Coming Of Age In Sophia Coppola's Marie Antoinette

Sophia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette is a very unconventional story of the famous monarch. It is a movie that has ignored the conventional editing, dialogue, and tone of a film of its’ caliber. In a typical film we attempt to get some semblance of historical accuracy and the director does his/her work on attempting to work with the story that is given. While mostly true of the movie, it is a movie where the vision of the director is a priority. Instead of focusing on accuracy, Sophia attempts to use the film as a launching pad to portray the main character (played by Kirsten Dunst) as a coming of age figure that gets caught up in a world she did not choose, while dealing with home sickness and loneliness. Sophia attempts to portray materialism as something that the young Queen Marie Antoinette does so that she can cope with crippling loneliness. The movie overall is a film that is told to

It is a scene with no important dialogue, no impact on the story as far as making or breaking the movie, and if cut would probably allow for an extra minute of exposition or resolve in the plot. However, it is a very important scene because we get to see the coming of age theme well in the short time that we are viewing the scene. In fact, in the duration of a minute and forty-nine seconds we have absolutely no dialogue coming from the main character or any of the various supporting extras that are seen aside from general inaudible chatter that we can hear. Instead Sophia decides to use this small scene to do something that is particularly different in a period piece of this caliber; ignore the speech and tone of usual Marie Antoinette films and focus on giving the audience a visual of Marie Antoinette combined with modern music from the 1980’s band Sioux and the banshees, playing as both a non-diegetic and a diegetic at the same