Midnight in Paris
Why I chose Midnight In Paris:
Midnight In Paris is a film set in Paris. The main character, Gil, secretly begins to travel back in time to Paris in the 1920s, where he meets famous members of the Lost Generation and great creative minds of the time. Many of the characters that Gil encounters are the same characters that Hemingway talks about in A Moveable Feast, such as Hemingway, Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, and James Joyce. The time Gil travels to is exactly the same time that Hemingway wrote about in A Moveable Feast. In both the film and the book, the main character, Gil and Hemingway, are both men who are writers and fall in love with Paris and its romantic charm. By comparing the book and the film I can see how Hemingway's point of view of Paris is compared to Woody Allen's characters.
Midnight In Paris is a film set in Paris. The main character, Gil, secretly begins to travel back in time to Paris in the 1920s, where he meets famous members of the Lost Generation and great creative minds of the time. Many of the characters that Gil encounters are the same characters that Hemingway talks about in A Moveable Feast, such as Hemingway, Zelda and Scott Fitzgerald, Gertrude Stein, and James Joyce. The time Gil travels to is exactly the same time that Hemingway wrote about in A Moveable Feast. In both the film and the book, the main character, Gil and Hemingway, are both men who are writers and fall in love with Paris and its romantic charm. By comparing the book and the film I can see how Hemingway's point of view of Paris is compared to Woody Allen's characters.
Film Techniques Used in Midnight in Paris:
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Memorable Quotes:
- Inez: You're in love with a fantasy.
- Paul: Nostalgia is denial - denial of the painful present... the name for this denial is golden age thinking - the erroneous notion that a different time period is better than the one one's living in - it's a flaw in the romantic imagination of those people who find it difficult to cope with the present.
- Gertrude Stein: We all fear death and question our place in the universe. The artist's job is not to succumb to despair, but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence.
- Ernest Hemingway: No subject is terrible if the story is true, if the prose is clean and honest, and if it affirms courage and grace under pressure.
- Gil: You know, I sometimes think, how is anyone ever gonna come up with a book, or a painting, or a symphony, or a sculpture that can compete with a great city. You can't. Because you look around and every street, every boulevard, is its own special art form and when you think that in the cold, violent, meaningless universe that Paris exists, these lights, I mean come on, there's nothing happening on Jupiter or Neptune, but from way out in space you can see these lights, the cafés, people drinking and singing. For all we know, Paris is the hottest spot in the universe.
- Adriana: That Paris exists and anyone could choose to live anywhere else in the world will always be a mystery to me.
- Gil: I don't get here often enough, that's the problem. Can you picture how drop dead gorgeous this city is in the rain? Imagine this town in the '20s. Paris in the '20s, in the rain. The artists and writers!