Films on Napoleon always focus on the wars and conquests but what makes Napoleon a key figure was his creativity and foresight in shaping the French state and ultimately modern democracy in France. Napoleon created the codification of laws that resulted in the civil, penal and commercial code. This legal system often referred to as Civil law (vs common law countries like UK, US) was broadly adopted by a number of other countries throughout Europe and the World. Napoleon also brought in the Conseil d'Etat which is a jurisdiction before which people can legally challenge state decisions and executive orders. He also created high school in France, reformed university and created both ENA and the Engineering school Ecole Polytechnique which are leading instituions in training France's elite. Effectively, Napoleon shaped modern France and his influence is still very present 200 years later. He was a flawed man but also a truly remarkable man.
@blitzhill953310 ай бұрын
At the end of the day it's only a film when Napoleon deserves a whole series to show all his life, there is a time limitation and what is the most outstanding about Napoleon is that he is most likely one of the best if not the best General / military leader in history
@shays703010 ай бұрын
He is truly unappreciated
@alanjenkins15089 ай бұрын
Napolean stopped the French from killing each other by leading them to kill foreigners instead!
@stevenhall24089 ай бұрын
Louisiana state law is Napoleanic code.
@filmserve9 ай бұрын
@@blitzhill9533 He abandoned one army in Egypt, another in Russia. Was beaten in Spain, sold off France's interests in America to finance his obsession with beating the British. And then got what was left of France's military slaughtered at Waterloo. The guy was a psychopath and a loser. He did to France what the equally psychopathic Austrian painter did to Germany.
@kissmy_butt13029 ай бұрын
You would think they would have focused on the Rosetta Stone because THAT was the key item found during the French expedition to Egypt.
@maryjohnson679610 ай бұрын
When I was a kid like 35 years ago my mother and i got into the emperor’s personal office. I got to spin his globe. It was beyond cool. .
@cwbrooks532910 ай бұрын
@maryjohnson6796 How did this happen to come about?
@theophileodaert543010 ай бұрын
Thanks for the video. In fact, there are several errors in the first trailers: - As you said: The bombing of the pyramids when the battle took place a few kilometers away; - The colonel's epaulettes during the sequence at the fort of Toulon, which are different from the real ones; - But the fort was not like Yorktown. They were built in the 17th century and are made of stone; - When Marie-Antoinette died, he was already at Toulon; - Napoleon's charge on horseback...he never charged; - The French flags, which were not identical to those used in the movie. But as a Frenchman, I can't wait to see the movie, because it gives the impression that the Emperor is looking at his own legend, his own history.
@artm197310 ай бұрын
1. Correction: The ice didn't break beneath the Allies' feet, it broke beneath the Coalition's feet. Those aligned AGAINST Napoleon were called the Coalition, those allied WITH him were called the Allies. As you note few were actually killed on the ponds and it was at the end of the battle as they were retreating. Napoleon actually sent his men down to the ponds to help the enemy troops out of the water. 2. Napoleon didn't see Marie Antoinette beheaded, he was in Toulon fighting the British. And yes Napoleon believed her murder was wrong. 3. Napoleon in most of those scenes was in his early to mid 20s but Phoenix looks WAY too old. In fact he is way too old for the role. 4. The quote of Napoleon about the crown of France may be real but of course he didn't say it at his coronation, it was a private comment. At the coronation he took the oath of office to the republic and the French people.
@blitzhill953310 ай бұрын
Also looks weird to see an old Napoleon with a Josephine that is younger than him when it was the other way around in reality
@TheTacticalRat9 ай бұрын
Yes the Coronation was a very tense affair for all involved.
@LUCCI_259 ай бұрын
Yet reality is, nobody knows for sure what happened with anything. People can say they do but they don’t. It’s all assumed. Also age doesn’t mean shit you want the best actor for the role so they got one of the best ever.
@artm19739 ай бұрын
@@LUCCI_25 If that's the case why bother with anything? Why bother making a movie, or writing a book or commenting? How do you know he's the best actor? You're just assuming he is. It's all pointless.
@stevec77709 ай бұрын
Actually that is incorrect. The French et al were referred to as Imperials
@gothard510 ай бұрын
Good to see you made it home safely. I hope you enjoyed all your recent travels.
@daniel_sc102410 ай бұрын
I don't see how you can do Napoleon's life justice with just one movie.
@elemental957810 ай бұрын
I can't imagine Napoleon played by someone who is almost 50 years old. His face looks like Mt. Rushmore, grim, set in stone. Napoleon was half his age at the Battle of Toulon--a young, ambitious 24-year-old bundle of energy who at twenty had written a romance novel. The worldly Josephine was six years older than Napoleon, had been married and had had affairs. He was smitten. I fear this film will be the fairy tale version of Napoleon himself, but maybe the battle scenes will save it.
@raymondleonard511110 ай бұрын
Yeah, a lot of the ages are way off. Rupert Everett who's playing Wellington is over 60, but he was only about 45 at Waterloo.
@wizarddragon10 ай бұрын
People need to stop being weird about ages and Appearances. If anyone is capable of bringing Napoleon to life it's Joaquin Phoenix. He will 100% do it justice. Story and acting are way more important than age differences.
@elemental957810 ай бұрын
Joaquin Phoenix is a great actor, but from what I've seen in the two trailers, he's playing a different character than Napoleon. More of a fictional character created by Ridley Scott. But I'm sure the film will have a lot else to offer.@@wizarddragon
@mrcampo1910 ай бұрын
Let's not forget that a 25 year old back then wouldn't look like a 24 year old now. Lives were way harder and shorter back then. I bet the average 24 year old looks closer to a 40 year old today
@abeimnida10 ай бұрын
Saying this is like saying “why isnt the movie in french” type vibe.
@khankrum19 ай бұрын
The " Code Napoleon" is still used throughout Europe
@Steve-ow7lc9 ай бұрын
As a kid, I saw 'Waterloo' (1970) with Rod Stieger and Christopher Plummer when it first came out. These two great actors went head to head and were magnificent. It was the greatest game of chess I'd ever seen. In that panoramic extravaganza of a film, the overly vibrant colour palette of red white and blue was that of an old painting brought to life. For a kid it was a especially a very very long film. In this film 'Napoleon' a patient audience were sent into the old 1790 painting and other original paintings along that time line. The experience remained dull, sad and cold. Consequently, the horrors of the revolution and subsequent battles and life of Napoleon were more easily absorbed. Despite snippets of genius from Joaquin, I began to see references to 'Joker' coming out in his performance. I personally would have cast Christoph Waltz as Napoleon who was born for this role. He can speak French. I think Joaquin was brilliant as Commodus in Gladiator. In conclusion this film was like a long depressing emotional yet strangely alluring song with no significant intro, chorus, guitar break or outro, so-to-speak, that we didn't already know about. Even though it was 30% historically correct the incorporated new invented stuff was not doing it for me. It just extended the story. The many tough hard faced characters generally cast were gritty enchanting and captivating. Josephine was perfectly cast. I think the film should have been centred more around her not Naploeon. Vanessa Kirby was brilliant. A new star is born. I judge a film on how many times I wanna watch it again. I'd like to watch this film from home. Maybe I'll see it in a better light. How many times would I want to watch it again? For now, one more time at least.
@patricklioneljonson27479 ай бұрын
They drained the lake... That '1000' of soldiers drowned in.... They only found 4 skeletons, a few horses and wagons.
@thomassenbart9 ай бұрын
Waterloo is a masterpiece in the filmology of history and the depiction of Napoleon is masterfully rendered.
@brianperry9 ай бұрын
The film Waterloo was a brilliant, No CGl just thousands of real soldiers dressed in uniforms of the time...
@Dieter-Doeddel9 ай бұрын
@@brianperry 17.000! That's indeed how epic movies are made.
@countalma98009 ай бұрын
1) The trailer alone contains numerous historical inaccuracies, obvious to anyone, who knows at least a little about Napoleon. One can only imagine the mistakes and anachronisms awaiting us in the film itself. 2) Gladiator also contains multiple historical errors, but, in defense of Gladiator I will say that: a) Gladiator is more a fantasy than historical fiction; b) artistic liberties are almost always more permissible in a work of fiction about antiquity, as opposed to more recent history; 3) Gladiator is undoubtedly a great cinematic achievement and a masterpiece. It is truly an epic and tragic tale that has become classic. Unfortunately, judging by the Napoleon trailer, I can't say it looks like a great work of cinematography. Everything was obviously shot digitally, the perspective in many shots looks odd, and most scenes were very heavily edited in post-production to make them appear more "cinematic", because digital always looks cheap, like a video you take with your phone camera. 3) J. Phoenix is WAY TOO DAMN OLD to play Napoleon. Even his voice sounds weak and old. Why does he whisper everything, including the famous phrase about the crown (which he, by the way, never said during his coronation)? How are the tens of thousands of people in the cathedral supposed to hear him?! And so on and so forth. As much as I love historical epics, I must say I will skip this one. PS The moment with Josephine telling N. she has something "so special" between her legs that he will forever belong to her after gazing at it, is particularly cringe-worthy. What nonsense!
@anne-no2ic9 ай бұрын
Napoleon wrote some steamy love letters to Josephine.
@Martin.Humphreys9 ай бұрын
Scott had WW2 style landing craft in the film Robin Hood, so I'm kind of hoping he equips Napoleon with tanks 😄
@overnight_doughnut_fryer9 ай бұрын
😂😂
@JS-gc7kf9 ай бұрын
LMaO I forgot about the french d-day in Robin Hood. Those LCVPs had oars hahahahaha
@jamesmunoz90909 ай бұрын
It's great to see Ridley Scott returning to his cinemagraphic beginnings, I'm going to review "The Duelists" his first movie, also set in this historical time frame before seeing this. Let's be sensible, we are historians, few that we are. and already know the subject matter intimately. The masses will arrive, expecting a spectable: que sera,sera.
@followme82389 ай бұрын
The Duelists is one of my favorite movies - fires on all cylinders!
@tacklengrapple689110 ай бұрын
This is going to be laughably inaccurate, but it will look very good on screen. Considering how few Napoleonic era films we ever get, it’s kinda ‘what can you do?’
@ryckarduhryckarduh18010 ай бұрын
Off topic- Exactly how I felt when the first X-Men and Spiderman movies came out
@ellicel10 ай бұрын
Braveheart got me to read a lot about Scottish history to see what had actually happened. Hopefully this movie will inspire people to look into this period. I don't understand Hollywood's penchant for changing things. So often when I look up the real lives the truth was more incredible and awesome than the movie.
@qwerty125910 ай бұрын
Waterloo is the only napolean film U care about
@UnicornPizza10 ай бұрын
You guys should seriously stop crying over the potential many “historical inaccuracies” of the movie - it’s a movie made for the general public, the average person doesn't care whether this or that event actually happened as shown in the film or not. If you want to know how things really were in real life, watch a documentary.
@F_Bardamu10 ай бұрын
My toughts exactly.
@robkirk24010 ай бұрын
Hi Jared, I can't believe we've got another historical period piece backed by modern rock music. I hope it's just in the trailer and not in the movie. You might remember I wrote to you after watching Rogue Heroes. At first I detested the use of Acka-Dacka and other modern heavy metal rock music in Rogue Heroes but I grew to accept it because it seemed somehow appropriate for the frenetic action scenes. But I'm not sure modern music will work in Napoleon. I'll go and see it, but there's a fair chance I'll be looking for the antidote (Waterloo - the 1970 classic with Rod Steiger and Christopher Plummer) when I get home.
@smkh289010 ай бұрын
Long time ago I saw the Abel Gance 'Napoleon' at the BFI. I doubt this can top that!
@jmullner7610 ай бұрын
This really should be a mini series rather than a movie. The timing might be really compressed, or it is looooong movie. But the Black Sabbath is a good touch.
@middler510 ай бұрын
2 and a half hours. Going to be pretty quick.
@freestyla8510 ай бұрын
@@middler5 The studios for sure asked him to cut it down. Meanwhile, Scorsese has carte blanche to make KotFM 3.5 hrs. For sure Ridley will release a director's cut as he did for Gladiator and Kingdom of Heaven, but I wish he wasn't being held back for the theatrical release.
@bdshort10 ай бұрын
Ridley Scott says he has a 4 hour directors cut he plans to release on Apple TV+
@F_Bardamu10 ай бұрын
How is Black Sabbath a good touch? 😅
@nickelbackfan9 ай бұрын
God please no, do people not care about going to the cinema?
@noahhess495510 ай бұрын
Before I watch this video I must say, I don’t care if this movie is accurate it looks so bad ass
@Koluvuma10 ай бұрын
It rlly does
@chains471510 ай бұрын
I agree
@jacobstroud88199 ай бұрын
Same here!
@wellywoodwargaming9 ай бұрын
Excited by the amount of practical fx too as apposed to cg. It looks so much more real
@chrisrogers7779 ай бұрын
I always remember what my grandma said , " I don't care what they tell you in school, Napolean was black "
@Dieter-Doeddel9 ай бұрын
Will Smith as Napoleon showed much emotion as a fragile unsecure man. Oprah as Josephine was top notch!
@teevee21459 ай бұрын
The dna says he was yemeni jew
@Dieter-Doeddel9 ай бұрын
@@teevee2145 Will Smith was a Yemeni jew?
@teevee21459 ай бұрын
@@Dieter-Doeddel Napoleon was
@emmanuelbgjayil9 ай бұрын
😂😂😂😂
@wolfdogs60139 ай бұрын
He is a GREAT actor, he would have been a GREAT older Napoleon. I have studied Napoleon for years. There is NOT a chance they could have done a single movie about Napoleon. It would have been a LOTR type 3 part movie!
@IDFCClan9 ай бұрын
yea they could make a movie about nearly every major campaign
@jaysonp94269 ай бұрын
It should have been a 5 season series...not a movie
@edwardwigglesworth-iu7rx9 ай бұрын
napolean died at age 51 or 50??
@wolfdogs60139 ай бұрын
@edwardwigglesworth-iu7rx Most of his early victories were in his 30's and early 40's.
@Jack-fs2im9 ай бұрын
didn,t know Napoleon had an american accent tho
@Bwkjam10 ай бұрын
Have a historian or several to keep Ridley on a leash and this could be a masterpiece.
@tammy_2889 ай бұрын
And a dialect coach. Pretty sure Napoleon didn’t have an America accent.
@jena.alexia9 ай бұрын
@@tammy_288Lol. Every non-American historical figure seems to have an American accent, my favourite being Jesus, whose accent would have been the furthest thing from American.
@mikloowl489910 ай бұрын
given the director I am not holding my breath on historical accuracy but I am expecting some exiting action sequences. Hope to keep up with the channel as the movie comes out and additional content.
@emmanuelbgjayil9 ай бұрын
I all ready saw it, I’m not going to spoil it… I’m only going to say you something, waiting for your opinion when you see it! When I saw the actor and the “story” I just said as Vito Corleone “ what they did to my boy?”
@multipipi12349 ай бұрын
I'm a historian. Now retired.But im just going to watch it with my wife next week and hopefully enjoy this film as entertainment and not as a nurdy bore.
@Morna7779 ай бұрын
Napoleon didn't lead a cavalry charge, but he DID know how to lead from the front. It was one of the ways he gained extreme loyalty from his men.
