A Rant About: 'Napoleon: The Directors Cut' (A Preview From My Full Review)

[@patriciafenwick5846]

I do not understand why historical films need to be inaccurate. They always come up with "for dramatic effect, or "pacing". There is enough drama in history without adding directors' "vision" of what constitutes "dramatic effects".

[@1IbramGaunt]

Haven't you heard, they've got to please "modern audiences" and "reflect the world we live in today" now 🙄😑

[@mitchellalexander9162]

Well to play Devil's Advocate over in Schindler's List they had to 'Tone Down' Amon Goeth because IRL Goeth would have been too Cartoonishly unbelievably Sadistic.

[@almalone3282]

I'd argue that 99% of humans in history had very boring lives and only had like 5 to 4 years of worthwhile stories to tell. With the rest being either hours studying or spending time with family.

[@mariatorres-by6du]

I recomend you look up a video called "Why we quit as historical advisors in Barbarians", it's made by a historian who has been a historical consultant for TV shows like Vikings and Barbarians, he gives examples of why he is okay with certain changes and also eventually why they quited working in Barbarians. It also really fun to hear about the bizarre request producers ask for.

[@patriciafenwick5846]

@@mariatorres-by6du Will do, thanks

[@ClariceleBell]

Josephine, the extended cut. Just what I wanted out of a movie purportedly about Napoleon.

[@1IbramGaunt]

Yup, like I said everyone making it except the clown under The Cavalier's bed clearly wanted Napoleon as the main character and for the movie to be about him, as quite frankly no offence to Josephine but they knew just as much as we do that Phoenix's Napoleon would be the only thing getting large numbers of people to actually turn up and pay £40 to watch the damn movie in a cinema, but the clown still had enough pull and was able to put off being persuaded not to make Josephine The Movie JUUUUST long enough that the damn thing was already halfway finished AS that before they were able to change the name

[@mrkeego1769]

I think it should also be mentioned to anyone who wasn't aware - the scenes from the Battle of Marengo were repurposed into the scenes from the Battle of Borodino. It caught my attention while in the cinema during the theatrical release, where Napoleon is very weirdly wearing his uniform from his time as First Consul in 1812 while he's charging directly into Russians. This should be enough to tell anyone that Ridley Scott doesn't care about you or the story he wanted to tell. He just wants your money, and I'm glad he didn't see a return on his investment.

[@The_Laughing_Cavalier]

Yes, I mention that in the main review when I get to the "Borodino" part. Of course, he doesn't change it for the Directors Cut either so you get to see Marengo, then they just flip it for Borodino.

[@mrkeego1769]

@@The_Laughing_Cavalier that's the worst part. It was horrible in the theatrical cut and he threw it at me again in the Director's Cut 😭

[@joshthomasmoorenew]

1:30 this is a public information broadcast "Watching Ridley Scotts Napoleon can cause illness, stress and unyeilding rage"

[@bradleydavies4781]

You forgot deep depression .

[@Darkstar-02]

You're alive! Thank God!

[@1IbramGaunt]

Anyway glad to see you're not dead Cavalier and even gladder that you're better enough now to be back, we missed you 😊

[@musicaleuphoria8699]

1:50 The movie definitely did more damage than we imagined.

[@Caesar_Himself]

Either Ridley Scott hates us and wants us to suffer or he is senile and needs to be medicated.

[@OlaftheFlashy]

Very sympathetic to you as currently dealing with a heavy cough myself. And endured Napaleon at cinema back in January.

[@floraposteschild4184]

Thanks in advance. I've been hoping for a review from someone who knows what they're talking about. Godspeed with your longer review.

[@ExploringMilitaryHistory]

3:10-3:20 is my actual reaction upon hearing that this horrible movie was getting a directors cut. You sir have my respect for subjecting yourself to this torture that only I could do once.

[@vickivolk7071]

Oh dearest Cavalier, thank you for sharing this. I sat through this train wreck opening weekend at a friends request. She’s still making up for it. You were too kind to Ridley Scott who should never be allowed to have anything to do with any film except to watch one.

