Magic in the Moonlight - Trivia, Questions and Fun Facts

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[javier]

Writer and director Woody Allen's fourth movie with a 2.35:1 aspect ratio, after Manhattan (1979), Anything Else (2003), and Blue Jasmine (2013).

[kristen]

At one point, Stanley Crawford (Colin Firth) and Sophie Baker (Emma Stone) are caught in a lightning storm and take shelter in an abandoned observatory. A similar scenario happened in Manhattan (1979), also written and directed by Woody Allen.

[elmer]

Colin Firth previously appeared in another production centering around a British stage magician with an Asian stage persona, set in the early twentieth century. In Lost Empires (1986), he played the nephew and stage assistant of vaudeville magician Nick Ollanton (stage name Gunga Dun) played by John Castle. Firth's overbearing and rude character in this movie is very similar to that of Ollanton/Gunga Dun.

[amber]

The script references at least three Queen songs: "Made in Heaven", "A Kind of Magic", and "It's Late".

[lonnie]

Emma Stone considers Diane Keaton, long a mainstay in Woody Allen's earlier movies, to be a major influence on her work.

[kristina]

This is the second movie in which Dame Eileen Atkins played Colin Firth's mother figure. The first being What a Girl Wants (2003).

[kylie]

Wei Ling Soo, Stanley's on-stage persona, is a reference to Chung Ling Soo, the stage name of William Ellsworth Robinson (1861-1918), a popular magician in the U.S. and Europe for many years. Chung Ling Soo also tried to debunk spiritualists, and even wrote a book about it in 1898. A major difference is how carefully the men protect their Chinese personas. In this movie, people seem to be aware of Stanley's role as Wei Ling Soo. Robinson, very careful to protect his stage persona, lived as Chung, never breaking character while in public. He died on March 24, 1918 when a bullet catch trick went wrong. "My God, I've been shot!" were his last words and the first English words he had spoken on stage in nineteen years.

[jesus]

The paintings in Olivia's London apartment appeared in Gertrude Stein's apartment in Midnight in Paris (2011).

[camila]

This movie was a co-production between France and the United States.

[tammy]

Colin Firth is twenty-eight years older than Emma Stone, which made him more than double her age at the time that this movie was filmed and released.

[sophie]

Some of the classical music pieces heard in the movie's opening scene are Igor Stravinsky's "Rite of Spring" and Ludwig van Beethoven's "9th Symphony, 2nd movement". The Beethoven piece is heard again when Stanley's sleep is troubled.

[eli]

Stanley gets most of his pessimism and philosophical view points from the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, who is mentioned more than once in this movie.

[riley]

This movie takes place in 1928.

[norma]

Sophie Baker uses the expression "geometric logic" to Stanley Crawford. It was first used in The Caine Mutiny (1954), in the scene where Lieutenant Commander Philip Francis Queeg (Humphrey Bogart) reveals his paranoia under cross-examination. Writer and Director Woody Allen's favorite actor is Bogart, and the employment of the phrase was meant as an homage to him.

[sylvia]

The cast includes three Oscar winners: Colin Firth, Emma Stone, and Marcia Gay Harden; and one Oscar nominee: Jacki Weaver.

[chris]

Its the first time Emma Stone falls in love inside an observatory. The second time is in La La Land (2016).

[linda]

Swiss certificate # 1010.45.

[veronica]

Cole Porter's "You Do Something To Me" is featured prominently throughout this movie. The song was also featured in Easy Virtue (2008), which also featured Colin Firth.