"'Let them eat cake,' she says just like Marie Antoinette . . ."
I saw Marie Antoinette with Ruthie today!
It was pretty, anyway. I wish there had been more dialogue, or at least that the dialogue there was didn't sound like it had been poorly ad-libbed. And there really needed to be guillotineage, or at least some acknowledgment of how serious the situation was. We were meant to sympathize with Antoinette, right? Showing her cluelessness, how completely childish and lost she was at Versailles, was a good start, but showing some of her better moments would have helped, too. I definitely think showing someone's faults is a good way to help understand them, but understanding means nothing if you can't like them -- she wasn't clever, but she was very strong, near the end, and it would have been great to show that. At least Louis was adorable. And they actually noted that she never said "Let them eat cake!" Yay. :D
Now I've said all that . . . oh my god, the costumes. I don't know what it says about me that when everyone was talking about how trashy du Barry's clothes were, I was thinking "I don't know, I kind of like them." But if liking bold colours better than pastels makes me a whore, so be it. I did like the pastels as well, though -- it was like this candy-coloured confection world they were living in. And it was all decadent to the point of suffocation -- that makes the Hameau make a lot more sense. Also, Fersen? Really. Incredibly. Hot. I thought he was nice-looking when I saw pictures, but the reaction to him onscreen is more like "fshsklehlkswhetwOHMYGOD."
I'm still kind of lukewarm about Kirsten Dunst. Sometimes I like her, sometimes I don't, and this film had a bit of both. She pulled off being a fourteen-year-old surprisingly well at the beginning, and the awkward moments when she was first at court were great. A few things that should have had more weight later turned into throwaways -- I'm not sure if that was because of her or Coppola.
Anyway, it was pretty much a costumer's dream, so the solution is probably to watch the movie with the sound off and make up amazingly witty catty courtier dialogue in your head.
It was pretty, anyway. I wish there had been more dialogue, or at least that the dialogue there was didn't sound like it had been poorly ad-libbed. And there really needed to be guillotineage, or at least some acknowledgment of how serious the situation was. We were meant to sympathize with Antoinette, right? Showing her cluelessness, how completely childish and lost she was at Versailles, was a good start, but showing some of her better moments would have helped, too. I definitely think showing someone's faults is a good way to help understand them, but understanding means nothing if you can't like them -- she wasn't clever, but she was very strong, near the end, and it would have been great to show that. At least Louis was adorable. And they actually noted that she never said "Let them eat cake!" Yay. :D
Now I've said all that . . . oh my god, the costumes. I don't know what it says about me that when everyone was talking about how trashy du Barry's clothes were, I was thinking "I don't know, I kind of like them." But if liking bold colours better than pastels makes me a whore, so be it. I did like the pastels as well, though -- it was like this candy-coloured confection world they were living in. And it was all decadent to the point of suffocation -- that makes the Hameau make a lot more sense. Also, Fersen? Really. Incredibly. Hot. I thought he was nice-looking when I saw pictures, but the reaction to him onscreen is more like "fshsklehlkswhetwOHMYGOD."
I'm still kind of lukewarm about Kirsten Dunst. Sometimes I like her, sometimes I don't, and this film had a bit of both. She pulled off being a fourteen-year-old surprisingly well at the beginning, and the awkward moments when she was first at court were great. A few things that should have had more weight later turned into throwaways -- I'm not sure if that was because of her or Coppola.
Anyway, it was pretty much a costumer's dream, so the solution is probably to watch the movie with the sound off and make up amazingly witty catty courtier dialogue in your head.