Marie Antoinette Popular History
Marie Antoinette, the 2006 film, is a great example of popular history and its techniques to provoke interest. Popular history is the genre of history with its main motive to entertain rather than inform. The director, Sofia Coppola has lost the historical integrity of the film, replacing it with what would make Marie Antoinette most engaging for entertainment rather than portraying the real events.
In order to entertain the audience, Sofia Coppola decided to over exaggerate, a technique that popular history often uses. Marie Antoinette the film follows Marie Antoinette from when she was engaged to future French king Louis XVI, also known as Louis-Aguste, to her death. Marie Antoinette felt immense pressure from the whole of France to bear …show more content…
Coppola does not use the time to enlighten the audience about the important history of Marie Antoinette but instead, she has uses the time to focus on style and looks to make the film visually pleasing. Moira Macdonald, a critic for the Seattle Times, agrees that “Little happens for much of Marie Antoinette, but Coppola is a visual storyteller, and with her first big canvas she creates a giddy world at Versailles in colour and light.” Sofia Coppola cared more about the looks than the information. Coppola has selected and simplified the information to make the audience entertained. While doing this, she decided to focus more on style instead of the history which ruined the historical aspect of the film. Cole Smithey, a critic on his own website also agrees that “With her third film, Sophia Coppola exhibits an annoying preference for style over substance.” The film has used selected and simplified information to be the entertaining for the audience but while doing this has lost the important history about Marie
In order to entertain the audience, Sofia Coppola decided to over exaggerate, a technique that popular history often uses. Marie Antoinette the film follows Marie Antoinette from when she was engaged to future French king Louis XVI, also known as Louis-Aguste, to her death. Marie Antoinette felt immense pressure from the whole of France to bear …show more content…
Coppola does not use the time to enlighten the audience about the important history of Marie Antoinette but instead, she has uses the time to focus on style and looks to make the film visually pleasing. Moira Macdonald, a critic for the Seattle Times, agrees that “Little happens for much of Marie Antoinette, but Coppola is a visual storyteller, and with her first big canvas she creates a giddy world at Versailles in colour and light.” Sofia Coppola cared more about the looks than the information. Coppola has selected and simplified the information to make the audience entertained. While doing this, she decided to focus more on style instead of the history which ruined the historical aspect of the film. Cole Smithey, a critic on his own website also agrees that “With her third film, Sophia Coppola exhibits an annoying preference for style over substance.” The film has used selected and simplified information to be the entertaining for the audience but while doing this has lost the important history about Marie