The Movie: Marie Antoinette: Movie Critique

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Marie Antoinette The movie I chose was about the infamous Marie Antoinette. The movie starts out with Marie Antoinette in her hometown having fun with her family and friends in Austria. The youngest out of seven her mother sets Marie up with Louis XVI the Dauphin of France in hopes that it will calm the feud between the two countries. Before she leaves, she has to get rid of anything from Austria, everything she adores even her adorable pug that follows her around everywhere she goes. She must leave everything behind and start a new with French Fashion. She was taken into the woods and then into French carriages to the Palace of Versailles. There the two of them very young of age are married. It starts out rocky and slow. No one is excited …show more content…

Marie Antoinette continued to be a convenient target for their rage (History). On October 1789, a mob of Parisian women protesting the high cost of bread and other goods marched to Versailles, dragged the entire royal family back to the city, and imprisoned them in the Tuileries (History.com).” They blamed Marie for everything even though she may not have done anything against them. Many cartoonist and pamphlets made fun of her and directed towards her this created a major hate for the people. Just like when we watch the news and see magazine covers they create an image that is not there to sale an idea. I found another interesting fact “there is no evidence that Marie Antoinette ever said that starving peasants should “eat cake” if they had no bread. In fact, the story of a fatuous noblewoman who said, “Let them eat cake!” appears in the philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s Confessions, which was written around 1766 (when Marie Antoinette was just 11 years old).” It really was the French being upset with her because of where she came from and being upset with the monarchs in …show more content…

We have a new president and the media goes crazy! We all will never agree on what is right for the country but the media fuels the fire. Marie Antoinette although a frivolous spender and oblivious to the things of France I sometimes feel as if those in charge are the same. We have people who make laws for us and are in charge of many different things that we the people need yet they have no idea what we need. They make more than us, and live in a whole other world entirely. Where they are sent to different countries to parties and to meet with foreign countries who also look past the needs of their own

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