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Originally Posted by Everyneurotic
...that idiot coppola tried to "refresh" the marie antoinette story by using "edgy" and "modern" music to have an original take on it...
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Yeah, in a way it is so
Romeo + Juliet, but that movie used a modern-day setting.
The soundtrack makes sense in a way since it is about a more intimate portrait of Antoinette and not really a historical account in the traditional sense. The 1938 version (I actually didn't even look that up...I watched it on AMC last Friday (the night of the wide-release premiere of the new movie and remember the year from the cable guide---(excuse me for tooting my own horn for little to no reason)) is more about history than placing you in a setting contemporary with Marie, which, is another interesting way to tell the story and learn about history in itself. (Thanks noumenal, for mentioning the book on which it's based because that's new information to me).
Sofia says that she wanted the audience to feel the emotion of the modern-day songs to convey what the scenes are about rather than attempting to tell the story with a more classical soundtrack. I can buy into that, but (bearing in mind that I haven't seen it yet) I can't buy into this movie judging by what else I've heard, read and seen so far.
Some reviews have likened Marie's charmed life to that of Sofia's herself and claim that the movie is a bit autobiographical, but then again, critics have a penchant for reading all sorts of things into films for the sake of having something interesting to write about and exaggerrate what's really there in the process.
Lost in Translation was a bit different in its pacing and storytelling than many movies today, but I really do like it. Then again, that one had Bill Murray. Ribisi is a good actor, but he was like a cardboard cut-out in it. Johansson is nice to look at, but she's no great actress. I don't think this movie will be a deserving follow-up really. I just may be completly off-base, but it seems to me that Sofia built up a lot of cred with
Lost in Translation and now she's self-importantly abusing the praise with an unwatchable movie, relying on the impressive beauty of the actual setting at Chateau de Versailles to carry the film.