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Their shift away from accuracy and towards entertainment has been a welcome change in many ways, breathing new life into their genre and allowing for a more open attitude towards sexuality, gender, and race that is long overdue in period productions. That was the thing about the dialogue [in The Favourite]–I don’t know how they spoke, so it doesn’t matter to me how they spoke…It’s how I imagined they would speak. Viewers grew accustomed to a certain look and feel to period productions, and historical accuracy became a lightning rod around which they were assessed. Editor of the Macquarie, Sally Coyle, says that she expects the inclusion to be controversial, but none-the-less warranted. Things at the edge are at the center of Kate Northrop's cuntstruck : a man squatting on a roof with his arms around his knees, kids running over the roofs of row houses at night, ghost decorations tied into trees, the unfocused eyes of the Scrambler attendant at the fair, the circle of foam around a storm drain.

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As the Merchant Ivory heyday and 1990s Austenmania gave way to a new class of glossy, Oscar-friendly royal biopics and historical dramas, genre conventions crystalized, becoming a rigid set of expectations seldom broken in mainstream Hollywood. It’s also a visual treat, full of sunny colors, inventive scene transitions, and striking set pieces, a far cry from the usual soot-and-street-urchins depiction of Dickensian London. The Favourite, and David Copperfield are not afraid to play with the expectations of their genre in pursuit of this aim. Questions of the film’s historical accuracy, particularly around its lesbian relationships, immediately became a topic of fierce debate.