Upcoming Napoleon movie

[Quoth]

I had the trailer for the upcoming Napoleon movie land on my YouTube feed. Trailer looks great but it covers an awful lot of ground - starts circa 1793 and then has snippets of battles from various campaigns - Egypt, Russia and Waterloo (English squares facing off against cuirassiers?) - which looked fantastic. According to Wikipedia the running time is 158 minutes - I'm guessing the battle scenes (which I'm most interested in) will get glossed over?

 

[bigeye]

Judging by the number of stunt performers, armourers and SFX crews involved I'd say there will be plenty of battle depictions -the trailer shows Austerlitz, The Pyramids and Waterloo.
Ridley Scott likes a bit of action.

 

[Septic sid]

I haven't been to the cinema for 23 years.


I might go for this.

 

[Quoth]

Judging by the number of stunt performers, armourers and SFX crews involved I'd say there will be plenty of battle depictions -the trailer shows Austerlitz, The Pyramids and Waterloo.
Ridley Scott likes a bit of action.

Indeed - a great director and very solid lead.

I reckon a modern movie with all the bells and whistles on Waterloo and associated battles would something to behold.

 

[Quoth]

I haven't been t he the cinema for 23 years.


I might go for this.

On initial scan I read that as "I haven't been to the Crimea in 23 years." Time to get back to spec savers.

 

[Sarastro]

I had the trailer for the upcoming Napoleon movie land on my YouTube feed. Trailer looks great but it covers an awful lot of ground - starts circa 1793 and then has snippets of battles from various campaigns - Egypt, Russia and Waterloo (English squares facing off against cuirassiers?) - which looked fantastic. According to Wikipedia the running time is 158 minutes - I'm guessing the battle scenes (which I'm most interested in) will get glossed over?

Is he making movies now then? I'll be honest after 300 years I had assumed he was dead.

 

[PhotEx]

I hope the ending is kept a surprise.

 

[Septic sid]

Is he making movies now then? I'll be honest after 300 years I had assumed he was dead.

You're thinking of someone else. He's only been dead 200 years.

 

[Sarastro]

You're thinking of someone else. He's only been dead 200 years.

Must be the great-grandson of old Monsieur Tybalt Napoleon then, "Typo" we used to call 'im.

 

[TamH70]

Indeed - a great director and very solid lead.

I reckon a modern movie with all the bells and whistles on Waterloo and associated battles would something to behold.

Great director? The guy wot made a film so bad that it's best remembered as the inspiration for the trope, "The Prometheus School of Running Away from Things", rather than how good the rest of it was?

Bold statement, that.

I haven't liked a single one of his films since "Gladiator" and that's pushing a quarter of a century ago now.

 

[lokiuk]

The short dead dude was great in Bill & Ted

 

[Glasgow_Jock]

Indeed - a great director and very solid lead.

Exactly that.

Looking forward to it myself. Hopefully the wife won't be too bored sitting through it though I sat through the plothole-tastic Avatar 2 so seems fair she repay the favour

 

[Gluteus Maximus]

I've just had a look at the cast, which is about as historically accurate as you might expect. Off the cuff:-

the politician Caulaincourt, after whom there is a street named in Montmartre containing one of my favourite Frog restaurants, has his name spelt rather differently,

Marshal Davout is played by an African...,

there is a 5th Musket Regiment somewhere in the film, wtf is that

Lazare Hoche gets a look-in, a brave and aggressive marshal who spent most of his time fighting the Frogs and paddling around (and getting beaten) in Bogtrotterland, then dying of TB before the main event kicked off.

There are others, I'll wait for the TV.

eta And Joachim Phoenix manages to make Napoleon look like Poirot!

 

[Sarastro]

I've just had a look at the cast, which is about as historically accurate as you might expect.

Whaddayamean? All major figures in history were American, which is why all of world history must be rewritten to reflect American opinions. The French were the most American of the lot!

 

[Wightsparker]

Whaddayamean? All major figures in history were American, which is why all of world history must be rewritten to reflect American opinions. The French were the most American of the lot!

Pffff!!
You will be claiming next that the French didn't win at Waterloo.