Robespierre's Speech

From an underrated French/Polish collaboration directed by Andrzej Wajda, starring Gerard Depardieu Wojciech Pszoniak and Angela Winkler.

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• Danton
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• Terror
• Robespierre

[jubah]

i know the purpose of this movie was to show Danton in a sympathetic light but really, it had the opposite effect on me. Robespierre astonished at having real bread while Danton throws parties in his house made a big effect on how i see both men... This scene is fantastic, as is the actor who plays Robespierre.

[NewTet]

@jubah You're correct, I think, in pointing out the contrast in temperament and outlook between the two men, at least as portrayed in the film. Years before they had been very close friends and Robs. had written glowingly about Danton and had sworn eternal friendship to him.

If the scene in the film in which Robs. loses his temper and tells the presiding judge to get a conviction no "matter what" actually happened, M. Robespierre was guilty of inciting judicial murder, at the very least. .

[MrGrinningManiac]

All this political arguing and all that I feel the need to mention is "Robespierre got back into his seat FAST after he left the podium..."

[NewTet]

@MrGrinningManiac

Ha, ha! Can you blame him after that bit of demagogy?

[Euthyphro002]

Danton was nothing but a corrupt politician who panicked when he realised that the committee wasn't his bitch anymore. He got what was coming to him for being so smug, indulgent prick. And as for Robespierre being a dictator, ridiculous! He was part of the committee not the fucking president-for-life, everyone blames him but what was he guilty of? He never even got a trial when he was executed.

[NewTet]

@KarlMartell732

Bullshit.

[SamanthaHarrison23]

@jubah

You just stole the words from my mouth.

I truly respect Maximilien after watching this movie.

[SamanthaHarrison23]

Once I saw this movie, my level of respect for Robespierre rised so much!

I never thought he was this crazy, tyran man everybody thinks he is.

I see him as a fighter, a man who stick by his beliefs and unfortunetly, lost control of the situation.

This movie shows us the human side of Robespierre. He tried his best to protect Camille and Danton while everyone wanted to kill them. I think we missunderstood him.

Danton was the one to blame all along.

Robespierre was not responsible.

[jubah]

@NewTet if it didn't happen like that (i don't think it did), certainly Rob. and the Comitee had enough influence that his accusations were enough to condemn someone. Again, it's not to say there was no corruption and only fair impartiality on those judgements - I just think it is necessary to view them from a cultural point of view instead of an anachronic one. Also, Danton's faction of burgoises killed just as many before and after the fall of the jacobins... there are no saints, only martyrs

[xxCCBBxx]

Yes that's true, I'm just simply pointing out the irony of the political power struggle that went on during a revolution intended for freedom and representation of the people.

[Angelstar962]

@NewTet for some reason I found french arguing HILARIOUS :D though the french revolution of cource was sad :(

[jubah]

@xxCCBBxx You speak with a XXth century logic and that's the problem. Certainly the "terror" was a corrupt period, but compared to what preceded and followed it, it was the most sincere part of the revolution. While Danton and his was throwing parties, Robespierre and his were struggling to hold together an unpreceded equality status menaced both by internal and external forces. It's much too easy to judge now from the comfort of our history books which were the smart and the foolish decisions.

[mindxestep]

@lysandre10

une station de métro ça va

[PADRAEG]

REAL democracy at work, seems deTocquville learnt from this... Georges Danton (1759 – 5 Apr 94) first President of the Committee of Public Safety. Historians describe him as "the chief force in the overthrow of the monarchy and the establishment of the First French Republic". A moderating influence on the Jacobins, he was guillotined by the advocates of revolutionary terror after accusations of venality and leniency to the enemies of the Revolution.