The duel's the swordfights are quite brutal in that movie from what i can remember i remember when Harvey keitel (Gabriel Feraud) and Keith Carradine (Armand d'Hubert) are dueling in what looks like some country warehouse and keitel's sword literally takes a massive chunk of Keith Carradine's skin off and another bit his skin is just peeled off and i remember thinking yikes lol
Saw it last night! It was okay. I thought Vanessa Kirby out acted Joaquin Phoenix. She looked and acted more European precisely because she is. Phoenix is an American! Rufus Sewell would've been a better choice. I've read some about Napoleon, and he was nothing like what this movie portrays. Napoleon syndrome is a real thing for a reason! Napoleon was charismatic! He was controlling! He was domineering! He was also a charmer because he didn't have the looks to rely on! He was also brilliant and calculating! Lastly, he was very proud...not insecure! At least not in public. His public personna was kingly and mesmerizing. Phoenix's portrayal was sleepy! Uncharismatic! Tired! Easy to manipulate! He's also not much of a leader in this movie! He let's Josephine string him along like a love-sick puppy! He's manipulated by Alexander...a boy who had no military knowledge or experience! Lastly, Napoleon was not afraid of anything. Phoenix's portrayal shows Napoleon being insecure, and a somewhat of a coward which he was not. If Napoleon was outmatched, he didn't tuck tail and run. He strategically retreated with a plan to regroup. The only time in the movie I think they got his character right, was I how he bullied Josephine but kept coming back for more because that's what bullies do. His anger and temperament was accurate in this movie! But that's pretty much it.
I mean true, but Joaquin did ask Ridley how he imagined the character so he had something to work with but Ridley didn't tell him anything and just shooed him away so yeah...
Funny: "A picture is worth a thousand words": The quote is sometimes attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte, who said "A good sketch is better than a long speech" (French: Un bon croquis vaut mieux qu'un long discours). This is sometimes translated today as "A picture is worth a thousand words." (Wikipedia)
@@christomorpho Brilliant? LOL An illiterate mockery of history is what it was. From getting his birthdate wrong in the very beginning to getting his last words wrong at the end. What a joke. You now know less about Napoleon than you did before watching it. We are all dumber now for watching it.
The string of promotional interviews this director has to give everyday is impressive given his age. At this point, it's not about money nor fame. His cinematic creations are his purpose and legacy.
Seems as though some have had good things to say/favorable, others have had less than that to say in regards to the movie and or their perception of the film’s historical accuracy. Best part of any of it, could be, having had the chance to experience/explore more of RS’s dry wit/sense of humor. Clear his combined talents and personality have won him fans through his career in motion picture/films. Cheers and applause 👏 to that and of course the good of any of it.
Dry/wit sense of humour is probably why I laughed on like, half of the film, because I understood (or at least if I didn't understand, my mind definitely interpeted them in that way) A LOT of things that might not even have been intended to be humorous, which I absolutely loved because to be honest, half of the movie was a big meme with the quotes and the script etc 😂😊
Behind every great man even ridley Scott couldn't screw this up messing up Napoleon is just about what you would expect from the English but the behing every great man Scott was out of his depth
Just saw the movie today. Glad they made any history movie but this was 3 out of 5 stars. Watch Waterloo w/ Rod Steiger as Bony instead to get a true sense of the man, his genius, and the times.
I felt more like it was a 2, I was never convinced that the portrayal of Napoleon here could rally so much of France behind him, and his strategy genius only shines in one scene. There are so many other issues I have but I would end up going too long
Question is: is he? are you? he just said a stupidity the size of his mega sized reputation. i guess that’s what you get when you think looking at images replaces reading. although, they did write over 2,100 books on napoleon. never mind what’s in them, the point is there’s are a lot of them out there.@@Geronimo_Jehoshaphat
Don't waste your money. You will know less about Napoleon than you did before you watched it. Ridley Scott must have set out to make a mockery of history on purpose. I want my money back.
@@soulmatechan Yeah, if you want to watch a movie about Napoleon that is in reality nothing at all about him, not even a proper character study Ridley Scott claims it is, then yeah, waste your money on it. It's a Hollywood fiction with good costumes, actors, and cinematography, but that's it. Nothing great about it at all unless you're easily entertained by visual bells and whistles with no substance.
09:46 i know Joaquin is more timid, but why isn't he on the interviews? I did not saw a single interview of him about this movie and i don't remember about Joker either.
He doesn't like doing interviews and there are also contracts to movies or other projects which when you sign they don't specifically obligate you to do interviews - you can choose not to. There is an actor in a Scorsese film I believe who was also a huge part of a film but did not one single interview for it, so yeah. It's a personal choice. 😊
What a pleasant and informative videocast. At 16:55, I thought that it was so grand of Vanessa to not give her answer and let the interviewer say why Napoleon was obsessed with Josephine. Of course, she is right. When a man loves a woman more than she loves him; he cannot bear to be discarded; he must win her heart and when he fails to do so, his whole life becomes an obsession to find the way to impress her. In Napoleon's tormented career, something like 3 million soldiers went to their early graves and I am sure many were lost because of his desire to show Josephine he was king of the world and he would sacrifice anything and anyone for her love. In vain. Vanessa Kirby is an outstanding performer because she is an artist first and foremost who makes us see what an actor is all about: finding the way to express what someone else must have been going through and doing it with style. What an achievement for Ridly Scott and Joaquin Phoenix and Vanessa Kirby and the many, many other actors and performers and film crew members who made it possible to film such an epic.
