TERROR, on YOUTUBE!

[missweirdness.livejournal.com]

Yeah, i guess what i found on youtube?

That dreadful Terror! Robespierre and the french revolution..

here's the link -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcZxrb_L0_M

part 1 of 9, hahahah

enjoy =O

 

 and apparently the emo GUY is ST. JUST! GASP!

 

I'm watching now..=( 

now discuss!

 

 

Comments

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

Also, I think I caught that EMO!NOT!Saint-Just called UGLY!NOT!Robespierre "Maxime". Oh dear. *eyerolls*

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

He did. I watched a couple of seconds of it with the sound on to see what everyone on the CSP was laughing about--as it turns out, it's just the kind of joke Schama and co. would imagine Revolutionaries would spend all their time making. *rolls eyes*

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

And what was that joke they were laughing about? (Coz they seem to be laughing a lot, really, and Hérault does say strange things about copper coming from between the legs of the Habsbourg emperor or something (?????????) and the place where I heard that pseudo-SJ calling that pseudo-Robespierre "Maxime" was at 0:18 at the beginning of the first vid, in the "Thermidor" sequence, if you can call it as such.)

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

Oh, well Saint-Just also called him Maxime in the scene where he joins the CSP--I think that was in the second video, but I could be misremembering. One of the members says "welcome to Antoinette's boudoir" and someone else says "where she used to powder her cheeks" and then another one says "all four of them" and they all laugh uncontrollably for about half a minute. *headdesk*

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

How refined and spiritual. *eyerolls*

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

See what I mean? It's the kind of joke Schama would imagine them making. Not pretty, is it? D:

[(Anonymous)]

I must admit, though, that if there is a thing I have appreciated in the BBC docudrama, it is the fact that the members of the CPS are joking a lot. Generally they are depicted a a bunch of superserious cold monsters with random attacks of bloodthirsty hysteria, and the only revolutionary who knows how to have fun is Danton. SO in this respect, this movie is a change.

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

I like the fact that they have a sense of humor, but it's the kind of joke one can just imagine someone like Schama imagining them making--and of course, it has to be a joke about one of the "victims of the Terror" for whose deaths they want us to believe the members of the CSP are personally responsible... And really, what could be more monstrous than making jokes at the expense of someone you've killed? Frankly, if that's the kind of sense of humor they want to show them with, I'd rather have them entirely serious.

[(Anonymous)]

Good point. However, they also make jokes about the revolutionary calendar :-)

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

When do they do that? (I've been watching it on mute, and frankly, it's revolting enough that way; I just turned it on for a few seconds to see what they were laughing about.)

[(Anonymous)]

I think it is the part 2 or 3 when Herault brings them the engravings of the sexy girls who represent the revolutionary months. Robespierre and Collot make some very funny comments and they all get a good laugh. I think it's the best moment of the whole docudrama :-)

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

I have to admit, that does sound pretty funny. So, +1, -1000000, it all, er, evens out. >.>

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

Yes, you're right, that scene was good. But even that was inaccurate; the republican calendar was adopted before Fabre named the months, and, thus, for a while documents were dated like this, for example: "2nd day of the 4th month of the 1st year of the French Republic, one and indivisible." Not to mention how people would frequently, even before the adoption of the republican calendar, people would often date documents from the first year of liberty (1789) or the first of equality (1792), quite on their own initiative. But of course, nothing happened in the Revolution that wasn't forced on people by all-powerful governments or angry mobs, so we can't have that!