#napoleonic theater

[empirearchives]

“François-Joseph Talma, the prominent French actor and theatre reformer, addressed the tsar with a line from a play: ‘Friendship of a great man is a gift of the gods’. The tsar rose to his feet, politely pointing at Napoleon, and the two embraced to a thunder of applause. Talma was one of Napoleon’s favourite actors — the emperor frequently employed the thespian as a coach to teach him onstage postures, especially since contemporaries believed they much resembled each other in appearance.”

— Alexander Bogatyrev (source)

[disregardcanon]

ripley scott's napoleon implied some very strange things that i don't think it meant to imply, but the WEIRDEST one is that napoleon just. does not know what type of sex with a woman produces babies. because he and josephine only ever have anal sex on screen and he's always like "imma get you pregnant" and i'm like my dude you cannot do that. with the way you are currently going about it.

[fluentisonus]

napoleon movie was not good tbh

[bighandsforabigheart]

I love it when my blorbos are artists + their love language is drawing their partner

[oh-men-of-dark-and-dismal-fate]

Never thought I'd be sexually attracted to Napoleon Bonaparte, but here we are.

[daincrediblegg]

Eggie you don't understand what the sight of one Joaquin riding has been doing to my brain and like. also the way his hands are grabbing tight that cord to guide the horse? He's pulling???!!!?!!??? HARD!?!!!!!! and he does that all the time!??? and in some scenes he looks skinny in almost an artie way and this gets in my heart I will never know peace with this man I know that. we will never know peace. if we've to simp over a literal random napoleon so be it

let me say also that the italian translation Napoleone gives on itself the sense of something big because of the suffix -one okay have a nice day ily

FLAE BAE!!!! GIRL!!!! CAN WE FUCKING T A L K ABOUT HOW INSANE THIS SHIT FEELS FROM TRAILERS ALONE???

girl. I was deadass about jokerfriends reuinion over this film. feels like our vibe. back when we were going insane about joeldy and the like. like good god for real. I'm losing my mind at the thought that in a few months a good handful of us old guard joaq enjoyer folks are going to be reduced to ashes by a fucking ridley scott biopic (WHICH AGAIN. VERY FUNNY TO ME BC HE ALSO WAS A PRODUCER ON THE TERROR. BECAUSE THIS KINDA GIVES ME SIMILAR VIBES) AND I'M??? yeah man. yeah. there's a vibe here. (and god girl yeah the pULLING??? AND YEAH THAT SUFFIX IS A FUCKING SIGN MAN!!!! this will get my motor running more than folie a deux ever could. I'm so excited to dive into historical drama hell with you all once more)

[starpros-sunshine]

I hope Wataru is exactly like me in the way he regularly references old movies from the first half of the 20th century and I hope Hokuto always looks at him in That Way because that's what my classmates do and I hope Eichi watches old movies with him because imagine a world whezrr Eichi Tenshouin is an old movie enjoyer. Imagine with me this beautiful universe for a sec.

[likeallbeforeyou]

none of my local theaters are playing the films i wanted to see

[prayforleonardo]

🎬 La cartelera de Cinepolis Galerias

🎬 Aquaman

🎬 Napoleon

🎬 Wonka

🎬 Patos

#Aquaman #Wonka    #Napoleon

[skitskatdacat63]

When I got back from my trip I was like "we are so back!!"(in reference towards keeping up w the race weekend) and then still can't fully keep up because I have to miss the FPs bcs of seeing Barbieheimer. Hopefully soon I'll be back in full force haha

...why am I subjecting myself to IMax at 11 am.....

[empirearchives]

Women Dancing, 1812, Napoleonic Era, By Bartholomeus Ziesenis, Dutch artist

[doyoulikethissong-poll]

Beethoven - Symphony No. 5 1808

The Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67, also known as the Fate Symphony, is a symphony composed by Ludwig van Beethoven between 1804 and 1808. It is one of the best-known compositions in classical music and one of the most frequently played symphonies, and it is widely considered one of the cornerstones of western music. First performed in Vienna's Theater an der Wien in 1808, the work achieved its prodigious reputation soon afterward. E. T. A. Hoffmann described the symphony as "one of the most important works of the time". As is typical of symphonies during the Classical period, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony has four movements. It begins with a distinctive four-note "short-short-short-long" motif, often characterized as "fate knocking at the door", the Schicksals-Motiv (fate motif). The symphony, and the four-note opening motif in particular, are known worldwide, with the motif appearing frequently in popular culture, from disco versions to rock and roll covers, to uses in film and television.

