Because it's poison to liberty?

[victoriavandal.livejournal.com]

Came across this while randomly surfing: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0641155/plotsummary . Hm, well, if nothing else, it's good to know Robespierre somehow managed to father a descendant!
The goatee'd Mr. Jacques should put aside historical differences and team up with Thomasina Paine from 'Death Race 2000', Napoleon from 'The Prisoner - The Girl Who Was Death' and Saint-Just from Godard's 'Week-End'...

BTW, Man From Uncle fans, have you noticed how cute little blonde Ilya always ends up getting tied up?

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[nirejseki.livejournal.com]

*snerk* Okay, maybe I ought to start watching that again. Just for the horror.

And of course we've noticed that. ^^

[victoriavandal.livejournal.com]

I've just tried to find it on youtube but sadly no luck so far - but I found this still! http://www.cinemaretro.com/uploads/UNCLEVIRTUE.jpg - that wouldn't be Ilya tied up on a guillotine, would it? Yes, I think it would.

[wolfshadow713.livejournal.com]

Dr. Strangelove meets the French Revolution?

[victoriavandal.livejournal.com]

I'd watch that!

Btw have you seen this? I love miserable mad Philip K. Dick so this was a wonderful find. http://www.poormojo.org/cgi-bin/gennie.pl?Fiction+262

[victoriavandal.livejournal.com]

On 'Strangelove', I've got a theory that all those pussy cat stroking wheelchair using Bond villain types are derived from Couthon and his bunny in Abel Gance's 'Napoleon' - and let's not forget the ubiquitous small round sunglasses that every other baddie seems to sport as visual shorthand for really evil!

[wolfshadow713.livejournal.com]

The more I think about it, the more I realize that the Dr. Strangelove plot line would lend itself well to the Revolution. Citizen Strangelove, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the Terror?

[trf-chan.livejournal.com]

O______O;

[victoriavandal.livejournal.com]

Oh, it's fun, seeing them turn up in all these silly places, but probably not the sort of memorial they'd ever have envisioned for themselves.

Have you ever come across the early Dr. Who 'Reign of Terror' episodes? I think it was the William Hartnell era - not one of his prettier incarnations. Most were wiped, but a few clips survive. That may not be a good thing, though...

[jonahmama.livejournal.com]

Shouldn't all cute little blondes be tied up? ;) (Oh wait, was that out loud?)

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

Can you say crack?

...And Robespierre having a kid is apparently a popular trope. Though usually the kid turns out to be a rabid counterrevolutionary...

[victoriavandal.livejournal.com]

That happened to the onetime British New Labour Cabinet Minister Claire Short, when the kid she'd given up 20 years earlier to - as I saw it - dump her husband and become a then Cabinet Minister's mistress as a career move - was 'rediscovered' by the tabloid press. Lots of forced smiles with her Tory son!

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

Well, in Robespierre's case, it's usually a trope wherein the kid - or the kid's mother, or the kid's adopted family - is about to be guillotined. Just because, you know, obviously the whole population was being guillotined. *rolls eyes* And then Robespierre has to save whoever it happens to be in the particular storyline, in order to demonstrate how false and inhuman his principles supposedly are. Or something to that effect.

...Doesn't mean it can't happen in real life, it just means it's used in a very particular way when it comes to giving Robespierre fictional children.

[everworld2662.livejournal.com]

"The Virtue Affair".

*is highly amused*