Revolution is about doing things out of the ordinary.
I think about what it will be like everyday and I expect to be shocked and surprised by any revolution. First of all there's the great video footage. The look on the victim's face is unique, unreproducible in a script or on a set. Most news presenters, and a nation lapping it up, are surprised and shocked. It is proclaimed as violent, although in a time when it was 'entertainment', at the turn of the 20th century, similar acts of 'propaganda by deed' were more likely to be bombs.