revolution_fr | On Whining About Bad Televisual Representations of the Terror! With a Necessary Exclamation Mark!!~~ (Reply)

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.