Actually the facts is that the enemies of France who were making 7 coalitions to overthrow the French Republic and return the Bourbon sent millions of their soldiers to their deaths.
That's nonsense. Read a history book and stop thinking Hollyweird actually cares about depicting it properly. Napoleon was obsessed with her at first, but finally got fed up with her. He banished her to the other end of the house and paraded concubines in and out before they finally divorced, and the quote in this film of his last words being of her is a lie from a family member of hers. Not one person at his deathbed said he ever spoke her name even once.
I waited for this movie so much. I could not be more happy when finally I was able to buy tickets and go to see it. I watched it and is sheat. Massive, huge fricken disappointment. The real title should be Josephine, and subtitle - Napoleon on drugs. Sorry, but either Phoenix was badly instructed what to do or he just deos not have the charisma to play characters like Bonaparte. Nearly 3 hours long movie about one of the greatest commanders and leaders in history, reduced to alcove’s ventures. Historically its just marvell level, it's beyond bad. I wonder what the purpose of this pic was? It has very little to do with Napoleon, even less with history. Btw, you will learn from this movie it was the russians that defeated Napoleon. Seriously. The movie is a conglomerate of completely random events without any significance and meaning. You can walk out, go to loo, get the food, come back and you will miss nothing. Waste of money and time. The ony good things are the battles,. All two of them. The rest is just incoherent gibberish. And the music, or sound rather is awful, some islamic (?) howling interlaced with orthodox one. Horrible.
He picked a 60 yrs old with cleft lip to play 20 years old Napoleon without removing wrinkles cosmetically is despicable. He was doing it from behind then asks why she is not having babies? Slap on the movie.Prof.Dr.Nasir Fazal gold medalist Cambridge USA
Also got the whole demeanor of Marie Antoinette wrong. The silly smarting - arrogance was more like a spoiled young woman when her debut went wrong. Silly.
Thought Napoleon was terrific! I can see why some might have not enjoyed it, considering it's a compressed version of his life for the cinema screen, but for what it was, I loved most of it and found it to be Ridley's strongest film in nearly twenty years. Felt like a return to the old style of Ridley from the 80's and 90's at times, and reminded me a bit of 1492 Conquest Of Paradise, which is a very underrated film. Brilliantly staged battle sequences, stunning locations, set design, cinematography and attention to great detail as well. Now bring on the 4 hour cut.
See, my dad begs to differ despite growing up on Ridley's films and always complimenting him as one of the best directors he's ever seen. But I understand your point.
Love Vanessa. Love Juaquin. Love Ridley's work... I will very much enjoy this movie. Thank you for a great interview and thanks to the incredible Vanessa for sharing her wisdom, insight and more.
I just watched this show today and I love the vibe of this movie, starting from costumes battles scenes music and main role played by Phoenix also love the architecture ❤❤❤❤
It's not because the English never had their "Napoleon" that we have to make a dependent film, not at all realistic. If Ridley Scott had made a film about Abraham Lincon he would have changed history in his own right. like? I am not sure
Pour quand une biographie de la Reine d'Angleterre version zoophile, réalisée par un français ? Alors nous verrons bien la réaction britannique... (Et ils auront raison de s'indigner). PS : Gros bisous à Vanessa Kirby. ;-)
His presentation is a title for triumph in film. I can compare the first motive. He has gone through pictures. The world is possible to him chance. Color brush and oil ink with his hand, he has been using his series. Artistic expression and professional service are out of curiosity.
Apart from the acting and costumes it was a complete joke. You must know absolutely nothing about history at all. It was absolute garbage from that perspective.
Napoleon was a Corsican first, last and foremost! As long as Ridley Scott admits that he was playing with history, we can swallow his caveats and untruths! It is like The Titanic, only worse! And he should acknowledge the first film that inspired Gladiator, with Alec Guinness as Marcus Aurelius and Christopher Plummer as Commodus! There is only Malmaison left, the Palais des Tuileries was demolished after the Franco-Prussian war of 1870!
As far as I know, Napoleon didn't have a "harelip"! The choice of the main character was completely wrong! I can't see him as Napoleon with his face, nor age. In the case of a biographical film, I think the similarity between the real person to be portrayed and the actor portraying it is important for authenticity. (See Oppenheimer and upcoming Bernstein movies.) No matter how fantastic the actor is chosen, but I can not believe that he is Napoleon. Now we can see Commodus as a Warlord instead of Napoleon! Super!!! If the director wanted Joaquin Phoenix in his film at all costs, he could have given him the role of General Von Blücher. He had a mustache. Sorry!
Vanessa's no idea abt what she's talking about...I mean her impressions of a castle, where Josephine died. That was Malmaison, but in the movie we don't see Malmaison, that's totally another castle! I've been to Malmaison twice in 2019 and 2022!
To save your time and money, DO NOT watch "Napoleon". You will thank me for this advice. The weak movie has nothing to do with history besides the name.
