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Who shot the seagull? Anton Chekhov's influence on Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway

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From: Literature/Film Quarterly
Date: 19980101
Author:Stenberg, Doug

I wasn't equal to it. But maybe next time I will be, or maybe it will take me five more tries. But it's the goal that's important. With these kinds of films you're talking about the highest kind of achievement-like that of O'Neill, Chekhov, Bergman . . . Maybe now that I've moved into my fifties and I am more confident, I can come up with a couple that are true literature.

-Woody Allen (Lax 371-72)

Woody Allen, despite his lack of a formal education, has always seemed to be well-versed in Russian literature. There are, for example, numerous references to Tolstoy and Dostoevsky throughout ...

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