[@nightdragonx123]

This makes me long for the Lost Waterloo Part 2. I know you've changed your style, and youtube it's rules, but still. I always rewatch that video of yours and your two on Cromwell as they're all excellently made. I've since made my peace with the subject as you continue to produce well made videos

[@1IbramGaunt]

Yup that's how I feel about it too, I've been here since the beginning as one of his first fans and still miss those days but still love his new stuff too

[@maxrobe]

The best impression of the Downfall scene is by Rod Stieger in Waterloo - which obviously predates Downfall but as Downfall is the yard stick for tyrannical rants there should be a naming convention of BD and AD for Before Downfall and After Downfall.

[@crazyman8472]

I checked Ridley Scott’s filmography for the last 20 years, and I was surprised that so much of it was “didn’t see it/not interested”. 🤔

[@marksheen4873]

I got goosebumps just from the like 8 seconds of Waterloo scenes on Marengo. The difference in films is immeasurable

[@joshthomasmoorenew]

Its ok Cavalier your with friends here, the bad film can't get us if we band together.

[@FrankJousselin]

I refuse to watch this film as much as I have enjoyed previous Ridley Scott films. I cannot separate my knowledge of history from the fictional work because I know many people who don’t read will take this film as an actual historical record.

[@melenatorr]

For me, the same sentiment.

[@vincentbergman4451]

I wanted to reenact South Park, and go get my money back from Ridley It was such a horrible movie -2 stars

[@1IbramGaunt]

@@vincentbergman4451 "Baseketball" lol

[@l30S3UX]

You know many people who will watch this movie? I still haven't met anyone

[@vincentbergman4451]

@@l30S3UX I’ve told everyone with a hint of interest to avoid it like the diseased easy girl at the party

[@JocelynCreek]

Oh, i am really looking forward to your full review

[@radspencer8187]

Our favorite royalist is alive.

[@bc7138]

Been looking forward to this review!

[@martinidry6300]

Well done. Informative and funny as always.

[@louthegiantcookie]

"HOW CAN YOU CARE SO LITTLE FOR ME AND MY FEELINGS?!!" I know the boat line is more meme-able, but that one really sticks out to me as an attempt to make poor old Napoleon sound as whiny and juvenile as possible. He's the Emperor of France and you write him throwing a hissy fit?

[@pancakemacbuttery9142]

The lost unwanted child of Waterloo part 2😢

[@TheSinkingTitanic2]

This preview review is great, on the other hand "Napoleon" if it can even be called such, is an abysmal excuse for a "biopic" Bravo to you Cavalier!

[@JackChurchill101]

Why isn't there a 10 hr band of brothers style show about Napoleon? Couldn't Mr Scott have made that instead?

[@codybrox4693]

I find it hilarious thinking about the comparison Louie the 16th when you take it into context Waterloo while yes shows him as a fat man the way he acts and stands shows to the audience a slight will of defiance. He knows he is through that napoleon has one France without a fight. Yet he still has the will to act as the king and I love the scene as well since you hear no music it is a somber mood Meanwhile in Naples-Leon 2024 the king is basically being treated as a comical effect. Look at how he’s acting as well you can tell he’s panicked he’s given up on acting the part of a regal ruler chosen by god to rule his people The scenes just make me chuckles ESPECIALLY because Waterloo was directed by a communist and you can clearly tell he put me effort and respect into depiction the French royalty

[@scockery]

Still, looking forward to Napolean and Josephine: Folie à deux. Where Napolean is murdered on St. Helena, because Scott sees history as more whatcha call guidelines.

[@matthabir4837]

'... but I'm blaming Ridley Scott for this, since I hate him.' Liked and subscribed! 😂

[@magareh3629]

If this is the preview- I can't wait for the actual review...

[@CecilXIX]

1:50 this provoked a laugh into coughing up phlegm LMAO

[@macdansav1546]

So with with judicious editing the movie could have been a vaguely interesting 30 second film about piles?

[@mitchellalexander9162]

.....is it Too Late to Demand an Exclusive Re-Screening of Abel Gance's Napoleon 1927 instead? It IS Public Domain and one of *THE GREATEST MOVIES EVER MADE*

[@philipsalama8083]

I think a few cinemas in the States did it a few months back. Sadly no wide release, though.

[@just_a_hampa]

MAN, I NEEED TO WATCH THAT. HOOOWWWWW CANN I WATCH IT PLEAASE.

[@JacquesLapeyre]

Omg a wild Manos the Hands of Fate ref. Torgo ftw!

