I think the superficiality of the gags in the film is meant whimsically. The lead character is a buffoon matched by the silliness of his fantasies. The actor, Owen Wilson, is to me a lightweight but for that reason works in the part. Maybe I'm reading too much into it, but the idea of a yearning for some beautiful, bygone age to me is not fluff.
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 10:23 PM, C. G. Estabrook <galliher at illinois.edu>wrote:
> Be sure to see if you haven't the wonderful turn of Corey Stoll as
> Hemingway in Woody Allen's "Midnight in Paris" - a film a filmmaker friend
> correctly calls "Fluff - but superior fluff!"
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> On 8/29/11 8:20 PM, 123hop at comcast.net wrote:
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>> I'm making my way through Hemingway's "A Moveable Feast."
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>> His remarks on Pound really stand out in this book, in which, generally,
>> he does not say very complimentary things about most. But he mentions
>> Pound's kindness again and again and again.
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>> Joanna
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