Movie I watched:

 I just recently viewed a movie called The Departed, there are many famous actors in this movie. There is young talent like Mark Wahlberg, Matt Damon and Leonardo DiCaprio and they do a really great job. There were also veteran actors such as Jack Nicholson and Martin Sheen, these gentlemen really tie together the movie. 

There is so much misdirection and lies and secrets in the film making it a real challenge to follow, it is fun because you feel like you are trying to put together the puzzle like the police trying to find the rat and the rat trying to find the police mole. The premise of the plot is that the snitches are trying to find each other and who will figure it out first without getting killed.

Somehow both the main characters who are the rats in both arenas make it out alive without getting killed by the mob boss. The rat police officer ends up killing the boss in order to cover his own tracks. The misdirection is so fantastic and the costumes and accents, it was a perfectly cast movie. Sorry for the spoiler but I think it crazy that they survive just to all get killed by each other and no one sees any type of jail time, it is all handled outside of the law. 

Marie Antoinette

        Coppola is a great film maker much as we discussed in class. Her biggest asset that she uses is her use of cinematography. The way that she uses is it that she creates such great detail in her films and especially in Marie Antoinette. There is so many in-depth looks at the set and the people. In my opinion it is the set that really takes the show. It shows the separation of life from the life of us regular people and the lavish taste and spoiling that happens to people of such stature. It also explains the things the things that we think are tragedy and a cross that we bare compared to others. 

        We see on the set the beautiful gardens of France and we think of how nice it must be to roam and take in all of the smells and sight. It feels like we are also there in person. Everything on the set ain’t he experience Marie is able to take in the most beautiful area ever, with cakes and fancy dresses as well as the rolling countryside. This image is able to depict some of what I am talking about, how they have crosses to bear, such as how Marie needs to provide a son to save two countries. She has a girl first and then another child but we see that the child isn’t in the next portrait. So she has the struggle of losing a child but is able to eventually provide for her respective countries. She has struggle but nothing like anything we will ever experience. We see beauty on seen that is contradicted by the struggle in her life. 

I think that these two links help to show the significance of Marie and the impact she had on the time line and how she Coppola portrayed it so well in the film. 

https://www.lonelyplanet.com/news/marie-antoinette-pop-culture-icon

https://guides.loc.gov/women-in-the-french-revolution/marie-antoinette