{"id":88894,"date":"2022-12-19T01:34:41","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T08:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=88894"},"modified":"2023-11-18T00:36:03","modified_gmt":"2023-11-18T07:36:03","slug":"start-the-revolution-without-me-1970","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=88894","title":{"rendered":"Start the Revolution Without Me (1970)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8220;I&#8217;m delighted to see you all stuffing yourselves while France has cramps from the tyranny of its own indigestion!&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<table>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Start-the-Revolution-Poster.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Start-the-Revolution-Poster-198x300.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"198\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-88896\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Start-the-Revolution-Poster-198x300.png 198w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Start-the-Revolution-Poster-85x128.png 85w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Start-the-Revolution-Poster-179x270.png 179w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Start-the-Revolution-Poster.png 621w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 198px) 100vw, 198px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis:<\/strong><br \/>\nIn 1789 France, two pairs of identical twins mixed and switched at birth grow up to become apolitical peasant brothers Claude (Gene Wilder) and Charles (Donald Sutherland), and power-hungry Corsican brothers Philippe (Wilder) and Pierre (Sutherland) &#8212; and the four accidentally meet up with one another at Versailles during an attempted revolt against King Louis XVI (Hugh Griffith), his nymphomaniac wife Marie Antoinette (Billie Whitelaw), and the devious aristocrat d&#8217;Escargot (Victor Spinetti).\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p>\n<strong>Genres, Themes, Actors, and Directors:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Class Relations<\/li>\n<li>Comedy<\/li>\n<li>Donald Sutherland Films<\/li>\n<li>French Revolution<\/li>\n<li>Gene Wilder Films <\/li>\n<li>Historical Drama<\/li>\n<li>Hugh Griffith Films<\/li>\n<li>Mistaken or Hidden Identities<\/li>\n<li>Orson Welles Films <\/li>\n<li>Plot to Murder<\/li>\n<li>Revolutionaries<\/li>\n<li>Royalty and Nobility<\/li>\n<li>Twins<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Response to Peary&#8217;s Review: <\/strong><br \/>\nPeary argues that while this &#8220;absurdist cult comedy&#8221; about an &#8220;identity mix-up&#8221; &#8220;has many funny gags and [a] bizarre performance by Wilder as the crazed, sadistic Corsican&#8221;: <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Start-the-Revolution-Without-Me-Wilder-Hat.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Start-the-Revolution-Without-Me-Wilder-Hat-1024x570.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"356\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-88899\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Start-the-Revolution-Without-Me-Wilder-Hat-1024x570.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Start-the-Revolution-Without-Me-Wilder-Hat-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Start-the-Revolution-Without-Me-Wilder-Hat-128x71.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Start-the-Revolution-Without-Me-Wilder-Hat-768x427.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Start-the-Revolution-Without-Me-Wilder-Hat-485x270.png 485w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Start-the-Revolution-Without-Me-Wilder-Hat-1038x576.png 1038w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Start-the-Revolution-Without-Me-Wilder-Hat.png 1285w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;it &#8220;no longer seems original&#8221; and &#8220;halfway through&#8230; begins to drag, [deteriorating] into a silly bedroom farce in which characters keep zipping into different chambers through doors and passageways and being confused over who is who.&#8221; Adding insult to injury, this film makes &#8220;the French Revolution [come] across as the work of dumb clucks,&#8221; and the &#8220;ending is a terrible cop-out.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m in agreement with Peary&#8217;s assessment of this earnest film, which tries too hard and far too often belabors each joke until it&#8217;s stale &#8212; as when King Louis sheepishly professes he thought a masked ball was a costume ball, again and again and again. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Start-the-Revolution-Costume-Ball.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Start-the-Revolution-Costume-Ball-1024x568.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"355\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-88901\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Start-the-Revolution-Costume-Ball-1024x568.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Start-the-Revolution-Costume-Ball-300x166.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Start-the-Revolution-Costume-Ball-128x71.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Start-the-Revolution-Costume-Ball-768x426.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Start-the-Revolution-Costume-Ball-487x270.png 487w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Start-the-Revolution-Costume-Ball-1038x576.png 1038w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Start-the-Revolution-Costume-Ball.png 1303w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Watch for a very random appearance by Orson Welles at the beginning and the end of the film (making note of the fact that he doesn&#8217;t appear in it): <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Start-the-Revolution-Welles.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Start-the-Revolution-Welles-1024x567.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"354\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-88902\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Start-the-Revolution-Welles-1024x567.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Start-the-Revolution-Welles-300x166.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Start-the-Revolution-Welles-128x71.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Start-the-Revolution-Welles-768x425.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Start-the-Revolution-Welles-488x270.png 488w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Start-the-Revolution-Welles-1038x576.png 1038w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Start-the-Revolution-Welles.png 1299w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; and Ewa Aulin &#8212; star of <a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=19472\"><em>Candy<\/em> (1968)<\/a> &#8212; as a busty Belgian princess. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Start-the-Revolution-Belgian.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Start-the-Revolution-Belgian-1024x591.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"369\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-88903\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Start-the-Revolution-Belgian-1024x591.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Start-the-Revolution-Belgian-300x173.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Start-the-Revolution-Belgian-128x74.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Start-the-Revolution-Belgian-768x444.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Start-the-Revolution-Belgian-468x270.png 468w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Start-the-Revolution-Belgian.png 1245w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Notable Performances, Qualities, and Moments: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A few amusing sequences<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Start-the-Revolution-Without-Me-Business-Pleasure.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Start-the-Revolution-Without-Me-Business-Pleasure-1024x569.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"356\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-88898\" srcset=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Start-the-Revolution-Without-Me-Business-Pleasure-1024x569.png 1024w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Start-the-Revolution-Without-Me-Business-Pleasure-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Start-the-Revolution-Without-Me-Business-Pleasure-128x71.png 128w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Start-the-Revolution-Without-Me-Business-Pleasure-768x427.png 768w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Start-the-Revolution-Without-Me-Business-Pleasure-486x270.png 486w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Start-the-Revolution-Without-Me-Business-Pleasure-1038x576.png 1038w, https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/Start-the-Revolution-Without-Me-Business-Pleasure.png 1293w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Must See? <\/strong><br \/>\nNo; you can skip this one. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Links: <\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0066402\/\">IMDb entry<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/newspapers?id=odpHAAAAIBAJ&#038;sjid=N4wDAAAAIBAJ&#038;pg=6311%2C2622341\">Village Voice Review<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thespinningimage.co.uk\/cultfilms\/displaycultfilm.asp?reviewid=1218\">Spinning Image Review<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m delighted to see you all stuffing yourselves while France has cramps from the tyranny of its own indigestion!&#8221; Synopsis: In 1789 France, two pairs of identical twins mixed and switched at birth grow up to become apolitical peasant brothers Claude (Gene Wilder) and Charles (Donald Sutherland), and power-hungry Corsican brothers Philippe (Wilder) and Pierre (Sutherland) &#8212; and the four accidentally meet up with one another at Versailles during an attempted revolt against King Louis XVI (Hugh Griffith), his nymphomaniac&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a class=\"btn btn-default\" href=\"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/?p=88894\"> Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Read More<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-responses-to-peary"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=88894"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93365,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88894\/revisions\/93365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=88894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=88894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/filmfanatic.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=88894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}