Awful film. Comes across as a hatchet job on Napoleon, cut to pieces to fit into 2.5 hours. Doesn't know what it wants to be. No character development so they needed to put on screen titles to label who some people were. No accents so at one point, the messenger tells a king that Bonaparte landed. Turns out it was Louis XVIII with a Basingstoke accent. Not fussed about accuracy, but there's no cohesion in the jumps from one time to another. I love Phoenix, but he plays a jaded miserable mumbling napoleon from the beginning to end. At 23 he was dynamic, charismatic and ambitious. Not world weary and quiet as played. The grading was appalling. The whole thing looked like a Nuclear winter had fallen on Europe. Pointless scenes here and there - what that Mummy scene all about? Finally, Phoenix's Napoleon looked the same at 23 as at 46 at Waterloo. Avoid.
Capitato spesso ed è funny che mi sono piaciuti e mi piacciono film e musica produzione americana ed inglese che spesso persone di quei paesi nazioni non conosco o non apprezzano molto , persone dell Inghilterra e della America mai visto blade Runner di Rydley Scott mai visto taxi driver ..film di Martin Scorsese ...però conoscono questi registi ...a me piacciono anche i Beatles persone dell Inghilterra non piacciono perché musica vecchia mi piacciono i rolling stones invece persone inglesi non piacciono ...ecco per dire Anglofoni Anglosassoni ..si ho letto Ivanhoe ...Walter Scott ..alcune persone inglesi in Italia ma che libro è ??, che libri leggi Ivanhoe ???
LOL, From getting his birthdate wrong to his last words wrong, the movie was laced with historical inaccuracies. Anybody that doesn't feel lied to and patronized after watching that travesty of revisionist history must be illiterate or just doesn't care about history. Some of us do. What a waste of money that film was.
Those who dislike it I have to say to them this is an entertaining movie, not a documentary! It was a complex historical period, they could not cover everything in 2.5 hours. They did not cover any of Napoleon's institutional reforms such as the civil code, because it would be awkward and boring as a movie.
Sembrano belle le immagini del film Napoleon...Rydley Scott è un regista anche esteta sono molto stilizzate le immagini dei film di Rydley Scott , per noi è stata la visione del film Blade Runner ...una rivelazione..addirittura un mio amico dell epoca , studente dell istituto d arte ci mostro delle immagini quadri di pittori del 900 Futurismo ..accanto alle immagini di Blade Runner ..di Rydley Scott ...un film Cult ..diciamo per noi ..
Siccome è stato un film Cult importante dalla musica alla scenografia ai dialoghi tutto l insieme del film Blade Runner non sono andato a vedere quello realizzato pochi anni fa ..mi hanno detto che ha avuto un certo successo comunque non ho voluto vedere il secondo film Blade Runner una scelta personale poi non è capitato anche se dovessi vederlo il recente blade Runner no problem sono film o opere d arte o intrattenimento non c è problema cerco di non essere fanatico con quello che mi piace e mi appassiona ..di non essere rigido di non diventare fanatico su quello che mi piace che mi appassiona..
C è stato il sequel di Blade Runner che non realizzato Rydley Scott ..Curiosita anche lui ha realizzato un sequel di un film importante ...a me è piaciuto il sequel di Rydley Scott , diverso dal primo con momenti del film fra il grottesco e humour ...posso capire alcuni aspetti Dell industry del intrattenimento certo se funziona come spettatori come pubblico se una produzione ha successo commerciale ...provano a fare un sequel ..o una serie o saga di film ...Rocky e Rambo per esempio ...fin qui logicamente si può capire logica del commercio del mondo dello spettacolo dello show business ..
You know, folk who claim to know about the history of NB have thrown rottern tomartos at it. I said to my misses, watch it with a clean mind and we enjoyed it. I visited the Duke of Wellington's house today and spent some time looking at paintings of Empress Josephine. I think Vanessa Kirby good acting job for sure and i get the connection
Would have loved to see Stanley Kubrick napoleon film but this will suffice enough. I dont like how the love story is the main point of the story though
What a haughty aristocratic accent Vanesa has, home bred for a thousand years from the mountains and forests of Skane. The icy fjord gaze rolling in the Albion green hills buries a longship in its silt.
Why the token Black person in just about every scene ? bloody insulting to black people, if they were not historically there why place them there ? The battle scenes were pathetic, Waterloo seemed to be trench warfare, with men climbing out of the trenches to be shot at or receive cavalry charges, why ? would have been safer to stay in the trench, that for some bizarre reason was protected by wooden stakes, and the sequence of the actual battle was thrown out of the window. The way it degenerated into a punch up/brawl at the end was hilarious. Rupert Everetts portrayal of Wellington was a pathetic caricature, and bore no resemblance to the man himself, what happened to the quote "the worst thing to a battle lost is a battle won" a reflection on Wellington's dislike of the waste in war. Scott should be ashamed at this garbage, Phoenix seems to be heavilly medicated during most of the movie, and his Napoleonic genius was lost in the mumbling. Only saving grace was Josephine (Vanessa Kirby) actress did a great job, any scene she was in was worth watching. Any one wanting to see a great Napoleonic movie see "Waterloo" it is the best ever made, Rod Steiger is awsome as Napoleon and Christopher Plumber is a elegant and engaging Wellington. The battle scenes are the best ever made no CGI all practical. And the movie follows the history books, not Scotts political agenda, you can take the man out of Tyne but you can't take the Tyne out of the man. Stick to Aliens. And why was the battle of Austerlitz reduced to a Icecapade show.
