Advantages: GREAT LAUGHS Disadvantages: ONLY SIX EPISODES
Let them eat cake created and written by Peter Learmouth, is a hilarious six part comedy starring Jennifer Saunders and Dawn French.
Based in 1782 France, The Comtesse Columbine De Vache (Jennifer saunders) is a close friend of Marie Antoinette and has a set of rooms in the Palace of Versailles, which she occupys with her two servants the saucy streetwise maid Lisette played by Dawn French and, a man servant Bouffant played by Adrian Scarborough who is charge of her extreme hairdos and clothing.
Having been brought up as an Aristocrat, Columbine has a very narrow view on the world and is able to do very little for herself and, in one hilarious episode is trapped in bed for three days when Lisette disappears as she had no one to help her out of bed and to open the doors!
Columbine's position in the Palace which is full ...
Advantages: beautiful set and costumes, visually lovely Disadvantages: historically inaccurate, American accents, music, doesn't show her death
and taxes.
A major part of the film which I feel is missing is the arrest and execution of Marie Antoinette, which should be at the end of the film but is not depicted at all.
I also think that parts of the film were too modern. For example, you see a glimpse of Converse trainers (which we all know are a 20th century invention) and the soundtrack is from modern rock bands. Coppola deliberatleuy chose to put in modern things to show that MA was a teenager.
I also hated the accents. In the whole film I think there was only one French accent! The rest of the casts' are American, English or something else. Some might think me finicky but I found it really annoying!
CAST
Kirsten Dunst
as Marie Antoinette
Jason Schwartzman
as Louis XVI
Rip Torn
as Louis XV
Rose Byrne
as Duchesse de Polignac
Asia Argento
as Comtesse du Barry ...
Advantages: Good in parts Disadvantages: He's written better
, that's Peregrine sorted then. Who's next?
Well, there's Messrs Glodstone and Slymme (nicknamed 'Slime'), two of Peregrine's masters. Glodstone, who believes in bullying character and moral fibre into his boys, is mocking of Slymme's wet and unnatural opinion that boys shouldn't be beaten. At every turn, Slymme is belittled by Glodstone until the bully's merciless sarcasm and one innuendo too far, causes the milder man to flip and embark on a wild plan to extract a humiliating revenge.
He hits upon a dastardly plan to bring down Glodstone and engineers a series of events which take Glodstone, Perigrine and the reader over to France, causing violence and mayhem at every turn as they travel on booby-trapped roads, through dark woods, raging rivers and up scary mountains to a Chateau to rescue a Comtesse, a damsel so not in distress ...
