Hi, Donald Larsson and all, I would suppose that Allen's including a shot in Deyrolles' fossil shop would be part of the focus on the past, the nostalgia theme, if you will. And, at least when I was living in Paris (a long time ago!), it wasn't just a trendy wine bar. I have a nautilus shell and a stag beetle in Lucite from that marvelous shop. --With warm regards, Norm normholland( at )gmail.com And NSA guys, if you're listening, I didn't detonate any bombs this week. Have a nice day! On Mon, Sep 30, 2013 at 9:54 PM, Larsson, Donald F <[log in to unmask]>wrote: > Is anything to be made of the fact that one of the present-day scenes in > Midnight in Paris is set in Deyrolles, the remarkable taxidermy and fossil > shop on the Left Bank? See > http://www.deyrolle.com/magazine/spip.php?rubrique93 > and http://www.pbase.com/al309/paris1 > For Allen (who, if memory serves, has a cameo in this scene), is this just > a trendy place for wine and cheese, or is it an evocation of a fossilized > past? > > Which also makes one wonder about the enduring appeal of the Lost > Generation as icons, more than as authors. Consider this shot from Baz > Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby, showing Times Square set off by a giant > (time's?) Arrow Shirt ad (above a billboard for the Zeigfeld [sic] > Follies). The model looks rather like young Fitzgerald himself, and he's > gazing wistfully across Broadway at the non-existent "Hotel Sayre" (Zelda's > maiden name): > > http://images.hemmings.com/wp-content/uploads//2012/05/Gatsby-Times-Square-scene-2.jpg > > Just to take things one step further, another marquee in the same image > linked above is featuring the movie "Broadway Rose" (an inspiration for > Woody Allen's Broadway Danny Rose?) directed in 1922 by Robert Z. Leonard > (who would direct "The Great Ziegfeld," 1936), and written by > director-to-be Edmund Goulding, co-starring Leonard's wife, Mae Marsh (to > whom a young Ernest Hemingway claimed to have been engaged, with Marsh > apparently knowing nothing of the engagement or of Hemingway at the time). > > Back to Minnesota native son Fitzgerald, whose name now adorns the theater > in St. Paul where Garrison Keillor's Prairie Home Companion holds forth > each week, and Keillor's slightly backhanded (though ironic) tribute to > Scott, from a 2010 show: > > http://prairiehome.publicradio.org/programs/2010/09/25/scripts/f-scott.shtml > > So we beat on, indeed! > > Don Larsson > > > > > > > > ___________________________________________________ > "I don't deduce. I observe." > --Roger O Thornhill > > Donald F. Larsson, Professor > English Department, Minnesota State University, Mankato > Email: [log in to unmask] > > ________________________________________ > From: Film and TV Studies Discussion List [[log in to unmask]] on > behalf of Norman Holland [[log in to unmask]] > Sent: Monday, September 30, 2013 10:01 AM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [SCREEN-L] Midnight in Paris > > Hi, I've posted my how-to-enjoy reading of MIDNIGHT IN PARIS at: > > www.asharperfocus.com/midnight.html > > All the best, Norm Holland > > ---- > To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF > Screen-L > in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask] > ---- > To sign off Screen-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF > Screen-L > in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask] > ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu