I wish they would release a digitally colorized version of this film. The costumes and set design were all designed to take full advantage of color, with Antoinette's gowns being replicated in gorgeous shades the real Queen would have loved. But it was deemed too expensive to film in color.
In bianco e nero e' meraviglioso e non era previsto il colore. Era il film della Shearer moglie del produttore e non c'erano limiti al budget. Usarono anche diamanti veri per i gioielli. Il bianco è nero e' piu' affascinante ed evocativo. A colori sarebbe stato "un'americanata". Anche Via Col Vento sarebbe stato piu' bello in bianco e nero.
Yes, it's historically inaccurate, yes, it's completely over-the-top, but you're lying to yourself in you're saying this isn't a good movie. It's wonderful.
(It should be noted that the frenetic party in this sequence was the periodic ball at the Paris Opera, which was open to anyone who was reasonably well dressed. The Queen did not "hold" this function; the Opera did. It was NOT one of her "wild parties"; the fetes and galas that she hosted, at her private retreat at the Petit Trianon, were private gatherings of friends, informal and relaxed, with nothing improper about them.) The French historian Andre Maurois -- a wonderfully humane man, as well as a fine scholar -- commented "Marie Antoinette was utterly luckless; even her good qualities did a disservice to her. She enjoyed trifling jokes and masquerades, and wished to take part in pleasures open to all, such as the Paris Opera ball. In any other queen, this openness and unaffected good nature would have won people's hearts, but the Queen's enemies twisted it into evidence of perversity."
Wow you are really knowledgeable about the French Aristocracy I would love to hear if there is a book you read on this subject Please give a title Also I would love to hear your opinion on the French Colony of New Orleans and their Aristocratic creoles ⚜
To Orleans -- Thank you so much for your kind comments. I spent part of my early life in France, and was taught at a Jesuit academy (which predated the Revolution). The priests were all still committed royalists (generations after France had last had a monarchy), and on 16 October every year (the anniversary of the Queen's execution), one of them would read us the wonderful letter that the Queen wrote to her sister-in-law, Madame Elisabeth, a few hours before her death. I've had an abiding interest in (and admiration for) Marie Antoinette ever since. As a lover of all things French, I LOVE everything about the Creole culture of Louisiana. (Gumbo and jambalaya are as much gifts of God to man as chocolate, Mozart, Shakespeare and Vermeer. A branch of the Prudhomme family had a Louisiana-themed restaurant in my area; when it closed a few years ago, I felt as though there had been a death in the family). The Creoles are one of the much-needed leavens in the bread of what is still a predominantly Anglo-Saxon country. (Amerindians, Jews, African-Americans, and the Latin-Catholic culture of the Southwest are others -- as are Italian-Americans, my own heritage). If you haven't yet read him, get your hands on EVERYTHING ever written by the late Harnett Kane, especially his books "Plantation Parade: The Grand Manner in Louisiana", and "Queen New Orleans". In the former, you will meet (among MANY others), two of the greatest of all the Creoles, Valcour Aime and Virginie Tennant (both of whose lives would make SENSATIONAL movies). As for books about the "ancien regime" in France, either of two biographies of Marie Antoinette, Stefan Zweig's "Marie Antoinette: Portrait of An Average Woman" (on which the 1938 Norma Shearer film was loosely based) or Antonia Fraser's "Journey" are great places to start. For the best overview of French history in general that I know, see Andre Maurois' "A History of France". God bless you, and good luck to you, especially in this dreadful time. When the current darkness finally lifts, America will need New Orleans to show us, as it has so often in the past, how to "laissez les bon temps roulez".
@@tadimaggio You are Truly An intellectual, The kind of Person I would love to Chat with For Hours, You're True Passion and Knowledge about High Culture and The Aristocracy is Inspiring, I love Harnett t Kane, I Have "Queen New Orleans" and "Natchez on The Mississippi" as Well as "Gentlemen Swords and Pistols" and his "Gone Are the days" the titles You've mentioned I'm dying to get my Hands on If you haven't already please subscribe to a Freind of mine His Channel is called Plantation Muscle boy, his Channel is all About The Lavish Aristocracys of The Old World and New, I myself have a few videos you may look upon but nothing like Kips Once you do comment upon any of his videos and tell him Orleans or Rommel Sent you and give him this video, I would love him to see this "Educational Conversation" You Truly are an Intellectual Mon ami, I wish there was more people like you I could converse with. Kip would love to Talk with you⚜⚜⚜ And if by any chance you have Pinterest Please search up "Teacher Orleans" that is my pinterest full of French Creole Images, I'll follow you back Also follow Kip Kinisky, you can find him on my Follwers and Following list My sincere thanks to you and Stay safe during these uneasy times, it sounds like you're overseas. Most Likely in France, How I envy you being in the Mother Country of Louisiana, Lucky you😂 But once again Stay safe and Best of Luck ⚜⚜⚜
But look at Gone with the wind, wizard of oz. It would work This movie and it's out if this world characters, French Aristocracy Color would have been very fitting
The music in this scene is "Dance of the Furies" from the opera Orphee et Eurydice (Paris 1774) by Christoph Gluck. Magnificent music for a magnificent movie!!!
I wish they would release a digitally colorized version of this film. The costumes and set design were all designed to take full advantage of color, with Antoinette's gowns being replicated in gorgeous shades the real Queen would have loved. But it was deemed too expensive to film in color.
It was supposed to be in Technicolor but they went over budget.
In bianco e nero e' meraviglioso e non era previsto il colore. Era il film della Shearer moglie del produttore e non c'erano limiti al budget. Usarono anche diamanti veri per i gioielli. Il bianco è nero e' piu' affascinante ed evocativo. A colori sarebbe stato "un'americanata". Anche Via Col Vento sarebbe stato piu' bello in bianco e nero.
Films of such incredible atmosphere no longer exist.
Yes, it's historically inaccurate, yes, it's completely over-the-top, but you're lying to yourself in you're saying this isn't a good movie. It's wonderful.
How, how are you still alive your majesty?
No it was pretty accurate
Actually, it's pretty accurate. With odour of it's time, no doubt, but pretty accurate. Especially in volumes and silhouettes.
(It should be noted that the frenetic party in this sequence was the periodic ball at the Paris Opera, which was open to anyone who was reasonably well dressed. The Queen did not "hold" this function; the Opera did. It was NOT one of her "wild parties"; the fetes and galas that she hosted, at her private retreat at the Petit Trianon, were private gatherings of friends, informal and relaxed, with nothing improper about them.)
The French historian Andre Maurois -- a wonderfully humane man, as well as a fine scholar -- commented "Marie Antoinette was utterly luckless; even her good qualities did a disservice to her. She enjoyed trifling jokes and masquerades, and wished to take part in pleasures open to all, such as the Paris Opera ball. In any other queen, this openness and unaffected good nature would have won people's hearts, but the Queen's enemies twisted it into evidence of perversity."
Wow you are really knowledgeable about the French Aristocracy
I would love to hear if there is a book you read on this subject Please give a title
Also I would love to hear your opinion on the French Colony of New Orleans and their Aristocratic creoles ⚜
To Orleans -- Thank you so much for your kind comments. I spent part of my early life in France, and was taught at a Jesuit academy (which predated the Revolution). The priests were all still committed royalists (generations after France had last had a monarchy), and on 16 October every year (the anniversary of the Queen's execution), one of them would read us the wonderful letter that the Queen wrote to her sister-in-law, Madame Elisabeth, a few hours before her death. I've had an abiding interest in (and admiration for) Marie Antoinette ever since.
As a lover of all things French, I LOVE everything about the Creole culture of Louisiana. (Gumbo and jambalaya are as much gifts of God to man as chocolate, Mozart, Shakespeare and Vermeer. A branch of the Prudhomme family had a Louisiana-themed restaurant in my area; when it closed a few years ago, I felt as though there had been a death in the family). The Creoles are one of the much-needed leavens in the bread of what is still a predominantly Anglo-Saxon country. (Amerindians, Jews, African-Americans, and the Latin-Catholic culture of the Southwest are others -- as are Italian-Americans, my own heritage). If you haven't yet read him, get your hands on EVERYTHING ever written by the late Harnett Kane, especially his books "Plantation Parade: The Grand Manner in Louisiana", and "Queen New Orleans". In the former, you will meet (among MANY others), two of the greatest of all the Creoles, Valcour Aime and Virginie Tennant (both of whose lives would make SENSATIONAL movies).
As for books about the "ancien regime" in France, either of two biographies of Marie Antoinette, Stefan Zweig's "Marie Antoinette: Portrait of An Average Woman" (on which the 1938 Norma Shearer film was loosely based) or Antonia Fraser's "Journey" are great places to start. For the best overview of French history in general that I know, see Andre Maurois' "A History of France".
God bless you, and good luck to you, especially in this dreadful time. When the current darkness finally lifts, America will need New Orleans to show us, as it has so often in the past, how to "laissez les bon temps roulez".
@@tadimaggio You are Truly An intellectual, The kind of Person I would love to Chat with For Hours, You're True Passion and Knowledge about High Culture and The Aristocracy is Inspiring, I love Harnett t Kane, I Have "Queen New Orleans" and "Natchez on The Mississippi" as Well as "Gentlemen Swords and Pistols" and his "Gone Are the days" the titles You've mentioned I'm dying to get my Hands on
If you haven't already please subscribe to a Freind of mine
His Channel is called Plantation Muscle boy, his Channel is all About The Lavish Aristocracys of The Old World and New, I myself have a few videos you may look upon but nothing like Kips
Once you do comment upon any of his videos and tell him Orleans or Rommel Sent you and give him this video, I would love him to see this "Educational Conversation"
You Truly are an Intellectual Mon ami, I wish there was more people like you I could converse with.
Kip would love to Talk with you⚜⚜⚜
And if by any chance you have Pinterest
Please search up "Teacher Orleans" that is my pinterest full of French Creole Images, I'll follow you back
Also follow Kip Kinisky, you can find him on my Follwers and Following list
My sincere thanks to you and Stay safe during these uneasy times, it sounds like you're overseas. Most Likely in France, How I envy you being in the Mother Country of Louisiana, Lucky you😂
But once again Stay safe and Best of Luck ⚜⚜⚜
My favourite scene from this movie. Thank you much for posting: it’s a nice 2 minute break!
hello know where i can see this full and dubbed movie because i'm from brazil
@@kauanamaral1654 i purchased it from youtube
A masterpiece!!
No in my opinion it is good like this black and white color it gives originality and special touch to that time
But look at Gone with the wind, wizard of oz.
It would work
This movie and it's out if this world characters, French Aristocracy
Color would have been very fitting
The music in this scene is "Dance of the Furies" from the opera Orphee et Eurydice (Paris 1774) by Christoph Gluck. Magnificent music for a magnificent movie!!!
This scene makes me crack up
I love the party ❤️❤️❤️
Maravilhoso.
🇧🇷🇧🇷
Por que no podemos ver esta magnifica pelicula ahora'
adrian costumes
Where can I find the soundtrack?
this sequence cut and they did well too 30s too modern
Um but Marie Antoinette was born on 1755
it's a movie about her life