CinéMagique

CinéMagique was a theatre show at Walt Disney Studios Park in Disneyland Paris mixing the live performance of an actor with synchronized movie scenes on a big screen. The attraction opened with the park on March 16, 2002 and stars Martin Short and Julie Delpy. The last show was on March 29, 2017, before it was announced in August 2018 that the show would be revived. 
==Plot==
The show begins with a cast member reciting an opening spiel regarding the nature of the show: "Today, you are going to see a movie on the history of cinema spanning from silent films to today's modern films." The movie starts playing a montage of early black-and-white films. After a few moments, a cell phone ring is heard, and a man in the front rows answers it. He eludes the cast member and walks on the stage while talking.
Meanwhile, the love scene on screen between a Prince and a Princess is interrupted by this man's noisy conversation. The angered Prince (Marco Leonardi) attempts to stop him, but is unable to reach him due to the movie screen. He then enlists the help of a nearby Magician (Alan Cumming) to silence him. This Magician executes a magic trick which makes the man disappear from the stage in a plume of smoke, and reappear inside the movie (here portrayed by Martin Short). Short's character (known as "George") seems unable to recover from his surprise, and the Prince corrects him by punching him in the face. As the Prince and the Magician leave, the Princess (called "Marguerite"), portrayed by Julie Delpy, comforts poor George. Yet, the Prince, seeing this, starts chasing after him with a sword.
George escapes via a window to suddenly find out he's on the ledge of a high building with Harold Lloyd, in the scene of the clock tower from the Safety Last! George finds a fire escape and eventually makes it to the ground. Just as he thinks he is safe, a pie is thrown at his face. He can see that many others in the street, including Charlie Chaplin and Laurel & Hardy, are engaged in throwing pies at one another. George gets into the action, and discover he can talk, meaning he has left silent movies.
Then, after angering an armed man by throwing a pie at him, George is backed down against a wall by a group of gangsters, in the scene from Angels with Dirty Faces. Before he is shot, two men appear behind the gangsters, distracting them and allowing him to escape. However, George's escape is too noisy, and alerts the gangsters, who start shooting at him. Clips here include scenes from Some Like It Hot. George then crashes through a window. At this point, he has left the realm of black-and-white films.
As George stands up, he realizes he is part of scenes from the movies Once Upon a Time in the West and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, with bandits standing before him. As George's phone rings, the scene uses Sergio Leone's method of extreme close-ups to build up a shootout. George reaches for the phone and the shootout starts using footage from multiple westerns, including The Magnificent Seven. In his attempt to escape the gunfire, George drops his phone, and then seeks refuge in a nearby shed filled with TNT and other explosives. A cowboy then shoots a crate of TNT, and sends George flying into the air.
George comes blasting out of a chimney on the rooftops of London, thrust into the universe of Mary Poppins. He is then immediately sucked into the song "Step in Time". Meanwhile, Maguerite has been following George, whom she fell in love with, and arrives in the scene of the shootout. She can only find George's phone on the ground. The film cuts back to George walking down a street during pouring rain (from The Umbrellas of Cherbourg). There, he meets Marguerite, who hands his phone back. Then, they call a taxi, but George is sucked down a puddle he jumps into. Marguerite attempts to follow him, but is unable to.
George has now dived underwater, coming across the Red October submarine from The Hunt for Red October (Marko Ramius is startled to see George through the periscope). George also meet the divers from The Big Blue. Then, as he swims away, he encounters Pinocchio, who attempts to warn him about a large whale. Suddenly, Monstro awakens and chases both George and Pinocchio.
Upon reaching the surface, George sees the Titanic approaching him. He gets helped out onto the bow by a lookout, only to see the ship hitting the iceberg. As passengers start running to the escape boats, George hears Jack Dawson calling for his life, and reaches the corridor of doors to find him. He opens random doors, each one revealing someone else behind. The scenes include Archie Leach from A Fish Called Wanda, Inspector Clouseau from The Pink Panther, Hannibal Lecter from The Silence of the Lambs, Sully from Monsters, Inc., and Regan Macneil from The Exorcist. Then, as the water is flooding the corridor, and right before George meets his demise, the wall he stands against opens up and he is grabbed.
George is now aboard the Death Star. He is quickly grabbed by a stormtrooper, who takes him to a hidden corner, just in time to elude Darth Vader walking down the corridor. This helpful stormtrooper is then revealed to be Marguerite. Yet, real stormtroopers start chasing them through the space station, and to escape, they re-enact the scene where Princess Leia and Luke Skywalker use the wire to traverse the chasm.
As they land on the other side, they are in a medieval setting. A nearby Knight (Tchéky Karyo) notices George and Marguerite, and walks over to them. George begs for his help to get back to the other side of the screen in the real world. However, havoc breaks loose. Armies descend and a battle ensues between knights. Kevin Costner as Robin Hood shoots an arrow toward Marguerite, but she saved by George jumping on its way to stop it. The arrow has clearly punctured his heart, and the fighting stops. As the Knight removes it, he finds out that it had actually stabbed George's cell phone. Scared by its ringtone, the Knight crushes it. Then, he walks to the top of the hill and lightning strikes his sword. He throws it toward the screen, breaking it open and creating a portal allowing George to travel back to the Theater. He does so, but the portal closes before Marguerite crosses it. Finally, the Magician returns and creates a door for George to walk through. George then decides to go back into screen, and the movie ends with a loving embrace between them, complemented by a montage of famous on-screen kisses. The show closes with George and Marguerite skipping toward the Emerald City from The Wizard of Oz.
Halfway through 2013, some scenes (when George opens doors in the Titanic, and during the 'kissing' scene at the end) have been replaced by scenes from newer movies such as: Ratatouille, The Incredibles and Narnia.