@sebraven10 ай бұрын
Other historians who specialise in the napoleonic wars have noted from this second trailer there were scenes that were myth , the scene for instance when he orders the canon fire on enemy troops on the ice was a myth , and in egypt that scene with napolean and the sarcophagus and the mummy within it may not have been true . Other scenes appeared historically accurate. So speculation this movie may be from.the point of view of napolean himself
@derekdoubleut10 ай бұрын
Remember, Napoleon himself exaggerated his accomplishments all the time in most of his letters. Perhaps this is told from Napoleon's point-of-view
@victoryover115610 ай бұрын
No historians say that! They certainly are not real historians if they do. They all say that it occured.
@theironmarshal422510 ай бұрын
You’re right about everything except the part about him firing on the ice. It did happen in the final stages of the Battle of Austerlitz, where the surrounded Austrians had no choice but to retreat through a frozen pond. Napoleon ordered cannons to be fired at them and only a few soldiers and a bunch of horses drowned, but certainly not the many thousands of Napoleon’s propaganda.
@victoryover115610 ай бұрын
@@theironmarshal4225 nobody is talking about the propaganda. Everyone is referring to the trailer. It is a very good depiction of what really happened. Yet everyone is making it seem like its wrong.
@theironmarshal422510 ай бұрын
@@victoryover1156 I was responding to the original comment who stated that the firing on the ice was a myth. And I don’t think everyone ever said the depictions in the trailer was wrong. Perhaps some but certainly not everyone. We can nitpick about many of the inaccuracies in the trailer but many people, for the most part, are excited for it.
@deltatwoniner969 ай бұрын
Well to be fair it's a movie and although it's based on historical events and people, it is not a documentary. Also to be fair, no historian or anyone else alive today where there. We we know of the events from this time and the places depicted are from the books, and letters and battlefield archeology written and discovered since. I don't imagine every foot step, every shot, every movement of a horse or cannon was documented, but we know those actions did happen. Go enjoy the movie, I'm sure it will be good just like black hawk down and gladiator. If you want know about a more in depth historical context of these events go to the library, and check out a history book. The rest of use will get some popcorn and a coke and enjoy the show.
@user-yl4lf9mh1w9 ай бұрын
Black Sabbath was a cool band during Napoleon's era
@downtherabbithole13539 ай бұрын
Obelix destroyed the Sfinx nose, it's described in the Asterix & Cleopatra album.
@inisipisTV9 ай бұрын
FACTS!
@bigsteve620010 ай бұрын
When the Legend becomes fact. Print the Legend. The Man who Shot Liberty Valance
@inisipisTV9 ай бұрын
A legendary John Ford movie. To me better than The Searchers.
@mattfulmer424310 ай бұрын
Looks like Ridley Scott's own Pearl Harbor. I wonder if Ben Affleck will have a cameo..?
@adrianbaker94519 ай бұрын
I'd hope not! "Hammer down" in a spitfire,! How dare you sir!
@thomasjamison20509 ай бұрын
Archaeologists have dredged that bodies of water involved in the story of the artillery causing the drowning of a large number of men, but nothing was found.
@garanor19 ай бұрын
Well, that's because it didn't happen...
@johng12169 ай бұрын
Watched the movie on Thursday night, and Ridley spent a lot of money making an average movie and turning one of the greatest leaders in history into a simpleton.
@draculasdaughter369 ай бұрын
It would be great if you could do a video on the accuracy of Laurence of Arabia.
@nellgwenn8 ай бұрын
History Buffs already did that. As well as Tora Tora Tora, and many many other movies. He is going to rip this movie to shreds.
@Dan148339 ай бұрын
Totally correct about history being an agreed upon lie. We can’t even figure out what is really happening today.
@edwardwigglesworth-iu7rx9 ай бұрын
dont worry, professors teach history from a politically correct alternatve universe now.. be grateful the lead wasnt gender or race swapped
@boohankins299310 ай бұрын
I hope this movie includes Joseph Fouche. I find him fascinating. Many people believe he is the one who kept Napoleon in power. He was a man to fear. Even Robespierre was appalled by his atrocities. That's saying a lot!
@antoinemozart24310 ай бұрын
Robespierre was not afraid of Fouche. It was the other way around. Robespierre fired him from the Jacobin club and from all his offices. Fouche killed thousands of civilians when he was as a representative in Lyon. Fouche had to beg for forgiveness to Robespierre.
@boohankins299310 ай бұрын
@antoinemozart243 Yes, that's true! I wrote that even Robespierre was appalled by his atrocities, but my previous sentence could be misleading. Though, really, he should have feared Fouche because the man was plotting his downfall while hiding in Paris. Robespierre was already going down anyway, but Fouche survived the final purges. In my eyes, both were evil men, but Fouche was a surviver. I'm happy you mentioned Robespierre firing him. I had forgotten that fact.
@michaeldoucette9439 ай бұрын
Fascinating Stuff!! Robespierre,that pock-marked monstrosity, had no equal. Or so I thought😮 I must 🤔 research Fouche😮.
@boohankins29939 ай бұрын
@@michaeldoucette943 He is definitely a ruthless character.
