Marie Antoinette

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Question: What is your opinion on the Marie Antoinette Movie?

I know that they left out MANY historical events in the movie but even if you didnt know anything about Marie did you think it was a well made movie still?
Feel free to say anything else you thought about it.

Answer: The 2006 version? Awful. Not only was it inaccurate (actually insulting to the historical figures), frothy and irrelevant, it was truly a badly made film. Hard to believe Coppola could go from Lost in Translation to this. The music was terribly out of place, the acting was horrid, the whole thing was entirely pointless.

Part 2, The Confessions of Marie Antoinette w/add'l new movie stills at the end-VIEW IN HQ

Question: Marie Antoinette hair color?

I'm dressing up as Marie Antoinette for Halloween, but I'm having trouble deciding whether to work with my own hair (long and brunette) or a blond wig.

Every movie or costume I've seen portrays Marie Antoinette with white blond hair, but in paintings it seems her hair was brown and she just powdered it a lot, like they did at the time.

Examples:

http://74.52.28.50/~ablogto2/wp-content/...

http://www.antoinettescloset.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Marie...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:MA-Le...

Does anyone know--actually know--what color her hair was? Serious answers, please.

Or…if her hair really was brown but everyone thinks it was blond, will it throw off my costume to go the brunette way? I'm not sure how much of a color difference it makes to powder your hair…but I hear baby powder works pretty well.

Answer: According to Joan Haslip's book, she had red-golden hair. It was the fashion, though, to powder it - "poudree". A grey powder was used later in the century.

http://www.leahmariebrown.net/html/hair_raising.htm

In the Portraits here, you can see how her hair changed, from the charming, white-powdered simple style to the more elaborate then wider grey-powdered style later.

http://www.marie-antoinette.org/Galleries/Galleries.html

I think baby powder would be fine for a one-off.