This year marks the 50th anniversary of Hemingway's death. Fifty years ago on July 2, he ended himself with a double-barreled shotgun.
Go to a bookstore and see Hemingway's books on the shelves with special commemorative books. The way it is placed is very strange: a small rectangular low table, close to the cashier counter that is much higher than it, has several Hemingway books arranged horizontally and vertically like a picture frame, facing the ready to pay. bookstore customers. It was like being mourned. I think Hemingway would be furious if he saw such a scene layout.
One of them, with a cowhide cover, a very large one, read diagonally: Paris.
Paris is a moving feast.
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On the way to lunch at noon every day, I will pass several poster pillars in turn. What caught my attention these days is Midnight in Paris. The idea of the poster comes from Van Gogh's ''the starry night'' (looked carefully, but Van Gogh did not appear in the movie). Owen Wilson, who has a weird nose, walks the streets of Paris in the painting.
A German colleague told me that every time I see a film played by Owen Wilson, I feel ''Tut mir Leid.'' (feel sorry for him). I think that's his trick.
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The movie starts with a long list of Parisian street scenes, followed by the song Si tu vois me mere (I remember when) as if watching a slideshow.
I remember hearing a Frenchman say that people get the wrong information from the movies and think that the Eiffel Tower can be seen in any corner of Paris, which is pure nonsense.
By the lotus pond like Mo Ye's oil painting, the hero Gil appeared, along with his fiancee Inez.
Gil is a self-consciously romantic but unwilling novelist, whose heart seems to have unlimited passion and cannot be expressed. Coming to Paris with Inez, in this romantic city, nothing romantic has happened yet. Dealing with, either looked down on himself, said his parents-in-law that his brain was lacking, or Inez's friend Paul, who was a talkative and expert in everything, gave him no right to speak at all. No one listened to him, and no one wanted to walk with him through the streets of Paris on a rainy midnight.
Just like the scenes that appear in many novels, this ordinary and lonely ordinary person is endowed with fantasy at a certain moment. Gil, after the clock strikes 12 o'clock, in the streets of Paris, like Cinderella being taken to the prince's banquet by a pumpkin cart, is taken by an antique car to Paris in the twenties, the golden age, La Belle Époque.
Then, The big men began to appear.
The name is inconvenient and tired, so as not to be looked down upon like Paul, in short, a scholar had a dream of Huang Liang. In the dream, he sat side by side with the big men and was favored by him. He had been hiding the manuscripts that he did not want to show to others, and he was also seriously read and appreciated here.
One of the interesting passages is that he really met Picasso himself, so during the day, standing in front of Picasso's paintings with Paul at the same time, he was no longer reluctant to remain silent, and couldn't help refuting Paul, so he got great spiritual satisfaction. He defeated him by becoming him.
In this bizarre feast, he also met a Yan Ruyu, this Adriana had all the characteristics of a dream lover, beautiful, seductive, mysterious, admiring his talent, in the gift he sent The earrings will show a deep breath of admiration, not tossed aside like his fiancée Inez. The important thing is that she is still Picasso's lover! So, like most men, he didn't mention that he already had a fiancée, and of course you could say he never had a chance to.
His affection for her was elevated one day when he saw a love for him described in a novel Adriana wrote decades ago (the time he traveled through) on a used book stand. Especially until the novel wrote that "he gave me a beautiful set of earrings, and then we spent the night together", and resolutely stole a pair of earrings from his fiancee's jewelry box.
Of course the director didn't want Gil to be a jerk, so he braked just in time before the sweet dream turned into a spring dream. The reason is that Adriana is definitely not a fuel-efficient lamp. She has long been accustomed to dealing with men, and she has also traveled to the earlier era of Gauguin and Degas, and believes that this is the golden age for her. What can you expect from her? Sometimes, a man in a daze inevitably overestimates his charm.
These are what Paul said: ''Nostalgia is denial - denial of the painful present... the name for this denial is golden age thinking - the erroneous notion that a different time period is better than the one ones living in - its a flaw in the romantic imagination of those people who find it difficult to cope with the present. '' That's
when Gil thinks of Inez, his fiancée, and she's already had a few nights with Paul.
So the disheartened Gil left his fiancée in disappointment, apparently heartbroken by her. But soon, maybe that night, he met the French girl who used to smile at her when she was selling old records at the flea market, and of course romantic Europeans would definitely satisfy his 'walking in the rain' fantasies, and then , Immediately, he put his frustrations behind him and took a walk with the girl in the pouring rain.
This story tells me that men often live in their own fantasies. If you want to win a man, you must first be mysterious, provoke his fantasy, and don't forget to wink at him from time to time. Then praise him as he pleases, satisfy his self-esteem, and finally, let him inadvertently find out that you want to have sex with him. Of course, it's best to let him find out that you want a pair of pearl earrings before going to bed, and when you get them, make sure your mouth is in an O shape and your eyes are shining, so that he thinks this is what you will see in your life. The most beautiful earrings ever.
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