Marie Antoinette

Archive for April, 2007

Question: Good Versailles (1700's) movies for teens?

I'm usually a big fan of thriller horror gorey kinda stuff, but I've found that I really love the subject of historical fiction types of books and movies relating to Versailles in the 16 and 1700's. since this is a major change of pace for me, i wanna go with it and find some things that i like. i loved marie antoinette, but i'm mad i can't get it on my ipod. i even read some little kid books about it too and loved those even though i read them in an hour or so. i think i even found a podcast of some old man saying something about versailles, but i have no clue what thats gonna be like but hey, its free. so...after all that, the main point. are there any good movies out there about versailles that a person my age would be really interested in? I'm ok with it having a little bit of tackyness in it, cause i do know how to fastforward as most of the movies i've seen about it have had that kind of stuff in it, but i would like your opinions. thanks!

Answer: Here's a start. "Marie Antoinette" a 1938 MGM movie starring Norma Shearer, Tyrone Power, Robert Morley, John Barrymore. This movie depicts her point of view. I hope that this has been a help to you.

Marie Antoinette- Cage the Songbird

Question: how is marie antoinette a villainess?

How is marie antoinette a villainess to history when she did nothing to be called a villainess while her husband diserves to be called a villain. Marie Antoinette did not rule the country she was too busy trying to be a good wife and mother to her children that later on would die of natural causes except for the ones that would die by the galotine of France.

Answer: She isn't. Marie was a young, perhaps immature and naive girl who became a bit overboard trying to find happiness in her marriage. And her spending is pretty average for a queen, she just lived in a time with constantly changing ideas. And we all should know she was the one who brought in the simpler fashions of the 1780's and adopted orphaned children when she was older.