CinéMagique
| CinéMagique | |
|---|---|
| Walt Disney Studios Park | |
| Area | Production Courtyard |
| Coordinates | 48°52′2.28″N 2°46′48.86″E / 48.8673000°N 2.7802389°ECoordinates: 48°52′2.28″N 2°46′48.86″E / 48.8673000°N 2.7802389°E |
| Status | Operating |
| Opening date | March 16, 2002 |
| General statistics | |
| Attraction type | Cinema |
| Designer | Walt Disney Imagineering |
| Theme | Cinema history |
| Audience capacity | 1,100 per show |
| Duration | 25 minutes |
| Director | Jerry Rees |
| Writer | Steve Spiegel |
| Composer | Bruce Broughton |
 Wheelchair accessible |
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CinéMagique is 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 show begins with a castmember 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 castmember 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 attempts to stop him, but is unable to reach him due to the movie screen. He then enlists the help of a nearby Magician 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.
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