Mas Cosas

MIDNIGHT IN PARIS
Written by Woody Allen

MONTAGE - POV SHOTS OF PARIS SET TO MUSIC We hear voices over - GIL and INEZ, a young couple of Americans, engaged to be married as we shall learn. (Standard locations are listed here but they will be determined later when we location scout. Music. 1 EXT. MONET’S GARDENS - DAY GIL (V.O.) This is unbelievable - look at this. There’s no city like thisin the world. There never was. INEZ (V.O.) It’s become so touristy. GIL (V.O.) Well that’s just the awful era we live in but can you just imagine what this was like before - but even with all the fast food joints and the traffic - god, you just can’t imagine what it was like years ago. INEZ (V.O.) Well you like cities. GIL (V.O.) I really do - I love cities - I love big cities with all the crowdsand all the action. (Having seen a panoramic view of let us say the Champs Elysee we embark on a montage of the city. The comments offered above and following are an approximation of what the actors feel.) CUT TO: 2 EXT. TBD - DAY GIL (V.O.) Look at these places - the streets the boulevards. INEZ (V.O.) You act like you’ve never been here before. 2 1

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CONTD: GIL (V.O.) I don’t get hereoften enough is the problem. Every once in a while for a few days is nothing - my biggest regret is that I didn’t settle here the first time I came. I should have gone with my instincts. INEZ (V.O.) I admit it’s pretty but so are so many other places I’ve visited. GIL If I’d have stayed the first time I came by now I’d be a Parisian. Starving. INEZ (V.O.) CUT TO:

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EXT. TBD - DAY (Pausehere for third dialogue exchange) GIL (V.O.) I’m thinking of a painting by Pisarro I’ve seen of Paris in the rain. Can you picture how drop dead gorgeous this city is in the rain? Imagine this town in the twenties - Paris in the twenties in the rain - the artists and writers - I was born too late. Why did God deliver me into the world in the 1970’s and in Pasadena yet. INEZ (V.O.) Why does everycity have to be in the rain? What’s wonderful about getting wet? GIL (V.O.) It’s romantic. INEZ (V.O.) It’s annoying.

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CONTD: GIL (V.O.) Or Paris when it’s just getting dark - the lights go on - or at night - it’s great at night - or no, sunset on the Champs Elysées GIL (V.O.) Could you ever think of us moving here after we’re married? CUT TO:

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EXT. TBD - DAY INEZ (V.O.)Oh god, no. I could never live out of the United States. And if I could it would be someplace totally different. Like? GIL (V.O.)

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INEZ (V.O.) I don’t know, Hawaii. GIL (V.O.) Hawaii is America. INEZ (V.O.) Yes but it’s - Hawaiian. GIL (V.O.) If I had stayed here and written novels and not gotten into grinding out movie scripts. INEZ (V.O.) Right, and becoming rich and successful. Tell methe sad story. GIL (V.O.) But this is where all the artists came to live, to work - the writers, the painters. INEZ (V.O.) That was ninety years ago.

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CONTD: GIL (V.O.) Boy, I’d drop the house in Beverly Hills, the pool, everything - in a heartbeat. Look - this is where Monet lived and painted - we’re thirty minutes from town. Imagine the two of us settling here. If my book turns out wecould do it - you could just as easily make jewelry here. CUT TO:

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EXT. MONET’S GARDENS - DAY INEZ (V.O.) You’re in love with a fantasy. Now we CUT AROUND and see Gil and Inez live. GIL I’m in love with you. (kiss) CUT TO:

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INT/EXT. HOTEL LOBBY - DAY

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Gil and Inez enter lobby of hotel they are all at. In the lobby they are awaited by her parents, JOHN and HELEN BLAIR.JOHN There are our sight-seers. INEZ If I never see another charming boulevard or bistro GIL What a town. To visit. HELEN

GIL I could easily see myself as a Parisien - strolling the Left Bank a baguette under my arm - finishing my novel - at a table at the Café Flore. A Moveable Feast Hemingway called it.

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CONTD: HELEN In this traffic nothing moves. GIL Well yes it was different then....