Midnight in Paris Page #2

- Yes.

- Uh...Mansart...I think...

- Manzard. (sic.)

- ...and Charles le Brun, I believe.

Yes, that's right.

I could get used to a summer home like this.

- I know you could.

- Me, too,

except, remember: in those days,

they only had baths,

and I'm definitely a shower man.

Where are you two planning on

moving after you get married?

Uh...Malibu.

- Really?

- We're thinking about Malibu, yeah.

I'm pushing for a little

attic in Paris with a skylight.

- La bowhem? (sic.)

- Yeah,

all that's missing is the tuberculosis.

Exactly. Thank you.

I mean, you know, the problem

is that he's not exactly sure

- he can write a novel.

- Really?

- Well...

- I mean, honey, so far your track record's-- you know, and...

well, everyone loves your movies.

- Yeah, well scripts are easier, so...

- Wow.

Why don't you tell them about the lead

character that you're working on right now?

- Yes! - Oh, come on.

- I don't like to discuss my work.

Well, dear, you don't have to tell

them the whole plot, just the character.

- No, no, no.

- Okay.

He works in a nostalgia shop.

- What's a-- What's a nostalgia shop?

- Oh, not one of those stores where they sell

Shirley Temple dolls and old radios?

- And I never know who buys that stuff. Who'd want it?

- Exactly.

- I don't know.

- Well, people who live in the past,

people who think that

their lives would be happier

if they lived in an earlier time.

And just which era

would you have preferred

to live in, Miniver Cheevy?

Paris in the '20s, in the rain.

- Wouldn't have been bad.

- And the rain was an acid rain.

Oh, I see! And no global warming,

no TV and suicide bombing,

and nuclear weapons, drug cartels!

Usual menu of clichd horror stories.

You know, nostalgia is denial.

- Denial of the painful present.

- Oh, whoa!

Gil is a complete romantic.

I mean, he would be

more than happy living in a

complete state of perpetual denial.

- Really?

- And the name for this fallacy

is called "golden-age thinking."

- Touch.

- Yeah, the erroneous notion that

a different time period is better

than the one one's living in.

It's a flaw in the Romantic

imagination of those people who...

who find it difficult to

cope with the depressive.

- Yes.

- This is the nicest ring we saw.

Diamonds for a wedding band.

That's the way you'd have to go.

And then, everyone will see

it in the back row when

he puts it on my finger.

Oh, Inez. It's gonna be such an event!

- I only wish that...

- I don't want to keep going over it.

It's your choice. What can I say?

Gil is-- he's smart,

and he's very successful.

- He talks about giving that all up and moving here!

- Oh, yeah, he TALKS about it.

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