Paris Day 2

Today we went on a tour around Paris looking at various movie locations. We saw the inception bridge and the tourist locations in most movies about Paris. I noticed a pattern in the movies we saw. They all took place partly in Paris. Unlike London, there wasn’t any transformation of locations into something entirely different because Paris is too distinctive looking. Everything from the wicker chairs outside cafes, to the architecture, to the landmarks like the Eiffel Tour, Arc de Triomphe, the Louvre, Notre Dame, etc etc. I’m sure there have been movies to disguise Paris as something else, but none of the ones we were shown did that at all. I think that also had to do with the fact that internationally Paris has more of a mythos than London. London has a few stereotypes and things it’s known for, but Paris has more of a concrete picture in the minds of Americans. Paris is the city of love, of artists, of revolutionaries. It’s a city of passion. In Inception Ariadne first learns to exercise her newfound passion of dream building in dream Paris. In Me Before You, the main female character learns of her love interests final wishes that were a result of his passion for her in Paris. In The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, her parents both rediscover old passions, that of the artist and the revolutionary respectively.