I'll admit I've been purposefully avoiding the TV series since it seems to be yet another attempt to take a historical woman and have her act and think like a 21st century woman for... no reason at all apart from an attempt to be "hip with the kids". It's not even that I mind a feminist lens for studying history (it has benefited re-examining Augustas from the Ancient Rome era or Henry VIII's six wives... although I have a lot of opinions about Six the Musical and not a whole lot of them are a compliment), but I do find it a little condescending that some showrunners think people wouldn't be able to understand the setting if it wasn't for those very obvious winks. I'm fine with, say, The Great given it's very satirical and self-aware about it, and Sofia Coppola's film about Marie-Antoinette also went that way, but the fact that it was very stylistic saved it from being a complete disaster.
And then again (and I say this with respect :P), I don't like most British/American attempts at picturing French history/literature apart from a few exceptions, so maybe I would get annoyed either way :P
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
timeasmymeasure
no subject
Date: 2023-02-17 11:08 pm (UTC)And then again (and I say this with respect :P), I don't like most British/American attempts at picturing French history/literature apart from a few exceptions, so maybe I would get annoyed either way :P