Tea at Trianon: Diane Kruger as Marie-Antoinette?

John Wilson Croker on Marie-Antoinette

"We have followed the history of Marie Antoinette with the greatest diligence and scrupulosity. We have lived in those times. We have talked with some of her friends and some of her enemies; we have read, certainly not all, but hundreds of the libels written against her; and we have, in short, examined her life with– if we may be allowed to say so of ourselves– something of the accuracy of contemporaries, the diligence of inquirers, and the impartiality of historians, all combined; and we feel it our duty to declare, in as a solemn a manner as literature admits of, our well-matured opinion that every reproach against the morals of the queen was a gross calumny– that she was, as we have said, one of the purest of human beings."

~from History of the Guillotine by John Wilson Croker, 1844

Edmund Burke on Marie-Antoinette

"It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the queen of France, then dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely there never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she had just begun to move in, glittering like a morning star full of life and splendor and joy. Oh, what a revolution....Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fall upon her, in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honor and of cavaliers! I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards, to avenge even a look which threatened her with insult. But the age of chivalry is gone; that of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded...."

~Edmund Burke, October 1790

Saturday, December 25, 2010

Diane Kruger as Marie-Antoinette?

They have chosen German actress Diane Kruger to play Marie-Antoinette in the film version of Farewell, My Queen. Diane will replace Eva Green. It is a much better choice in my opinion. Share

3 comments:

Anonymous said...: I am not pleased.

But this has more to do with my own opinion of "I don't like because there's just something about her".
The only film(s) I liked her in was National Treasure.

But I suppose it could be much worse.; December 25, 2010 at 1:12:00 PM EST
Jessie said...: I agree. Kruger is a much better choice.; December 25, 2010 at 4:54:00 PM EST
Dymphna said...: I think Eva is the better actress. Diane Krueger is pretty but she was horrid in Troy and has't improved.; December 28, 2010 at 8:47:00 PM EST