@@annatamparow4917 🤣My apologies, so we are running out of reasons to include black people in this movie. I am sure from memory, the involvement of France in Africa, especially North Africa, has always allowed for people of colour to be involved in the French military. Not sure about the Napoleonic Wars, but it was certainly the case in the 1st and 2nd World Wars.
It is General Dumas, half black/half white, but he was lightly black skinned, not black. Yes he was present in Egypt but died in 1802 and any portrayal of him after Egypt is thus historically inaccurate.
You did not see the whole movie. A black person is seen only in two scenes. One is an officer who arrests a politician. The other is one of the boys on a vessel. I add Josephine maid who is o north African.
@@amafirenze-vi1uh I believe also front and center in the audience at the coronation, and I am sure there were others, hard to prove without sitting through the movie again, and that's not going to happen. I am sorry the maid was black not North African, there is a difference you know. Also street scenes and crowd scenes etc. And I presume you are using your memory ?
Unfortunately I was very disappointed by this movie :(. Wrong casting with Joaquim Phoenix. Looked old and too fat … And missing charisma… it was more like a bad caricature:(((
The Duelists is a masterpiece.
Remains my favorite ridley scott film..
The duel's the swordfights are quite brutal in that movie from what i can remember i remember when Harvey keitel (Gabriel Feraud) and Keith Carradine (Armand d'Hubert) are dueling in what looks like some country warehouse and keitel's sword literally takes a massive chunk of Keith Carradine's skin off and another bit his skin is just peeled off and i remember thinking yikes lol
Saw it last night! It was okay. I thought Vanessa Kirby out acted Joaquin Phoenix. She looked and acted more European precisely because she is. Phoenix is an American! Rufus Sewell would've been a better choice. I've read some about Napoleon, and he was nothing like what this movie portrays. Napoleon syndrome is a real thing for a reason! Napoleon was charismatic! He was controlling! He was domineering! He was also a charmer because he didn't have the looks to rely on! He was also brilliant and calculating! Lastly, he was very proud...not insecure! At least not in public. His public personna was kingly and mesmerizing. Phoenix's portrayal was sleepy! Uncharismatic! Tired! Easy to manipulate! He's also not much of a leader in this movie! He let's Josephine string him along like a love-sick puppy! He's manipulated by Alexander...a boy who had no military knowledge or experience! Lastly, Napoleon was not afraid of anything. Phoenix's portrayal shows Napoleon being insecure, and a somewhat of a coward which he was not. If Napoleon was outmatched, he didn't tuck tail and run. He strategically retreated with a plan to regroup. The only time in the movie I think they got his character right, was I how he bullied Josephine but kept coming back for more because that's what bullies do. His anger and temperament was accurate in this movie! But that's pretty much it.
I mean true, but Joaquin did ask Ridley how he imagined the character so he had something to work with but Ridley didn't tell him anything and just shooed him away so yeah...
Funny: "A picture is worth a thousand words": The quote is sometimes attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte, who said "A good sketch is better than a long speech" (French: Un bon croquis vaut mieux qu'un long discours). This is sometimes translated today as "A picture is worth a thousand words." (Wikipedia)
Kudos to Nikki for actually conducting the interview at Ridley's speed -- which, unlike most 85-year olds -- is incredibly fast. Cheers.
He is phenomenal at 85. We wish we should be so lucky to be creative and lucid at that age.
If Disney had produced this movie, Josephine would have been played by Lizzo.
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Lizzo will play Leto Atreides in God Emperor of Dune..
Scott said that he did not read much about Napoleon and got his inspiration from paintings. Obviously you do not want to take this movie seriously.
It was crap. Filled with nonsensical inaccuracies from beginning to end. So disappointing.
It was brilliant! Looked fantastic and thoroughly entertaining. Every frame looks like a neo classical painting. I had a blast in the cinema.
@@christomorpho Brilliant? LOL An illiterate mockery of history is what it was. From getting his birthdate wrong in the very beginning to getting his last words wrong at the end. What a joke. You now know less about Napoleon than you did before watching it. We are all dumber now for watching it.
@@tomasom4497 history is kinda bullshit, no one truly knows what happened.
LOL
He makes literary quote after literary quote & you don't think he reads!
Hilarious.
The way that Ridley Scott works visually, starting off with a painting is truly unique and unlike other directors. Great interview
In the Napleonic era Art blossomed.
The string of promotional interviews this director has to give everyday is impressive given his age. At this point, it's not about money nor fame. His cinematic creations are his purpose and legacy.
Bladerunner and Aliens are the Hollywood equivalent to Mona Lisa being immortalized at the Louvre.
Unlike other directors? The director of Waterloo also did that approach excellently
Like Kubrick...
Scott should have researched the film . Apple stupidly gave him 200 million for a fantasy film.
Good for you Nikki Novak! Excellent interview!
Ridley managed to get the Joker dressed up in a period costume. Hurrah!
Hilariously enough my dad said the same thing yesterday when we watched the film
I love a good actress... Kirby is stunning.
This was a really, really interesting interview with R. Scott. Well done!
I want to be as vital as he is at 85.
