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    The shopping tourism in the movie Midnight in Paris by Woody Allen In the movie Midnight in Paris Woody Allen sets his protagonist in a traveling to Paris; Gil is a Hollywood screenwriter that sees Paris as a magic place where he will have enough inspiration be a good writer. Behind the story there is the scenario the movie shows a lot of touristic places in Paris. For example, the opening scene is beautiful; it is like a sequence of Paris postcards. By studying Woody Allen movies is perceived

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    The play, Our Town, and the movie, Midnight in Paris, share a similar lesson throughout their stories. Our Town is about the main character, Emily Webb, who learns to appreciate the little aspects of life as she passes away. Midnight in Paris involves the main character, Gil Pender, and his journey in learning to cherish his present life. Although both Emily and Gil travel to the past to learn this lesson, the characters differ in being able to apply it to their lives. The most influential detail

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    Hemingway’s character in Midnight in Paris. This paper believes this quote to be true and will work in order to prove it. This paper will discuss how people change in Paris, or how Paris changes a person completely. It will look at the topic in three ways, through Woody Allen’s movie, Midnight in Paris, through Hemingway’s book, A Moveable Feast and an average everyday student who just moved to Paris. The motive of this paper is to show and relate to how the city of Paris, the people and the art changes

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    Midnight in Paris and The Great Gatsby were films were the main characters are living in the past. Gil wants to live in the 1920’s were the golden age was important and Gatsby was to go back five years and finish off where him and Daisy could spend there life together in louisville. A classic man is stuck trying to repeat the past as he tries to find the love of his life he throws parties and live right across from her so that he can impress her. As he gets closer to her, he does not notice the

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    Paris’ Midnight Magic For nearly fifty years, Woody Allen has been writing and directing lucrative films and television shows. One of his most recent productions is a film called Midnight in Paris that has multiple famous actors and actresses playing the main roles. This fantasy film takes place in the most popular city destination, Paris, a city known for its breathtaking sites. The film often alternates between different time periods such as the 1890s and 1920s due to a type of time travel the

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    experiences of Gil Pender at the end of Midnight in Paris, one might think him mad, intoxicated, dumb, or a mixture of all three. After all, none of what he said could be real, right? However, looking deeper into the knowledge and wisdom that he gained from the supposed escapades he went on, the experiences that Gil Pender may or may not have actually experienced actually seemed to help his piteous life. Here in this gained knowledge and wisdom is where Midnight in Paris displays an epistemological truth

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    which creates unhappiness. Each country has their own set of beliefs, attitudes and customs but all societies share a common goal of pressuring people to conform to ensure stability and to limit some individual thinking. The films “Midnight in Paris”, “L'Auberge Espagnole” and “Never on Sunday” and the literary works The Elegance of the Hedgehog, Clash of Civilizations over an Elevator in Piazza Vittorio and Rhinoceros all contain characters who attempt to resist the cultural and societal

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    It is midnight in Paris. Candlelight haunts the cobblestone streets, illuminating red roses whose crimson petals serve as poignant mementoes of the city’s recent carnage. Overhead, ensconced in shadows, a French flag sways in the November air — stirred by the mourning of its people. In Place de la République, citizens of the City of Lights encircle in prayer. At the circle’s midpoint, a man stands blindfolded, arms outstretched as strangers embrace him in succession. You blink and find yourself standing

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    through the work of her cousin, Nick Carraway, who is also Gatsby’s next-door neighbor- who at this point is married to Tom Buchanan. The film finishes with the death of Gatsby. Midnight in Paris is a film about a man named Gil Pender, who is traveling to Paris with his wife. While in Paris, Gil goes out every night at midnight and travels back to the 1920s. While he in the 1920s, Gil meets a woman named Adriana, who was splendid during her time. Gil ended up having a short romance with her. At last

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    Ninotchka story is about a Russian woman who was sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest. Three Russians are in Paris to sell jewelry confiscated from the aristocracy during the Russian revolution of 1917. Upon the arrival, they meet Count Leon de ‘Algout, on a mission from the Russian Grand Duchess Swana, who wants to retrieve her jewelry before it is sold. Ernst Lubitsch uses off-screen sounds, the change in mood from

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