Catherine Taylor
Jul 10, 2017 · 1 min read

I felt the same way, and Coppola actually critiques this mistake in Marie Antoinette, so this inaccuracy lost me too. Coppola is completely obsessed with the plight of MISUNDERSTOOD white chicks of wealth and status, and the whole point of her take on Marie Antoinette was to show her as a “normal girl”. The problem is that Coppola’s idea of a “normal girl” is an overindulged white girl who has no real problems and this gives her a sense of futility which creates angst. They’re generally (BLING RING excepted) not deliberately cruel or selfish, they’re just so stuck in their own heads that they can’t see the world around them…

Which is why, in Marie Antoinette, Coppola presents the misrepresentation of “let them eat cake” as a bigger injustice than the suffering of the people at the time. Which is because we’re in Marie Antoinette’s point of view. And that, obviously, is also Coppola’s point of view, and the only one she considers worth exploring.

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