More Commentary on "Saint-Just et la force des choses"
And now for my minute-by-minute commentary on the last part of "Saint-Just et la force des choses."
( I'm warning you ahead of time, it's incredibly detailed. Still, it might be useful, especially for those of you who don't speak French well but want to watch this movie, or at least get an idea of its content... )
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LOL! Sobbing!Hébert! LOL! And Premonition!SJ = so much LOL.
At which point Robespierre, being oh-so-very-in-character, shoves everything that was on one of the tables at him and shoves Barère, and then pushes more stuff off of more tables.
OMSB! STOP, MAXIME, YOU'RE GONNA GIVE AN ORGASM TO SJ. RIGHT IN THE BLOODY MIDDLE OF THE BLOODY CSP. OH. YEAH. BABY. GO ON. JUST. FUCKING. GO ON. :O
...sorry. Irresistible.
And now the Thermidorians are conspiring outside. In a fucking flower garden.
Oy, are the Thermidorians having a Conspiring Garden Party...?
“But how? Robespierre holds the Convention, the Jacobins, the Commune… THE CANNONS OF THE NATIONAL GUARD.”
"Not to say, Robespiere has a CHAIR. And LAUDANUM."
Saint-Just gets up to go and Collot tries to stop him by putting his hand on his chest and asking, “Where are you going?” to which Saint-Just replies, “Am I a prisoner? Don’t touch me, Collot, or you’ll regret it.” And then they all laugh at him, and Barère says they ( ... )
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It was truly one of the film's more bizarre moments--and as you can see, it had a lot of them. It's interesting, though; Robespierre is usually the one portrayed as being overwhelmed by guilt when it comes to the fall of the factions. You remember the trick LRF uses to make it look like Teh Ebil Saint-Just made Robespierre sacrifice the Dantonistes? It seems to be reversed here: Teh Ebil Robespierre made Saint-Just sacrifice the factions. *nods*
...I have a feeling Saint-Just might be more worried than aroused by this show of OOCness, though. XDDD;;
Oy, are the Thermidorians having a Conspiring Garden Party...?
Apparently so. *was scarred for life by watching it*
"Not to say, Robespiere has a CHAIR. And LAUDANUM."
And let's not forget his weather-controlling super powers. *nods*
OMSB, the subtext. Can see it from here: Saint-Just, held prisoner by the evil soon-to-be Thermidorians, *all night*, locked in the room of the CSP. Will he survive? :OI really should have thought ( ... )
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OMSBWTF, Saint-Just has a fucking *vision* of Camille Desmoulins in the tumbril on the way to the guillotine, yelling all the things he is supposed to have yelled “I’m Camille Desmoulins,” “people, you’re being deceived,” etc… in the middle of the battlefield at Fleurus. My brain, if it wasn’t broken before, now officially is. But it gets WORSE! Then the figure in the tumbril becomes HÉBERT, who is SOBBING. Need I remind you that this is a hallucination Saint-Just is having in the middle of the battle of Fleurus?! O___o;;;; But no, of course it’s not over yet, of course not. Now it’s Danton in the tumbril…
That’s….just. Just. Amazing.
And now the Thermidorians are conspiring outside. In a fucking flower garden. One of the Thermidorians, either Fouché or Tallien, just told Billaud, who had suggested they guillotine a few “crapauds du Marais”, that all they need to do is convince the Marais that “their turn [to be guillotined] is coming soon.” Which I suppose is an accurate enough depiction of part of their strategy….And now they ( ... )
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That whole thing doesn't happen in a flower garden, btw: just the actual conspiring part. They corner the Conventionnels of the Marais wherever they can find them. But yes, I suppose you have a point there, even if the scene is a bit... special.
I like the first idea, though the last is probably the most likely. -_-; (The only reason it really matter is that they made him far older than he's supposed to be. >.>)
They certainly don't. *squishes them*
That's true... Unlike, say, LRF, which was just terrible all the way through. (Well, okay, the beginning wasn't too bad, but even that had problems--like making Capet way too sympathetic by ignoring the strongest evidence against him.)
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Alas. ;_; It would have been awesome had they just stood around there plotting, with no one noticing how absurd it was.
;_____; Probably. (Eeeep. I wonder why.)
It was hilarious, though. >__>
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They did, for a while, actually.
*sighs* (No idea--at least they only made him about 10-15 years older--I've seen movies where the actor playing Robespierre looked 90. Anyway, none of the actors really looks like the personage they're portraying, except the one playing Danton.)
Parts of it were. Other parts gave a lot of gravitas to their made-up facts and thus it was hard to laugh at them. D:
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