Seems as though some have had good things to say/favorable, others have had less than that to say in regards to the movie and or their perception of the film’s historical accuracy. Best part of any of it, could be, having had the chance to experience/explore more of RS’s dry wit/sense of humor. Clear his combined talents and personality have won him fans through his career in motion picture/films. Cheers and applause 👏 to that and of course the good of any of it.
Dry/wit sense of humour is probably why I laughed on like, half of the film, because I understood (or at least if I didn't understand, my mind definitely interpeted them in that way) A LOT of things that might not even have been intended to be humorous, which I absolutely loved because to be honest, half of the movie was a big meme with the quotes and the script etc 😂😊
Behind every great man even ridley Scott couldn't screw this up messing up Napoleon is just about what you would expect from the English but the behing every great man Scott was out of his depth
Not a fan of punctuation?
Just saw the movie today. Glad they made any history movie but this was 3 out of 5 stars. Watch Waterloo w/ Rod Steiger as Bony instead to get a true sense of the man, his genius, and the times.
Waterloo is astonishing.
Shame we can’t see on big screen.
I felt more like it was a 2, I was never convinced that the portrayal of Napoleon here could rally so much of France behind him, and his strategy genius only shines in one scene.
There are so many other issues I have but I would end up going too long
3 is extremely generous
You have a good point there.@@BasedinReality1984
The movie was brilliant. Looked fantastic and thoroughly entertaining. Every shot looked like a neo classical painting. I had a blast in the cinema.
The "painting" concept reminds me of Barry Lyndon.
Yeah, except that Barry Lyndon was a good fictitious story unlike this piece of fiction claiming to be a historical drama.
Such a big disappointment; save your money and avoid a trip to the theaters.
Cry
@@Electrifize try reading a book sometime.
The best interview I've yet seen about this film.
Leave it to Hollywood to make a movie about Napoleon look like an episode of GOT without the dragons...
Did he just say that NAPOLEON LEFT HIS ARMIES IN EGYPT BECAUSE HE WAS AFRAID THAT JOSEPHINE WAS CHEATING ON HIM BACK IN PARIS? Or did I mishear?
Are you okay?
Question is: is he? are you? he just said a stupidity the size of his mega sized reputation. i guess that’s what you get when you think looking at images replaces reading. although, they did write over 2,100 books on napoleon. never mind what’s in them, the point is there’s are a lot of them out there.@@Geronimo_Jehoshaphat
Its because this is practically a complete invention by Ridley, and with minimal basis in historical fact@@Geronimo_Jehoshaphat
@@cmccoy793
Who told you that?
Ridley didn't write it, and that is a fact I've known prior to this film.
But he sure as hell went along with it. @@Geronimo_Jehoshaphat
Wow Vanessa Kirby is stunning and she is the only good thing in the film.
This sounds like a must watch movie
Fabulous interview ladies! Thanks
Don't waste your money. You will know less about Napoleon than you did before you watched it. Ridley Scott must have set out to make a mockery of history on purpose. I want my money back.
Give it a chance and don't listen to the guy before me. It's a great film cinematically but if you're into history and etc then you wouldn't like it.
@@soulmatechan Yeah, if you want to watch a movie about Napoleon that is in reality nothing at all about him, not even a proper character study Ridley Scott claims it is, then yeah, waste your money on it. It's a Hollywood fiction with good costumes, actors, and cinematography, but that's it. Nothing great about it at all unless you're easily entertained by visual bells and whistles with no substance.
09:46 i know Joaquin is more timid, but why isn't he on the interviews? I did not saw a single interview of him about this movie and i don't remember about Joker either.
He doesn't like doing interviews and there are also contracts to movies or other projects which when you sign they don't specifically obligate you to do interviews - you can choose not to. There is an actor in a Scorsese film I believe who was also a huge part of a film but did not one single interview for it, so yeah. It's a personal choice. 😊
What a pleasant and informative videocast. At 16:55, I thought that it was so grand of Vanessa to not give her answer and let the interviewer say why Napoleon was obsessed with Josephine. Of course, she is right. When a man loves a woman more than she loves him; he cannot bear to be discarded; he must win her heart and when he fails to do so, his whole life becomes an obsession to find the way to impress her. In Napoleon's tormented career, something like 3 million soldiers went to their early graves and I am sure many were lost because of his desire to show Josephine he was king of the world and he would sacrifice anything and anyone for her love. In vain. Vanessa Kirby is an outstanding performer because she is an artist first and foremost who makes us see what an actor is all about: finding the way to express what someone else must have been going through and doing it with style. What an achievement for Ridly Scott and Joaquin Phoenix and Vanessa Kirby and the many, many other actors and performers and film crew members who made it possible to film such an epic.
Actually the facts is that the enemies of France who were making 7 coalitions to overthrow the French Republic and return the Bourbon sent millions of their soldiers to their deaths.
That's nonsense. Read a history book and stop thinking Hollyweird actually cares about depicting it properly. Napoleon was obsessed with her at first, but finally got fed up with her. He banished her to the other end of the house and paraded concubines in and out before they finally divorced, and the quote in this film of his last words being of her is a lie from a family member of hers. Not one person at his deathbed said he ever spoke her name even once.
I had no idea Vanessa Kirby was so stunning. Pretty, sure - but wow, she really looks incredible here. Such eyes and cheekbones.
