Er, well, personally I think she has a hopelessly over-romanticized perspective of Marie-Antoinette (or possibly or royalty in general) and isn't particularly interested in portraying her life realistically, and would rather concentrate on the OMG!shiny bits. Especially after reading this: "I didn't want to show the evasion, the arrest, the guillotine, I didn't want to reconstitute the whole story, that wasn't the goal of the film. I wanted to concentrate myself on the personal evolution of the character, up until the point where I could show how she eventually ends up accepting her ineluctable death, way before being confronted to it. I didn't picture myself shooting in a jail either, and even less so reconstituting it. And above all, I didn't want to show a decapitated head on the ground in a mix of mud and blood."
...Er, yeah. That kind of speaks for itself. The last sentence, particularly. Perhaps she could've been phrased better, but the way it's phrased just seems rather like she didn't want the fairy tale atmosphere to be ruined by icky things.
Either that, or she hopes that it will connect with the American teenagers by using contemporary music, shiny crap, and portraying the characters as being just like them.
But, anyway, that's just my perception, and it could be completely wrong, and it could actually turn out to be a decent movie. ...I doubt it, though.
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Date: Friday, 25 August 2006 07:55 (UTC)(or possibly or royalty in general) and isn't particularly interested in portraying her life realistically,
and would rather concentrate on the OMG!shiny bits. Especially after reading this:
"I didn't want to show the evasion, the arrest, the guillotine, I didn't want to reconstitute the whole story,
that wasn't the goal of the film. I wanted to concentrate myself on the personal evolution of the character,
up until the point where I could show how she eventually ends up accepting her ineluctable death, way before being
confronted to it. I didn't picture myself shooting in a jail either, and even less so reconstituting it.
And above all, I didn't want to show a decapitated head on the ground in a mix of mud and blood."
...Er, yeah. That kind of speaks for itself. The last sentence, particularly. Perhaps she could've been phrased better,
but the way it's phrased just seems rather like she didn't want the fairy tale atmosphere to be ruined by icky things.
Either that, or she hopes that it will connect with the American teenagers by using contemporary music, shiny crap, and
portraying the characters as being just like them.
But, anyway, that's just my perception, and it could be completely wrong, and it could actually turn out to be a decent movie.
...I doubt it, though.