[@ambravirlebreton]

12:30 Love the uniforms of the Mousquetaires du Roi from 1814

[@1IbramGaunt]

Yup, frankly you can't go wrong with that combination of colours with that style of armour, it's a pretty much perfect look the French should bring back as some kind of dress uniform today I feel

[@23Revan84]

I am so so glad I never seen this movie. I had a bad feeling about this movie from what I saw on the trailer.

[@Kerwin-Kendell]

After the director's comments about criticism against the movie, and watching this movie (3 times, for free) I don't like Mr. Scott anymore.

[@philipsalama8083]

Giving Ney's last act of bravery to Enghien was disgusting. The movie has a strangely pro-absolutist stance, but then doubles back on itself with its portrayal of Louix XVIII. I guess Scott just hates French people and wants to make them all look stupid?

[@maxkennedy8075]

7:24 well you see Scott could never truly know when any of this took place, he wasn’t there after all 😂

[@AnnoyingCritic-is7rp]

I watched this first by mistake. It made the battles even worse. It's great they cut these things out.

[@adrianseguras.9659]

I much prefer a summary of this wretched movie by the Cavalier than actually watching the dreaded thing. There... now I would like the fuller... summary.

[@wolfgang6517]

20:18 Actually there was a new vandee rising in 1815. It’s often completely forgotten but during the 100 days Napoleon never had for once full control of France. Royalist rose in many areas of the country. The battle of Rocheserviere was probably the most notable from that conflict.

[@The_Laughing_Cavalier]

So what? The scene is set in 1800...

[@wolfgang6517]

@@The_Laughing_Cavalier Oh my bad, I thought that scene was taking place in 1815

[@ryleeculla5570]

Yeah the movie is inaccurate but the uniforms look badass and nice

[@velazquezarmouries]

i am surprized they didnt mention the affair between josephine and aime bonpland

[@ЕгорПещерский]

(Or How I Hate Ridley Scott with the Burning Passion of a Thousand Suns) I'd say, it is quite poetic.

[@1IbramGaunt]

The 🤡 at the end of your bed probably wanted to just make the entire thing about Josephine, a period romance not a war-movie or even really a historical biopic, but his financial backers and whoever else he actually had to listen to wouldn't let him, as they knew Phoenix's Napoleon and his battles would be all the vast majority of people would actually be there to see (I mean it's a Ridley Scott movie set during the Napoleonic Wars, when you get right down to it nobody who's heard that idea and is interested in seeing that has seriously developed that interest because they're looking forward to the lovey-dovey stuff are they). Unfortunately for us all the clown still got his way enough to make it MOSTLY about bloody Josephine despite them renaming the damn film to suggest otherwise, right down to the bit at the end where she's smugly suggesting she could do a better job than him if they got to do it all again with her in charge

[@OscarDirlwood]

The French are deeply insulted by this film; so as far as im concerned, this is the greatest film ever.

[@jbbyebye]

I wish a good Napoleon movie. Make it a 3-part film each part 3 hours long.

[@1IbramGaunt]

@jbbyebye closest thing you'll get is Rod Stieger in Waterloo unfortunately

[@madkoala2130]

You could watch good string of movies from different directors and it would be 10 times better (War & Peace would need bigger stomach to trench through if you want to bridge the gap between Austreliz and Leipzig)

[@reallyFrogman]

Figured you'd might want to know this before the full video drops, when you meant to say "my magnum opus" you instead said "my magnus opus".

[@The_Laughing_Cavalier]

No, I just really like magnums.

[@reallyFrogman]

@@The_Laughing_Cavalier understandable

[@michaely409]

This movie made me laugh so hard at points, they should have just gone full comedy, i might have actually liked it if it did.

[@Fredrik-in7eg]

what a sacrifice you made to make this video to this bad ficton movie about Napoleon

[@damagemoira2546]

when full vid out?

[@KitteridgeStudios]

IS THERE THE MODERN GERMAN FLAG AT 9:41 on the cake at the dinner table!? I AM LOSING MY MIND.

[@KitteridgeStudios]

I'm sorry, but right next to the "flag" of the Holy Roman Empire (not even a state) that was just ripped from Europa Universalis is the flag of the Federal Republic of Germany, a state founded in 1949 with a flag that first appeared years after the Napoleonic Wars.

