‘Midnight In Paris’ Star Corey Stoll Attributes Film’s Success To ‘Pleasant’ And ‘Uplifting’ Appeal
Posted by Efas 2010 Celebrity News on August 31, 2011With the summer show season winding down, it’s time to initiation looking back and assessing the excellent and not-so-excellent of the summer ’11 season. One of the definitive highlights from this year’s crop is Woody Allen’s “Midnight In Paris.” The ensemble sleeper hit, which has now crossed the $50 million mark, is Allen’s most successful box office grosser ever.
For those of you who place of protection’t yet experienced the pleasant surprise that is “Paris,” and the many A-list and up-and-coming actors who appear in it, here are a few reasons why you should, courtesy of scene-stealer Corey Stoll, who plays Ernest Hemingway.
“It’s one of those movies from the opening credits to the end, you’re just smiling. You’re sitting there smiling,” Stoll told MTV News of the film’s appeal. “There are some huge laughs, but it’s not a rolling in the aisles comedy. It’s just pleasant, it’s like a 90-minute trip to Paris and you want it to be longer.”
When questioned about the film’s continued box office success and early award buzz, Stoll said that people are drawn to the glamor and nostalgia that surrounds the legends that lived in and around Paris in the 1920s.
“I reckon that era, and those figures in that era [Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Picasso, Gertrude Stein, Salvador Dali], people have such connections to that,” Stoll clarified. “Everybody who reads The Fantastic Gatsby or The Sun Also Rises in high school or college, or you see Picasso paintings, it’s impossible to know anything about that period and not to reckon about how rich and electric that place in time must have been. It’s so romantic and so alive and new, and there were so many incredible geniuses there at the same time interacting ridiculously, ridiculously drunk.”
“It’s that world, people really relate to, that sort of fantasy,” he continued. “It’s also uplifting. It’s pretty rare to see a show that’s uplifting in an un-saccharine way. It’s a pleasant hour and a half to spend, I reckon people answer to it and I reckon that people are gone that real escape.”
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