In which I find Abel Gance's "Napoléon" online.

[maelicia.livejournal.com]

Heard about it a lot, but I never bothered to see it. Because I have enough migraines. So here it is, on a very random Chinese YouTube (?!):

First part: http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTIxNzY3NDQ=.html

Second part: http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XMTIxNzY3Njg=.html

It's in the beginning of the second part, at 3:15, that we see the amazingly random appearance of the "trimvirate" of the CSP. Gotta love how Saint-Just is introduced as "The most awe-inspiring figure of the Terror: Saint-Just. (played by Abel Gance)" (Abel Gance should've kept his cosplaying for his bedroom, really) after which we see him playing around with a rose and fluttering his eyelids. How awe-inspiring. Gotta also love how they then introduce Couthon as "...with Saint-Just, one of the most influential members of the Committee of Public Safety", followed by that scene of him molesting that bunny. Oh dear. How influential.

I would like to say that Terror! Robespierre and the French Revolution can truly rival with it as far as historical accuracy and sense are concerned. Seriously. You can really understand from watching it why they'd thinking of fitting footage of it in their v. srs. historical documentary based on v. srs. historical sources. Rly.

Also, I give a special award to That Guy--



--who screams "Death to Saint-Just! Death to Robespierre! Death to the two monsters!" (Accuracy, of course.) Isn't he just amazing?

And another thing:



...Wait, what? O.o;;

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Vultures, tigers, the whole anti-revolutionary ZOO, oh yeah :-) Sib.

[(Anonymous)]

It is hilarious! Thank you for finding it. The triumvirs are the most frightening men in the history of cinema, indeed. Couthon is just beyond my comprehension! And who is the man playing a musical instrument in the CPS? I suppose Gance took too much opium while directing and acting :-) Sib.

[cat-empress.livejournal.com]

That Guy is scaring me.

[missweirdness.livejournal.com]

Wow...that last part kind of made my head spin. Too much animal reference..though that guy does incredibility freak the crap out of me. But it's not what i don't see at times xD

[chip-squidley.livejournal.com]

That guy looks like one of those protesters that doesn't believe Obama was born the the United States!

[neuropathology.livejournal.com]

In that case....That Guy looks like he lives less than 15 minutes away from where I sleep at night.



I so wish I was joking.

[chip-squidley.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, Those Guys probably live 15 minutes away from where everyone sleeps at night.

Or less.

[missweirdness.livejournal.com]

that guy could possibly be in my family..
O.O

I've seen my family members..worse or just like this when they wake up.

alcohol is so not cool for that reason.

[chip-squidley.livejournal.com]

I take it that they aren't the sort of people that stop with a couple of glasses of red wine at dinner?

[missweirdness.livejournal.com]

Nope(they keep going..), if they were in the french revolution; they'd be part of the mob xD

[chip-squidley.livejournal.com]

Well...someone has to be in the mob :)

[missweirdness.livejournal.com]

as long as i can be in the mob too =) I wanna scream like i have no reason to and just be crazy. As long as others want to be in the mob too!

[chip-squidley.livejournal.com]

Unfortunatley, it seems like the only mobs looking to hire are right-wing and reactionary...at least in the USA.

[missweirdness.livejournal.com]

maybe i could join a mob in a different country..hmmm.hmmm..even my dad said he was right-winged..argh. But i shouldn't give up. And i live in the US..>.>

[chip-squidley.livejournal.com]

Outsourcing your mob activity? Iran might need some more people to help out!

[missweirdness.livejournal.com]

Hell yes.. =) I'm crazy enough to do it..now if i can just sneak into Iran...

[la-muse-venale6.livejournal.com]

Just... wow. o.o

There are just frightening FR related things on this world!

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

Did you see the scene where all the ghosts of the Revolutionaries come to Bonaparte and tell him to "carry on their legacy," or somesuch? I wasn't sure whether to laugh or cry when I saw that. XD;;;

[sibylla-oo.livejournal.com]

Yeah, military dictatorship, the ideal of dead republicans :-D
On the other hand, many people in Europe actually thought it was what he was doing, I mean carrying on their legacy...Of course, compared to the absolutist monarchs almost anyone might seem "revolutionary"

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

Whatever onlookers might have thought of the situation, it's incredible that Gance would have thought all the dead conventionnels would agree...

[sibylla-oo.livejournal.com]

Exactly. Furthermore, when Gance spends such a long time making the revolutionaries seem pervert and evil, why then he wants them later to give their benediction to the deeds of his beloved Napoleon?

[estellacat.livejournal.com]

He does seem to admire them despite his portrayal, oddly enough. But I think it would be bootless to look for logic in this movie.

[chip-squidley.livejournal.com]

Probably wants it both ways...absorb the legacy of the Revolution while exalting Napoleon as superior to all that came before.

[citoyenneclark.livejournal.com]

wow....his expression is priceless.