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

[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?

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

Or a colorbar, XD?

I don't remember what they're talking about; I would have to watch it again, but I think it's in the first part. As to the other, that's at the very beginning of the second part. :D

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

Oh, true. xD!!! I would need plenty of images of depressed Maxime though. Or some sort of concept to illustrate the masochism of politics.

Oh, yay! That means, at least, that I have that scene in the second part that vulpea_rea sent to me. ^__^

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

Sadly, those shouldn't be too difficult to find... >__>

When are you going to watch it, by the way?

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

I figured the images from this scene (http://pics.livejournal.com/maelicia/pic/000tbks3/g82) should illustrate the point quite well. -_-;

I don't know yet. ;.; The school is starting next week, so at first, I have plenty of stuff to do... so I suppose I could watch it in two weeks. Perhaps. If I find a computer with a DVD player. >___>

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

Yes, that should do it. >__>

I think just about any computer made at all recently (speaking of course, in years) should have a DVD player... It's a pity you'll have to wait that long, but I suppose you can't help being busy the first week... And it's worth the wait. ^__^

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

He indeed seemed quite close to the nervous breakdown here (http://pics.livejournal.com/maelicia/pic/000ffafs/g82). Do you remember what had happened...?

Hm. Yes. There must be a computer lab somewhere, anyway, that is made for students who want to study films or something. I just have to say I study that film -- which is only the truth, since I study the characterisation of the Robespierristes in drama and fiction. XD!

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

That was at the end of part one, when Danton shouts invective at Maxime on the way to the guillotine. -__-;

See, I knew there would be some way of doing it. :D

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

Oh, God. I knew that scene was bad. But not at that point. (And therefore entirely appropriate for a colourbar about the masochism of poltiics.) O____O As long as Danton isn't saying that he'll give his balls to Maxime and his legs to Couthon. That was the sort of precision we didn't need, Danton, thanks. -__-; And awwwww, Saint-Just comforts him because Danton The Bully is saying nasty things. That's so sweet and heartwrenching. Is Saint-Just saying anything?

Yes. Just that I can't say it in the first week of school that I already have this homework I want to do or they're going to look at me weirdly. XD;

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

Sadly, yes, it is appropriate for that, if nothing else. But I believe it's the line about how "Robespierre will follow" him. Yes, aren't they cute? ^__^ If I remember correctly, I don't think either of them says anything; Saint-Just just comes in and squeezes Maxime's shoulder.

But the second week should work, then?

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

That's what I thought. -_-; They're the cutest thing that ever was. And I do love how S-J randomly comes in to squeeze his shoulder. Awwww.

Yes. That was my plan. :D

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

More specifically, he stands in the door way a few seconds, then comes in and puts his hand on Maxime's shoulder and squeezes it, and then Maxime looks up with that still-upset-but-somewhat-comforted look. And that's how it ends. D:

I hope it works out. :D

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

This sounds so fucking adorable. I just looked on the screencaps which are on saint-just.net and it pretty much looked like that too: I love how S-J seems to put his hand very slowly at first and then squeezes and Maxime looks up. Did you find a way to make videos, finally? Coz I'd like that scene, I think. Or the one with Maxime in bed. XD >__>

Me too. They'll possibly give me a "omg look at the nerd who's doing her homework right in the second week of uni" look. They'd give me more looks like those if they knew I worked on that all summer though. >____>

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

It is very cute. ^__^ Sadly, I still haven't figured out how to make videos though. >__> *fails at life*

That's okay though... they're probably not people whose opinion you should care about over much, am I wrong?

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

Ah. >.>

Well, no... -_-;

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

Sorry about that... >___<;;

Really, it's only important to care about the opinions of people you respect, so it's quite all right.

On a completely unrelated note, I just saw "Les Mariés de l'an II," and it was the most absurd and farcical movie on (set during would be more accurate, because while it goes along almost like a crash course in the Revolution in the provinces, it's not really about it) the Revolution I have ever seen. Not that that necessarily makes it bad though. (To cut a very long story short, though it portrays everyone absurdly, the royalists are worse off in the portrayal--the Hébertiste in charge in the protagonist's city is even recalled by the CSP, while royalists do things like shoot innocent people in the chest and then steal their jewelry, and abduct people.) /digression

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

Ah, well... it happens, I suppose. -_- Where did you find that movie?