Who was eating the cake anyway?

Sofia Coppola, the first XX chromosome to win an Oscar Trophy for her movie Lost in Translation has a new movie... that is Marie Antoinette, although in the movie, her mother called her, "marie antwoi" which got me thinking, are austrians also that eloquent in language?

Kirsten Dunst, which i still remember as the liar in "Jumanji" the bitch in "Mona Lisa Smile" and Mary Jane Watson gave us a glimpse of her depth as an actress, as a lavish, self centered Queen of france... and a glimpse, (although i got more than just a glimpse) of her bosom and behind, (F-I-N-E!!!) which by the way, the King looks first at... Miss Dunst gave a stunning performance, believable... so believable that i am now having an image of Queen Marie Antoinette as her... Jason Schwartzman portrayed Louie Auguste as convincingly as the heroine, and i even thought his sexual passivity amounts to homosexuality... which by the was one of the funniest bed scenes i have seen...

In this movie, Marie Antoinette was not only portrayed as a self centered lavish, luxurious queen that we know, having been instilled in our minds what a one-dimensional devil that she was, it gave us the backgrounder why she acted in that way and why France thought she "spent france to debt" which by the way was very unfair... i mean, when she knew france was in debt, she immediately stopped buying diamonds, just imagine her anguish and loneliness of to not be able to buy diamonds.... on the contrary... seriously speaking though, the movie presented her differently and that she was not the reason why France was in debt, it was because France was helping the the US revolution against their arch rival Britain...

She was presented in a very bad light with the statement that she never made... "Let Them Eat Cake" they said she said... it turns out she never made such a remark, and history tells us that it was Romantic Philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseaou who wrote about her saying those words... being a philosophy major i kind of know Rousseou's philosophy, but never did i realize he was such an activist and a gossip at the same time... although on an ironic twist of cinematic fate, Marie Antoinette was reading a book of Rousseou and explaining it to her friends in the movie... about the natural state of man, as going back to nature, which by the way she did... a queen milking her own cow... come on... i also did not know she was such a martyr, staying by her husband... and the agony she must have felt when the angry mob closes in on the castle shouting and cheering on her death.... and even though she can actually feel hear, the anger, she still went out the balcony... now that was one painful scene... although Sofia Coppola did not include her beheading, i can actually feel the fear and somehow you feel with them... (and probably just one of my fantasis as being a royal blood)

this movie made news, when the director opted to use modern music as oppose to music of that period, Kirsten said that she (sofia) was thinking more of th mood rather than being exact... and i also dont think she used those music to appeal to younger generation... although soem say it worked for them, i cannot sy that it did... its not awkward but to me it just did not match, it did not work, or maybe i was expecting too muh... i dont know...

the movie was exclusively shown in Greenbelt three, and i felt like Marie Antoinette paying for my expensive ticket...

speaking of expensive, did we not have our own, meaning Philippine's version, of her,

a lavish queen while the subjects are in poverty... does the name Imelda Marcos ring any bells...

i can see lot of parallelisms... Imelda was from a royalty of Leyte, Marie form Austria... Marie had love affairs, so did Imelda... both hosted elaborate and very very expensive gatherings, all of which very well attended... both were surrounded by many friends and cronies... living luxuriously while people are getting hungry... both were art patrons... i just dont know whether ferdinand marcos was as passive in bed as Louie August...