The music is so incongruous that it seems like a joke.

Yeah, I am not too fond of it. Plus, I do not like Kirsten Dunst all that much. And those shots of Jason Shwartzman (sp?) plus the music do make it seem like it is a joke. Plus, what is with the title looking like a Sex Pistols font? Welcome to the suck.

Actually, though, hipsters with money today would be much cooler if they carried swords.

no no -- that's not real. that's a joke, right? like the fake "shining" trailer. right? stop fucking around everyone. that's just a FUCKING JOKE.

i'm serious -- that was some edit-happy internet geek that made that? anthony? was it you? it was you, wasn't it?

because if it's a joke, it's HILARIOUS. if it's not a joke -- i mean -- but --

you know, my dad WASN'T francis ford coppola, but i loved him anyway.

Ok, everyone can punch me in the stomach, but I kind of liked it.

It's something we haven't seen before (perhaps for painfully obvious reasons), but if the style of movie actually sticks with the style of the trailer, give her some credit for doing something different. I'd rather watch a weird _____ster version of Marie Antionette than a dull and stodgy one.

Also, the cake scene is TOTALLY going to rock.

dude, the story of marie antoinette is the story of the poor and destitute finally rising up and overthrowing the shackles of detestable monarchies, killing the oppressors and launching the world on an imperfect (but significantly better) path to enlightenment and self-rule. in other words, her death is a happy event brought about by the world's first punks -- and setting the trailer as a decadent romp of a young, irresponsible queen with "age of consent" by new order playing over it is a complete misinterpretation of both historical events AND early-80's pop music.

so, seriously, fuck her and her famous dad. and fuck her for making me like her last movie. and fuck her if i see that movie and i'm not psyched to see mary jane watson get her head fucking chopped off.

actually, Frame, that cinematic masterpiece of cinema A Knight's Tale DID in fact pit medieval battle scenes to "we will rock you" and the like. I remember seeing the trailers - and avoiding the film for obvious reasons. Although now I'm tempted.

one (EW) review stated:
""This is history made smaller than life, Middle Ages pageantry interpreted for stadium spectators with limited attention spans from the age of Whasssup? ads and foam rubber fingers that scream 'We're Number One!'"

I kind of liked that movie. It was silly, but Paul Bettney was in it. He was quite good. At one point they dance to Bowie's Golden Years.

A Knight's Tale was a good movie... so maybe this is my genre. Middle Ages stories framed with quasi-modern music and style.

How embarassing for me.

the french revolution did not occur during the middle ages! for crying out loud doorframe, learn something sometime wouldya?! read a book, maybe. jebus crackers!

ps i never saw a knight's tale but i will see him have sex with donnie darko very soon.

They had that in Knight's Tale too.

hey, i liked it.

I am watching it again now, (or trying to watch it, as it takes so damn long to load) and I am kind of digging it.

I just saw the trailer before a movie...and was like, "wtf? that's so lame!" I mean, I don't see Kirsten Dunst playing Marie Antoinette very well. And if the director includes the whole cake scene...she needs a serious history lesson. Agh, it's going to be the suck. Oh well...

I realize that I am extremely late on this but i stumbled across this posting and feel that there can be a real defense for Coppola's choice in music. Initially it is jarring, but we've all seen period pieces before and it's refreshing to finally have someone trying to revitalize the genre. Sure "A knights tale" did it but I'm not going to necessarily count that, it wasn't trying to be a historical movie necessarily.

Earlier someone was talking about how the story of marie antoinette was the poor and destitute rising in revolt, which is suprisingly wrong. I'm pretty sure that's actually the story of the French Revolution. The woman was also person, actually a queen of france, a fact which your "story" of her neglected to really cover. The French revolution did not get its grand kickoff until 1789 when Marie Antoinette was 34 years old. Please don't tell me you find it unstified to maybe, when making a film of someones life, skip out on the bulk of it, considering hers ended pretty soon after that revolutionary outburst. She actually had a fairly interesting life before that as well. If Sofia Coppola wanted to make a film about the French Revolution she would have, but then again you probably would have been whining that she's just ripping of Le Miserable.

But, I digress, I meant to talk about the music! Before the "real," unfortunate story of Marie Antoinette got going she was an extrememly young queen. She married the shy, chunky Louis at age 14, he being 15. These were teenage kings an queens. Would you honestly say that you at that age would really want to sit down and run a country?!?! Perhaps there are a few go-getters here, but I know I wouldn't. I would be riding horses, playing games, drinking, and all sorts of debauchery.

So, TO SUM UP, because I know people actually want a point and not just my blah-blahing: Given the age of the young bride (check the title of the song) and the throw-your-up-and-dance, frivilous nature of the song, i think it was an extremely inventive, and well placed choice. It really emphasizes the youth of the people who were RUNNING France. We've heard plinky harpsicords, we've heard swelling melodramatic scores, the trailer was the exact shot in the arm period-pieces need to get out of the Merchant Ivory holding pattern. Say what you will guys, but you'll end up seeing it because you're intrigued with what in the hell she is doing.

Man. Jbg, don't piss your pants with anger, relax a little. If the director wanted to make a movie about the struggles of the bourgeoisie, she would have. This movie is going to rule 1. because of the soundtrack and 2. because of the style it's taking on. This movie is a series of artistic choices that pretentious critics who think they know art, don't get.

Elbowroom, you're amazing.