The Fifth Symphony had a long development process, as Beethoven worked out the musical ideas for the work. The first "sketches" date from 1804 following the completion of the Third Symphony. It finally premiered in 22 December 1808 at a mammoth concert at the Theater an der Wien in Vienna consisting entirely of Beethoven premieres, and directed by Beethoven himself on the conductor's podium. The concert lasted for more than four hours. The two symphonies appeared on the programme in reverse order: the Sixth was played first, and the Fifth appeared in the second half.

There was little critical response to the premiere performance, which took place under adverse conditions. The orchestra did not play well - with only one rehearsal before the concert - and at one point, following a mistake by one of the performers in the Choral Fantasy, Beethoven had to stop the music and start again. The auditorium was extremely cold and the audience was exhausted by the length of the programme. However, a year and a half later, publication of the score resulted in a rapturous unsigned review (actually by music critic E. T. A. Hoffmann) in the Allgemeine musikalische Zeitung. Apart from the extravagant praise, Hoffmann devoted by far the largest part of his review to a detailed analysis of the symphony, in order to show his readers the devices Beethoven used to arouse particular affects in the listener.

Beethoven was in his mid-thirties during this time; his personal life was troubled by increasing deafness. In the world at large, the period was marked by the Napoleonic Wars, political turmoil in Austria, and the occupation of Vienna by Napoleon's troops in 1805. The symphony was written at his lodgings at the Pasqualati House in Vienna.

Symphony No. 5 received a total of 94,6% yes votes!

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[captainknell]

That's amazing

Anne-Louis Girodet, Napoleon at the theatre of St. Cloud 13 April 1812.

I think this is what Napoleon really looked like, because Girodet was sitting right there. His official portraits of Napoleon look more idealised.

[power-chords]

Michael Mann: So there’s this guy, he sucks, he’s consumed by a formless guilt and lowkey wants to be purified in death, he’s a cop with a Napoleon complex played by Al Pacino. He possesses innate Vaudevillian talent but uses it exclusively to reign state terror or evade authentic emotional commitment. He’s an empath. He has BPD. He’s a Manic Pixie Vietnam Veteran who may or may not have committed war crimes and dropped out of law school because why interpret the law when you can be the motherfucking law. He lets his hot wife tie him up in bed and then skips off to chase guys around. He dresses like an undertaker who moonlights as a used car salesman and wears a watch that would not look out of place on a drug dealer or Howard Ratner. He has apparently developed some kind of autochthonous personal slang that everybody around him just rolls with because he has inexplicable charisma despite being observably violent and insane. He’s a superficially doting but absent stepfather careening for divorce number three. His idea of trauma therapy is police brutality street theater while high on speed.

Me: At last, I understand the mythical “blorbo” archetype of which this website speaks.

[newyorkthegoldenage]

The Marx Brothers left vaudeville and stepped up to the legitimate theater in 1924 with a show called I'll Say She Is. Unlike their subsequent shows such as Animal Crackers and The Cocoanuts, it was never turned into a movie, although one historian has said that "Every Marx Brothers film contains material and situations that can be traced back to I'll Say She Is." Groucho called it "probably the funniest show we ever did."

I'll Say She Is toured for a year and a half before arriving on Broadway in May, 1924. No one expected it to succeed; the Broadway engagement was just a sop to the brothers, who had been threatening to leave the show unless it went to New York.

But the critics loved it. "It is a bright-colored and vehement setting for the goings-on of those talented cutups, the Four Marx Brothers," wrote Alexander Woollcott in the New York Sun, who went on to single out Harpo for special praise.

Maybe it was being on Broadway that led the brothers to bill themselves, in the program, as Herbert, Leonard, Julius H., and Arthur Marx. Not that anyone was fooled.

The show ran for 313 performances, which was excellent for the time. The brothers were lionized by New York society, and Harpo was invited to join the Algonquin Round Table.

Above: Harpo, Groucho, Zeppo, and Chico, with Lotta Miles, in the sketch called "Napoleon's First Waterloo," in which Groucho played Boney. Source: illsaysheis.com

Below: a handbill from the performance of November 17, 1924. Source: NYPL