Marie Antoinette...
...Boring Sobriquet...
Love for history, crazy work week and Friday night all coupled together led me to stay up beyond late last night to watch "Marie Antoinette". 2 hours later, I realized that it was not worth losing precious sleep on. I don't mind watching Dunst scream her lungs away as DC comics' Mary Jane, but a role like Marie Antoinette is perilously close to madness.
I have nothing against the character sketch or the movie, it was well done considering the subject of choice. I'd probably advice reading her up over the Wiki and getting done with it rather than watching her boring, hedonistic, amorous life as queen of France put together in this motion documentary. The French revolution is a very important phase in world history. France burgeoned as one of the greatest world powers as a result of this revolution. I would rather look forward to seeing a movie on the "Storming of the Bastille" or perhaps some "la amore" movie set in the timelines of Voltaire or Rousseau.
Aside: Why aren't Indian "intl" film directors taking movies on some of our more colourful queens ( who played a very prominent role during the Indian war of independence) like Rani Padmini or Chittorgarh, Kittur Rani Chennamma, Rani Lakshmi Bai, Onake Obhava among many others? They fell to a similar end as Marie Antoinette (they all died young, perhaps some killed as well), but they would be a better muse for a motion documentary than Marie Antoinette. I am not being biased towards the Indian sub-continent, I loved "The Queen" - (Helen Mirren) as a movie as also that I would love to see Empress Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia in a movie documentary among many other great women in history. However, I'm beginning to wonder, if anybody at all will tap the richness I grew up in and around esp. with the kind of movies that are floating around these days.
p.s. - To all the young kids (located internationally) who watch Disney channel - Bollywood movies are not all about song, dance and Jaipur. Please don't get carried away by the Cheetah Girls' One world tour/movie and think India is all colour, fun and frolic. India is colour, fun and frolic with a lot of history, culture, social, economic and political undertones ruling everyday life.
If you want to watch today's India and a good movie at that, I'd say watch Rang De Basanti or Ayudha Ezhuthu/Yuva. You will get to see an India that I am more familiar with.
Mood: Very Indian
Song: Jana gana mana (Artist - Rehman, Movie - Ayudha Ezhuthu)
...Boring Sobriquet...
Love for history, crazy work week and Friday night all coupled together led me to stay up beyond late last night to watch "Marie Antoinette". 2 hours later, I realized that it was not worth losing precious sleep on. I don't mind watching Dunst scream her lungs away as DC comics' Mary Jane, but a role like Marie Antoinette is perilously close to madness.
I have nothing against the character sketch or the movie, it was well done considering the subject of choice. I'd probably advice reading her up over the Wiki and getting done with it rather than watching her boring, hedonistic, amorous life as queen of France put together in this motion documentary. The French revolution is a very important phase in world history. France burgeoned as one of the greatest world powers as a result of this revolution. I would rather look forward to seeing a movie on the "Storming of the Bastille" or perhaps some "la amore" movie set in the timelines of Voltaire or Rousseau.
Aside: Why aren't Indian "intl" film directors taking movies on some of our more colourful queens ( who played a very prominent role during the Indian war of independence) like Rani Padmini or Chittorgarh, Kittur Rani Chennamma, Rani Lakshmi Bai, Onake Obhava among many others? They fell to a similar end as Marie Antoinette (they all died young, perhaps some killed as well), but they would be a better muse for a motion documentary than Marie Antoinette. I am not being biased towards the Indian sub-continent, I loved "The Queen" - (Helen Mirren) as a movie as also that I would love to see Empress Alexandra Feodorovna of Russia in a movie documentary among many other great women in history. However, I'm beginning to wonder, if anybody at all will tap the richness I grew up in and around esp. with the kind of movies that are floating around these days.
p.s. - To all the young kids (located internationally) who watch Disney channel - Bollywood movies are not all about song, dance and Jaipur. Please don't get carried away by the Cheetah Girls' One world tour/movie and think India is all colour, fun and frolic. India is colour, fun and frolic with a lot of history, culture, social, economic and political undertones ruling everyday life.
If you want to watch today's India and a good movie at that, I'd say watch Rang De Basanti or Ayudha Ezhuthu/Yuva. You will get to see an India that I am more familiar with.
Mood: Very Indian
Song: Jana gana mana (Artist - Rehman, Movie - Ayudha Ezhuthu)
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