINEMONTAGE A P R O D U C T I O N T O O L F O R F E A T U R E S T E L E V I S I O N C O M M E R C I A L S A N D M O R E @ U N I V E R S A L S T U D I O S L O T U N I V E R S A L S T U D I O S L O T. C O M D I S C O V E R T H E N E W (in which Alvy invokes Groucho Marx to describe his problems with women). Allen heeded the advice and recorded the narration heard in the film today; after the two have split up, Alvy recounts going to lunch with Annie and then tells the immortal joke about the fellow whose brother thinks he's a chicken but he won't turn him in because "I need the eggs." The voiceover is briefly paused for a succession of shots from the film — Alvy and Annie browsing in a bookstore, sitting on a park bench, etc. — over which Annie's rendition of the song "Seems Like Old Times" plays. "Woody hit that tone of being rueful and bittersweet and then Ralph created the callback of Annie singing and all the flashbacks," Bricmont notes. "It's been done so many times since then, and it was probably done a million times before that, but it took a long time to get there. And, for something that's recognized as a romantic comedy, [spoiler alert] it's not a very happy ending. They don't end up together." In a sense, the conclusion parallels Bricmont's own association with Allen. After working on Annie Hall, and receiving a 1978 BAFTA Award for Best Editing with Rosenblum, the New York-based editor moved to Los Angeles. Although she went on to edit successful and acclaimed films in Hollywood for such directors as Ivan Reitman and Howard Zieff, Bricmont did not work again with Allen. "I remember talking to him on the phone and he said, 'You don't want to move there. It's terrible. It's buggy,'" Bricmont recalls. "But I did move and I'm not unhappy that I did — although I probably would have had an opportunity to do more movies with him if I had stayed in New York." Even so, Bricmont has carried with her the lessons she learned while making — and remaking — Annie Hall, one of which is that a movie can begin as one idea, but often evolves into something wholly other. "You have in your mind that you're making this horse," she says. "Then you put it all together and look at it and it's a different animal. On every movie I've ever worked on, it's a case where you go, 'Oh my gosh, this is a giraffe!' And you proceed to figure out how to make it the best giraffe possible." f "Woody is a Resistance fighter and he's being interviewed by the Nazis," Bricmont says of a deleted scene in Annie Hall.