"The traitor: Degradation of Alfred Dreyfus, degradation in the Morland Court of the military school in Paris"
The Dreyfus affair (French: affaire Dreyfus) was a political scandal that divided the Third French Republic from 1894 until its resolution in 1906. The scandal began in December 1894 when Captain Alfred Dreyfus, a 35-year-old Alsatian French artillery officer of Jewish descent, was wrongfully convicted of treason for communicating French military secrets to the German Embassy in Paris. He was sentenced to life imprisonment and sent overseas to the penal colony on Devil's Island in French Guiana, where he spent the following five years imprisoned in very harsh conditions.
In 1896, evidence came to light—primarily through the investigations of Lieutenant Colonel Georges Picquart, head of counter-espionage—which identified the real culprit as a French Army Major named Ferdinand Walsin Esterhazy. High-ranking military officials suppressed the new evidence, and a military court unanimously acquitted Esterhazy after a trial lasting only two days. The Army laid additional charges against Dreyfus, based on forged documents. Subsequently, writer Émile Zola's open letter J'Accuse...! in the newspaper L'Aurore stoked a growing movement of political support for Dreyfus, putting pressure on the government to reopen the case.
In 1899, Dreyfus was returned to France for another trial. The intense political and judicial scandal that ensued divided French society between those who supported Dreyfus, the "Dreyfusards" such as Sarah Bernhardt, Anatole France, Charles Péguy, Henri Poincaré and Georges Clemenceau; and those who condemned him, the "anti-Dreyfusards" such as Édouard Drumont, the director and publisher of the antisemitic newspaper La Libre Parole. The new trial resulted in another conviction and a 10-year sentence, but Dreyfus was pardoned and released. In 1906, Dreyfus was exonerated. After being reinstated as a major in the French Army, he served during the whole of World War I, ending his service with the rank of lieutenant colonel. He died in 1935.
The Dreyfus affair came to symbolise modern injustice in the Francophone world; it remains one of the most notable examples of a miscarriage of justice and of antisemitism. The affair divided France into pro-republican, anticlerical Dreyfusards and pro-Army, mostly Catholic anti-Dreyfusards, embittering French politics and encouraging radicalisation. The press played a crucial role in exposing information and in shaping and expressing public opinion on both sides of the conflict.
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About 1/4 into Dune 2. It is....very very different from the book. I get why they're doing what they're doing with the whole Chani and the Fremen Atheists. I feel like 'you sandwalk like a drunk lizard' sounds like he's doing a plan good job at it, since that line just happened while I was posting. I still feel like not nearly enough space politics have been established for being in part 2, Zendaya still.doesmt feel at all real. It seems like it's going for a really character driven personal kinda story when Dune is all kinda not that. If I were doing it, I'd make it as sort of a fictional post hoc docu-drama. It's still focusing entirely on the weakest parts of dune, the characters. I'm posting this during an action scene that's going too long. I want more story and less boom. The score is still great. Love the exterior of the big fremen tent after tho, more of that stuff. Editing as I go, they do get the character stuff really good though, Paul getting the Muadib name scene was great. Edit 2: just finished the worm riding sequence which was fantastically executed but felt like it came out of nowhere and lacked any significance to the plot. It's been feeling like a greatest hits reel of Dune edit 3z the arena thing was cool but the black and white thing seemed like a pointless flourish
I thought it was a cool pointless flourish though lol, the fireworks looked so amazing when I saw that scene on the big screen, like squid ink in water
It didn't look bad but I also don't really get why it was done that way aside from it would look cool. There aren't any other stylistic shifts like that in the rest of the movie.
its supposed to be because of their "black sun"
Okay...I guess that's fine. An issue I.hafe with both the newer dunes, although 2 does improve somewhat by virtue of being in the dessert more is the austere sets and low contrast low saturation of the whole thing.
i like to assert that Dune 1 is fascist because of that monumental blandness then refuse to elaborate further
If your art design for Dune doesn't look like it could be a prog rock album cover or something air brushed onto a van, you're not following the golden path. Dune should feel 70s as hell
Something something Giedi Prime's starlight is all in the UV spectrum or something, idk I thought it looked cool and made the Harkonnens feel even colder and inhuman
I guess I'd always pictures Baron Harkonnen to be essentially Hedonism Bot from Futurama but more evil. The general look of these movies is too austere for me. There should have been more decadence imo. Overall I thought it was okay and probably really good if you're not a book nerd. I like knowing what CHOAM is and how the imperium works politically and all the plots within plots stuff. It tells a very straightforward version of the story and adapting Messiah is gonna be weird with what's been ignored and especially with what's been changed. It'd damn well made and when the visuals are on point (most of the Fremen stuff is good) it fucking RULES. I just want a higher saturation image with more weird stuff and for the space politics to be more involved and that wouldn't sell tickets.
Seeing Nosferatu tonight, very hyped for that.
I guess I liked the austere kinda color palette and thought the cinematography and sound design were excellent, my only real gripe was Chani being kinda meh
Sick, lemme know if Nosferatu's good, I've liked all of Robert Eggers' stuff that I've seen for the most part
Sound design was great. I don't dislike the look in a vacuum, I just think it's bad for Dune. It's the Holy Roman Empire in space and the only way to get around is to take a bus driven by weirdos mutated by psychedelic drugs. I feel like the setting requires more zazz. Chani was for sure meh, and I totally get her Fremen Atheist thing as a kinds decent change on its own, it gives her an arc and more personality and that can be lacking with women in Dune, but knowing where the story is going, finding a different way to do it probably would have been better. There is a way to meet half way and give Chani more to do but not in a way that's too radically different from the source. This is why I'm kinda glad seeing Fellowship.of the Ring totally blind in theatres got me into LOTR cause I can appreciate the Jackson films for what they are. I'm finding it harder with Dune in this case. I have weird weird tastes but out of the 3 adaptations I'd rank it the lowest. First being the Sci fi channel miniseries and 2nd being the Lynch movie. I just didn't really feel much watching it and a lot of the movie kinda felt like a montage of greatest hits scenes in the second half. Dude who played Gurney crushed it. I was looking out for the 'you young pup!' Line cause that is really hard to deliver well Patrick Stewart barely sold it and he manages it pretty naturally. If I could turn off.the part of my brain that has a kinda specific idea of what Dune looks and feels like, I just can't get into these ones, objectively they are fantastic movies tho. It's a me thing mostly.
Yeah I generally agree with that. The whole portrayal of Chani felt like it, idk, missed the point?
And the austere setting and sets didn't work for me as much as they did in the first part. Really prefer Lynch's baroque weirdness now that I've seen the whole thing. I like Villneuevues version, but I think the fancy uniforms and over the top performances grasp the weirdness of the far future eugenic fuedalism better than the austere real scifi aesthetic Villneuve used. Also, Toto.
Have you see. The Sci fi channel miniseries? I think they strike a good balance visually it's long af so there's time for the full story and it's got a TV miniseries 2000 so the focus is much more on plot than spectacle. Also Harkonnen ends every scene he's in with a rhyming couplet.