Marie-Antoinette - a new film by Sofia Coppola

[adam]

That's what I feared.

[Malt Refund]

I didn't think it was that bad. The ending was kind of weird though. It made them seem as if they were escaping, when in fact they were off to jail (and beheading soon after that). Didn't really capture the intensity of the French Revolution in the last scenes as much as I'd hoped it would.

It's a fun movie but not the greatest. It's a good film to take a high school class to.

[koisk]

Originally Posted by Malt Refund

I didn't think it was that bad. The ending was kind of weird though. It made them seem as if they were escaping, when in fact they were off to jail (and beheading soon after that). Didn't really capture the intensity of the French Revolution in the last scenes as much as I'd hoped it would.

It's a fun movie but not the greatest. It's a good film to take a high school class to.

I don't know - I think you knew what was going to happen so it wasn't necessary to show anything else. That was, in essense, the end of that chapter of her life (at least, the side that coppola was showing).

On the intensity of the revolution, it was interesting becuase literally all you saw was a moderate crowd. Any other signs of revolution were windows crashing or people yelling. I wanted to see a giant crowd, but you didn't. In fact, the entire revolution was downplayed, which kind of emphansized Marie Antoinette's isolation from the politics of the country.

That's my 2 centz anyway. Interesting, but still not captivating as a movie.

[Malt Refund]

Originally Posted by koisk

On the intensity of the revolution, it was interesting becuase literally all you saw was a moderate crowd. Any other signs of revolution were windows crashing or people yelling. I wanted to see a giant crowd, but you didn't. In fact, the entire revolution was downplayed, which kind of emphansized Marie Antoinette's isolation from the politics of the country.

My thoughts exactly. The only part of the revolution you saw was just the backs of some guys heads out of focus, carrying torches. Why not put the camera on them? Why do we have to keep seeing Marie Antoinette? You didn't get the enormity of the situation.

And again, when she is paraded out of her home at the end of the film, you only saw her. You could tell she was surrounded by people but Coppola did not want you to see them at all.

It sort of reminded me about all those costume dramas on Masterpiece Theater where there are no extras in the film because they just don't have the budget to buy costumes to put on all of them.

[undarrenworld]

Does NO songs fit in the movie? I must to see that