“Lie on your back and think of England,” a mother warned her daughter on her wedding night in Victorian England in 1865. Well, if everyone knows that a woman is asexual by nature and that sex is a burden to her, how else can you explain to your daughter what to do?
“Jeanne, undress! You undress every day, what difference does it make to you!” – another mother of her daughter says that she urged her to be naked in public in Paris in 1765. How else can a woman from a poor family earn money in a big city?
Between these two copies is a hundred years, the English Channel, and most importantly, a terrible social stratification. The first is a famous historical anecdote. The second is a dialogue from a new movie about the era of Johnny Depp (i.e. Louis XV). The film “Jeanne Dubarry” about the official favorite of the French monarch was released in Russian distribution.
The gulf between a “decent” lady of the bourgeoisie and a beggar is not only social but also sexual. A “decent” woman was not supposed to enjoy sex, because the only acceptable position for her was missionary, and she was supposed not to move or bend her legs at all, apparently resembling a log, including plastic. The manifestation of sexual initiative is fraught with the fact that your own husband thinks you are crazy. There was a special concept of “inferior gender” (inferior gender).
But a young French woman whose mother her mother was forced to sell as a teenager has far more freedom: She will be so proficient at sex that she will be able to subdue any man, making her one of the king’s official favourites. And already here among the nobility – debauchery is something familiar and traditional.
The movie is more about him than him. It’s about the famous French prostitute who dismissed and appointed ministers and died on the guillotine at the hands of another lover. It’s about Johnny Depp’s (Ludovik) favorite. Yes, and he died because he refused to be close to a revolutionary. Here are the times. It’s all about sex.
In a bourgeois environment, a woman should be chaste and inexperienced like a baby, eat like a bird, not sneeze, cough, or blow her nose in public. Always pregnant, constantly in the nursery or in the kitchen. But “decent”. Something “proper” has a high price. The title of “honest woman” has a few other advantages besides itself.
Perhaps then to perish in disorder. With intelligence and dexterity, the life of a “dishonest woman” could develop much more harmoniously and fully. Here – freedom of feelings, behavior, sexual desires. And the only possibility of a social elevator. And debauchery is already widespread among the nobility. And the different eras were called the “age of women”. The age of women, in both France and Russia, was when women (crossed out) on a bed, skilled in sex, entered politics and effectively ruled the country. Sex was the only social tool. Now it is difficult even to imagine all this, the ancients will not remember. Last remembered, our mammoth, our favourite, the suffering Weinstein sits in prison as a warning to the people of antiquity. And he won’t be able to get out of there alive. There’s no room for free mammoths.
– Zhanna, undress as best you can! I beg you, undress! My mom keeps asking.
My body is my business! – his daughter unexpectedly replies with a text from the 21st century.
It’s pretty funny to imagine Madame Dubarry as the first fighter for women’s rights. And also for the rights of blacks (his service to Zamora, whom he looks up to as a black child, a friend, and a son). And also a sincere, truly loving woman. For persuasion, he kissed Louis, who was dying of smallpox, directly over everything, directly kissing all the pit marks.
The real Jeanne and the real Louis are not like in the movies. He wasn’t a feminist, God forbid. He contracted smallpox from his young mistress, whom Jeanne provided for him. Beyond the facts, the film tells the story of the first feminist in France: Jeanne wears men’s clothes, engages in men’s relationships, enjoys sex and spit on prejudices.
The film was shot by the famous representative of feminist cinema, actress and director Maywenn. She filmed herself in the role of Her Majesty’s big whore. Comfortable. And you don’t even have to sleep with yourself for the part. This is if anyone has questions about the difference between historical Jeanne and Maiwenn.
Maiwenn, the meanest and most sensual French king, XV. Inspired by Louis. In front of him was the “sun king” Louis XIV, who became the image of the magnificence and splendor of France. After that, the tragedy king XVI, who left his head on the chopping block that became the symbol of the collapse of the monarchy of the time And this – that is, a king in the middle, neither fish nor fowl, corrupt and debauched. A stupid person who can say to himself “I’m not interested in politics”. And he wasn’t interested. Instead, his favorites took care of him, and he unnecessarily raided other people’s castles just for effect, for their sake. He just knew how to spoil the girls. Their illegitimate children can fill the city. He became famous only with the phrase “even a flood after us.” The flood did not come slowly, as they say. And the contribution of Louis and Jeanne to the “saddle” is difficult to overestimate.
Although there were those who tried to prevent disaster, the monarchy was heading towards disaster, for example Minister Choiseul, who begged the king to resign by the slutty Jeanne.
When Jeanne, like her predecessor Pompadour, feared that the king would lose interest in her, she organized something like a brothel academy for the king, and their young daughters were born in the XV century. She began training Louis to please them sexually. In short, indispensable.
And their debauchery was somehow uninspiring. As Pushkin said, this is “important entertainment”.
worthy of old monkeys
Times of lauded grandfather:
Lovlasov ruined fame
In the glory of red heels
And magnificent wigs ”- that’s exactly what he wrote about these people. Pushkin described their debauchery as an important pastime. The next period will be more chaste.
I was recently asked which of the Hollywood artists I find sexy. I tried really hard to answer. I thought, I thought. I didn’t invent anyone. I’m not counting anyone! All made of plastic.
However, here … Depp in the role of an aging womanizer is unexpectedly convincing. Both Fellini and Ettore Scola took care of the aging Casanova, played by both Mastroianni and Sutherland. There’s something about withering that pleases an artist and thinker.
Something attractive in fading. It’s like some kind of mystery. It’s the kind of charm that makes yesterday’s idiot an important person.
He looks with interest at the corpse of Polonius, whom he killed, as Hamlet says. “This is the nobleman. Now he is calm, important, quiet. And when he was alive, there was a talkative bandit.
And “cancelled”, “cancelled” Johnny Depp (in his first role after “cancellation”) also seems to make more sense.
The monarchy is dying. The era is fading. Heels wear out. Wigs are out of fashion. The heads are placed in the chopping block. Revolution is coming. Soon everyone will be swept away. At least a flood after us.
And not like you, they will still be “zakensell”.
The author expresses his personal opinion, which may not coincide with the editors’ position.