[@The_Laughing_Cavalier]

@@KitteridgeStudios I had a closer look, I think it is meant to be the flag of the Helvetic Republic (Switzerland) which was green, red and yellow with the words Helvetische Republik/République helvétique written on it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helvetic_Republic It's probably not clear in the footage in this video, but I think I can just make out some writing in the middle on the version of the fil I have on my pc, and the top does look a bit more green in it and what looks like some sort of yellow lettering in the middle. I think the lighting (as in the candlelight) makes it look black. Notice it is a different tone to the black of the HRE eagle.

[@landfish8039]

22:03 thats the exact same start to the 1924 Napoleon movie.

[@andreascovano7742]

Hurrah!

[@burgundian777]

Louis XVIII fleeing scene was painful to watch.

[@sullivandmitry1416]

Scott really just hates the French.

[@agerard6297]

So what’s the difference between the inaccuracies of Abel Gance’s NAPOLEON and Ridley Scott’s version? The former is considered a masterpiece while this is not.

[@The_Laughing_Cavalier]

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[@patriciafenwick5846]

I meant he would not destroy them Forgot a word

[@GCFutrell]

Are you gonna talk about the Wolf Hall trailer next?

[@The_Laughing_Cavalier]

See the latest community post

[@invidatauro8922]

Louis XVIII gets so much shit despite being a genuinely good king. Oversimplified clowned on him too.

[@brendanmuller7301]

NEW LAUGHING CAVALIER WOOOO

[@williamarthur4801]

Wondered where you had got to.

[@Ravi9A]

Did he think waterloo was about the loo?

[@kaiwancallender2761]

I didn’t watch this movie

[@Fredrik-in7eg]

good

[@joshthomasmoorenew]

Don't

[@Aelxi]

I'm proud of you sir

[@marcneef795]

Imagine the balls on this guy to produce a directors cut of this turd 😅

[@SuperfieldCrUn]

*opens on Shadows House footage* Based

[@Znoxes]

So wheres the Waterloo 1970 part 2

[@The_Laughing_Cavalier]

Do you never bother looking at community posts, the pinned comment on the Waterloo review or even videos where I have explicitly stated numerous times I am not working on it because of copyright issues and that I edit things differently now?!

[@user-tl9gp4dn4q]

Where the full review

[@nedlooby7419]

HUZZAH!!!

[@texaskc]

OMG!! Why did you do this to yourself? And I say this haven't even made the 20 minutes mark before, not quite rage quitting, but quit I did.

[@divinuminfernum]

i was so excited about napoleon but once i heard about whats in it, i have refused to see it and i didnt hold my breath for the directors cut either as fundamentally ridley scott clearly does not understand napoleonic era warfare and did not give a toss about actual history which is far far more interesting than anything a bunch of hollywood tropes thrown together can do. I didnt have to go and see the film to see already the clips that show how poorly and grossly inaccurately the battles are shown. I will await until the day someone makes a napoleon film who cares about the history. My greatest wish would be for some war epic set around the battle of Leipzig 1813, in the style of the Gettysburg film

[@jqyhlmnp]

Stark has an affair with Frieren

[@cleo8332]

so this film is more "Josephine guest staring Napoléon", and I take it Joaquin Phinex and other actors couldn't do a convincing French or Corsican accent.

[@IronDragon-2143]

I'll bet Nick from History Buffs will be frothing at the mouth by how bad this film is.

[@FunkBastid]

Napoleon or Elderly British Man Lampoons Napoleon

[@BaDitO2]

nah it's not the most annoying sound ever heard by an human ear, that crown is still held by the little mermaid live action remake

[@solomonrichards599]

You know this reminds me of Roman Polanski's latest (and probably final) film "The Palace", which came out last year and was rightfully ignored by everyone. "The Palace" was a dreadful comedy with terribly vulgar, filthy and childish humor. And seeing these scenes in "Napoleon", I think both Polanski and Scott (two old, once great directors, who should have retired years ago and now are destroying their legcy) are getting senile.

[@pyry1948]

Utter disaster and a shameful display

[@1IbramGaunt]

*"dyssprayy"

[@poil8351]

what is with getting basic facts wrong. any guesses anybody? well it's ridely Scott who basically doesn't care about facts.

[@spencerfrankclayton4348]

12:02 😂😂

[@poil8351]

hi bob. can i call you bob bob inner blackadder.

[@Apollo890]

In other words no, Ridley Scott can dress this dog turd of a film up however he likes. It's still a dog turd.

[@gazza1196]

Does he sing Waterloo in this one..joker 2 was a pile of crap