Unfortunately we were disappointed in this movie. We love Ridley Scott normally
Napoleon was just terrible.
I waited for this movie so much. I could not be more happy when finally I was able to buy tickets and go to see it.
I watched it and is sheat. Massive, huge fricken disappointment.
The real title should be Josephine, and subtitle - Napoleon on drugs.
Sorry, but either Phoenix was badly instructed what to do or he just deos not have the charisma to play characters like Bonaparte.
Nearly 3 hours long movie about one of the greatest commanders and leaders in history, reduced to alcove’s ventures.
Historically its just marvell level, it's beyond bad. I wonder what the purpose of this pic was?
It has very little to do with Napoleon, even less with history. Btw, you will learn from this movie it was the russians that defeated Napoleon. Seriously.
The movie is a conglomerate of completely random events without any significance and meaning. You can walk out, go to loo, get the food, come back and you will miss nothing.
Waste of money and time. The ony good things are the battles,. All two of them. The rest is just incoherent gibberish. And the music, or sound rather is awful, some islamic (?) howling interlaced with orthodox one. Horrible.
The movie was brilliant. Looked fantastic and thoroughly entertaining. Every shot looked like a neo classical painting. I had a blast in the cinema.
@@christomorpho probably because you didn’t know what are you looking at…
@@christomorphoha very funny
@@ThePiratemachineI mean, cinematically and aesthetically they have a point, but historically it was bad.
So interesting to hear the connection with the Duelists. Was wondering if there was something there
Such a hidden gem the duellists is
Thank you.
Vanessa Kirby sounds like a younger cafe Blanchett in this interview
ya Cate hag now
He picked a 60 yrs old with cleft lip to play 20 years old Napoleon without removing wrinkles cosmetically is despicable.
He was doing it from behind then asks why she is not having babies? Slap on the movie.Prof.Dr.Nasir Fazal gold medalist Cambridge USA
Loved it
Hopefully the 4 hr will make it good
Also got the whole demeanor of Marie Antoinette wrong. The silly smarting - arrogance was more like a spoiled young woman when her debut went wrong. Silly.
Thought Napoleon was terrific!
I can see why some might have not enjoyed it, considering it's a compressed version of his life for the cinema screen, but for what it was, I loved most of it and found it to be Ridley's strongest film in nearly twenty years. Felt like a return to the old style of Ridley from the 80's and 90's at times, and reminded me a bit of 1492 Conquest Of Paradise, which is a very underrated film. Brilliantly staged battle sequences, stunning locations, set design, cinematography and attention to great detail as well. Now bring on the 4 hour cut.
The movie was brilliant. Looked fantastic and thoroughly entertaining. Every shot looked like a neo classical painting. I had a blast in the cinema.
See, my dad begs to differ despite growing up on Ridley's films and always complimenting him as one of the best directors he's ever seen. But I understand your point.
I have watched movies for decades and this was in the top ten WORST movies I have ever seen. By far Ridley Scott's worst movie. What a shame.
He speaks so well too gotta be an amazing director and definitely one of his best films
Unpopular opinion Napoleon was so much better than Oppenheimer
you are not alone
Admitting you liked this movie, is an embarrassing admission that you don't know anything about history.
Love Vanessa. Love Juaquin. Love Ridley's work... I will very much enjoy this movie. Thank you for a great interview and thanks to the incredible Vanessa for sharing her wisdom, insight and more.
Right from the off, great question. Good interview.
This reporter has excellent questions
Did she ask him why the movie is farcical nonsense?
16:34. I like Vanessa asked Nikki
Great film. Must see.
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I just watched this show today and I love the vibe of this movie, starting from costumes battles scenes music and main role played by Phoenix also love the architecture ❤❤❤❤
Very disappointing with this WOKE Napoleon movie. Had a huge hope before watching, was expecting something like Gladiator and it was joke of a movie.
Vanessa was great in this movie! Her and Emma Stone are the BEST.
What's Emma Stone got to do with this? Lol
Absolute embarrassment of a movie.
It's not because the English never had their "Napoleon" that we have to make a dependent film, not at all realistic. If Ridley Scott had made a film about Abraham Lincon he would have changed history in his own right. like? I am not sure
Garbage movie, too bad for the actors. Ridley make a kitsch just like Gladiator.
Pour quand une biographie de la Reine d'Angleterre version zoophile, réalisée par un français ?
Alors nous verrons bien la réaction britannique... (Et ils auront raison de s'indigner).
PS : Gros bisous à Vanessa Kirby. ;-)
There is always a new ATH a year after each halving. It will hit around 300K in April 2025, then a million 4 years later.
Wrong, wrong, wrong.
Jesus Christ: 24,000 books
William Shakespeare: 18,000 books
Abraham Lincoln: 14,000 books
Winston Churchill: 12,000 books
Leonardo da Vinci: 10,000 books
Napoleon Bonaparte: 8,000 books
Albert Einstein: 7,000 books
Martin Luther King Jr.: 6,000 books
Mother Teresa: 5,000 books
George Washington: 4,000 books
The last estimate for the number of books written on Napoleon was over 300,000.
The red writing here, Napoleon is misspelled
His presentation is a title for triumph in film. I can compare the first motive.
He has gone through pictures.
The world is possible to him chance.
