Total waste of time
Mar. 15th, 2008 08:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
Imagine putting The Other Boleyn Girl together with The Tudors and you get Queen Margot ...but even worse. The costuming looked like some mix of three different centuries (at least! I think I spotted a jacket I wanted back in the early 90's in it at some point) and my old college curtains. It really looked like it was based off a Philippa Gregory novel.
Chemiseless babes? Check.
Blending of many historical figures into one person? Check.
Incest? Check.
A total rewrite of history to the point that you can't tell what the story was supposed to be about? Total check.
I realize it's based off a 19th c novel but I don't think the novel could have been this uh...scandalized? I might try to read it just to see but honestly, this is a total snark bait film. There is nothing redeeming at all about it.
Chemiseless babes? Check.
Blending of many historical figures into one person? Check.
Incest? Check.
A total rewrite of history to the point that you can't tell what the story was supposed to be about? Total check.
I realize it's based off a 19th c novel but I don't think the novel could have been this uh...scandalized? I might try to read it just to see but honestly, this is a total snark bait film. There is nothing redeeming at all about it.
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Date: 2008-03-16 12:22 am (UTC)Yes, it is hypersexual, and completely trashy, but I can't put it in the same category as The Tudors or The Other Boleyn Girl. Its better eye candy than either of those films, and fits in more with the "Dangerous Beauty" school of fictionalized historical story telling. And you can't go wrong with Vincent Perez and Isabeu Adjani. Gorgeous pair of human beings, both of them.
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Date: 2008-03-16 12:34 am (UTC)As for Victorian lit being scandalous, oh my god, was it ever! I mean, Thomas Hardy is fairly tame by modern standards, but he's got women getting raped, babies out of wedlock right and left, kids committing suicide -- it's worse than "As the World Turns."
People have been doing stupid stuff with and for sex since the Garden of Eden.
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Date: 2008-03-16 12:49 am (UTC)Basically, it had as much blood as Shawn of the Dead and as more incest than the Other Boleyn Girl.
It's not that I except every movie to be dead on accurate either. Like I said, I liked Dangerous Beauty (I have a copy and just love the orange dress) and I'm probably one of the few people that actually like Elizabeth and The Golden Age (it has it's problems but the acting amazing...the story line for the HBO Elizabeth was better though..) I just really hoped for something redeeming in it and didn't find anything.
Please don't get me wrong, I'm glad other people do like the movie. I hate to have orphaned movies out there that no one likes. :-) It's just not at all what I had hoped for.
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Date: 2008-03-16 12:22 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-03-16 12:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-03-16 03:09 am (UTC)I'm not familiar with the historical figures' real stories, so the inaccuracies weren't a problem for me with the story - it felt like a good rompy novel, which is what I guess it was :)