Telly - same old, same old...

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"Toulon, 1793..."
I may have mentioned this somewhere before, but it was on TV again this afternoon which gave me a chance to get angry and shout at the TV set (to the amusement of friends) all over again. And I've just found it online, so now you can, too, if you want to: http://en.sevenload.com/videos/jFzYVFP-Heroes-and-Villains-Napoleon (that seems to be the whole hour). Yes, the chappie gloating sadistically over the guillotine at the start is Fréron, the pantomime 'villain' of the title, and it was a nice surprise to find this obscure but horrible git the central baddie of the piece (a rare 'serious' (ahem) role for comedian Rob Brydon), but that's where the jollity ends, because, readers, viewers, despite the occasional positive role for the CSP in this little drama, nasty Fréron is here meant to incarnate the 'nasty' Revolution itself. Bummer!

(And no, Augustin Robespierre doesn't get a mention, 'cos if he did it would have to be in a 'positive' context that would screw up the whole 'revolutionaries are pervy little bureaucrats' line of the script...!)

It looks fabulous, though, damn it - why does the devil have the best cinematographers?