Color brush and oil ink with his hand, he has been using his series.
Artistic expression and professional service are out of curiosity.
I saw this movie tonight. Great movie. Excellent
Apart from the acting and costumes it was a complete joke. You must know absolutely nothing about history at all. It was absolute garbage from that perspective.
From the trailers there's no French accent from Phoenix. I hate to be that person.
One person who’s more written about than Napoleon:
Jesus
His love life & family? The Roman soldier that was his father..
One of the worst movies depicting one of historical giants. You did a horrible job!
it is the worst movie about Bonaprte.
Solo vine a escuchar a Vanessa K hablar ♥
Napoleon was a Corsican first, last and foremost! As long as Ridley Scott admits that he was playing with history, we can swallow his caveats and untruths! It is like The Titanic, only worse! And he should acknowledge the first film that inspired Gladiator, with Alec Guinness as Marcus Aurelius and Christopher Plummer as Commodus! There is only Malmaison left, the Palais des Tuileries was demolished after the Franco-Prussian war of 1870!
There still is Fontainebleau, where Napoleon lived…
anyone else thinks vanessa looks like benedict cumberbach? and they look like aliens?
Rotten Tomatoes hates Lady Ballers.
That means it's a good movie.
RT
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As far as I know, Napoleon didn't have a "harelip"!
The choice of the main character was completely wrong!
I can't see him as Napoleon with his face, nor age.
In the case of a biographical film, I think the similarity
between the real person to be portrayed and the actor
portraying it is important for authenticity.
(See Oppenheimer and upcoming Bernstein movies.)
No matter how fantastic the actor is chosen, but I can not
believe that he is Napoleon. Now we can see
Commodus as a Warlord instead of Napoleon! Super!!!
If the director wanted Joaquin Phoenix in his film at all
costs, he could have given him the role of General Von
Blücher. He had a mustache. Sorry!
He’s American ok fxck off. He did his best you turd
I agree even though joaquin is my favorite actor this role wasn't for him
Thank You Greg! :) @@AGregBergThing
@@janosficzere8566Nah. Just enjoy the movie.
Kubrick should had a good data base about Napoleon.....
should have had
@@heliotropezzz333 thanks!
this film is unworthy of Ridley Scott! he should have taken inspiration from his film “The Duelists” which is an excellent film.
Vanessa's no idea abt what she's talking about...I mean her impressions of a castle, where Josephine died. That was Malmaison, but in the movie we don't see Malmaison, that's totally another castle! I've been to Malmaison twice in 2019 and 2022!
To save your time and money, DO NOT watch "Napoleon". You will thank me for this advice. The weak movie has nothing to do with history besides the name.
Awful film. Comes across as a hatchet job on Napoleon, cut to pieces to fit into 2.5 hours. Doesn't know what it wants to be. No character development so they needed to put on screen titles to label who some people were. No accents so at one point, the messenger tells a king that Bonaparte landed. Turns out it was Louis XVIII with a Basingstoke accent. Not fussed about accuracy, but there's no cohesion in the jumps from one time to another. I love Phoenix, but he plays a jaded miserable mumbling napoleon from the beginning to end. At 23 he was dynamic, charismatic and ambitious. Not world weary and quiet as played. The grading was appalling. The whole thing looked like a Nuclear winter had fallen on Europe. Pointless scenes here and there - what that Mummy scene all about? Finally, Phoenix's Napoleon looked the same at 23 as at 46 at Waterloo. Avoid.
Is he exhausted here or soused?
The mighty Ridley Scott !
Capitato spesso ed è funny che mi sono piaciuti e mi piacciono film e musica produzione americana ed inglese che spesso persone di quei paesi nazioni non conosco o non apprezzano molto , persone dell Inghilterra e della America mai visto blade Runner di Rydley Scott mai visto taxi driver ..film di Martin Scorsese ...però conoscono questi registi ...a me piacciono anche i Beatles persone dell Inghilterra non piacciono perché musica vecchia mi piacciono i rolling stones invece persone inglesi non piacciono ...ecco per dire Anglofoni Anglosassoni ..si ho letto Ivanhoe ...Walter Scott ..alcune persone inglesi in Italia ma che libro è ??, che libri leggi Ivanhoe ???
I liked it. Why people expect an exact replica of history is beyond me.
LOL, From getting his birthdate wrong to his last words wrong, the movie was laced with historical inaccuracies. Anybody that doesn't feel lied to and patronized after watching that travesty of revisionist history must be illiterate or just doesn't care about history. Some of us do. What a waste of money that film was.
No one expected an exact replica.... but this movie is a farce.
Where did Napoleon keep his armies?
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Up his sleevies!
The old ones are the best.
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Those who dislike it I have to say to them this is an entertaining movie, not a documentary! It was a complex historical period, they could not cover everything in 2.5 hours. They did not cover any of Napoleon's institutional reforms such as the civil code, because it would be awkward and boring as a movie.
It's not entertaining, though. That's a big part of the problem with it.
Poor movie and not comparable to 1970 Movie….rod Steiger
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Sembrano belle le immagini del film Napoleon...Rydley Scott è un regista anche esteta sono molto stilizzate le immagini dei film di Rydley Scott , per noi è stata la visione del film Blade Runner ...una rivelazione..addirittura un mio amico dell epoca , studente dell istituto d arte ci mostro delle immagini quadri di pittori del 900 Futurismo ..accanto alle immagini di Blade Runner ..di Rydley Scott ...un film Cult ..diciamo per noi ..
