Marie Antoinette

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Question: Marie Antoinette movie questions?

Did everytihng in the movie really happend to marie in real life?! like did she really cheat on her husband? and was her relationship with the king really not that satisfying? looks like they don't really like each other, and did it take them forever to have kids? i want to know why she got married so young and how come she was chosen as queen? its seems so random, shes from austria right? how did she end up with the the king?

oh yeah! this may be a REALLY silly question! call me stupid but, when the women get pregnant they go through the 9 month period to right? cause in the moive she just had the baby! lol

sorry about the lame questions! but thanks :]
how did her baby die?

Answer: Marie Antoinette got married at the age of 14, which wasn't unusual at those times, especially for the royalty. The marriages had a political meaning. When she got married to Louis 2 dynasties were mixed: the Habsburgs and the Bourbons, which was supposed to guarantee safety and balance in Europe. It wasn't random at all, on the contrary.
The fact that they didn't like each other didn't really matter, because the reason for their marriage wasn't love but politics. He had her first baby, Marie Thérèse Charlotte,in 1778, at the age of 23, 9 years after marrying Louis.Louis Joseph was born 1781, died 1789 of bone tuberculosis. HEr next son, Louis Charles, died also on bone tuberculosis at the age of 10. Marie Antoinette's second daughter, Sophie Helene Beatrice, died at the age of 11 months, cause of death remained unknown.

She cheated on her husband a lot, she was commonly known as "the Austrian Whore". Some of her lovers were:
Arthur Dillon, the Duc de Lauzun, Axel von Fersen, Baron de Besenval, the Prince de Ligne, the Comte de Vaudreuil.
She even confessed herself that she led the life of 'a despicable prostitute

About the pregnancy, i'm not sure if it's a real question, but they just skipped the part when she was pregnant for nine months.

Hope that helps!!

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Question: Marie Antoinette w/ Kirsten Dunst editting mistake?

I saw Marie Antoinette in the theater when it came out a couple years ago, and watch it last night on cable. I noticed a big editing error on the part of being historically accurate.

In the montage scene where they play Bow Wow Wow's "I want candy" and show her in different costumes and trying on tons of shoes, in one clip where there is a stack of shoes & shoe boxes I saw a Converse All Star sneaker laying in the pile of shoes. I'm sure it wasn't intentional.
I can see that, I remember when the movie came out Sofia said the costumes weren't completely accurate and I knew the soundtrack was going to be mostly contemporary. But I thought the converse was quite a stretch.

Answer: it was intentional. that has obviously been picked up on by many people. sofia coppola the director has said in interviews that she did it deliberately to bridge the gap between telling the story of marie antoinette and that of a young girl having fun. she used the converse trainers to show that marie is not that different to contemporary teens and just lives to party and have fun. the music is obviously also contemporary music, its all just to create this atmosphere that the audience can relate to, but just in a period setting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Antoinette_(2006_film)

check out the inaccuracies section

The Making of Marie Antoinette: Part 2