ARGH LIVEJOURNAL ATE MY COMMENT (sorry, had to vent my frustration).
Anyway, thank you for taking the time to write it up! I found it very amusing (just the way you summarize dialogue, and your pointing out logic flaws) and quite informative. I've been stalking Youtube, so I recognize some of the scenes you describe, and your summaries of others make me really want to see them myself now. Hopefully more videos on Youtube will turn up! (seriously, Fixe/the Finale and that scene with Danton and Solène pls)
This show's attitude towards history will never cease amusing me. Leaving aside Marie Antoinette and Louis -- I don't feel qualified to discuss them since I haven't really watched their parts yet (though sadly it seems a common, if not very analytical portrayal of them) -- Charlotte Corday?! They couldn't have picked a random urchin off the street, they had to pick her? I mean the leopard-print waistcoat was one thing, this is just... complete fabrication of history. Wut.
... also wait wiat Ronan DIES? Was that really necessary? Since the show ends right after anyways, was that supposed to make a point or tie into the ending as a theme or what? It just seemed all very sudden (also, "Sur ma peau" is ridiculously upbeat for its position in the story. And I thought the staging of the Prise de la Bastille was also kind of odd, why were there bricks falling anyway? It wasn't the Demolition of the Bastille, right?)
From what I've seen online, I was kind of disappointed by Ça ira mon amour. I dunno, I expected that to be the music used for the seize of the Bastille (and that would have been sort of a historical tiein to have Camille Desmoulins inciting them on July 14). For what was the show's lead single, it seemed, like you said, rather similar to just the other "YEAH REVOLUTION" songs. (Though I did quite like Hey Ha, which has apparently become more of an ensemble song than it was on the CD, and its printing press, particularly the moment when it's getting rolled off and there's a guy standing on it like Washington crossing the Delaware. Like you said, a lot of stuff going on there though.)
oh and also I am in COMPLETE AGREEMENT with you about Mathieu Carnot. Louis Delort as Ronan is pretty blandly the stereotypical "peasant lover" type, but Mathieu had something to him -- even in those few moments we saw from the Ca ira mono amour clip -- that really defined him in the role. Does he only sing in Maniaque and Nous ne sommes now? (and why did they cut Le temps s'en va :/) He just comes across so intensely as the king's officer guy. Mm.
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Date: 2012-10-13 09:09 am (UTC)Anyway, thank you for taking the time to write it up! I found it very amusing (just the way you summarize dialogue, and your pointing out logic flaws) and quite informative. I've been stalking Youtube, so I recognize some of the scenes you describe, and your summaries of others make me really want to see them myself now. Hopefully more videos on Youtube will turn up! (seriously, Fixe/the Finale and that scene with Danton and Solène pls)
This show's attitude towards history will never cease amusing me. Leaving aside Marie Antoinette and Louis -- I don't feel qualified to discuss them since I haven't really watched their parts yet (though sadly it seems a common, if not very analytical portrayal of them) -- Charlotte Corday?! They couldn't have picked a random urchin off the street, they had to pick her? I mean the leopard-print waistcoat was one thing, this is just... complete fabrication of history. Wut.
... also wait wiat Ronan DIES? Was that really necessary? Since the show ends right after anyways, was that supposed to make a point or tie into the ending as a theme or what? It just seemed all very sudden (also, "Sur ma peau" is ridiculously upbeat for its position in the story. And I thought the staging of the Prise de la Bastille was also kind of odd, why were there bricks falling anyway? It wasn't the Demolition of the Bastille, right?)
From what I've seen online, I was kind of disappointed by Ça ira mon amour. I dunno, I expected that to be the music used for the seize of the Bastille (and that would have been sort of a historical tiein to have Camille Desmoulins inciting them on July 14). For what was the show's lead single, it seemed, like you said, rather similar to just the other "YEAH REVOLUTION" songs. (Though I did quite like Hey Ha, which has apparently become more of an ensemble song than it was on the CD, and its printing press, particularly the moment when it's getting rolled off and there's a guy standing on it like Washington crossing the Delaware. Like you said, a lot of stuff going on there though.)
oh and also I am in COMPLETE AGREEMENT with you about Mathieu Carnot. Louis Delort as Ronan is pretty blandly the stereotypical "peasant lover" type, but Mathieu had something to him -- even in those few moments we saw from the Ca ira mono amour clip -- that really defined him in the role. Does he only sing in Maniaque and Nous ne sommes now? (and why did they cut Le temps s'en va :/) He just comes across so intensely as the king's officer guy. Mm.
wish me luck posting now