Siccome è stato un film Cult importante dalla musica alla scenografia ai dialoghi tutto l insieme del film Blade Runner non sono andato a vedere quello realizzato pochi anni fa ..mi hanno detto che ha avuto un certo successo comunque non ho voluto vedere il secondo film Blade Runner una scelta personale poi non è capitato anche se dovessi vederlo il recente blade Runner no problem sono film o opere d arte o intrattenimento non c è problema cerco di non essere fanatico con quello che mi piace e mi appassiona ..di non essere rigido di non diventare fanatico su quello che mi piace che mi appassiona..
C è stato il sequel di Blade Runner che non realizzato Rydley Scott ..Curiosita anche lui ha realizzato un sequel di un film importante ...a me è piaciuto il sequel di Rydley Scott , diverso dal primo con momenti del film fra il grottesco e humour ...posso capire alcuni aspetti Dell industry del intrattenimento certo se funziona come spettatori come pubblico se una produzione ha successo commerciale ...provano a fare un sequel ..o una serie o saga di film ...Rocky e Rambo per esempio ...fin qui logicamente si può capire logica del commercio del mondo dello spettacolo dello show business ..
This interview was the downfall of the movie!! I wished they brought his defeat in Acre (Akka), Palestine, a history we are proud of.
You know, folk who claim to know about the history of NB have thrown rottern tomartos at it. I said to my misses, watch it with a clean mind and we enjoyed it. I visited the Duke of Wellington's house today and spent some time looking at paintings of Empress Josephine. I think Vanessa Kirby good acting job for sure and i get the connection
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Poor boring film
This movie was horrible, except for Vanessa Kirby she was great
The film is dire
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Would have loved to see Stanley Kubrick napoleon film but this will suffice enough. I dont like how the love story is the main point of the story though
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Più che un film un lassativo.
What a haughty aristocratic accent Vanesa has, home bred for a thousand years from the mountains and forests of Skane. The icy fjord gaze rolling in the Albion green hills buries a longship in its silt.
Why the token Black person in just about every scene ? bloody insulting to black people, if they were not historically there why place them there ? The battle scenes were pathetic, Waterloo seemed to be trench warfare, with men climbing out of the trenches to be shot at or receive cavalry charges, why ? would have been safer to stay in the trench, that for some bizarre reason was protected by wooden stakes, and the sequence of the actual battle was thrown out of the window. The way it degenerated into a punch up/brawl at the end was hilarious. Rupert Everetts portrayal of Wellington was a pathetic caricature, and bore no resemblance to the man himself, what happened to the quote "the worst thing to a battle lost is a battle won" a reflection on Wellington's dislike of the waste in war. Scott should be ashamed at this garbage, Phoenix seems to be heavilly medicated during most of the movie, and his Napoleonic genius was lost in the mumbling. Only saving grace was Josephine (Vanessa Kirby) actress did a great job, any scene she was in was worth watching.
Any one wanting to see a great Napoleonic movie see "Waterloo" it is the best ever made, Rod Steiger is awsome as Napoleon and Christopher Plumber is a elegant and engaging Wellington. The battle scenes are the best ever made no CGI all practical. And the movie follows the history books, not Scotts political agenda, you can take the man out of Tyne but you can't take the Tyne out of the man. Stick to Aliens.
And why was the battle of Austerlitz reduced to a Icecapade show.
Sorry, but Rustan was a Mameluke : they were not black,they were Semitic white, like the Jews and the Indians (of India).
@@annatamparow4917 🤣My apologies, so we are running out of reasons to include black people in this movie. I am sure from memory, the involvement of France in Africa, especially North Africa, has always allowed for people of colour to be involved in the French military. Not sure about the Napoleonic Wars, but it was certainly the case in the 1st and 2nd World Wars.
It is General Dumas, half black/half white, but he was lightly black skinned, not black. Yes he was present in Egypt but died in 1802 and any portrayal of him after Egypt is thus historically inaccurate.
You did not see the whole movie. A black person is seen only in two scenes. One is an officer who arrests a politician. The other is one of the boys on a vessel. I add Josephine maid who is o north African.
@@amafirenze-vi1uh I believe also front and center in the audience at the coronation, and I am sure there were others, hard to prove without sitting through the movie again, and that's not going to happen. I am sorry the maid was black not North African, there is a difference you know. Also street scenes and crowd scenes etc. And I presume you are using your memory ?
Tragic depiction given napoleons life. Really disappointed. Will recommend to not waste money on this and rent on streaming service.
Cry, a ticket costs like $10 💀
forcing this feminism bad movie
maybe it wasn't forced.
Unfortunately I was very disappointed by this movie :(. Wrong casting with Joaquim Phoenix. Looked old and too fat … And missing charisma… it was more like a bad caricature:(((
Movie was Epic,a triumph,a love story of a egomaniac😊
The movie was a farce. Basically nothing like the actual story of Napoleon and Josephine.
By far his worst movie.
He even managed to make Joaquin Phoenix delievered a horrible performance.
deliver not delivered
movie was flat af
Bravo A MOVIE think Barry Lyndon not GOT