The Paris Movie Museum I've never Seen

[00:00:00]Good morning.

[00:00:01]We're headed to a museum I've never been to before.

[00:00:04]But first, I have a little errand to run.

[00:00:05]My neighbor is going through a little bit of a medical moment right now.

[00:00:07]She's getting a procedure this morning, and she's been very anxious about it for a while.

[00:00:12]And so I thought I'd get her some flowers so that she comes home to something a little bit nice before I get out of here.

[00:00:18]But we got to get moving.

[00:00:19]So something orange.

[00:00:22]I'm thinking bright orange colors, right? Maybe some— I don't know. We'll ask.

[00:00:33]I just hope it's not rude to ask for this vase back.

[00:00:36]But, you know, I do want the vase back.

[00:00:43]So the real adventure for today is going to a museum I've never gone to before that my patrons voted on.

[00:00:49]They picked out of 3.

[00:00:50]If you think you can pick better, you can become a patron and swing the vote.

[00:00:54]But in the meantime, we're going to be going to the Cinémathèque.

[00:00:57]I always think, like, it's going to be a discotheque, but for movies.

[00:01:00]I think that's how the tech works, because bibliothèque, discothèque, cinémathèque, cinéthèque, cinémathèque. It's a movie museum.

[00:01:08]Not a library for movies, not a dance hall for movies, but a movie museum.

[00:01:12]Sometimes French naming conventions still confuse me.

[00:01:15]Anyways, I'm going to go with my friend Amber, who is the museum goddess of Paris.

[00:01:19]Even though she doesn't know a whole lot about this one in particular, she's still going to add a lot to it because she always adds a lot to all these experiences.

[00:01:24]And before we get there, Since we're going at noon, I'm going to need a little bit of an early lunch.

[00:01:29]And because I'm crossing town and I kind of need the excuse to get across town, figured why not pop over into the 13th and check out whatever's going at Cayo?

[00:01:39]Seems like a good call to me.

[00:01:40]So let's drop in at Cayo.

[00:01:41]I've got a little bit of work to do before we head over and then we'll see what this Cinematheque has to offer.

[00:01:47]And while we're riding, spotted in the wild is a little badass tour.

[00:01:52]Rory!

[00:01:54]Good, how you doing? Best tour guide in Paris.

[00:01:56]Love Rory. That's really fun.

[00:01:58]Anyways, that was just a random— I did not, I did not know we're gonna run into him.

[00:02:02]Have you gone on a badass tour yet?

[00:02:03]A bunch of Irish boys running around Paris, nothing better.

[00:03:07]We gotta go.

[00:03:19]Check it out.

[00:03:20]Well, we just had a terrible meal with even worse service, which is a nice reminder that actually what I do when it comes to helping people find good meals and having a good time in Paris.

[00:03:28]It actually is valuable.

[00:03:29]- It certainly is. I mean, the fries came out cold.

[00:03:32]Anyways, we don't have to complain about it, but, um, parisinmypocket.com let's see this museum.

[00:03:41]Oh, there she is.

[00:03:42]Always wanted to walk through Marilyn's face.

[00:04:35]¡Hola!

[00:04:38]- So the Cinémathèque has their expos, which is Marilyn Monroe, beautiful, at the moment, and then their like permanent collection, which is mainly about cinema and Méliès particularly, which is downstairs.

[00:04:49]Who's Méliès?

[00:04:51]- Méliès is like one of the very first cinéastes.

[00:04:54]If you've seen that film Hugo, I think it's called, Hugo Cabret, his most famous scene is the moon, you have like the moon and then the rocket goes into the eye, and that's Méliès.

[00:05:05]And he's like this pioneer in like special effects basically and cinema because the French we start cinema.

[00:05:13]And this, the Cinémathèque, is about that, you know, it's kind of preserving that and showing how, how cinema became cinema.

[00:05:20]I wanted to see the magic trick.

[00:05:23]You made the skeleton a person!

[00:05:26]The air conditioning was very nice, actually.

[00:05:28]Very.

