Yes, it is Bastille Day.It's Bastille Day so, yeah, it's time.https://t.co/gqbwOo6LAc
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) July 14, 2021
Of all the things that makes this a great scene, one of the most important is that so many of the extras are actual refugees from Nazi-occupied countries.
And we do have more in common with the French than ever I thought.To be honest, it's a thrilling piece of music but it's also one of the most bloodthirsty national anthems of all.https://t.co/mypDfNuP0x
— Charles P. Pierce (@CharlesPPierce) July 14, 2021
Although their national anthem is still much, much better than ours. And why are French female vocalists so much better than most of ours?
Makes me wish we had a cool anthem.
Adding: my daughter points out someone in YouTube comments claims they played this for the ants in their yard, and the ants killed their queen. See? We need a cool anthem like that! The only thing our anthem does is make you wish it was already over.
I'm still waiting patiently for Black Count, the movie. Screen rights apparently still belong to John Legend who hired a top Hollywood director to develop a screenplay for the project about seven years ago. This music would be perfect for the scene on the bridge in the Alps.
ReplyDeleteI long ago called for replacing it with Save The Country by Laura Nyro.
ReplyDeleteDuring the 200th national celebration when they hired Jesse Norman to sing it in Paris, singing the full thing a lot of French people were shocked to find out just how blood thirsty it was. Ironically for the use of it in that movie, it was Frenchmen mostly singing about shedding the blood of other Frenchmen in support of what would turn into a bloody, violent, chaotic despotic era, one that didn't really end with the defeat of Napoleon. I'm almost as unenthusiastic for French national myth as I am for American or Brit national myth. French politics is almost as wacky as Italian politics.