History Film / MidnightInParis

* DisposableFiance: It quickly becomes clear that Gil would be better off without Inez, she doesn’t care about any of his thoughts or opinions, she openly talks criticizes him to her friends right in his presence and doesn’t share any of his interests, the final straw for Gil is finding out that she cheated on him and he breaks up with her.

* DisposableFiance: It quickly becomes clear that Gil would be better off without Inez, she doesn’t seem to care about any of his thoughts or opinions, talks crap about him to her friends right in front of him and doesn’t share any of his interests, the final straw for Gil is finding out that she cheated on him and he breaks up with her.

%%* DisposableFiance

* NiceToTheWaiter: Gil, according to Inez, always sides with the help when she takes issue with one of them. He even comes to aid of the tour guide when Paul starts arguing with her over who was Rodin’s wife.

* NiceToTheWaiter: Gil, according to Inez, always sides with the help when she takes issue with one of them.

''Midnight in Paris'' is a 2011 comedy/fantasy film directed by Creator/WoodyAllen.

** Dali's obsession with rhinos is a nod to surrealist Creator/Eugene;neIonesco's play ''Theatre/{{Rhinoceros}}''.

** Dali's obsession with rhinos is a nod to surrealist Creator/EugèneIonesco's play ''Theatre/{{Rhinoceros}}''.

* ShoutOut: The yellow car that Gil travels to the '20s in is a reference to Jay Gatsby's yellow car in ''Literature/TheGreatGatsby''.

* TheCameo: name a member of the Lost Generation and they'll probably have shown up or have been name checked at some point in this movie

* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Creator/SalvadorDali. He and his surrealist buddies are so out there that not only do they not question Gil's claim of being a time traveler, they find it perfectly unremarkable.

* CoversAlwaysLie: In the poster, [[spoiler: Owen Wilson (Gil) is shown up walking by the Seine with a background of Van Gogh's Starry Night. Vincent Van Gogh doesn't appear in the movie.]]

* DumbassHasAPoint: Paul, [[KnowNothingKnowItAll for all his pedantic bluster]], actually summarizes the struggle Gil goes through most of the film early on.
* FanService: Inez unloading luggage from the car.
* GayParee: It's not revealed whether it's the real Gay Paree or an idealized version of it from Gil's perspective, though.
* TheGayNineties: Adriana's "Golden Age."

* GoodAdulteryBadAdultery: Gil giving Adriana his fiances jewelry to try to seduce her is not treated as a particularly bad thing to do, but Inez cheating on Gil is another matter. The difference, of course, is in entirely in [[ProtagonistCenteredMorality which character the audience sympathizes with]] (which is this trope in a nutshell). The nail in Inez's coffin, though, is that, even after being confronted by Gil and admitting that she slept with Paul, she brushes it off with a "what's the big deal?" attitude and wants to continue planning their wedding.

* HistoricalInJoke: In spades.
* IChooseToStay: The whole plot is basically a will-he-or-won't-he dilemma built around this trope. [[spoiler: In the end, it's subverted, as Gil decides to return to his own era.]]

* LargeHam: Hemingway and Dalí. ...of course.

* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: All the men in the 1920s treat the women with the same level of respect as other men. If you buy the idea that it's all in Gil's head, then this makes sense as it's his idealized version of the 1920s.
** Gertrude Stein's influence with and access to publishers and booksellers i.e. ability to get struggling writers published had a lot to do with the respect she got. However, if you were 'just' an artist model or girlfriend, then your opinions were more easily dismissed.

* SmallNameBigEgo: Paul Bates.

* SpoiledBrat: Inez.

* [[StrawmanPolitical Strawman Republican]]: Inez's Dad.
* TestosteronePoisoning: Ernest Hemingway.
* ThirdOptionLoveInterest: [[spoiler:Gil doesn't end up with either Inez or Adriana, rather Gabrielle, a young French woman.]]

* BoisterousBruiser: Creator/ErnestHemingway.

* AnAesop: The moral of the story is spoken out loud both in the beginning (by Paul) and in the end (by Gil).

* AuthorAppeal: InUniverse, Dali keeps relating every part of his conversation with Gil in some way to rhinoceroses.

* AnAesop: the moral of the story is spoken out loud both in the beginning (by Paul) and in the end (by Gil).

* GenreBusting: It's a sci-fi/fantasy/romantic comedy/drama.

* InThePastEveryoneWillBeFamous: The Movie. Several influential figures of the time, such as Creator/PabloPicasso, Creator/GertrudeStein, Creator/FScottFitzgerald, and Creator/ErnestHemingway, turn up in Gil's travels to 1920s Paris.

* DisposableFiance

* GayParee

* ButchLesbian: Gertrude Stein is the 1920s version of this trope.

* IChooseToStay: The whole plot is basically a will-he-or-won't-he dilemma built around this trope.

