midnight in paris undoubtedly the best
film ever made it's a 2011 movie by
Woody Allen and won both the Oscar and
Golden Globe for Best Screenplay it is
set in the Paris of today and dead after
20s and it plays a lot with your
feelings there is so much detail to the
film that I might as well just make a
two-hour long video mentioning all the
fun details and stories but for now it
has to be a best off spoiler alert if
you haven't watched the movie yet you
should because I'm totally going to
describe the whole thing in this video
the film starts with a collection of
shots from Paris here you can already
notice that the colors in this film are
shifted into the orange and green tones
which tries to express the romantic idea
that is associated with Paris most
places have a certain color attached to
them in movies like America's neutral
colors Mexico and India red colors
Germany and Scandinavia blue and so on
and Paris has this orange color great
interestingly though much of the rest of
France has blue and neutral colors which
I guess is because the idea of France is
not as romantic as the idea of Paris
speaking of romantic ideas in the
background place city warm America
Sidney Bechet with the main instrument
in this song being the soprano saxophone
the actual story itself begins to us Joe
and his fiancee Ynez standing in Monet's
water garden Joe is a Los Angeles
scriptwriter who's currently struggling
to write a book and dreams of moving to
Paris to pursuers writing their Ynez is
totally not supportive and just wants a
house in Santa Monica images for you the
entire movie here these two are really
not supposed to be together they just
don't get along problem being that Jill
is about to get married to illness which
means that it would be pretty painful to
admit to himself that it's just not
supposed to happen because of this Jill
suffers from cognitive dissonance
meaning that holds two contrary beliefs
one not loving in s and two getting
married to her admitting to oneself that
this one is sure would be too painful
and thus it gets repressed
this causes Jill to feel unhappy with
his present which lets him want to
escape to the 20s the entire rest of the
movie is essentially just him solving
his internal conflict it is the classic
hero's journey to self-knowledge Jill
and Nina's travel back to Paris
you know Athena's parents
Tripta Versailles they take a tour with
AutoCAD being played by Carla
bruni-sarkozy who was at the time when
the movie was made the first lady of
France wine-tasting on the roof of the
suite which starts around 15,000 euros a
night and when leaving he nest decides
to go dancing with her friends
whereas chair decides to go for a walk
alone in Paris I know it is kind of
random here but if any of you have asked
a chance to go dancing and a mean like
social dancing do it it is amazing not
trying to flex here but I am my school's
second ball King and that's about it
with my life achievements geotags have
walked that to take him at least one
hour and two minutes and he sits down
under the lease so did she anymore which
is by the way where the mathematician
Blaise Pascal is buried there he is
picked up by a Renault type 180 for long
delay which is kind of a problem because
this cars from 1928 and by then all the
cool people have moved out of Paris
again but I'm just nitpicking here the
car drives six minutes to de código born
there Jill suddenly finds himself on a
golden age party he is suddenly in the
20s and is greeted by Zelda and scott
Fitzgerald two of the most important
figures of the Lost Generation writers
the 20s in Paris are sometimes referred
to as Liz na Foley so the crazy years it
was one of the golden ages of Paris
because so much cool stuff was happening
back then there was a blooming literary
scene on the left bank of the Seine
which is where a lot of the American
expats lived including Hemingway
Fitzgerald Gertrude Stein and many more
this is where the lost generation
literature came to be on the right bank
of the Seine and especially in Moe
matter
there was a blooming scene of artists
and with people like Dahle and Picasso
Paris quickly became the world capital
of art in 1925 there was the
International Exhibition of decorative
arts which was the peak of the art deco
style there was also a huge American
cultural influence but first back to the
firm they chat for some time and
together with Cole Porter and the boys
they go to something called up by an egg
or initially I was just interested in
the role of black people in the 20s
because you know the early 20th century
was the most tolerant time that it
actually led me down the rabbit hole
not only was Paris fairly tolerant
towards black people they actually had a
session with African culture and even
more so like I just said American black
culture there's even a word for it Niko
fede it was a term used by avant-garde
artists to describe the passion for
black culture
this year's Josephine Baker who is
actually kind of the icon of the any
foil and the more you learn about her
the more you love her the song that is
playing right now is called a la conga
Bleek ot
which doesn't actually mean anything
French and it is sang by her she was
born in Missouri but had her
breakthrough in France as an erotic
dancer and not only was she perhaps the
most famous person in Paris at the time
she also had her own cafe was a spy in
world war ii entertained Allied troops
and the French Resistance was the first
international movie star of color and
adopted a shit-ton of children long
before Angelina and Brad Pitt made it
cool to adopt children from all over the
world she adopted twelve children from
Japan Korea Canada France Finland
Colombia Venezuela Algeria Morocco and
the co Dubois she called them the
rainbow tribe and as if that was not
cool enough she raised them in the 15th
century French chateau later she was
made a knight in the French Legion of
Honor and was the only female speaker at
the march on Washington the same march
on Washington where Forrest Gump spoke
good job there anyway Scott Zelda and
Jill Ally for the restaurant Polydor
which was actually often visited by them
in real life and still stands today they
meet Hemingway there him why he thought
he didn't need a babysitter because the
cat would look after his baby he and
Fitzgerald had a weird relationship for
one Hemingway greatly admired
Fitzgerald's talent saying that the
writing just came out of him
effortlessly but he also thought that
Scott's relationship with Zelda was
toxic and slowly killing him he was very
right of that could we not discuss my
personal life in public one time Zelda
became so possessive of Scott that she
told him that his thing was too short
and that he couldn't get it on with
anyone else so Scott asked Hemingway if
you could measure his thing and
Hemingway said that the length is fine
when Scott still didn't believe him
Hemingway took him to the Louvre to look
at the statues which I don't know might
not have helped
Hemmingway office jail took of the first
draft of the book he's trying to write
to Gertrude Stein for proofread Jill
goes back to the hotel where his room by
the way costs 2500 euros a night and the
day passes the next day Jill and
Hemingway visit the Hoodoo floor even
said and there they meet Gertrude Stein
she was an American novelist and
passionate art collector born in
Pennsylvania in 1874 she moved to Paris
in 1903 Hemingway described her as
looking like a North Italian peasant
which kind of makes sense considering
that she herself said that she'd rather
spent all her money on paintings than on
clothing also she's homosexual which
allowed her to become one of the castles
only female friends because he was a
notorious sexoholic and couldn't be
long-term friends with any heterosexual
woman anyway you know how the generation
that came of age during the First World
War is sometimes called The Lost
Generation this year's the book that
coined the term written by Hemingway in
1926 it's a story about people on
vacation in Spain and bullfighting it is
sometimes hard to decipher but the
overall theme is that the characters
have lost all their values in the First
World War it opens with these two quotes
the first one is you are all a lost
generation by Gertrude Stein she said it
to Hemingway in conversation when
talking about how the youth of today had
lost all its morals but she herself got
it when she was at a car repair shop in
Paris the young mechanic there was too
incompetent to fix her car so his boss
said to him was it in generously
imperative so you are a lost generation
and he meant it in the sense that all
people have always used that kind of
expression as in it is always the
younger generation that is the effed up
one but for Hemingway it fitted so
nicely and perfectly described his
generation that he used it as an
introduction for his book but to make
this kind of very old man sounding rent
a bit more eternal sounding he combined
it with a quote from the Bible or to be
more exact from the book of Ecclesiastes
one generation passeth away and another
generation cometh but the earth abideth
forever this part of the Bible is
sometimes said to be the question to
which the Bible gives the answers it is
essentially a complaint about how
meaningless life is and how existence is
nothing but hardship very good read even
as a non-christian
Gertrude's Dinah picasso talked about a
painting of his fictional mistress
Adriana
which in real life is called Lebanese
this here is Adriana she is played by
the French actress Mario Katia who like
Josephine Baker is also in the legend
owner sadly for me though she's married
in many ways Adriana's epitome of
coolness in the 20s this is a chart of
what's been called over time and dried
in the 20s there where the flappers she
is one of them flap has when many ways
the first wave of emancipated women they
had Bob cuts wore short dresses listened
to Jess and just behaved like rebels as
in treating sex casually smoking
drinking and just being independent in
general dresses back then were pretty
short which makes sense because you
needed to have a lot of free space when
dancing the Charleston this is the
charts and it's just one more aspect of
the nickel feely I've talked about
before because the Charleston comes from
Charleston South Carolina which was once
considered the capital of slavery the
dance itself comes from the African
American slave culture and has its
origins in Ghana and the Cote d'Ivoire
it looks pretty ridiculous but that is
kind of the point in the child theme
nobody takes themselves seriously if you
want to try it here are some tutorials
it's not even that hard you just have to
be brave enough to do it in public
petite Adriana isn't this little
Parisian dream a moveable feast
Hemingway called Paris a moveable feast
because having lived there as a young
man left you with such good memories
that the good times always stayed with
you a moveable feast is a holiday that
can be moved around the dates of the
year so the connection is there but a
little forced this guy he is who on
Belmonte a long term friend of Hemingway
he was a spanish bullfighter who
revolutionized his craft
you know how bullfighters kind of stand
still and the ball goes around them this
guy invented this kind of bullfighting
because he was born with slightly
deformed legs and so he had to stand his
ground before him bullfighters just used
to jump around the ball like circus
performers Hemingway killed himself in
1961 and it is rumored that he was the
inspiration for Ben wanted to do the
same in 1962 children
yada-yada extreme cuteness that melts
your heart and some more film that I
have to skip over because there's too
much to talk about Dylan had Rihanna
have a second date and they are picked
up by a carriage that warps them back in
time into the Belle époque which was the
period between 1871 and 1914 and they
meet some more artists there namely
Toulouse Lautrec Edgar Degas and Paul
Gauguin Lorex disabilities as sometimes
attributed to inbreeding and yes he was
from a French noble family the film
quickly comes to an end when Adriana
tells Jill that she wishes to stay in
the Belle Epoque this causes Jill to
have a revelation he realizes that
shifting time periods is not the
solution to finding happiness and he
heartbroken Lea leaves Adriana and
travels back to the 20s there Gertrude
Stein tells Jill that Hemingway noticed
in a draft of his book that it feels
like the main characters being cheated
on but does not realize it Jill then
travels back to the presence finds out
that he's actually being cheated on and
thinks that he can finally break his
cognitive dissonance realizing that he
does not want to marry in S in the
classic hero's journey the story ends
with freedom to live meaning that a hero
has finally become a master of both
worlds and has found his piece and place
in his own world
Jill does so when he finally finds true
love in Paris in the rain yeah well
that's okay I don't mind if you wet here
is some good advice never go to Paris
the idea of Paris is much better than
the actual Paris