After watching it, I thought back to Midnight in Paris and thought it was interesting to compare the two films.
In addition to being interesting, there is also a subtlety, perhaps the baised perception from the director's subjective opinion.
The male protagonist of Paris is a fanatic of literature and art, and he wants to return to the golden age of Paris.
Just like the heroine of this film, she has enthusiasm and admiration for the directors, actors and glitz of the showbiz. Because of an interview opportunity, she stumbled in and had the opportunity to spend a day with several insiders.
The partners of the two protagonists also have similar backgrounds. They both seem to be in love with the protagonist, but there is a gap in cultural background. They are both from old money and have a different growth environment from the protagonist.
But perhaps because of the different narrative perspectives of the two films, Midnight Paris is interpreted from the perspective of fans/intruders, and the image conveyed by the protagonist in the language of the camera is a bit confused but talented and charming, although it is He is an outsider in the literary and art circles, but he can have many sincere and academically in-depth conversations with everyone in the past. In general, he has no trace of integration. And his fiancée seems to be a worldly woman who doesn't understand art and is a member of the world.
On the other hand, in New York, the female protagonist has the same misunderstanding, one-day romance, but she seems to have a sense of groupie, she seems to be superficial, and she pursues pompousness, and she has not received the sincere treatment of those directors, actors, and screenwriters, and their dialogues They all seem alienated and shallow, and they basically stay on sexual relationships. For example, the director said that the heroine has a certain characteristic that he particularly admires and wants to take her to Paris. . .
Sweet Tea is favored by the movie as a seemingly rebellious but actually easy-going character. Of course, I do not deny that there is an actor bonus.
In the end, the male protagonist of Paris stayed in his favorite circle, and also met like-minded girls. The heroine in New York broke up after being awakened by Sweet Tea. Not only was she embarrassed at Vega's house, but she finally had to go back to school and her original life by herself.
The above thinking, in the case of other background settings are similar, what caused the director to use different plot trends and perspectives to shape the characters in these two stories, and bring different judgment colors. Maybe it's gender, maybe it's a random choice. But I believe the former more.
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