I woke up early today & couldn't fall back asleep. Then I suddenly had the urge to watch Marie Antoinette again. What a great movie!
A few things:
1) Kirsten Dunst cannot act. (Shocking, I know!) She's great with unspoken emotions, facial expressions, etc, but as soon as she opens her mouth it feels forced. Maybe they should've made her have an accent.
2) I've found that I love looking up what lines from "historical" movies are direct quotes from that time period. If I was going to make a historical movie, I would try to get as many of these as I could.
3) Jonathan said that, apparently, on the day the Bastille fell, all Louis XVI wrote in his journal was "Went hunting today. Nothing."
4) I definitely think we need to bring back the custom of making portraits of people and giant paintings of historical events. Look at how awesome this is!
(Marie Antoinette with her children when the mob stormed the palace.)
And this one is a sketch that someone made while Marie Antoinette was waiting for the guillotine in 1793! Crazy. Doesn't that make you want to sketch anything & everything? Maybe 200 years later people will still look at it.
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