176 Screencaps from La Terreur et la Vertu. Brought to you by estellacat and maelicia.

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

Thus I wish to share with you the 1964 TV movie La Terreur et la Vertu by Stellio Lorenzi and Alain Decaux.

Ah, the 1960s! The glorious decade of the victorious left! When the revolutionary, republican and jacobin tradition reigned over historiography!... Long before Furet’s Reaction, which brought with it films such as Wajda’s "Danton", Enrico’s "La Révolution française", De Broca’s "Chouans", Rohmer’s "L’Anglaise et le Duc", Jacquot’s "Sade", Coppola’s "Marie-Antoinette" and the Supreme Being Knows What could be next. Meh.

But that is another story. Back to La Terreur et la Vertu.

I begin with screencaps, which were made by estellacat. I only uploaded them. :D (And yet, it was very, very, very long. >.> )

Maxime et Saint-Just	Robespierristes	Thermidor	Thermidor
Thermidor	Thermidor	Thermidor	Thermidor
Couthon, Robespierre, Saint-Just	Couthon, Saint-Just, Robespierre	Saint-Just	Saint-Just
Le Bas et Saint-Just	Le Bas et Saint-Just	Robespierre et Saint-Just	Saint-Just Discours
Maxime
	Chez les Duplay	Couthon, Saint-Just, Robespierre	Arrestation
Augustin et Maximilien	Élisabeth Le Bas
	Élisabeth et Philippe Le Bas	Dernier baiser, Élisabeth et Philippe Le Bas	À l'Hôtel de Ville.
		Philippe, Babet et leur fils.
	Saint-Just, Le Bas, Couthon, Maximilien et Augustin Robespierre
	Chez les Duplay	Éléonore et Danton
Maximilien, Éléonore et Monsieur Duplay		Maximilien et Éléonore	Lucile Desmoulins et Louise Danton
Fouché, Robespierre et Éléonore	Hanriot	Robespierre	Déclaration des droits de l'homme et du citoyen
Robespierre, Couthon, Collot et Billaud	La montagne	Le Bas	Le Bas et Élisabeth
		Le Bas et Couthon	Le Bas et Saint-Just
CSP			Retour de la Fête de l'Être Suprême
		Les Duplay et Robespierre
	Augustin et Le Bas, Hôtel de ville
Augustin et Saint-Just
Maximilien, Éléonore, Monsieur Duplay
Maximilien et Augustin.			Robespierre et Saint-Just

Comments

[vulpea-rea.livejournal.com]

these are so sweet! T___T

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

Yes, and I just posted something else on that film -- for behold, I have decided tonight belonged to the Robespierriste. XD; (Okay, so you have the film: you sent it to me, but still. Anyway. XD )

[vulpea-rea.livejournal.com]

xD! totally awesome that you posted this and the sound clips, though, i'm reliving it.

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

Me too -- well, I'm reliving my sound extracts. The last one still and always makes me weep. >___>

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

Wow, did I really make that many? I must have gone insane! XD

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

As far as insanity goes, look at the post I just made. XD!

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

Oh, you probably are insane for doing that, but look at it this way: people who wouldn't be able to understand the French and thus have only had access to English and subtitled movies will have an opportunity to know what's going on in the best of the French films, :D?

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

Beyond insanity, yes; there was a point. ^__^

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

Well, just about everything you post on the subject does. Except the crack, of course. XD

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

Hey, the crack has an important purpose: it soothes the political tension. Ask Saint-Just. XD

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

I see. Pity they didn't think of that when they needed it. -__-;

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

Do you see them with crack on 9 thermidor? They were already quite wretched. Well, it was that or rousseauiste-inspired despair.

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

No, not there, but in other instances...

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

The weeks between the FdlES and 9 thermidor?

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

Yes, that, but also, if you think about it, it could have been useful at just about any junction (even if it would have made the entire Revolution rather ridiculous >__>).

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

On second thought, they were in it for the political tension. And I think it's impossible to stop political tension.

Completely randomly, and I know I've already said it, but God, how they have gorgeous voices and whispery-like tones when they quote from the Déclaration at the end. It makes me swoon and weep at the same time. >_________>

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

That's probably so. The crack probably only would have succeeded in making certain episodes into tragi-comedy, which really wouldn't have been any better. >__>

I know. D: And it's just so upsetting--I try not to actually watch the portrayal of Thermidor that often. >__>

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

Yes; and politics is masochistic love anyway. ;O; (That is so going on an icon eventually.)

I have a question though; when Robespierre is in bed, and Saint-Just is next to him, speaking, what do they speak about? Is it in the first or second part of LTLEV? And the scene where Robespierre rambles on his childhood nerdiness miseries, and he's so completely adorable, in which part is it?

[kurotoshi.livejournal.com]

Holy crap on a stick!! You are awsome!! <3

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

Thanks... ^__^

[trf-chan.livejournal.com]

Sweetness. Overload. *DIIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEES!*

Thank you SO MUCH for posting~ =D

P.S. - Finally, a film that makes Danton suitably creepy-looking. More than, even. *shivers* D:

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

Finally, a film that makes Danton suitably creepy-looking. More than, even. *shivers* D:
And he acts creepily too: especially in that scene with Éléonore. D:

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

Hm. Uh-oh. A death induced by sweetness overload! What do I do??? Does that require stitches? D:

^___^

P.S - Oh, yes. Quite a lot. XD! And did you see Lucile and Louise...?

[bettylabamba.livejournal.com]

Holy Shit! I'm gone for a couple of days and miss all the excitement. My computer's freezing from joy!

You guys fucking rule!!!

Danton in "LaTerreur et la Vertue"

[hanriotfran.livejournal.com]

Hi, people!:

A friend of mine who is French and knows my crush on French Revolution, send me "La Terreur et la Vertu" DVD just for he believed I MUST absolutely watch it, and there was no other way than to send me the movie. Here, in Argetina it's not available and if I would purchase it by Internet I should pay three times its cost. So, he send me the DVD. And...my! I was hooked! It's my favorite movie about French Revolution. It's the first one in which Maxime and Saint-Just are not the bad guys and Danton is showed as creepy as I imagine him. Lebas is adorable and I fell in love with the Duplay's family...Without mentioning that "my" Hanriot is wonderfully showed in it and I found Feluriot-Lescot absolutely GREAT! The Committé i exactly as I imagine it, and Vadier is as I've read he was.

Chapeau, Decaux and Castelot! Chapeau, Stellio Lorenzi!
HanriotFran (Vanesa)