Stills from Movies.

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  Yesterday, I was thinking about persons who takes stills from French revolution movies and post them in the net. I'm very grateful to them, since time to time, I want to see these without having any need to see the movies themselves, and also to have my own archive of images from fiction and French Revolution for historical purposes.

   But I find that even if these photos are great (and some of a very good quality, better than professional ones), they are not complete. Most of them are stills of Robespierre and Saint-Just (of course, we all admire them thourougly) and sometimes, of Camille or Danton, but there's not stills from other characters or at least, few of them.  I wish I could see more stills from Lebas, Babette, Eléonore, Monsieur Duplay, Augustin , Amar, Mme. Duplay, Vadier, Collot,Billaud, Carnot, Lindet, Fouquier, Hermann, Fabre, Fouché, Barras, Fréron, Mme. Tallien and (of course!), my beloved one, Hanriot (from "La Terreur et la Vertu", the other one is just creepy)...just to make an avatar of him (Muahahaha). It could be useful to also post some good stills of many imprtant events of the Revolution as the fall of the Bastille, 20 June, 10 August and so on...What do you think about it? I mean stills from all movies we've seen as "La Terreur et la Vertu" (my very favorite, by far), "Saint-Just ou la Force des Choses", "Liberté, Fraternité and Choucroute", "Danton" "La Revolution Française" , "Marie-Antoinette"   etc.

If I could know how to do it, I should do it, but my computer skills are near to zero....Some months ago, I was not even able to post pictures from a site, so think I had evolutioned!

HanriotFran.

Comments

Re: Revolution in movies

[(Anonymous)]

I must say that the film (St.Just et la Force des Choses) does not seem very convincing to me. In my point of view, it is an unfortunate combination of St.Just fandom and the lack of will to recognize his ideology and acts. I understand it's difficult to analyze them and still want to make a movie praising the person, but avoiding the problems is intellectually dishonest. The attempt to whitewash him then necessarily leads to vilifying Robespierre and making St.Just seem like a rather stupid puppet which I don't think he was.
La Terreur et la Vertu is much better, although 1) idealizing Robespierre and, above all, St.Just too much 2)St.Just has too much of sang-froid, even while quarreling with Carnot, while there exist a number of historical references to him getting angry quite easily. Moreover, he DID HAVE a pretty harsh rhetoric which is not shown in the movie, so he comes out too angelic and much less complex than Robespierre (whom I find better characterized).

Re: Revolution in movies

[hanriotfran.livejournal.com]

Yes. I share your possition . I know what do you mean when speaking about "La Terreur et la Vertu". And I've read something similar about "Saint-Just" ou la Force des Choses",so I guess that the first movie must be better than the second one, but I must just watch it in order to decide it. ;D

One thing is sure: both, Robespierre and Saint-Just (as all the other characters on the movie) WERE complex persons. However, I 'm one of these who idealizes them both. I think that these two movies could be a great answer to so many movies and plays in which Maxime and Antoine are creepy, evil creatures without anything of human nature on them.

HanriotFran

P.S: I just like a lot how Vadier is depicted in "la Terreur et la Vertu". It was one of the characters who made me laugh aloud in some parts of the movie. O.K...I know how much harm he did to my beloved Robespierrist, but for a movie, he is an hilarious character, tough.

Re: Revolution in movies

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, Vadier's remarks on the Supreme Being are particularly exhilarating :-)Couthon's a sweetie there, too.