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Midnight in Paris 1. Woody Allen’s purpose of the film is to engage with the audiences ideas relating to belonging to a certain time period , and how that time shift can determine who you are in and out of that time. 2. The text is intended for any real keen movie goers who are interested in interesting concepts as well as great scenery of the beautiful city of Paris. 3. Gil Pender, a successful but creatively unfulfilled Hollywood screenwriter, and his fiancée, Inez, are in Paris, vacationing with Inez's wealthy, conservative parents.
One night, Gil gets drunk and becomes lost in the back streets of Paris. At midnight, a 1920s Peugeot Type 176 car draws up beside him, and the passengers, dressed in 1920s clothing, urge him to join them. They go to a party for Jean Cocteau where Gil comes to realize that he has been transported back to the 1920s, an era he idolizes. He encounters Alice B. Toklas, Cole Porter, Josephine Baker, Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald, who take him to meet Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway agrees to show Gil's novel to Gertrude Stein, and Gil goes to fetch his manuscript from his hotel. However, as soon as he leaves, he finds he has returned to 2010 and the bar has disappeared. He feels as if he belongs to the 1920s once he has visited and starts to realise how better suited he is to be in that time period. As he starts to notice and appreciate his sense of belonging to time and place, 1920s in Paris his dull life in present day 2012 becomes unfulfilling in his eyes. 4. The perspective of a 40 year old amidst a mid-life crisis is displayed in Woody Allen’s ‘Midnight in Paris’, and the themes of belonging to time and place are expressed throughout the film. The themes express to the audience that many people (in this case Gil) can feel confined in the time period or situation in life that they may be in. Gil needs to escape from his life, and is able to do this at midnight in Paris by entering into a perhaps imaginary world
One night, Gil gets drunk and becomes lost in the back streets of Paris. At midnight, a 1920s Peugeot Type 176 car draws up beside him, and the passengers, dressed in 1920s clothing, urge him to join them. They go to a party for Jean Cocteau where Gil comes to realize that he has been transported back to the 1920s, an era he idolizes. He encounters Alice B. Toklas, Cole Porter, Josephine Baker, Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald, who take him to meet Ernest Hemingway. Hemingway agrees to show Gil's novel to Gertrude Stein, and Gil goes to fetch his manuscript from his hotel. However, as soon as he leaves, he finds he has returned to 2010 and the bar has disappeared. He feels as if he belongs to the 1920s once he has visited and starts to realise how better suited he is to be in that time period. As he starts to notice and appreciate his sense of belonging to time and place, 1920s in Paris his dull life in present day 2012 becomes unfulfilling in his eyes. 4. The perspective of a 40 year old amidst a mid-life crisis is displayed in Woody Allen’s ‘Midnight in Paris’, and the themes of belonging to time and place are expressed throughout the film. The themes express to the audience that many people (in this case Gil) can feel confined in the time period or situation in life that they may be in. Gil needs to escape from his life, and is able to do this at midnight in Paris by entering into a perhaps imaginary world