YMMV / Midnight in Paris

• Award Snub: No nomination for scene-stealer Corey Stoll's performance as Hemmingway.
• Ensemble Dark Horse:
  • Most viewers will have their own favorite character, but everybody loves Corey Stoll's performance as Ernest Hemingway.
  • Dalí IS this trope, due to being a Cloudcuckoolander who was basically a walking Funny Moment, and played by Oscar Winner Adrien Brody.
  • Kathy Bates' performance as Gertrude Stein is also an eye opener.
  • The Fitzgeralds.
• Fanfic Fuel:
  • Gil's comments that the people in the 1890s would be happier in their own Golden Age of the Renaissance can lead to speculation if any of them ever manage to travel the way Gil does.
  • The detective (who presumably had some nostalgia of his own to time travel that way) ending up in the French Revolution (assuming he survived it).
  • Does Gil ever show Gabrielle how to travel back?
  • How many other people have used time travel to travel back to their golden age? Is Paris the only place where this phenomenon takes place?
• Funny Moments: Gil trying to explain his troubles to the Surrealists.
  Man Ray: A man in love with a woman from a different era. I see a photograph.
  Luis Buñuel: I see a film.
  Gil: I see an insurmountable problem.
  Salvador Dalí: I see…a rhinoceros.
• Genius Bonus: A knowledge of early twentieth century writers and artists is needed to know who half the cast is and what they are referencing.
• Older Than They Think: The concept for Midnight in Paris first aired as a stand-up routine Woody Allen performed during the 60s.
• One-Scene Wonder:
  • Adrien Brody appears as Salvador Dalí, who is obsessed with rhinoceroses.
  • Almost every artist or writer in this movie is a One-Scene Wonder.
• Retroactive Recognition: Gabrielle the antiques dealer is played by a pre-stardom Léa Seydoux.
• Spiritual Successor: To Allen's short story "The Kugelmass Episode".
• Win Back the Crowd: For fans of Woody Allen, this is seen as one of the best films of his later career, even winning him his first Oscar since Hannah and Her Sisters 25 years prior.

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