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

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

*grins*

But didn't I just point out that they kind of did?

I'm pretty sure it was Saint-Just, but I suppose I could research it more...

[daughtermestizo.livejournal.com]

Kind of. That law may suck but it does, technically, cover it.

Yeah, I'd mostly heard Maxime; but like I said, I'm not sure I believe it.

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

Just as I said.

I don't believe it either, for three reasons: one, I've never heard that, two, as a person with his Oeuvres and numerous books about him, I've never seen any evidence for it, and three, it seems incongruous for the man who saved seventy-three Girondins. I will look into it further, though.

[daughtermestizo.livejournal.com]

It seems illogical to me simply because Maxime always insisted on legality. And if I were him (which I'm obviously not, but still...) I'd consider executing someone without any form of trial to be illegal, outlaw or no.

I mean, he DID disapprove of a trial for the King, but that's different.

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

Well, he did say unjust laws weren't laws, so you may be right about that...

[daughtermestizo.livejournal.com]

Did he? Oooooooooh, I'm going to steal that quote!

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

Yes....I forget where though.
...I'll try to find it.

[daughtermestizo.livejournal.com]

*nodnod* I'd make it my signature on dA.

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

*Tries to find*

[daughtermestizo.livejournal.com]

*bounces*

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

...This grows difficult--perhaps I could get back to you on it? ...Don't bounce all that time!

[daughtermestizo.livejournal.com]

*sits back down* I won't, I promise. I'm trying to finish an essay, in any case. Or at least finish it enough so that I may write the rest in class tomorrow.

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

What's it on?

[daughtermestizo.livejournal.com]

Charles Edward Stuart and the '45.

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

For what class?

[daughtermestizo.livejournal.com]

History, of course!

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

You never know! I mean, you were writing a paper on Maxime for your writing class!

[daughtermestizo.livejournal.com]

That's true, that's true.

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

Therefore, one can't make assumptions.

[daughtermestizo.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry, then. But yes, this one is for History. My teacher never ceases to be astounded that I did not choose to do my final project on the FrRev.

And if I had known our FrRev section of the class was THAT sparse, I'd have done my project on the Comité de Salut Public. But it's too late now. *sniffs*

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

*pats* It's okay; I'm sure, despite my scant knowledge of him, Charles Edward Stuart is interesting enough!

[daughtermestizo.livejournal.com]

He really is despite being about as Royalist as one can possible be! Historians today are still divided as to whether or not he really cared about the Scottish people, or if he merely wanted the British crown.

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

...You must know my natural inclination is to pick the second possible answer, but I will refrain from doing so, being ignorant of the subject matter.

[daughtermestizo.livejournal.com]

I do not know enough about him, personally, to make a judgement, but it seems to be a combination of the two. By all accounts he did care a good deal about the people, and I've little doubt he would have ruled them justly, but he had been raised his ENTIRE life (and this is his father's fault, not his) to believe it was his divine right to rule.

That second detail is more complicated than that, but I am very tired now, and shall retire. If you're interested, I can elaborate tomorrow.

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

Perhaps, perhaps. I'm afraid, however that it will inevitably come down to Saint-Just's phrase, "on ne peut régner innocement."