@the_arcanum9 ай бұрын
@@michaeldoucette943 If you're interested in historical research, I recommend you have a look at JEAN-CLÉMENT MARTIN's "Robespierre. La fabrication d’un monstre (the making of a monster)" that summarize multiple historical research since 2012 that shed a new light on the character and question the ominous villain image that was brought to us from XIXth century commentators and actors that had escaped the post terror purge. He certainly comes out as a ruthless revolutionary but his supposed hold on the Comité de Salut Public is way less important than was previously reported. Thesis is, he definitely was ready to make heads roll but he was later scapegoated as a dictator by lesser known actors who had as much hand in the actual Terror as him and who transited seamlessly in the new power structure established in the post french revolution era. Much like some active Vichy collaborators that rejoined the Gaullist Administration after WWII and were only prosecuted in the 1980's when their actions were finally brought to light (Maurice Papon or Paul Touvier for ex). You can get a Google translation from the fench review of the book on cairn dot info that nicely summarize the book and the state of historical research on that matter.
@alexanderyacht648310 ай бұрын
I don't understand what you said about the Parlement of Paris, which was the supreme court of the old regime and was abolished in 1789. Marie Antoinette was tried by the Revolutionary Tribunal.
@falcon326810 ай бұрын
He mentioned the jumpstart of the study of Egyptology. During the war, the french found the Rosetta stone which came from the time of Alexander the Great. While the French tried to send the stone back to France to be studied, the ship that was carrying it was stopped by British Warships and confiscated being taken to England to be studied by their own scholars. Jean-François Champollion, was one of the French scholars that actually did major work on deciphering the Egyptian hieroglyphs while the English were also trying to decipher the language.
@fmeu773310 ай бұрын
This is incorrect. The Rosetta stone was handed over to the British in the framework of the capitulation of Alexandria
@Andrey-fx8mv9 ай бұрын
The irony is that if Rosetta Stone stayed in Egypt there is a great probability that we wouldn't learned ancient Egyptian language. The statement by author that artifacts were stolen and still are kept in European museums is so ridiculous and rotten woke, it makes me think what kind of history he is teaching.
@patricklioneljonson27479 ай бұрын
Thank the French expeditionary forces to Egypt for saving so many documents and historical artifacts.
@TR00P8 ай бұрын
Just saw it today. Really liked it and found myself rooting for Napoleon. Pretty intense with quite a bit more humor than I expected but it worked well for me and the audience. Looking forward to Reel History’s analysis.
@SashanMusArt9 ай бұрын
For a poignant & more relatable viewpoint on Napoleon give a listen to Mark Knopfler’s song ‘Done with Bonaparte’. Inspired lyrics & music from a master songwriter as always.
@elliot759310 ай бұрын
I think that shot of Napoleon and the mummy was to compare himself to the pharaohs who ruled over Egypt. Probably also why he uses a ladder to step up to the same height to be face to face so that it's not to portray him as less of a ruler if he was looking up at it.
@oxanareymers75219 ай бұрын
In this scene they just depict one of the historic pictures, unfortunately, I don't remember the name of the artist.
@Juliana-wr6bo9 ай бұрын
I was really looking forward to this film and sceptical of the French critics. However, I walked away disappointed on many levels. Joaquim never convinced me that he was Napoleon; Josephine was a much more complex character than portrayed; no artifice was used to reveal to the audience Napoleon's tactical brilliance (such as a made-up pre battle planning session); the relationship between Napoleon and his soldiers was never developed and only revealed in ine scene. I think Ridley Scott put most of his effort in recreating epic battle scenes. For me, they alone don't make a movie about Napoleon.
@domsanchez1489 ай бұрын
It's amazing how many battle scene cliches the hack Ridley managed to pack into this relatively short clip.
@victoryover115610 ай бұрын
Why does everyone attack the ice scene? Its not like they are showing thousands dying. It is a real scene in which about a dozen died, with some guns fallen. Nothing wrong with it.
@NostalgiNorden10 ай бұрын
He didn't attack it. Just mentioning how it is usally talked about. Not a cmment on the clip itself. Calm down.
@jamesm314210 ай бұрын
The scene looks like it is implying he won the battle of Austerlitz by tricking the Austrians into marching onto ice and then shooting the ice, which isn’t what happened at all
@victoryover115610 ай бұрын
@@jamesm3142 well if you are reading it like that. But I have not seen one person or historian take issue with what it seems to indicate as a major tactic for the battle. Nobody who is familiar with austerlitz has ever indicated that this scene won the battle. Its just a scene. And it is accurately portrayed. Instead everyone should be saying "he really did that". For me personally, it only seems like an opening scene of the battle as Napoleon is "discovered", and does not come off as a final victory. The trailer literally shows us this scene as an opening to a battle, not an end.
@CharlesRBiggs10 ай бұрын
This is fantastic. Thank you for your good work.
@horuslupercal993610 ай бұрын
I didn't think it was possible for anyone to butcher the battle of Austerlitz!
@marc.ristau10 ай бұрын
I think it’s ok if the filmmakers bring the legend of napoleon to life instead of just being a historical documentary. Napoleon’s memories make for a better movie than being completely accurate
@gerharddeusser91038 ай бұрын
The first positive review of this film I've come across so far... AND the first one made by someone BEFORE having seen it! Makes me wonder.....
