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Midnight in Paris Flashcards

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Evidence: Inez leads Gil back the way they came on the bridge

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  • Inez forcing Gil to go on her journey
  • doesn’t want to go on Gil’s journey
  • Technique: direction of movement
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Evidence: “Oh, God no! I could never leave the United States” - Inez
Context: Gil asked her if she could imagine living in Paris

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  • Inez is an obstacle to Gil’s journey
  • Disgusted by Gil’s imaginative journey
  • Technique: disgusted tone
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Evidence: Inez covers Gil’s reflection with a frosted mirror
Context: talking about going to Versailles with Paul & Carol

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  • Gil’s journey is unclear to her
  • their reason for being together is unclear
  • their journey’s destination is unclear
  • Technique: Visual metaphor
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Evidence: “Do you really want to give it all up just to struggle?” - Inez
Context: Gil wants to give up Hollywood

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  • she will answer for Gil because he can’t decide for himself
  • not really a question for him to answer
  • she controls his journey
  • Technique: rhetorical question
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Evidence: “Nostalgia is denial… of the painful present” - Paul
Context: making fun of Gil in Versailles

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  • shutting down Gil’s imaginative journey
  • irony - making fun of Golden Age thinking while in Versailles
  • Technique: irony
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Evidence: The Thinker statue
Context: bridge from Versailles & wine tatsing

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  • represents Gil’s current stage in his journey
  • represents Gil
  • Gil is indecisive
  • Technique: symbolism
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Evidence: “I can’t stand that guy” - Inez, leads Gil away from the man
Context: Wine tasting

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  • Inez ignored Gil when he said he didn’t like Paul
  • her journey is more important than his
  • Technique: direction of movement
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Evidence: Gil stops walking with a stop sign behind his head
Context: walking around before trip to 20s

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  • all obstacles to his journey are literally in his head
  • Technique: visual metaphor
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Evidence: “Does that sound terrible?” - Gil
Context: meeting Hemingway in bar

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  • Gil’s biggest obstacle to his journey is his lack of confidence
  • Technique: sheepish tone
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Evidence: Gil standing at gramophone enveloped in persian rugs
Context: Market

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  • Gil is enveloped in past, in reverie
  • his journey always leads back to 20s
  • Technique: Mid shot
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Evidence: “You have the power to hypnotise me” - Cole Porter song
Context: Market

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  • symbolises Gil’s obsession with 20s
  • 20s hypnotises him
  • his journey is not by choice but by obsession
  • Technique: diegetic music & symbolism
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Evidence: Gil leaves nostalgia shop with Inez
Context: leaving market

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  • moves away from warm tones of the shop to grey & harsh street to white stark museum
  • Gil leaves what he should have to follow Inez’s journey
  • Technique: lighting
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Evidence: “Shhh, I’m trying to hear what Paul is saying” - Inez
Context: in Monet museum

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  • Inez cutting off Gil’s sentence is symbolic of her cutting off his journey
  • Technique: aposiopesis
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Evidence: “Sometimes I think he’s got a part missing” - John
Contect: talking about Gil at dinner

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  • Gil has a part of his life missing
  • as a result a part of his journey is missing as he can’t explore it
  • Technique: metaphor
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Evidence: Gil only want to talk about his book around Inez

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  • book symbolic of past emotions
  • Gil isn’t in love with Inez anymore but he needs to book to feel love as he did in the past
  • Technique: symbolism
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Evidence: “You inhabit two worlds” - Man Ray
Context: In the bar in 20s

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  • Technique: metaphor
  • Gil lives in the present and the past
  • Gil’s journey could lead in two directions
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Evidence: “Well, I guess I am lost” - Gil
Context: Talking to Adrianna

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  • Technique: metaphor
  • Gil admits to being lost on his journey
  • he has no follow-through to his self-realisation
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Evidence: “The artist’s job is not to succumb to despair but to find an antidote for the emptiness of existence” - Gertrude Stein
Context: talking to Gil about his book

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  • Technique: didacticism
  • Gil needs to fix his problems himself instead of allowing himself to be controlled on his journey
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Evidence: “He says that this generation is empty and has no imagination” - Adrianna
Context: talking to Gaugin 1890s

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  • Technique: irony
  • every generation wishes they were in a different time
  • Gil’s journey is not unique
  • Gil’s journey is not by choice
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Evidence: “If you stay here… and this becomes your present… you’ll start imagining another time was… your golden time” - Gil
Context: Talking to Adrianna in 1890s

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  • Technique: epiphany
  • Gil is realising the same would happen to him
  • Gil has finally reached his journey’s end in 1920s
  • self-realisation
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Evidence: Adrianna close to camera and Gil further away
Contect: Gil trying to convince her not to stay in 1890s

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  • Techniques: mid shot and close up
  • Gil and Adrianna are no longer on the same journey
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Evidence: “If I ever want to write something worthwhile I have to get rid of my illusions” - Gil
Context: Talking to Adrianna 1890s

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  • Technique: imperative language
  • Gil realises he has to get rid of his obstacles and go on a new journey
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Evidence: “You’re back on the right track” - Gertrude Stein
Context: Gil is back from 1890s and talking about his book

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  • Technique: idiom
  • after his epiphany, Gil is back on the right journey
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Evidence: Inez and her parents are wearing white bathrobes while Gil is wearing normal clothes
Context: Gil breaking up with Inez

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  • Technique: costume
  • Gil is on a different journey to Inez and her parents
  • Gil and Inez were never going to work out
  • Highlights their differences
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Evidence: Gil sitting alone at a cafe in a row of other people all sitting alone
Context: after breaking up with Inez

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  • Technique: mise en scene
  • Gil finally fits in compared to when he always used to stand out
  • Gil is on the right journey now
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Evidence: Gil and Gabrielle are shot at the same angles
Context: Meeting her on the bridge

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  • Technique: mid shots
  • they are equals
  • they are both on the same journey
  • they are in alignment with each other
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What are examples from Midnight in Paris?

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  1. Inez leads Gil back the way they came on bridge
  2. “Oh God no! I could never leave the United States!”
  3. Inez covers Gil’s reflection with frosted mirror
  4. “Do you really want to give it all up just to struggle?”
  5. “Nostalgia is denial… of the painful present”
  6. The Thinker statue
  7. “I can’t stand that guy”
  8. Stop sign behind Gil’s head
  9. “Does that sound terrible?”
  10. Gil enveloped in Persian rugs and gramophone
  11. “You have the power to hypnotise me”
  12. Gil leaves warm market to harsh street
  13. “Shhh I’m trying to hear what Paul is saying”
  14. “Sometimes I think he’s got a part missing”
  15. Gil only needs book around Inez
  16. “You inhabit two worlds”
  17. “Well I guess I am lost”
  18. “The artist’s job is not to succumb to despair but to find the antidote for the emptiness of existence”
  19. “He says this generation is empty and has no imagination”
  20. “If you stay here… and this becomes your present… you’ll start imagining another time… was your Golden Time”
  21. Adrianna close to camera while Gil is further away
  22. “If I ever want to write something worthwhile I have to get rid of my illusions”
  23. “You’re back on the right track”
  24. Inez and parents in white robes while Gil in normal clothes
  25. Gil sitting alone at cafe in line
  26. Gil and Gabrielle are shot at the same angle

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