Marie Antoinette: the Musical?- Page 2

[SweMozArt]

Posted: 2/22/07 at 10:34pm

I hope you are not implying that count Axel von Fersén in any way resembles Cyrano? By the way for every musical about a count there are countless musicals about queens and strong female characters. Updated On: 2/22/07 at 10:34 PM

[Unknown User]

Posted: 2/22/07 at 10:35pm

Hah ayeah I have a few videos of Takarazuka (they have two Rose of Versailles--one focusing on Marie and Fersen one on the new characters Oscar and Andre) and they're a lot of fun--but I'm a Japanes epop culture, girls manga/anime junkie so know the story well

[BSoBW2]

Posted: 2/22/07 at 10:38pm

One word: LaChiusa.

[B3TA07]

Posted: 2/22/07 at 10:39pm

...could you use it in a sentence? Language of origin?

[StickToPriest]

Posted: 2/22/07 at 11:08pm

"And the movie was absolutely boring."

See, I love movies, yet I get bored VERY easily if the movie is bad/not well made.

MARIE ANTOINETTE was one of the few movies last year that held my attention the entire time. It was very deliberately paced, sure, but I didn't find it slow at all.

[Roninjoey]

Posted: 2/22/07 at 11:25pm

Where'd you get them? I've only ever seen the anime.

[SporkGoddess]

Posted: 2/22/07 at 11:47pm

See, I just found it ridiculously boring, and I LOVE 18th century France, and am fascinated by Marie Antoinette. Guess it's just different strokes for different folks, huh?

[blaxx]

Posted: 2/22/07 at 11:57pm

Copolla's Marie Antoinette was one of the BEST films of the year

And by BEST you mean the opposite, right?

[B3TA07]

Posted: 2/23/07 at 12:03am

blaxx - Today is actually NOT opposite day.

[StickToPriest]

Posted: 2/23/07 at 12:04am

No, by best he meant BEST.

The film was unfairly attacked when it first came out, and now, in hindsight, many are discovering that the film is a fantastic piece of cinema.

It's not your typical film, sure. You need to really know cinema to get it.

[Jeannie2]

Posted: 2/23/07 at 12:27am

I get that it was from Marie Antoinette's perspective, but she wasn't completely clueless. For God's sake, Copolla didn't even include the whole necklace affair- which was the cause of her being accused of treason and her subsequent death.
The film in general was just boring- it focused too much on her alleged sex life, and ignored her mental growth from the time when she was 14 to 38.

[StickToPriest]

Posted: 2/23/07 at 12:30am

It's not even supposed to be a biopic. It's a mood movie. And a marvelous one.

[Roninjoey]

Posted: 2/23/07 at 3:09am

Saw it tonight. Didn't think it was all that great. It had compelling sequences but one of the best movies of the year? I saw movies with three times the imagination and half the budget this year.

On that note I've been reconnecting with The Rose of Versailles and even though it's a grossly fictionalized account of her life (while still managing to tell more of the story than Sophia's movie) I think it would make a pretty great source for a musical. I don't think Marie's all that interesting on her own, but when you concentrate on the people around her...