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While Midnight in Paris is a fantasy, it is remarkably reverent to the personalities of the Lost Generation.

Wilson’s "Wow" replaces Allen’s "I'm dying." He approaches Hemingway with genuine, childlike awe, not anxiety. This makes the audience root for him. When he defends sentimentalism against Paul the pseudo-intellectual, we cheer. Wilson plays Gil as a man who isn't broken, just displaced. It is arguably the role of his career. midnight in. paris

Here, Adriana is ecstatic. She declares the 1890s the real Golden Age. To her horror, the artists of the 1890s (Toulouse-Lautrec, Gauguin) lament that they should have lived during the Renaissance. While Midnight in Paris is a fantasy, it

Yet in his pocket lay the faint scent of her perfume, and in his mind the memory of the trumpet’s last, lingering note. Midnight in Paris had been a thing that could be visited — brief, luminous, and irretrievably gone. He smiled, because some departures carry their own kind of grace. Here, Adriana is ecstatic

Won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 2012. Plot Summary