A friend shared this video with me, Revolución haitiana, a few days ago. The graphics are nice and though there are some inaccuracies or just weird images that don't match, it's interesting nonetheless. Enjoy!
Agreed, the graphics are great but the depictions of Boukman and Oge are laughable. The picture of boukman is actually that of the ancestor of Dr. Price-Mars, Jean-Baptiste Belley http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~htiwgw/familles/fiches/000074.htm , as for Oge, a man who was white except in name, depicting him as black is absurd because it fails to show how irrational the system he rebelled against was. I don't understand Spanish so I can't say anything sensible about the narration. You didn't reply to my comment on your mistaking a Toussaint in Boyer's army for Toussaint Louverture does that mean that you disagree with me or what?
Haha, they are indeed laughable. And they are the inaccuries I alluded to earlier. I told the friend of mine who shared this video with me that Oge should have been virtually indistinguishable from whites and that some of the other images were wrong, but the graphics are nice overall. As for the narration, it was a pretty straightforward account in Spanish (with what sounds like an Argentine accent). Nothing spectacular, but I suppose it is not bad for something so short on such a complex period in time.
Im not disagreeing with you, I just haven't had a chance to re-read Pierrot. You're probably right, I was exhausted and distracted when I first read it, so I likely missed something or was out of my mind.
Agreed, the graphics are great but the depictions of Boukman and Oge are laughable. The picture of boukman is actually that of the ancestor of Dr. Price-Mars, Jean-Baptiste Belley http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~htiwgw/familles/fiches/000074.htm , as for Oge, a man who was white except in name, depicting him as black is absurd because it fails to show how irrational the system he rebelled against was. I don't understand Spanish so I can't say anything sensible about the narration. You didn't reply to my comment on your mistaking a Toussaint in Boyer's army for Toussaint Louverture does that mean that you disagree with me or what?
ReplyDeleteHaha, they are indeed laughable. And they are the inaccuries I alluded to earlier. I told the friend of mine who shared this video with me that Oge should have been virtually indistinguishable from whites and that some of the other images were wrong, but the graphics are nice overall. As for the narration, it was a pretty straightforward account in Spanish (with what sounds like an Argentine accent). Nothing spectacular, but I suppose it is not bad for something so short on such a complex period in time.
DeleteIm not disagreeing with you, I just haven't had a chance to re-read Pierrot. You're probably right, I was exhausted and distracted when I first read it, so I likely missed something or was out of my mind.