Marie-Antoinette: “This is ridiculous.”
Comtesse de Noailles: “This, Madame, is Versailles!”
It’s actually quite astounding how one could assume Coppola’s latest film draws inspiration from her own personal life, starting with her father’s startling decision to cast her in The Godfather Part III serving as the equivalent of Marie Antoinette’s arrival at Versailles to the distain of a great many gawkers. Much like my prior experience with Lost in Translation, I walked out of the theatre after watching Marie Antoinette feeling really sorry for Spike Jonze.
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by Chiranjit Goswami | Source: Sony Pictures 35mm Print
30 Nov 2006 5:56 PM | Comments (3)
C’mon, Jit. She dropped Spike like a bag of hammers at least, what?, nine months ago. In any case, she just had a daughter with new baby-daddy Thomas Mars of Phoenix.
Sheesh. Somebody needs to ask Santa for a subscription to Star magazine this year.
Puh-leaze! US Weekly is so much hotter. Star magazine is like as old as Madonna. Ewww!
Anyway, I still can’t shake the feeling that Louis XVI’s inadequacies are based upon some uncomfortable private moments within Coppola’s previous marriage, mostly because Marie Antoinette was filmed fairly soon after Coppola’s divorce. Of course, this isn’t a particulary productive observation on my part since it has little to do with the effectiveness of Coppola’s film, but it’s also unavoidable given how personal Coppola’s film appears (that’s not a bad thing).
I’ll also admit I spent a great deal of time trying to figure out who Bill Murray was standing in for in Lost in Translation. I’m sure I’ll be doing the same with the characters in Marie Antoinette.
As a declared fan of Ms. Coppola’s work, it’s really bad that I haven’t confronted her past and actually watched The Godfather Part III yet. It’s been with the other two in that box set for years, untouched. My bad.
leo
30 November 2006
3:09 PM
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