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?

[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).

[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. :(

[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.

[kurotoshi.livejournal.com]

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