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Marie Antoinette Why Was She Executed
November 14th, 2010
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Question: the movie, Marie Antoinette?
Can someone explain the ending for me, please? I ought not to have been confused; however, I am.
Ugh.
i know what happened to her later on, what with the slicing of her head, but the movie's ending does not show this particular ending.
ooh, also can someone explain this as well? why was she executed? for treason, i read? i would love for a historian to answer...but this is yahoo... haha..
moruitelda
what a pity.....
it just sucks that everything was so god damn exaggerated.
and chocolate pudding
i am talking about the VERY end of the movie;
you know, in the room?
i thought i saw blood on the floors of the room...
i don't know..
Answer: I think the intent of the movie was to show Marie Antoinette as a woman, not so much as the queen who later lost her head. Thus, the movie made much out of her earlier difficulty in adjusting to being the wife of a French king; her battle with the beautiful royal concubine Madame du Barry( she would have been won over by the previous royal mistress, Madame de Pompadour who appeared a lady to the core); her desire to enjoy like all girls her age and her romantic entanglement with Count Axel de Fersen. I think this was also the major flaw in the movie, for how can one capture the tragedy of the woman who was destined to be executed by her own people? It was this flaw that made the movie so bland at the end. The is not even one objective correlative that would suggest the tragedies that lay ahead: to see her own children taken from her; of hearing her own son being taught to swear and curse God and his parents; of her own daughter molested by the guards and of her seeing her own best friend, the unfortunate Princess de Lamballe, her mutilated head placed on a stick outside her window, of knowing her husband beheaded by the guillotine and herself being placed on a tumbril as she was driven to the place of her own execution- all in the name of Fraternity, Equality and Liberty. Perhaps the makers of the movie thought it had been done before, in the Fifties, but Hollywood movies then were bereft of realism that would have captured the reign of bloodlust that was the French Revolution and the horror of one of its more notable victims.
Tha the movie chose to begin with an arrival and end with a departure may be difficult to explain, considering the story of the subject did not begin or end there. Marie Antoinette's tragic tale began in Austria where she was raised a princess under spartan conditions by her own formidable mother, the Empress Maria Theresa, to prepare the frivolity-loving little royal for the more daunting task of being a ruler's consort. instead of creating for her a strong character, the girl learned subtle defiance by preferring later on a life of extravagance and pointless merry-making. And just as she finally began to show promise of being a good wife and mother, a romantic and sensitive nobleman from a foreign country came into her life and taught her humanity; and as they gloried in their highly-charged relationship, a most cruel event fell down around them.
If I were to make my own bio-Movie About Marie Antoinette, I would end with her bent down under the cruel blade of the National Barber. with the screen functioning as her horrified eyes, the audience would see the faces of the rabble mocking her, but the voice of the hecklers would then be muted and all we could hear are snippets of conversation made earlier in the film between Maria Theresa and her tragic daughter.
" The windows, mother, can I ask the maids to close them? I feel so cold!"
" No, my dear daughter. The windows stay open. It's for your own good."
" But I am so cold..."
"Maria, you have to be strong. The world is cruel out there and you have to learn to be strong in the face of adversities."
"But mother..."
A final yell from the rabble while on the scallfold floor is seen the shadow of the guillotine blade falling down. The voice of the crowd cut in mid-air as the screen goes blank. Credits.
Simon Baker in "Affair Of The Necklace" Part 05 of 05
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