Midnight in Paris Woody Allen

Midnight in Paris is an American 2011 romantic comedy fantasy film written and directed by Woody Allen. It is one of the most significant movie of this century. Not only because this is my personal opinion but also it has won both the Academy Award for best screenplay and the Golden Globe Awards for best screenplay. Moreover, the film was nominated for three other Academy Awards: Best Picture, Best Director and Best Art Direction.  Midnight in Paris makes the audience jump into a different reality. This movie is created to engage the audience with the different cultural differences and also to show how magical can be the capital of France. Not accidentally Woody Allen, the director of the movie, has started his masterpiece with different sights of the city.

Paris is represented successfully from the director. The introduction of the movie represents the city as a magical, romantic, historical and peaceful place to live. The audience can see how variable is the weather in Paris.  It also shows how busy is the city. The viewers can see how a different kind of shots of the city Woody Allen has taken in the introduction of the movie so that he could gain a deeper mood. Furthermore, the audience can notice that the director has successfully managed to represent different monuments of the city for only few minutes. A genius director like him sought to engage the audience with the location, so that they could see how the city changes when the main character flies back in time.

 This movie is concentrated to attract more adult audience rather than young one. Woody Allen is really difficult to understand that is why people like him. His philosophy of life is more diverse than ours. He sees the word from different angle. Woody Allen provides the audience with so much information in this particular movie because they can learn so many things about Paris from 1950 to now days just for 2 hours. People who like adventurous and romantic movies will be satisfied by the content of the film.

Midnight in Paris is produced by Spanish group Mediapro and Allen's Gravier Productions. Furthermore, the movie is distributed by Sony Pictures Classics. The budget of the film was 17 million dollars and the profit was 151,119,219 dollars which proves that the movie somehow affect  the audience and they liked it.

Overall, the movie has lots of different shots which contribute to the attitude of the audiences. Moreover, the director successfully presents Paris as a magical and cultural place to the audience by showing different images of the city. In Claude Levi- Strauss theory, the audience can see how the director concentrates in the constant change of the weather: from sunny to rainy and cold. By this way, the director is showing how despite the bad weather the city stays alive.