Creator/OwenWilson -- the latest actor to be handed Allen's "screen persona" nebbish character -- plays Gil, a hack but successful Hollywood screenwriter who dreams of writing novels. He and his fiancée Inez (Creator/RachelMcAdams) are visiting UsefulNotes/{{Paris}} with her parents; Gil falls in love with the city while Inez dreams of living in a Malibu suburb. One night, as Inez and her friends go out dancing, Gil takes a walk and discovers a square where every night at midnight, a magic car shows up that transports him to 1920s Paris. Enamored with the culture and the famous historical figures he encounters -- played by an AllStarCast of cameos -- he continues to travel there, much to Inez's anger and suspicion.

* GoodAdulteryBadAdultery: Gil giving Adriana his fiances jewelry to try to seduce her is not treated as a particularly bad thing to do, but Inez cheating on Gil is another matter. The difference, of course, is in entirely in which character the audience sympathizes with (which is this trope in a nutshell). The nail in Inez's coffin, though, is that, even after being confronted by Gil and admitting that she slept with Paul, she brushes it off with a "what's the big deal?" attitude and wants to continue planning their wedding.

* InThePastEveryoneWillBeFamous: The Movie.

* SmokingIsGlamorous: Zelda and Adriana.

* ThisIsGoingToBeHuge: / ItWillNeverCatchOn: Gil gives Luis Buñuel the basic plot of ''Film/TheExterminatingAngel''. Buñuel is puzzled.
-->'''Buñuel:''' ''Why'' can't they leave?

Owen Wilson -- the latest actor to be handed Allen's "screen persona" nebbish character -- plays Gil, a hack but successful Hollywood screenwriter who dreams of writing novels. He and his fiancée Inez (Creator/RachelMcAdams) are visiting UsefulNotes/{{Paris}} with her parents; Gil falls in love with the city while Inez dreams of living in a Malibu suburb. One night, as Inez and her friends go out dancing, Gil takes a walk and discovers a square where every night at midnight, a magic car shows up that transports him to 1920s Paris. He continues to travel there, much to Inez's anger and suspicion.

The film seems to have joined ''Film/MatchPoint'' and ''Film/VickyCristinaBarcelona'' as one of Allen's more acclaimed later films. It has also seemingly struck a chord with audiences and become Allen's highest grossing film domestically (a title previously held by ''Film/HannahAndHerSisters'' since [[TheEighties the '80s]]) and internationally.

The film became the first Allen film since ''Film/HannahAndHerSisters'' that was nominated for Best Picture. Allen also received a Best Director nomination and won Best Original Screenplay.

* BornInTheWrongCentury: Gil believes that he would have fit in with the writers and artists of 1920s Paris. He gets to go back and find out firsthand (and he actually does get along quite well with them). Further, he falls in love with Adriana, who believes this about herself with LaBelleEpoque[[note]]And those in La Belle Epoque wish they were in TheRenaissance[[/note]]. Truthfully, this movie is a {{deconstruction}} of the trope, as it's clear to the audience and other cast from the beginning that Gil's real problem isn't modernity but something in himself.

* ShoutOut: Receives one (or rather, Gil does) from Edward Rutherfurd's 2013 historical fiction novel ''Paris''
--> '''Hadley:''' Don't go disappearing on us, like Gil.
--> '''Claire:''' Who's Gil?
--> '''Hadley:''' Oh, he was a nice young American that we all thought had promise. And then suddenly he wasn't there anymore. Disappeared without a word.
** More traditionally the yellow car that Gil travels to the '20s in is a reference to Jay Gatsby's yellow car in TheGreatGatsby.

Owen Wilson -- the latest actor to be handed Allen's "screen persona" nebbish character -- plays Gil, a hack but successful Hollywood screenwriter who dreams of writing novels. He and his fiancée Inez (Creator/RachelMcAdams) are visiting Paris with her parents; Gil falls in love with the city while Inez dreams of living in a Malibu suburb. One night, as Inez and her friends go out dancing, Gil takes a walk and discovers a square where every night at midnight, a magic car shows up that transports him to 1920s Paris. He continues to travel there, much to Inez's anger and suspicion.

* AuthorAvatar: As is customary with Creator/WoodyAllen films, main character Gil is a stand-in for Creator/WoodyAllen, from the tucked-in shirts Gil wears to the nervous way Gil talks. He also leaves his fiancée and hooks up with a much younger woman.

->''If I could live anywhere, it would be a night in Paris [[NostalgiaFilter in the 1920s.]]''

'''''Midnight in Paris''''' is a 2011 comedy/fantasy film directed by Creator/WoodyAllen.

* BookEnds: The film opens and closes with scenes of Paris in the rain.

''Midnight in Paris'' is a 2011 comedy/fantasy film directed by Creator/WoodyAllen.