1) Ah!, I love Gerard Depardieu but, that's just a matter of preference and
2) The only thing I have to argue with here, (because the rest of it is about being annoyed by historical inaccuracy which I address above)is that I *cannot believe* you found the characters in this movie to be stiff and unpassionate -- many a film critic thought they were the exact opposite of what you said, "old men in awkward clothes...etc" - see Roger Ebert's review, for one. I very much felt the passion, the extremeity and and the intensity of the time flying off the screen; what about all those scenes in the Assembly with the screaming and intensity of the political passions and instability at the time? And Desmoulins deep seated love of what he was fighting for, in face of his very obvious fear of death, is likewise very touching. Anyway, I think this is just an example of different styles touching different people, because these men felt very real, very passionate, and very down to earth to me in this film.
And as for Robiespierre - his legend revolves around the fact that he was actually that prudish - or somewhere approaching it.
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Date: 2006-09-28 07:39 am (UTC)2) The only thing I have to argue with here, (because the rest of it is about being annoyed by historical inaccuracy which I address above)is that I *cannot believe* you found the characters in this movie to be stiff and unpassionate -- many a film critic thought they were the exact opposite of what you said, "old men in awkward clothes...etc" - see Roger Ebert's review, for one. I very much felt the passion, the extremeity and and the intensity of the time flying off the screen; what about all those scenes in the Assembly with the screaming and intensity of the political passions and instability at the time? And Desmoulins deep seated love of what he was fighting for, in face of his very obvious fear of death, is likewise very touching. Anyway, I think this is just an example of different styles touching different people, because these men felt very real, very passionate, and very down to earth to me in this film.
And as for Robiespierre - his legend revolves around the fact that he was actually that prudish - or somewhere approaching it.