jennylafleur | Marie Antionette interview

sewphisticate I bow to your reviewing greatness!! I just read the first Coppla interview for MA and she confirmed quite a few of your initial impressions of the film (from the trailer). This will be a coming of age story and the '80s music is part of the soundtrack, not just the trailer.

*sigh* Oh well.

I will see it of course but only for the thrill of the snark and the pleasure of loathing it. I don’t like this type of film in general and particularly not in my favorite era of fashion and about my dear Antionette. Maybe the costumes will be better in the film. To be honest I'm not all that thrilled with what I've seen. They are very nice but nothing that has reached out and grabbed me. I just asoon go watch L'Anglaise et le Duc again.

I suppose all this makes me a bit of an accuracy snob. Ummm… should I be worried that I don’t care? :P I must bow again, this time to the lovely

sarahbellem who has written my own feelings so much better than I could have done myself. If I may quote her...

"Who cares if it's not 100% period accurate? I do! I find modernisims jarring. I don't buy into the "dumbing down for the masses" philosophy that seems so popular these days (look at the BBC Pride & Prejudice from 10 years ago... It proved that historically accurate -in so far as was possible- was still enjoyable and that people will soil themselves in ecstasy every time they watch it). And that is why I don't really think I'm going to be flinging myself around with joy over the New Order song in an 18th century movie.

Call me a Movie Nazi. Fine. I know what I like and I'm sticking to it. :)"

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I haven't been that impressed by the trailer, I doubt I'll see it in the theater, maybe rent it someday. I don't like it when they put modern music in movies that are in historical settings... :-/

Thank you! ::curtseies:: ;)

What really irritates me is the mentality that surrounds historically correct movies - that a) no one will watch them and b) they're fundementally boring to modern audiences if no one is scantilly clad at any point during the story. Even our beloved P&P bowed to this a bit with Darcy stripping down to his undies to take a swim in a rather sketchy lagoon so he could be dripping wet and only in his shirt when he runs into Lizzy. If that's not hot, I don't know what is. ;)

I guess the difference here is that they made it work in P&P and still stayed true to the era and the book in the process. We could believe that someone like Darcy would do that and that if he encountered his object d'amore by accident, they'd both be embarassed by the amount of undress, and not titilated.

But back to my original point... Filmakers and filmgoers alike often fall back on the falacy that no one wants to see a historicallly correct movie and that the sex and violence and modernisms that get put into these types of movies are there to entice modern people to watch. I think filmakers aren't giving the audience enough credit and I think that filmgoers are giving themselves a disservice by agreeing with them.

That said, I think I'm going to have an easier time watching MA than you or others who know the history of that era better. But I do completely understand that if someone tried to make a feature length film about, say, Anne Boleyn, and take the same liberties with the mood of the film that Copolla did with MA, not to mention focusing on the sexual aspect of this person's life without giving her more credit for being a pretty savvy woman when she wasn't on her back, I probaly wouldn't be able to watch. Or I'd do what I did for the "Elizabeth" and watch with one eye covered the whole time. I think I had the forethought to wait until the movie came out on DVD before I saw it, so I could scream at the TV screen in peace... ;)

I don't think I want to see it. I hate the anachronistic music (how very A Knight's Tale of you, Sofia). I think the music would be distracting and pull me out of the movie. It would remind me that I'm just watching a bunch of actors.

I loved The Libertine because it didn't romanticize the period and show us life through rose-colored glasses. Which is not to say that I can't enjoy a light-hearted movie. I want to see Cassanova, even if it's not historically accurate. :)

Hi,
I must say that i hate the preview of the film and the music. I didnt believe my own ears, when they played that music.
Oh well. i cant say that i dont want to go, i will die to see it, nomatter what, and then i can always say well well later.
Its so seldom they make good costume dramas, and i hate when you cant see them. For instance when "Le Roi Danse" had premiere, it never was shown in Denmark, and i have tryed to get a dvd or tape of it, but i can only get it from france. Isnt that odd that for instance Amazon dont have it?
It was a movie about Louis XIV.
Anyway i just got Tom Jones from UK yesterday, and i really love it. Its so lovely to see early 18th century sometimes.

Bjarne

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