@darrylbutt257010 ай бұрын
Nice to see Sabbath getting some love.
@talmadgewalker27910 ай бұрын
Off topic I know, but check out the Puddles Pity Party cover of War Pigs.
@carlosmaffizzoni257610 ай бұрын
Faith no More did it justice, I reckon.
@carlosmaffizzoni257610 ай бұрын
He is so getting demonetized.
@randyfloyd56010 ай бұрын
If indeed that is supposed to be a representation of Marie Antoinette on her was to the guillotine. It's so terribly off mark considering the coronation painting by David was used as reference, when David also famously sketched MA on her way to the scaffold. Her hair was haphazardly cut short at the prison. She wore a white dress instead of her black one for fear of arousing sympathy as she was a widow. And she rode backwards in the cart. Some interesting details are Josephine with chopped hair and wearing a red ribbon tightly around her neck. Guillotine fashion.
@oxanareymers75219 ай бұрын
Women after the Revolution started to wear short hair and red ribbons around the neck and went to the Victim balls.
@inisipisTV9 ай бұрын
The black or reck neck ribbon chocker became a fashion to the upperclass British women at that time. Yes, as a symbolic fraternity to those who lost their lives upon the Guillotine.
@user-vk1og2hu3d8 ай бұрын
Some small but vital facts were missing.Napoleon was left handed for one, yet the film had him signing documents with his right hand, yes he should have been portrayed as a younger man in the first part of the film. Joaquin is an amazing actor well known for absorbing himself in his roles.Why then did he not speak with a French accent (well within his acting capabilities) and not an American accent. Over all though it was an amazing film and I really enjoyed it. I particularly liked that it showed Napoleon’s venerable side and the portrayal of Josephine by Vanessa Kirby was spot on.
@gothard59 ай бұрын
I went to the movies earlier this evening and saw this Napoleon movie. Pretty good movie. The battle scenes were quite brutal. I have no idea how historically accurate the movie is though. I enjoyed it for what it was.
@emmanuelbgjayil9 ай бұрын
Historically accurate? They lied about: How he meets Josephine Egypt The coup wasn’t accurate The personality of Napoleon Napoleon’s lovers Maria Letizia’s personality His relationship with other characters Even how Napoleon made love based in the writing of his lovers! In my opinion this movie was an insult to the giant of Corcega!!!
@Rob-eo5ql9 ай бұрын
“Generals gathered in their masses….” That’s awesome!
@bsaneil9 ай бұрын
I can't WAIT to see your review of the actual movie! My assessment? Oh dear. Just - oh dear.
@privatechannel84629 ай бұрын
I watched the trailer thinking, i was sure he was french and not american. You live and learn
@tammy_2889 ай бұрын
😂 😂
@kjmav101359 ай бұрын
Next, I want Ridley Scott to take on Maximilian of Austria and Mexico. Talk about a weirdly epic life!
@Titus_Vespasianus9 ай бұрын
I do like seeing the Old Guard standing behind him though...
@outlet698910 ай бұрын
The movie's name should have been changed to "NAPOLEON: The Conqueror of Nations and Women." If he was alive today, his ego would say, "Yes, that is a better name."
@WilliamJames4810 ай бұрын
War Pigs would have been more effective if they had someone sing it in French.
@Jelenicza8 ай бұрын
Thank you. As an artist, I would like to encourage you to emphasize and focus on artistic achievements of this film, which are very impressive. As a creator of my own symbolic paintings, who allows herself some freedom of interpretation, stylization and surrealism, I ask you to appreciate that every real artist gives his own uniqueness to a PIECE OF ART. I was born in Moscow and know a little bit about Napoleon. There were two bronze statues of Napoleon on the both sides of my grandfather's desk and I still have one. I noticed some historical inaccuracies in this film, but it did not take my enjoyment away. I watched it twice and will go again.
@ReelHistory8 ай бұрын
I enjoyed many of the aesthetics. Thanks for your thoughtful comment!
@thomasjamison20509 ай бұрын
Something I can't imagine is Napoleon putting his fingers in his ears when cannon fire.
@georgecoventry84419 ай бұрын
It was what the gun crews themselves did. A good idea if you didn't want to go deaf while you were still young.
@thomasjamison20509 ай бұрын
@@georgecoventry8441 I realize that loss of hearing is a great concern in this day and age, but I rather doubt you have any evidence to support your claim for the period in question. Worrying about noise is one thing when your enemy is thousands of meters over the next hill, but the situation is somewhat different when you enemy is in the midst of running at you with a rifle and bayonet.
@simonf89029 ай бұрын
Ideas so excited BEFORE I saw it. So DEFEATED after I saw it.
@garanor19 ай бұрын
What really happened: When the battle was already decided, a small portion of the austro-russian troops tried t flee via a dyke between two ponds. In the ensuing chaos, it may have happend that a handful of soldiers left the dyke and tried to escape via the frozen ponds und maybe drowned. Well, historians are not even sure whether it actually happenend, but if it happened, it wasn't more than maybe a dozen men. Scott turns something that was an irrelevant episode of the battle, when everything was already decided, into the major event of the battle. That's just plain ridiculous and historically completely inaccurate.
