What may be the greatest scene in the greatest film ever made: Rouget de Lisle teaches the Marseillaise to the people of Paris, in Abel Gance’s Napoleon:
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What may be the greatest scene in the greatest film ever made: Rouget de Lisle teaches the Marseillaise to the people of Paris, in Abel Gance’s Napoleon:
Dear Chris: that was wonderful,but for my money it is the SECOND greatest MOVIEscene,,I will grant that it is ,probably the greatest SILENT .
Regards, Joseph Harder
well while we’re at it, here’s the Marseillaise scene from Casablanca [corny I know but what the hell…];
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=j5T3e_smFgk
and here it is sung by Mireille Mathieu but minus the first line for some reason;
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=w_8dafLxLcI&mode=related&search=
and for something really bloodthirsty, here is mm singing the ‘Chant des Partisans’;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IbtHlvLXv4
I have a copy of what must be one of a tiny handful of test pressings of the British DVD release of the inferior Carmine Coppola-scored version of [i]Napoléon[/i] – sent to me as a review copy before the distributors discovered that they didn’t actually have the UK rights and hastily withdrew it.
(The BFI’s been wanting to put it out for ages in a DVD edition that does it justice – but the full restoration with Carl Davis’ magnificent Beethoven-sourced score is caught up in horrendous legal tangles).
Dear Chris: that was wonderful,but for my money it is the SECOND greatest MOVIEscene
You’re right – for my money, the exploding prostitutes scene in Frankenhooker just about edges it. Sadly, this YouTube clip only shows the last 25 seconds and misses out virtually all the best bits.