Who did Donald Sutherland look like?

I agree. Additionally, his dress after the Revolution seemed to be very much Mao based.

I'm glad you brought this up tonytshirt. Are you referring to the French revolutionist, Jacques-Louis David and his painting entitled "The Death of Marat"? His paintings are one of the earliest and best (if not thee best) examples of how effectively propaganda can be used to pull the collective heart and mind of a nation into the desired point-of-view shared (maybe not entirely) by those who commissioned him, not that he needed to be given commission as he was very much in favor of the revolution prior to using his talents to create propaganda. And since this reply is getting side-tracked from the context of the movie I will go ahead and point out that a good friend of Jacques-Louis David was Maximilien Robespierre who was one the loudest voices behind the French revolution next to Marat and who ultimately was the key person responsible to the execution of Louis XVI. I found it interesting how the Maximilien of the movie is the tyrannical dictator in opposition of the extreme left and the historical Maximilien of the French revolution is a tyrannical revolutionary leader in opposition of the extreme right. All of this is even more interesting with the knowledge that Robespierre was intrigued by the idea of a virtuous self, a man who stands alone accompanied only by his conscience (remind you of someone in the movie?). Anyone who knows their history knows the bloody mess that soon followed the succession of the French revolution and I think that this (among other things) is very well reflected in this movie. Another note in reference to the similarities between this movie and the French revolution in regard to the comparison of the painting by David and the scene with the character of Thorne being assassinated in the bath-tub is that Marat was assassinated by a woman, Charlotte Corday (who viewed herself as a revolutionary who thought the dictatorship that followed the revolution made a mockery of the republic of liberty...hmmm..) with a knife concealed under her dress also. I could go on and on pointing out similarities between and references to many key events and people who were involved in the French revolution and the events and characters in this movie but I think I will just cut myself off here as this is getting to be a pretty lengthly reply to such a simple post and besides, if you really care to know any more, there is a world of information out there.

...I'd say every "Freedom Fighter" who turned into a dictator, when he came to power, who ever lived.
People are just getting dumber, but more opinionated-Ernestine (Silks) in "The Human Stain"