#ridley Scott Napoleon

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Audience reactions to Napoleon…

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He looks like he's the local jolly innkeeper !!! 😂

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Actually, according to my calculations, he came from a relatively wealthy family and conquered approximately 2% of the world's landmass 🤓☝

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Tell me the writer hasn’t read Napoleonic history (or appreciates any history) without telling me

[dorotheian]

Here’s my take on Ridley Scott’s Napoleon

Personally, I enjoyed the movie, but for a lot of people, it will be a mixed bag. Let’s just say there’s a lot of leaf in a story that people are probably watching for the forest and the trees.

That said, it’s a given that Napoleon’s multifaceted full cylinder 3D miltary-political-domestic Europe-changing life is worthy of a TV series that can’t be portrayed properly with a mere 2-hour movie. As it is, the history is compressed and the transitions are janky (lmao Egypt). The history seems inconsistently tagged with dates and names for people.

Click the readmore and scroll past to the TL;DR if you want my assessment of the movie’s lens without excessive critique or spoilers. Ridley Scott retains his instinct for horror. In the end, it comes off as a bit of a black comedy… but why?

It’ll be controversial and there are good reasons for that….

…. especially in the sexually conservative/uncomfortable United States (the theater experience was interesting; I heard a lot of scoffing and snickering, depending on what was going on). Yes, even prople who are “bored by and desensitized to shock value Game of Thrones sex scenes” that aren’t romantic or sexy, but nevertheless marital. A good amount of the movie feels like it is about Josephine, and her relationship with Napoleon.

These scenes - and much of the movie - would seem to reflect the distorted image of Napoleon as depicted by the papers and propaganda more so than the historical Napoleon, afaik.

I thought Joaquin’s Napoleon was charismatic enough, if a little tight-lipped in a military way … that didn’t fly for everyone; I’m not sure how true it is to his real historical figure.

The French will surely have an opinion, and hopefully they get a lovely dubbed version to listen to. The English-accented script was occasionally trying.

TL;DR ——

As I watched the movie, I was struck by how many tiny details were drawn out… little moments that emphasized a few things:

Honor and Dishonor

Victory and Defeat

Success and Failure

Indignity

I don’t think Ridley Scott was primarily concerned with Napoleon the person per se. I think Ridley was all about portraying this theme:

The indignity of being human stays with you - poor and unknown, rich and powerful and charismatic, ruined and exiled, indignity remains.

I’m serious! You could run a drinking game on every moment Napoleon suffers a major or minor indignity onscreen. The indignity of flies and mosquitoes, of gore, of beheading, of forgetting one’s hat, of dragging chairs around, of being bested, of being harassed and tested by the press, of being powerless in fertility and faithfulness, of being thwarted, of being lectured by young women in lieu of training young men….. It’s everywhere. It explains almost every weird drawn-out detail.

Life is constantly, inexorably undignified, and NO ONE is immune, even at the height of glory.

Now, was Napoleon the best person to explore that theme? IDK. Perhaps Ridley is saying that he was a man driven by indignities and his desire to exert control over them? Seems like you could do the same theme with modern, contemporary Hollywood stars today. But their lives are glamorous and “clean.” 1800’s France was decidedly not dignified and not under control in ways that are decidedly offensive to the American audience.

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Ridley Scott to Release 4-Hour Director’s Cut of Napoleon on Apple TV+

Ridley Scott, the acclaimed director of Gladiator, Alien, and Blade Runner, is not one to shy away from making long and epic films. His latest project, Napoleon, is a historical drama that explores the life and legacy of the French emperor and military genius, Napoleon Bonaparte. The film stars Joaquin Phoenix, who reunites with Scott after 22 years since their collaboration on Gladiator, as the…

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"Am I not Merciful?" - Joaquin Phoenix as Commodus (Gladiator, 2000)

Pt. 1, Pt. 2

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[mysharona1987]

Ridley Scott and Martin Scorsese on every film press tour these days:

Oh, they have reached that level old where they simply do not care what anyone thinks of them.

[didanagy]

NAPOLEON (2023)

JOSEPHINE BONAPARTE

dir. ridley scott

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Film stills, Napoleon 2023

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"At brief, introspective moments in Ridley Scott's pyrotechnics-heavy biopic Napoleon, a simple melody emerges from the delicate sound of an old piano. It's more than 200 years old and once belonged to the French emperor himself, who gifted it to his second wife, Marie-Louise."

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Napoleon 2023 trailer

This post isn't really gonna be long or finding all inaccuracies in the trailer, this is just my opinion.

Quality wise, I think It's very good.

Casting wise, ehh.. I think Joaquin Phoenix as Napoleon is good in his late 30s-40s, but I think he is too old for the younger Napoleon, no?

Lastly, I just have one question.. Who is this lady? Why is her hair super short, did woman have hair like that during the era? Is she meant to be someone or is she fictional?

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Napoleon (2023)

[ciderbird]

so I clipped the additional scene with Tsar Alexander from the director’s cut of Ridley Scott’s Napoleon

Bizarrely it’s in Russian (and a really bad one at that) so I translated what I understood under the cut if someone is curious. I don’t know who the man in the red coat is supposed to be (my best guess is Lord Witworth, the English ambassador to Russia). All in all the scene does little to add depth to the conflict between Russia and France because seemingly the only reason Alexander is even torn about going to war is that he might lose again

Man in red: “What’s good for your friend Napoleon is bad for Russia. And what’s bad for Russia can’t be good for your Majesty. Trade with Britain (?) is essential for the greatness of Russia. Your father made a grave mistake by putting himself above the interests of his country. I wouldn’t want to see your Majesty become… unpopular with the Russian people.”

Alexander: “I am not my father. You’re making a mistake that you will regret if you think that I am like him. Russia will ally itself with the English once more. I am not afraid of Napoleon”