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        Coppola's 2006 Marie Antoinette tells the story of the new French queen.  Marie arrives in Versailles and is married to Louis XV and the marriage is awkward to say the least.  There is so much pressure on Marie to get pregnant and have a child with the King,  while in the public eye she is admired.  The film uses bright colors, elaborate hairstyles, and fancy dresses to show the wealth that Marie adopted from becoming the queen.  This eventually becomes her downfall, as we see in the second opera scene when Marie stands to give a standing ovation and no one else joins her, unlike earlier in the film when the entire crowd joins her.  The film was not one I would normally choose to watch but I did enjoy it, except the ending.  We all know how the true story of Marie Antoinette ends but Coppola chose not to show the gruesome death but rather symbolize it by Marie walking out onto the balcony and laying her head out to an angry mob.  

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