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Students Deconstruct Woody Allen

He recommended that future filmmakers not get discouraged if it takes time to build their careers.

"You have to give it a fair shot. Give it a number of years," he added.

Tickets to the event were given out by DreamWorks free of charge to students and film critics. Though the company distributed hundreds of passes, students said they were still hard to come by. Others with passes were turned away at the door due to overcrowding.

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One Pforzheimer senior confessed to pretending he was both a Crimson editor and a VES concentrator in order to snag two tickets.

By the end of the evening, he knew his covert efforts had paid off.

"He was even more impressive than I expected," he said.

Allen's new film has already shown at the University of California at Los Angeles, University of Chicago and New York University. Other stars of the film are doing publicity stints on the late-night circuit, but Allen told The Crimson last week that he thought college students would be more fun than television hosts.

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