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Rating: 3/10 (5 November 2006)

Marie Antoinette Summary
Marie Antoinette was a very interesting movie. It had its boring parts, like most historical movies do. The movie started in Austria in the 1700's with Marie Antoinette as a 14 year old. After that, she was informed that she was to move to France to marry the future king Louis XVI. As soon as she had met her husband, they got married. They barely talk to each other for weeks. At first, when sitting down to eat, Marie Antoinette tries to start a conversation with her husband, so she asks him about his love for locks and keys. He completely kills the conversation. In the morning, Marie Antoinette is greeted by her many new family and friends who strip her to nakedness and dress her. At that point, she says "This is ridiculous," and then the woman dressing her replies, "This is (normal)". (Marie Antoinette). An example of repetition in the movie was this happening oh so often throughout the film. As the movie continues, Marie Antoinette begins to get to know her husband a little bit more. One night in bed, he tries to have sex with her, but because he is a nervous scared young man, he backs away before it actually happens. After that, they do actually start to talk more, and become more like a husband and wife. The second time King Louis attempts to produce an heir, he actually does, but it turns out as a girl. All the while, Marie Antoinette is spending money, more money than France can afford, on things that the French believe are not needed, such as oak trees. One day, before Marie Antoinette has had her first kid, she decides to go to the opera in Paris. When it is over, she stands up and claps, but to her surprise, no one else is clapping. After about a minute of her clapping and the rest of the people at the opera wondering what she is doing, everyone else starts clapping. Later in the movie, she goes back to Paris, and attends another opera. At the end, she stands up and claps and nobody joins her. This is a symbol of the French people's hatred toward her because of her spending of their money. When King Louis XV became sick and dies, Marie Antoinette says "Dear God, protect us, we are too you to rein" (Marie Antoinette). Well, God did not protect the couple for too long, because the people of France revolt and chant "Kill the Queen" (Marie Antoinette), repeated. Eventually, Marie Antoinette, her husband and her kids escape and leave France. At the end of the film, Marie Antoinette looks back upon her oak trees and realizes what she has done to France. I think that Marie Antoinette a very well written movie, for those who could understand it, which would only be the very well literate portion of the population.
Marie Antoinette Critique
In my personal opinion, Marie Antoinette was a substandard attempt of replicating what might have really happened in the 1700's. It was a waste of 40 million dollars and lots of time. I would give it 1.5 out of 5 stars, because of not realness, poor acting, and poor setting. The only reason it got the 1.5 stars out of me is because of the few funny parts in it. I believe that the director focused too much on her getting pregnant and having her first child. Even though this was her main purpose, this is not all that the movie focused on. I think that the film played too much 80's music; I was expecting Classical from a film of this subject. Like the music, the film was more funny than it was historical. Marie Antoinette did foreshadow today's society: cheating on men, sex, alcohol, and spending too much money. I think ending to the movie was absolutely horrible. The movie just ended, with no facts about Marie Antoinette, no showing of "funny" scenes throughout the movie, not even to say what happened to Marie Antoinette. The screenplay tried to cover too much information in too short an amount of time. After all, Coppola (the writer and director of the movie) did try to cram Marie Antoinette traveling from Austria to France, marrying King Louis XVI, the birth of her first child, her cheating on her husband for an Austrian man, the death of King Louis XV, her son, and her mother, and her being stormed out of France all into one movie. The film also jumped around a lot. This made it hard to understand one scene before it moved on to the next. Judging from the amount of people in the theater, not many people would like to see this movie. There was only about 30 people in the house, and, out of those, 8 were English students wanting extra credit. After the movie, I heard one person that I do not know say, "(she) could have watched better TV at home" (random person at the movie theater). I am going to have to agree with this person about the movie Marie Antoinette.