@nellgwenn8 ай бұрын
And Napoleon had his men help the retreating soldiers out. It's more likely they fell into the icy water due to the weight of them.
@crstepstudy10 ай бұрын
Cool review, now really interested in seeing the movies 👍
@tigqc10 ай бұрын
I think Oppenheimer may have some competition for best biopic this year.
@Backseatbiz10 ай бұрын
His is accent in the trailer is American and exaggerated everything. This nothing compared to Oppenheimer
@beadsy-dl5up9 ай бұрын
In ANY movie with historical interest is the fact that it is a movie and NOT a documentary
@edisonjambo7479 ай бұрын
Sire Ridley scott likes to have a great and big productions ,like this.I think this is the best Napoleonic movie ive ever seen.❤❤
@mon-designs33779 ай бұрын
Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter. Long live Toussaint Louverture!
@daisy82979 ай бұрын
I’m surprised they didn’t pick Denzel Washington to play Napoleon!
@avavaviv19 ай бұрын
The battle on snowy river is Eylau in my opinion, not Austerlitz.
@19Koty969 ай бұрын
Huh, the ice breaking during the hasty _retreat_ is such a foot note, somehow it's a famous moment?
@kissmy_butt13029 ай бұрын
I saw the movie today. I would give it a 6. It was worth seeing in the theaters but it has a LOT of flaws. It ended up being a Napoleon highlight film. The last media on Napoleon was a mini-series and they did a good job. The problem with doing a movie is it HAS TO BE targeted. Dino Delaurantis 1970 Waterloo is the gold standard. Pre-CGI, 15,000 extras, solid attention to the history and Rod Steiger as Napoleon and Christopher Plummer as Wellington is exceptional. Everything in this movie was highlights and what I thought they would get wrong they did a good job on and everything I thought they would get right they screwed up to the point I had to ask if it was alternate history. Example of what they did a good job on: The relationship between Josephine and Napoleon they did an very good job on. They mentioned but didn't get too into why he called her Rose. Example of what they screwed up badly: The Battle of Waterloo seemed like someone took a version of a Total War Napoleon they played and presented it as history. I was so WTF that I walked out of the theater to go to the bathroom because it was so historically inaccurate.
@ericmiller560310 ай бұрын
Cool video! I’m looking forward to this film.
@maxthemagition9 ай бұрын
Muchas gracias.
@CarlosGomez-ti2hn10 ай бұрын
I`m pretty sure than when disguised as a sheppard he was spying over the English that had taken the forts around Toulon.
@1st_agent9 ай бұрын
The movie only revolves about his romance. It was missing something. Not what I expected. It also seems like the movie depicts him as a man with no dignity when it comes to woman. Also there were key conversations with Talleyrand and Fouche that I wish would have been included.
@karlydoc10 ай бұрын
"Getting groovy after Halloween,I was born on Christmas Day."
@alexanderyacht648310 ай бұрын
Napoleon's coronation oath on taxes was a reference to the 1799 constitution and the Napoleonic legislature, which was mostly a rubber stamp but still had the power to approve taxes and the annual budget.
@plasmapanasonic47419 ай бұрын
What does that mean?
@Free_Range_Hippo10 ай бұрын
No way Napoleon led a cavalry charge. He was an artillery officer.
@ReelHistory10 ай бұрын
Yep!
@bertrandjager33689 ай бұрын
Additionally it’s a “Hollywood charge”. Very romantic. And not accurate at all. A cavalry charge was much slower, so that all riders could arrive together on the enemy line.
@MoonstruckOnMovies10 ай бұрын
Fascinating, thank you for your insight
@miketemple76869 ай бұрын
If this came out of Hollywood, I’m surprised they didn’t cast Napoleon as a black guy fighting against racism. Well, what do you know.
@oatnoid8 ай бұрын
It's a movie, it's primary goal is to sell tickets and popcorn. and entertain. That said, Ridley couldn't get Joaquim to fake a half assed French accent? I'll wager he still gets and Oscar nomination. After all Ridley put a lot of people to work in the industry and they vote on this stuff. Nice to hear he didn't have his artillery shoot the Sphinx. I was not clear on that.
@alexpenalo468410 ай бұрын
In no way I’m excited for this movie. Im kinda stick of late 18th century and early 19th century movies about the French Revolution, and Napoleon’s love interests.
@peterroberts76849 ай бұрын
Hey, it's Sir Ridley Scott's Epic, it wont be historically accurate, but it will fun. Black Sabbath's War Pigs fits nicely.
@StephenLuke10 ай бұрын
How exciting! 😁
@macleunin10 ай бұрын
They seem to be pushing the idea that Josephine was behind Napoleon’s greatness, can anyone confirm if she really had a part in it? I’m no historian, but I think he was already his own man by the time he met her.
@blitzhill953310 ай бұрын
She was older than him and had connections Napoleon needed so she certainly helped in his rise to power, they for sure had a toxic relationship and not a loving one using each other for their own needs When she was of no need to him and couldn't give the emperor a child, Napoleon decided to divorce her
@macleunin10 ай бұрын
@@blitzhill9533 thank you!
