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“Every piece of information I could find [on Bologne] was helpful,” Robinson said. “I did my best to fact-check, but taking in things that might not have been true, rumors or contradictory facts about him, was useful. Anything that crashed the myth and legend of this person.”
From the beginning, Robinson and Williams agreed that Chevalier would not be a traditional biopic. “We thought of the film as a mash-up of what actually happened and a series of imaginings that we thought were truthful and, hopefully, spiritually honored Joseph Bologne.”
Which just, to me, contradicts what's been said in the featurettes and earlier marketing--that they wanted to tell his story, bring him into the forefront, etc. But they're not really doing that with this film with how much they've changed or made up, especially in regards to taking Bologne's achievements in real life and giving them to white people instead. Such as in real life, Bologne earned the title of chevalier on his own merit by graduating from a royal academy in 1766--before Marie Antoinette set foot in France. In the film, Marie Antoinette giddily bestows the title on him in the 1770s so that he can be at court.
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