[00:05:28]I feel like there was some air conditioning.

[00:05:29]It was really cold, actually. It was cold, yeah.

[00:05:31]I feel chilled.

[00:05:33]Um, and it's not just because we went to the moon.

[00:05:36]So you know him from The Moon.

[00:05:39]I mean, that's the shot that I know him from too, but I didn't realize— I think the thing that stood out to me the most probably from that whole thing, and what I find most inspiring, is just the creativity of the mechanics they had to put together, the space they used, his greenhouse that he used to build these massive sets and these monsters and putting it together.

[00:05:57]And I think there's a collaborative nature to it.

[00:05:59]There's experimenting with new technology, with new ideas and visuals and magic, right?

[00:06:07]Bringing magic into it.

[00:06:08]I don't know, I just found it to be really inspiring.

[00:06:11]Honestly, the Marilyn, uh, exposition, which is going to be over very soon, so you probably won't make it in time unless you're here this week, was very nice.

[00:06:18]And that was all— also sparked a lot of questions about, like, the role Hollywood has played in just brainwashing us in so many ways, and the impressive nature of her overcoming so much to create what she did.

[00:06:31]There's always new expos.

[00:06:33]I mean, it's Marilyn, they have the Wes Anderson, they've had Kubrick, they do loads of great expos. That'd be really cool.

[00:06:37]Also, we found out today Kubrick died in '99.

[00:06:39]I didn't know that.

[00:06:40]The thing is that French people, like, you know that they love cinema.

[00:06:43]Yeah, they love to go, like, I mean, any day of the week you can go to cinema, it's full.

[00:06:46]There'll be some arthouse movie and then a blockbuster and then all the, like, independent cinemas in the 5th.

[00:06:51]Like, they really do love cinema. Thanks, Amber.

[00:06:54]See you later. See you soon.

[00:06:57]That was... Okay, so I think also when I first walked in there, I didn't think I was going to like it.

[00:07:02]Both things. The exposition about Marilyn Monroe.

[00:07:05]I don't really know that much about her, right?

[00:07:07]She's an icon in my brain, but I wouldn't recognize her from half the photos that we saw.

[00:07:14]And her story was very interesting by the end.

[00:07:15]I really did enjoy it.

[00:07:16]And same with the main, the permanent display.

[00:07:20]It's nice.

[00:07:20]It's kind of fun to see the optical illusions.

[00:07:22]And initially I was like, oh, yeah, these are toys and it's kind of fun.

[00:07:27]And I don't know, it felt like, okay, this feels like a museum.

[00:07:31]But then when you get more into the hands-on elements and also seeing the photos of guys working with this old equipment and the amount of work that must have gone into making a movie, you don't even know for sure if you exposed it correctly.

[00:07:43]This is nowhere near where the average person is ever going to end up in Paris.

[00:07:46]We're in the 12th by Bercy.

[00:07:48]But if you are into cinema, into like making movies, storytelling, anything.

[00:07:55]I don't know, I just felt like going through there, there's an element again of the craftsmanship, the collaboration, the creative vision, just bringing things together that had never been done before.

[00:08:05]These guys are like trying completely new things.

[00:08:08]And there may not be an arena into which we can jump right now that is so new and so vibrant and so hands-on and so tactile, but I walked out wanting to make something, and I think that that is ultimately the root of inspiration.

[00:08:21]And anytime you can go to a museum, to an exposition, to whatever it is, and walk out feeling like you gotta go put your hands to work and make something, I feel like that in and of itself is worth it, even if it is on the other side of Paris, a little bit cheesy.

[00:08:36]The air conditioning was great, and I left— I'm— oh, that was energizing.

[00:08:40]Anyways, thanks to today's patron producer, James Burgess.

[00:08:43]Burgess. I always struggle with that name.

[00:08:45]Sorry, Burgess.

[00:08:46]And all my patrons for voting on this.

[00:08:49]You guys chose well. This is a really good one.

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[00:09:02]Thanks so much for my patrons. Thanks to you for watching.

[00:09:04]And yeah, have a good weekend.