I've made a new enemy.

[montagnarde1793]

It's funny how that can happen when you haven't even spoken to a person.

But in 2nd period Film Lit, when everyone shared their favorite movies, some guy who had gone to Switzerland over the summer--and whose name I have conveniently blocked out--said that Marie-Antoinette was his favorite film. 

So, opinions: is he willfully counterrevolutionary or does he just have bad taste?

...Or both. *shudders*

In other first day of school news, I didn't get Creative Writing, hence why I'm stuck in Film Lit in the first place, but my other classes shouldn't be too terrible. (I hope!)

...On a completely unrelated note, I'm going to see Massenet's Manon next month, and am quite happy about that.....And I got a new series on the Revolution--conveniently called La Révolution--by Robert Margerit. Reports on the accuracy and general goodness will be forthcoming. As will much art, as soon as I can hook up my scanner.

I promise it won't be as long until my next post as it was between this one and the last...I was just having internet issues before.

Comments

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

The only problem then though is, what is it about?

[josiana.livejournal.com]

...Crack. ^_^

...Or alternatively, Sofia Coppola's desire to cover people in garish pink clothing.

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

...Which clearly stems from crack.

[josiana.livejournal.com]

Yes. :D

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

So we're back where we started.

[josiana.livejournal.com]

Yes, we are. Er, unless you wanted a serious answer.

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

I don't think there can be a serious answer that doesn't make me want to poke out my own eyes.

[josiana.livejournal.com]

I'll avoid one, then.

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

Well, figuratively, of course. Knowledge, even knowledge I won't like, is still power, so if you have a serious answer I'd like (well, not like, but you know what I mean) to hear it anyway, if that makes any sense.

[josiana.livejournal.com]

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.

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

No, I think you've hit the nail on the head there. Somebody needs to tell her that ignoring things won't make them go away. Not only that, but the only thing Marie-Antoinette ever did that was of any historical significance was keep up a treasonous correspondance with her brother the emperor of Austria; I don't really see how her life before the Revolution could make any sort of decent story, especially since Sofia Coppola is apparently not focusing on politics. So then she's focusing on what exactly, I have to wonder. Pink frilly things? Cakes? Shoes? It doesn't exactly sound like a good formula even historical accuracy issues aside.

[josiana.livejournal.com]

It's a movie all about Kirsten Dunst licking pastries and trying to look seductive. Really.

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

Again, does that sound like a winning formula to you?

[josiana.livejournal.com]

Butbutbuuut....;____; It's new and innovative because it has bad pop music instead of a plot and good writing. How could it fail? ;^;

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

OMSB! You're right! There's no way that could possibly amount to a bad movie. What was I thinking?

[josiana.livejournal.com]

Clearly, you were fooled by..er...the evil conspiracy of something or other.

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

*coughcoughcoughcough*

[josiana.livejournal.com]

OMG! THE ROYALISTS HAVE GIVEN YOU CONSUMPTION, HAVEN'T THEY?!11 *panics and flails and runs in circles hysterically*

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

Calm, remain calm. The royalists have not given me consumption. If they had they would pay. No, I'm merely making use of artful coughing to make a point.

...;)

[josiana.livejournal.com]

...Oh. That's not as dramatic. .___.

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

True, but then again there are few things I would like less to die of than consumption.

[josiana.livejournal.com]

Well, it would be awkward and painful. And somewhat pointless.

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

Precisely my point.