On Whining About Bad Televisual Representations of the Terror! With a Necessary Exclamation Mark!!~~

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

I think it's my duty as an Angry Citizen(ess) to share my self-rightous outrage, and my favourite topic to share it is on All The More Or Less Bad And Terrible Representations of Robespierre, Saint-Just, Couthon, etc. In Films And, Sometimes, Novels.

First of all, I analysed the photo I posted earlier further (I was about to leave when I did that post, so I didn't have time):

Apart from Couthon, whom we won't even speak about, what is wrong:



1. That guy as an emo haircut.
2. Why is that guy having a red sash? Is it PROTO-SOCIALIST Collot or Billaud? And why is Robespierre the only one standing out again with his tricolor sash? They all had tricolor sashes!
3. I suspect that guy is Carnot: because he is adopting a falsely military "yo" attitude with his sword and all, except he clearly has the type of haircut that would be popular during the Empire, or the Consulate, or whater: A LOT LATER THAN YEAR II. Idiots. Also, that person doesn't know where to put his cocarde. Really not.

Someone noted how Robespierre looked a lot more masculine (!) for once. And so does that "Saint-Just" apparently. BUT THEN, suddenly, I spotted something that seemed dead wrong with that horrid Saint-Just's hand: is that a ring there? A ruby ring? And, perhaps, two rings?

Oh, but wait a moment, Robespierre's got a ring too:



They're making a British statement on Prop 8. Oh yes they are.

And they fail at everything. Unless it's part of the plot and they have secret poison rings. Who knows.

Comments

[palais.livejournal.com]

The emo haircut was the first thing I noticed, and the first thing I cringed at.

[trf-chan.livejournal.com]

I want to know who Emo Haircut Guy is. You have no idea how badly I want to know.

I think the guy you pointed out is Carnot, too. He's the only one who actually bears any sort of vague resemblance to the person he's supposed to.

They're making a British statement on Prop 8. Oh yes they are.

Only Evil, Fanatical Revolutionary Dictators(tm) support equality for gays?

[trf-chan.livejournal.com]

OR there was secretly a slash writer working on this program...:o

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

Oooh, that hurts. >__>

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

I don't know why, but I want to think it's Lindet. Even if it doesn't fit at all. But there has to be the one who opposes Danton's arrestation, no? And that sounds emo enough, doesn't it? Even if... just to note... LINDET IS THE OLDEST OF THEM ALL!!!

And yes, yes to everything else! Aaaahhhrgh. >__>

[trf-chan.livejournal.com]

Or maybe the younger Prieur...? Except everybody tends to forget that either of them existed, so maybe not. I'm actually getting Lindet vibes now, too. o.o

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

Yes, I considered that option, but you have to think TELEVISION!LOGIC: the Prieurs are completely pointless to any plot. Carnot would make sense, since they need the thermidorian legend of "the one who saved us all while the others were tyrants and/or anarchists", or perhaps they want to bash him on the Vendée and call him a nazi à la Pierre Chaunu. So they need Carnot. They obviously need the evil "triumvirate", otherwise nothing would sense, as we know. They'd need Collot and Billaud, to bring on evil leftist extremism and sans-culottism. Or Collot or Billaud. Or maybe they can just merge them together? We can never differentiate the two anyway, do we? Apart from this, I really doubt anybody cares about Hérault, Jeanbon Saint-André (who's always on missions anyway) and... unless it's Barère? But then, who's more useful: Lindet or Barère?

[trf-chan.livejournal.com]

This is all true. :(

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

The whole thing fails. Especially the red sash. Anachronism, much?

[victoriavandal.livejournal.com]

Glasses! As a four-eyed person myself, where are Robespierre's specs? He's the most famous specky-four-eyes in Political history (I think Trotsky was copying him).

I bet they don't give Desmoulins specs either, if he's in it. (A 1970's Theatre Hossein stage revival of La Terreur et la Vertu did - though I'm not clear whether Desmoulins wore his just for reading/writing, though).

[victoriavandal.livejournal.com]

The production design in the Toulon/Bonaparte/Freron drama a couple of years ago was pretty good - they'd even got the headed CSP paper right, which you only saw from the back. I thought the days of Santa's Grotto bright white nylon wigs in costume drama had passed....

[trf-chan.livejournal.com]

Glasses? This ActionHero!Robespierre doesn't need glasses! Psssh.

[josiana.livejournal.com]

Aww, they're wearing their sekrit dictator club rings. &hearts How endearing.

I still kind of want to slap someone for these terrible costumes. :(

[trf-chan.livejournal.com]

Aww, they're wearing their sekrit dictator club rings. ♥ How endearing.

It must have been their equivalent of those friendship necklaces all the girls like to wear when they're about ten. :D Cute!

As for the costumes...on further consideration, I feel bad for them. They probably didn't have much of a budget for costuming left after they paid Simon Schama. :(

[josiana.livejournal.com]

Awww, yes. &hearts

That's ture. ;_; But they don't look like they even fit well.

[missweirdness.livejournal.com]

Oh my supreme being. I love this post =)I didn't pay attention to the emo guy in the back xD who's that supposed to be? Oh how wrong is this? VERY WRONG.
WRONG CENTURY blub. :O

I'm like intrigued now.

Maybe Barère? He reminds me of him. And i didn't notice much..because the horrible clothing on them actually killed me. The whole picture kind of made my head explode..they just went too far

[la-muse-venale6.livejournal.com]

asjdhasjdnoaeifosjfosjdfojsgjpsjgpsgos0g!!!!!!!!!!!! >:o

The emo haircut, OMSB.
That absurd, ridicule Saint-Just.
The rings!
Red sash...

AGGG, now I desire that history was a restricted subject... *sigh*

[tuica.livejournal.com]

Couthon looks like my great grandma and it's unsettling me terribly. I can't look at anyone else, I just instantly see... Couthon. Also Maxime's "wig", or rather, something someone cut out of a 1970s rug. And his pants... what? They look very... they're very prominent. I can't look away. And the way he's got his leg is a clear invitation to not look away.

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes! That's what he made me think of that I couldn't quite spot! An old woman. I crossed many who looked vaguely like that. -_-

And, um, yes, Maxime is trying to prove his virility to Danton, but then Danton would note the ring and lawl even more while screaming FAIL.

[missweirdness.livejournal.com]

It's making me have bad thoughts here..*takes a breath* it's like he wants us to see what's there..O.o i saw that but couldn't explain all that..

[kurotoshi.livejournal.com]

..I'm sorry, I can't stop staring at that horrid wig.