Movies Napoleon, Directed by Ridley Scott

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Moscow was a historical city with a ton of political prestige and the well from which the Russian empire poured. Taking it would be a symbol of Russias total defeat and no sane regime would continue a war after having their main city, where the levers of aristocratic power had long been seated, taken.

They continued,becouse in 1812 Moscov do not mattered anymore.But,if they take Petersburg and sit there instead....russians would must go for them,and Napoleon Army would not starve there.

 

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The trailer is pretty good.



Looks like it'll cover the early part of his famous life/career, from the French Revolution in 1793 but looks like there are references to Napoleon suppressing civilian rebellions with grapeshot, the Siege of Toulon perhaps, Napoleon's campaigns in Egypt (imagine how epic that massive cavalry charge at the Battle of the Pyramids would appear on film!). And of course his...crowning achievement of becoming Emperor.

Also Vanessa Kirby is a good actress. She'll do fine as Josephine.

The scene of British Squares surrounded by French Cavalry and the Battles taking place in Winter seem to indicate maybe it'll show the whole scope of his career, but there could be other explanations for that inclusion as well. Containing all of Napoleon's accomplishments into one even really long movie seems like a challenge. It really deserves a Part One and Two at least.

But those battle scenes look huge and epic... literally sweeping scenes of war and combat. Beautiful.

Coming out next Thanksgiving!

"I'm the first person to admit when I make a mistake, I simply never do."

They should've separated into six different parts.

 

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Saw the movie yesterday. The central theme is the Napoleon-Josephine relationship, which was... eh. Historical accuracy is, as expected and said before, low(but then again, if you went to a Ridley Scott movie expecting it to be faithful to history you deserve to get disappointed). Battle sequences(Austerlitz, Waterloo), were good. As for Napoleon himself... sometimes I thought Joaquin Phoenix was still playing the Joker role.

All in all, a good(though not great) movie.