D: The BBC link doesn't work. I managed to find an .avi file for The Supersizers Eat the French Revolution, but I can't figure out how to play it with pictures.
Also, eh? Your summary makes me confused as to what the BBC was trying to say about the Terror, or why they even bothered to bring in experts.
I am a little puzzled as to the Abel Gance comment- the film was silly and did have one of the oddest views of the Committee that I've seen on film (why give Couthon bunnies?) but it wasn't all that much 9-Thermidor=death-of-the-tyrant. It (obviously) had a rather Bonapartist stance, and there was that scene of poor Robespierre reaching for a book on Cromwell, but it wasn't as bad as some other portrayls of Robespierre that I've seen, and since the director cast himself as Saint-Just, the Jacobins get off really lightly. Saint-Just did have that speech in the convention, where the mob watched him with obvious admiration....
stupid!American would like to ask if the Cockney accent=evil thing abounds in British pieces or if it was a not-so-secret display of the director/producer's class issues?
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Also, eh? Your summary makes me confused as to what the BBC was trying to say about the Terror, or why they even bothered to bring in experts.
I am a little puzzled as to the Abel Gance comment- the film was silly and did have one of the oddest views of the Committee that I've seen on film (why give Couthon bunnies?) but it wasn't all that much 9-Thermidor=death-of-the-tyrant. It (obviously) had a rather Bonapartist stance, and there was that scene of poor Robespierre reaching for a book on Cromwell, but it wasn't as bad as some other portrayls of Robespierre that I've seen, and since the director cast himself as Saint-Just, the Jacobins get off really lightly. Saint-Just did have that speech in the convention, where the mob watched him with obvious admiration....
stupid!American would like to ask if the Cockney accent=evil thing abounds in British pieces or if it was a not-so-secret display of the director/producer's class issues?