==Revival==
In August of 2018, Disney confirmed that after a year-long absence, the show would be returning to Disneyland Paris. 
==Credits==
===Cast===
*Martin Short: George
*Julie Delpy: Marguerite
*Alan Cumming: The Magician
*Tcheky Karyo: The Knight
===Crew===
*Directed by – Jerry ReesCinemagique - Jerry Rees
*Produced by – Tom Fitzgerald
*Written by – Steve Spiegel
*Music by – Bruce Broughton
*Visual Effects Supervisor – Tim LandryTim Landry's "Shoveling Pixie Dust: a Memoir" - YouTube
==List of featured films==
Title 	Year	Director 	Main actors
Workers Leaving the Lumière Factory 	1894	Louis Lumière 	
The Kiss 	1896	Edison Manufacturing Company	John C. Rice, May Irwin
L'Arrivée d'un train en gare de La Ciotat	1894	Louis Lumière 	
The Great Train Robbery 	1903	Edwin S. Porter 	
A Trip to the Moon 	1902	Georges Méliès 	Georges Méliès, Bleuette Bernon
Birth of a Nation 	1915	David Wark Griffith 	
Cops 	1922	Buster Keaton 	Buster Keaton
Plane Crazy 	1928	Walt Disney 	Mickey Mouse
Napoléon 	1927	Abel Gance 	Albert Dieudonné
The Battleship Potemkin 	1925	Sergei Eisenstein 	Alexander Antonov
Nosferatu 	1922	Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau 	Max Schreck
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 	1919	Robert Wiene 	
Metropolis 	1927	Fritz Lang 	Brigitte Helm
The Sheik 	1921	George Melford 	Rudolph Valentino
Safety Last! 	1923	Fred C. Newmeyer 	Harold Lloyd
The Battle of the Century 	1927	Clyde Bruckman 	Laurel and Hardy
Behind The Screen 	1916	Charlie Chaplin 	Charlie Chaplin
Angels with Dirty Faces 	1938	Michael Curtiz 	James Cagney
Some Like It Hot 	1959	Billy Wilder 	Marilyn Monroe, Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon
Once Upon a Time in the West 	1967	Sergio Leone 	Charles Bronson, Henry Fonda
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly 	1968	Sergio Leone 	Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach
Tombstone 	1993	George Pan Cosmatos 	Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer
The Wild Bunch 	1969	Sam Peckinpah 	William Holden
The Magnificent Seven 	1960	John Sturges 	Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen
Mary Poppins 	1965	Robert Stevenson 	Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg 	1964	Jacques Demy 	Catherine Deneuve
The Hunt for Red October 	1990	John McTiernan 	Sean Connery
The Big Blue 	1987	Luc Besson 	Jean-Marc Barr, Jean Reno
Pinocchio 	1940	Walt Disney 	
Titanic 	1997	James Cameron 	Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet
A Fish Called Wanda 	1988	Charles Crichton 	John Cleese
Trois hommes et un couffin 	1985	Coline Serreau 	Roland Giraud, André Dussollier
The Pink Panther 	1963	Blake Edwards 	Peter Sellers
Silence of the Lambs 	1991	Jonathan Demme 	Anthony Hopkins
Monsters, Inc. 	2001	Disney-Pixar 	
The Exorcist 	1972	William Friedkin 	Linda Blair
Star Wars: A New Hope 	1977	George Lucas 	Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford
The Three Musketeers 	1993	Stephen Herek 	Kiefer Sutherland, Julie Delpy
Highlander 	1986	Russell Mulcahy 	Christophe Lambert
Ran 	1985	Akira Kurosawa 	Tatsuya Nakadai
El Cid 	1961	Anthony Mann 	Charlton Heston, Sophia Loren
Henri V 	1989	Kenneth Branagh 	Kenneth Branagh, James Larkin
Monty Python and the Holy Grail 	1975	Terry Jones, Terry Gilliam 	Monty Pythons
Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves 	1991	Kevin Reynolds 	Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman
Summertime 	1955	David Lean 	Katharine Hepburn
Doctor Zhivago 	1965	David Lean 	Omar Sharif, Julie Christie
Casablanca 	1942	Michael Curtiz 	Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman
Gone with the Wind 	1939	Victor Fleming 	Vivien Leigh, Clark Gable
A Man and a Woman 	1966	Claude Lelouch 	Jean-Louis Trintignant, Anouk Aimée
Wuthering Heights 	1939	William Wyler 	Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon
Ridicule 	1996	Patrice Leconte 	Fanny Ardant, Jean Rochefort
The Horseman on the Roof 	1995	Jean-Paul Rappeneau 	Olivier Martinez, Juliette Binoche
The Rules of the Game 	1939	Jean Renoir 	Marcel Dalio, Paulette Dubost
The Black Orchid 	1959	Martin Ritt 	Anthony Quinn, Sophia Loren
A Place in the Sun 	1951	George Stevens 	Montgomery Clift, Elizabeth Taylor
Carmen Jones 	1954	Otto Preminger 	Harry Belafonte, Dorothy Dandridge
Cyrano de Bergerac 	1990	Jean-Paul Rappeneau 	Gérard Depardieu, Vincent Perez, Anne Brochet
Who Framed Roger Rabbit 	1988	Robert Zemeckis 	Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd
Brave Little Tailor 	1938	Walt Disney 	Mickey Mouse
To Catch a Thief 	1955	Alfred Hitchcock 	Cary Grant, Grace Kelly
The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc 	1999	Luc Besson 	Milla Jovovich
The Wizard of Oz 	1939	Victor Fleming 	Judy Garland, Jack Haley
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