Antoinette movie

[montagnarde1793]

This movie is really going to suck. Muchly.

http://www.liberation.fr/page.php?Article=384772

Apparently the People are reduced to the stereotypical "angry mob" so if the average viewer does not like barbie-pink!Antoinette, they'll have little choice in sympathies, because she and the rest of the Court will be the only human characters.

It's a lot easier for most people to sympathize with one person, even if she is the most annoying bimbo they have ever seen, than a "mob" with a good reason to be angry!

That said, from what I can tell, Liberation is treating this with irony, and seems to be pointing out that the subject matter is somewhat....irrelevant: big surprise there!
...at any rate, it's not a positive review, and I like the publication overall, so...

Comments

[daughtermestizo.livejournal.com]

My French teacher brought my History an magazine with an article on that movie today.

At least it's not coming out 'til November...

D-M

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

OMSB, really? What did it say?

November? I thought it was coming out in October...
And besides, how is that a good thing? It gives the media longer to hype it!

[daughtermestizo.livejournal.com]

It said it was crap. Huzzah!

True, but it also gives us longer to prepare.

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

Yay! ...but in what way? In other words, what was specifically was crappy about it?

Prepare what, a frontal assault?

[daughtermestizo.livejournal.com]

I don't know. I didn't read it. But he turned to me and said, "Looks like it's not a very good movie, huh?"

Or something like that.

OMSBICON! Who is it??

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

Well, that's always good;)

*smirks* I'm sure we'll think of something.

It's Maxime and Eleonore from La Terreur et la Vertu. The line is the actual line he said at that moment....the scene is really quite sad, because just at that moment Le Bas and Augustin come downstairs and we never find out what he wanted to tell her.

[daughtermestizo.livejournal.com]

*grins* It is, it is.

Correction. YOU will think of something. I'll try to counter it and be outvoted.

I knew it! *squees* Now I really want to watch! They're so cute!!

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

...I've been spending far to much time searching for and reading negative reviews of that movie.

Oh, come on; we have to do something!

They are. So very much. This movie has a very nice amount of cuteness. Unfortunately, it's a bit heavy on the sadness....oh well, I suppose it's the subject matter; it can't be helped.

[daughtermestizo.livejournal.com]

French ones, you mean?

Yes, but MUST it be a frontal assault?

Awwwwwwwww. I love cuteness. But yeah, I suppose the sadness can't be helped. Poo.

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

Yeah; it's harder to find negative ones in English for some reason...

I suppose it doesn't have to be....Do you have any suggestions?

It's got very few un-upsetting parts, actually (part II, that is). Part I is less upsetting, but still...

[daughtermestizo.livejournal.com]

Hmm...boycott? I'd have to mull it over.

I imagine it would. Poor, tragic Maxime.

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

Is that the best you can come up with???

*sniffs* He is rather tragic.

[daughtermestizo.livejournal.com]

I said I'd have to think about it! I suppose we could vandalise the posters or something. I dunno.

Is Hérault in Part I, by any chance?

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

That's so....moderate, of you!

I don't remember, but he ought to be...

[daughtermestizo.livejournal.com]

WTF did you expect?

I have yet to see a good Hérault-Séchelles in a movie. I couldn't find him in "Danton" and LRF's version was embarassing. He looked more like Brissot. And Brissot looked like a cross between Collot d'Herbois and someone else. Who wasn't Brissot.

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

At least some creativity!

...I'll look for him.
*cracks up at descriptions*

[daughtermestizo.livejournal.com]

I told you, I'd have to think about it! It couldn't be anything illegal. Hence the boycott.

*snickers* LRF!Brissot = Collot d'Herbois hybrid

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

Why not???

...He does look it.

[daughtermestizo.livejournal.com]

Because it's bad enough that we're seperated by faulty internet without us being ARRESTED. Besides, if we truly wish to follow Maxime's teachings, it HAS to be legal.

Poor Brissot. He suffered enough without having to look like a Collot hybrid.

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

What about the "as illegal as liberty itself" quote? Huh? What about THAT?

Brissot had some....issues, though.

[daughtermestizo.livejournal.com]

What about it?

You mean being a Girondin, for example?

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

I second the sad cuteness of the icon *sniffles*

And, hmm, boycott? Vandalize? Wtf. Really. ;P

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

It's even sadder in context:(

I know! We must try to get DM to stop being so....moderate.

[daughtermestizo.livejournal.com]

We must try to get DM to stop being so....moderate.

*glares*

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

We're not going to hurt you, cherie....merely make you more radical!

...you know you want to be.