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Louis????? Robespierre????? 💀💀

So this is why the Front Man is so obsessed with Gi-hun... I love this trope of conflicting morals between hero and villain ❤️ perhaps Inho was reflecting about his own morals and secretly rooting for Gi-hun but also imagine his disappointment when Gi-hun decided to sacrifice those people to take the guns from the pink soldiers 😭 (which may've convinced Inho that his reasoning is the right one and prompted him to carry out the plan accordingly, not that he wasn't going to do it eventually, but he'll do it more decisively now)

This is why I'd love a spin-off of the Front Man, I think he became evil when he lost his wife and his unborn kid but I'd like to see more of his backstory and what he went through when he played those games back in 2015. I'd like to know what he saw, what he witnessed, who else he lost that convinced him of his current worldview. Also perhaps even Il Nam was his father (Il Nam's son also didn't drink milk like Inho) and he abandoned his family only to be reunited with his son (Inho) when he participated in the games. There's so many things I'd like to know.

In a way, Gi-hun and Inho are the only ones who can understand each other because they both played the games, they both returned to that place, they both lost their families... if only they didn't have conflicting worldviews <\3

Other characters I'd love to see have spin-offs are: Sangwoo (my Sangihun heart NEEDS to see how was their relationship like when they were younger and what happened for them to grow apart... 😭😭), Sae Byeok and Hyun Ju ❤️

Movie Saint-Just invented evil gay office coworker

so I clipped the additional scene with Tsar Alexander from the director’s cut of Ridley Scott’s Napoleon

Bizarrely it’s in Russian (and a really bad one at that) so I translated what I understood under the cut if someone is curious. I don’t know who the man in the red coat is supposed to be (my best guess is Lord Witworth, the English ambassador to Russia). All in all the scene does little to add depth to the conflict between Russia and France because seemingly the only reason Alexander is even torn about going to war is that he might lose again

Man in red: “What’s good for your friend Napoleon is bad for Russia. And what’s bad for Russia can’t be good for your Majesty. Trade with Britain (?) is essential for the greatness of Russia. Your father made a grave mistake by putting himself above the interests of his country. I wouldn’t want to see your Majesty become… unpopular with the Russian people.”

Alexander: “I am not my father. You’re making a mistake that you will regret if you think that I am like him. Russia will ally itself with the English once more. I am not afraid of Napoleon”

i've been reading eugene newton curtis's saint-just, colleague of robespierre & he provides a quote from a letter from le bas & saint-just to robespierre:

Saint-Just added this postscript: Too many laws are made, too few examples: you punish only striking crimes, hypocritical crimes are unpunished. Punish a slight abuse in every party; that is the way to frighten evil persons and to make them see that the government has its eye on everything. Hardly does one turn his back when aristocracy becomes the fashion of the day and does harm under the color of liberty. Engage the Committee to give much prominence to the punish- ment of all faults in the government. You will not have done so for a month before you will have cleared up this labyrinth in which counter-revolution and revolution march pell-mell. Direct the society's attention, my friend [i.e., the Jacobins], to strong maxims of public welfare; let it occupy itself with the great measures needed to govern a free state. I invite you to take measures to find out whether all the factories and workshops of France are active and to favor them, for in a year our troops would be without clothing; the manufacturers are not patriotic, they do not want to work, they must be forced to and no useful establishment must be allowed to fail. We will do our best here. I embrace you and our common friends.

and then describes how saint-just talks to him in such a way that i can't help but think... why would you say that...

In this letter, Saint-Just's strong, dominating character stands out in sharp contrast to the chatty, amiable Le Bas. He talks to Robespierre as though he were the master. There was more in this than youthful bravado, for Saint-Just had wit and experience enough to realize that no one could reach the guillotine by any quicker road than by incurring Robespierre's hatred. That statesman was too serious to smile indulgently at the pertness of a handsome boy, too egotistical to listen patiently to advice from an inferior, hardly from an equal. It is clear that he was used to listening to it from Saint-Just, almost clear that he was used to taking it.

saint-just's strong, dominating character... talks to robespierre as though he were the master... almost clear that he was used to taking it... like that sure is some loaded language eugene

why dis 🎩🧥 look so mad

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Camille Desmoulins - Robert Vidalin

In Switzerland right now and saw this cool lion monument only to discover it's for the Swiss mercenaries who died defending Louis XVI AGAINST the revolution LMAOOOOO

"In 1792, the lucrative trade collapsed" GEE I WONDER WHAT HAPPENED

The funniest thing is that none of the signs are willing to be explicit and clear about that. I had to explain to two confused tourists that 1792 was when the French Revolution overthrew Louis and Marie 💀