Behold one of my favorite scenes, favorite movies, favorite soundtracks:
Marie Antoinette – I Want Candy – YouTube.
You want candy? I want candy! I realized today that some of my favorite musical movie scenes have fantastical CANDY themes. So I decided to bring you as many as I could as part of a series. I can’t explain it. Maybe candy is inherently whimsical and inspires great film. I’m not sure I care.
Please just delight in the masterpieces I have presented you today. You simply must watch the video above; I have seen a lot of artistic movies and this scene stands out as one of the most memorable. And yes, there’s a point…what if a teenage girl were running your country? (Of course if you watched the film you’d know it was really the foreign war–by which I mean the American Revolution–that was bankrupting the country.)
Now click here for a stunning collection of stills from the film. Pure eye candy! I can’t encourage you strongly enough. Click! click! click!
Utter gorgeousness! Delicious! You must witness this rococo masterpiece of a film! Please validate my excessive use of exclamation points! This atmospheric character study was directed by Sophia Coppola, director of Lost in Translation. She is the woman who introduced us to Scarlett Johansson and, incidentally, ran an art gallery at UMass while I was there in the late nineties. I even met her briefly as part of a questionable film project we wound up shooting in her gallery. (As I recall the exhibit included a soundscape that repeated phrases like “Everything’s plas-tic, fan-tas-tic…Bubble chowder!” Even then she was intrigued by creating atmospheres with music and film. Trust her judgement…on the former, if not the latter.
Lest you think I am done, mais non! Attendez! This movie inspired one of my all time favorite Vogue covers as well, shot by master photographer Annie Leibovitz:
Here is an excerpt from “Annie Leibovitz: Life Through A Lens” which shows her process during the Vogue photoshoot for this Marie Antoinette:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNyIUlra9LU
Enjoy!
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Is this yummy or what?
Read Musical Movie Candy Part Two–Hedwig’s Sugar Daddy
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Mysterious Artemis 