Camille Paglia's take on the current infatuation with Marie Antoinette: "After 9/11 — when great towers fell, like the Bastille, in a day —
coping for the professional class has required cognitive dissonance.
Life's routine goes on amid a surreal bombardment of bulletins about
mutilations and massacres. When since the Reign of Terror has ritual
decapitation become such a constant? The fury and cruelty of the French
mob were strangely mixed with laughter — as when the severed head of
Marie Antoinette's friend, the Princesse de Lamballe, was spruced up by
a hairdresser and waved on a pike outside the royal family's window.
These are the grisly surprises that now greet us every day through our
own windows — the glass monitors of TV's and PC's. The return of Marie
Antoinette suggests that there are political forces at work in the
world that Western humanism does not fully understand and that it may
not be able to control." (from "In Our Hall of Mirrors, a Queen Looms Large," The Chronicle)
A PBS documentary on the queen will air on September 25th. Sofia Coppola's film premieres on the 20th of October.
hmm .well heaps of war films out there like saving ptrvaie ryan , dog soldiers ,etc .just look up war films on imdb.com will give you a huge list history is a little different .we get the tales like braveheart and rob roy [while great films not historically accurate ] ..again i say give it a go on imdb.com ..personally i watch those films but am useless at remembering them [as in titles] more modern history and true films i can recall but they are mainly of events of the 50s til now
Posted by: Aziswit | October 28, 2012 at 02:20 AM