@detroitdave95129 ай бұрын
Would it kill them to use period appropriate music? Look at Waterloo!
@TheDr00g9 ай бұрын
yes i hate the music in the trailer.
@jamesalexander56239 ай бұрын
Yes! The Music played at Napoleon's Farewell to the Old Guard was Note for Note from the Original Sheet Music! As was the Drum and Flute March on the Battlefield!
@carkawalakhatulistiwa10 ай бұрын
1:29 the corpse of Alexander the great is in Egypt
@thedude131610 ай бұрын
Best film....? Oppenheimer Napoleon Killers of the Flower Moon
@Koluvuma10 ай бұрын
Just saw KotFM and it’s rlly good but a bit long. I’m rlly excited for Napoleon
@RTStx110 ай бұрын
I find it strange people debating accuracy of a movie from hollywood, which forever has taken a smidge of facts and added drama in each show for views, argue on about hollywood your wasting your time. Now if its called a documentary fire away but not at clothing as others in hollywood decide not the writer; from an author bewildered by people.
@2ndavenuesw48110 ай бұрын
Yeah but they're pathetic. The whole point of costume films is to put contemporary ways of acting, speaking, thinking into the past because the masses don't want to see anything genuine, have no genuine curiosity. Joaquin Phoenix looks like an old man throughout the whole film.
@CharleyGurl10 ай бұрын
Fair assessment. But Joaquin is a complete turn off for me. I suffered the "violin off" in the "Chevalier" film because he's a favorite from that time...but 2+ hours of Joaquin mumbling...I don't think I can.
@Titus_Vespasianus9 ай бұрын
what cavalry charge is he "leading"??? That "can't" be Waterloo...he was dealing with his hemmoroids when it started...I rememember every reading of his leading a cavalry charge...(though, I could be wrong..."I wasn't there..." like Ridley said)
@GosWardHen989 ай бұрын
Joaquin just about nails Napoleon.
@spencerwinston43348 ай бұрын
Celebrated, genius philosopher Ralph Waldo Emerson' s profound insights into Napoleon in selections from Emerson essay on Representative Men, Napoleon "But Bonaparte superadded to this mineral and animal force, insight and generalization, so that men saw in him combined the natural and the intellectual power, as if the sea and land had taken flesh and begun to cipher. Therefore the land and sea seem to presuppose him. He came unto his own and they received him. This ciphering operative knows what he is working with and what is the product. He knew the properties of gold and iron, of wheels and ships, of troops and diplomatists, and required that each should do after its kind. The art of war was the game in which he exerted his arithmetic. It consisted, according to him, in having always more forces than the enemy, on the point where the enemy is attacked, or where he attacks: and his whole talent is strained by endless manoeuvre and evolution, to march always on the enemy at an angle, and destroy his forces in detail. It is obvious that a very small force, skilfully and rapidly manoeuvring so as always to bring two men against one at the point of engagement, will be an overmatch for a much larger body of men." "Napoleon, like all Frenchmen he has a passion for stage effect. Every action that breathes of generosity is poisoned by this calculation. His star, his love of glory, his doctrine of the immortality of the soul, are all French. "I must dazzle and astonish. If I were to give the liberty of the press, my power could not last three days." To make a great noise is his favorite design. "A great reputation is a great noise: the more there is made, the farther off it is heard. Laws, institutions, monuments, nations, all fall; but the noise continues, and resounds in after ages." His doctrine of immortality is simply fame. His theory of influence is not flattering. "There are two levers for moving men,- interest and fear."
@elaineteut95799 ай бұрын
I would like to see the movie “Killers of the Flower Moon” fact checked.
@TomBTerrific9 ай бұрын
Im always amazed at history and doubly amazed when Hollywood gets involved! We can’t even get the facts for January 6th! How accurate can our thought be for anything happening as far back as Napoleon.
@beadsy-dl5up9 ай бұрын
@TomBTerrific WTF has the insurrection on Jan 6th got to do with Napoleon
@St4rTr3v1Ut10n9 ай бұрын
@@beadsy-dl5up If you think police guiding old ladies through the capitol counts as "an insurrection," then you made his point: if we can't get events from recent memory straight, how can Hollywood be expected to get a historical drama right? Spoiler alert: they couldn't!
@beadsy-dl5up9 ай бұрын
@@St4rTr3v1Ut10n What part of China are you posting from
@ruddyminaya727310 ай бұрын
This will be probably like 300. The movie was not faithful to the true story but nonetheless caught our attention and because of the movie the people were curious to know what really happened and from where the movie 300 really comes from.
@shakycam310 ай бұрын
Was he present during Marie Antoinette’s execution? That made it look like he was.
@ReelHistory10 ай бұрын
Not that we could find.
@davidsullivan774310 ай бұрын
There's plenty of looted artefacts from Egypt and other civilisations in American museums as well as in European ones
@doncheechako808410 ай бұрын
Check out the obelisks in Rome and Istanbul, Obviously ok to loot back then, now we get squishy about it. Napoleons biggest crime against art and history is the one no one seems to know about. He demanded gold from Venice - and melted down their Byzantine plunder from the 4th crusade. STill the Venetians had their plunder, the Turks scoured the city in 1453, and consumed thiers, but we do not like to point fingers at non euros..