cake! shoes! puppies! that damn marie antoinette movie

[bettylabamba.livejournal.com]

Ok. So I went to see that Marie Antoinette movie. On the one hand I liked it because of the awesome costuming [hot guys in wigs & capri pants!], but on the other hand it blew. The movie had a lot of pointless scenes and progressed in an almost painfully slow manner, which is a total shame since Mizz Sophia "I'mNotAsGoodAsMyDaddyButOMG!MarcJacobsIsAmazing" Coppola had unprecendented access to Versailles. I still have every intention of buying this crap on DVD, but the whole movie came across as an overbudget overglorified senior year student film with subliminal "Come Visit France! Strap on Your Pannier & Tour Versailles!" messages.

I'm not going to even get started on how the Revolution was completely glossed over. I don't remember if Necker was even portrayed in it.

What's everyone else's opinions/rants?

Comments

[jonahmama.livejournal.com]

I have heard lots of rants and I just have one opinion to offer: Historical fiction (which is what this is) is to history what science fiction is to science. If you're looking at this movie and criticizing it for not being historically accurate, you might wish to rewatch the "Star Wars" movies and write a rant about the chances of everyone in the galaxy being bipedal and English-speaking. Science fiction is a way to talk about the present in a round-about way to make a point that might otherwise be difficult to swallow. A wildly inaccurate, imaginary future often doubles for the present day. Historical fiction is the exact same thing - a wildly inaccurate, imaginary past doubles for the present day. If you want a thinly veiled portrait today's oblivious, self-absorbed, spoiled rich teenagers, you might see it in this movie. If you want an accurate depiction of the French Revolution, may I suggest you explore the documentary genre.

[kurotoshi.livejournal.com]

my complaint about the lack of socio-political situation was because people didn't understand why the crowd was there at the end. I find that maybe if they mentionned it a bit more, people would of understood it more ^-^;

[bettylabamba.livejournal.com]

I say werd to this. My beef with the movie is not so much fact vs fiction as it is with how Coppola directed the movie. The revolution part came up too suddenly and didn't make any sense. At the end, everyone in the movie theatre was "WTF?! That's it?" I had to explain to my mom what happened. I think Coppola assumed everyone already knew the history. I mean, not everyone knows what the Bastille is. IMHO, she should have written the script so that it ended before the fall of the Bastille and stayed focused on Marie's Versaille/Petit Trianon life. Or, it should have followed her straight to the end.

[kurotoshi.livejournal.com]

Agreed! I think I was the only person in the theator NOT confused!

[kurotoshi.livejournal.com]

THEATER.