Ridley Scott's Napoleon - Murray, when you bring me out can you introduce me as le petit caporal?

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I think its heavily based off Abel Gances Napoleon from 1926. Its pretty good but I was really bored by the end cause its 5 fucking hours. Joaquin seems to be channeling that napoleon in his performance cause in that movie the guy always looked down condescendingly and always acted like hes the most intelligent person in the room. I dont trust Ridley Scott though but we will see.
 
White Devil dijo:
No, the script is Lucius is grown up and travels to learn about his father. Crowe isn't involved. I don't know why they're calling it Gladiator 2.
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framing things as a sequel to an established IP is the only way to get anything greenlit by the major studios.
 
Georgio Cocklord dijo:
I think its heavily based off Abel Gances Napoleon from 1926. Its pretty good but I was really bored by the end cause its 5 fucking hours. Joaquin seems to be channeling that napoleon in his performance cause in that movie the guy always looked down condescendingly and always acted like hes the most intelligent person in the room. I dont trust Ridley Scott though but we will see.
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Apparently there's gonna be a new restoration this year by Pathe. Someone did do a restoration of La Roue a few years back that pretty much restored it to full lenght. I wonder if this restoration will restore Napoleon to full length too?

 
tehpope dijo:
Apparently there's gonna be a new restoration this year by Pathe. Someone did do a restoration of La Roue a few years back that pretty much restored it to full lenght. I wonder if this restoration will restore Napoleon to full length too?
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I saw the digital restoration from 2016 with the new music. Its interesting cause this is like the 7th attempt to restore the movie and im sure theyll end up making it longer. A lot of Napoleons backstory can be cut imo, the stuff in sardinia i think or that island place with his family and the riots. Its really too much like a history lesson than a narrative. I think Pathes that company dedicated to historial footage, they should stick to the same, this movie is done for the most part.
 
Absolutego dijo:
framing things as a sequel to an established IP is the only way to get anything greenlit by the major studios.
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They've been trying to do a sequel since 2001, Crowe has done plenty of interviews about it because they've always tried to drag him into it somehow. I think the only reason they went with what's being shot is because of how visibly he's aged. That being said it's still fucking stupid because not a single person was interested in Lucius' character.
 
Commander Shepard dijo:
The fuck is up with Josephine's (I'm assuming that's her) hair in that first meeting scene? Was short-cropped hair on women a thing in the French Revolution?
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I'm wondering too. It looks like very modern "wake up and go" hair. It's not dressed in any way. But I don't know enough about the era to say. Maybe it was an avant gard trend or something. But looking at paintings of Josephine, her hair is dressed. There is a painting of her in a veil where it looks very short. But it's likely done up in the back and the veil just covers it so you can't see that part. In several portraits her hair is up but covered by a tiara or veil and it makes me wonder if some dumbass young designer who has no knowledge of period hair dressing thought it meant her hair was cropped short.

The set pieces look very nice. But I don't like period pieces with modern music. It breaks the emersion.
 
White Devil dijo:
I'm hoping that's just for the trailers to appeal to zoomers.
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Yes, the music makes it sound like Optimus Prime and the Autobots are going to roll out on the battlefield. Modern film advertising is just awful.

:Shot of Napoleon standing on the shores of Elba while watching a ship sailing away:

-freeze fame on closeup of Napoleon, with a record scratch- "Yes, that's me. You're probably wondering how I got into this situation..."
 
Dysnomia dijo:
I'm wondering too. It looks like very modern "wake up and go" hair. It's not dressed in any way. But I don't know enough about the era to say. Maybe it was an avant gard trend or something. But looking at paintings of Josephine, her hair is dressed. There is a painting of her in a veil where it looks very short. But it's likely done up in the back and the veil just covers it so you can't see that part. In several portraits her hair is up but covered by a tiara or veil and it makes me wonder if some dumbass young designer who has no knowledge of period hair dressing thought it meant her hair was cropped short.

The set pieces look very nice. But I don't like period pieces with modern music. It breaks the emersion.
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The only thing I could think of is her cropping her hair to more easily wear elaborate wigs, but that was pretty rare among French noblewomen as they'd only wear the ridiculous wigs for big occasions and tended to just powder their own natural hair and use ye olde extensions and weaves to support the hairstyle and increase the length and volume. Not to mention, by the time she met Napoleon (1795) said elaborate wigs would have almost certainly fallen out of fashion with people preferring to distance themselves from the Old Regime and wear simpler, more natural styles.

Maybe they pulled a Sofia Coppola's Marie Antionette and gave her anachronistic cropped hair to reflect Josephine's personality? Or to make her seem more exotic? I dunno. I think Vanessa Kirby will do great as Josephine, though, and when her hair's longer and styled she looks great as her, too.
 
Commander X dijo:
Yes, the music makes it sound like Optimus Prime and the Autobots are going to roll out on the battlefield. Modern film advertising is just awful.

:Shot of Napoleon standing on the shores of Elba while watching a ship sailing away:

-freeze fame on closeup of Napoleon, with a record scratch- "Yes, that's me. You're probably wondering how I got into this situation..."
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Could be worse:

Josephine: Please don't go to this battle! I have a terrible premonition!
Nap: I must. It is for my nation. My Empire. My History.
Josephine: Those are meaningless! You are mine! I OWN you.
Nap: Honestly, Josephine, I couldn't escape if I wanted to. Knowing my fate is to be with you.
***WAA WAA WAA WA WATERLOO***
 
Flatline dijo:
Makes sense. Maximus died ;)
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In the Nick Cave script, Maximus is suck in the Netherworld, and is recruited by a sickly and weak Jupiter to kill the Greek God Hephaestus, and that's only the beginning of the craziness...through the film Maximus is flung across time and space and fights in all wars, from World War I, Vietnam and ending with Maximus at the Pentagon. When Crowe was presented with this script, he said 'Don’t like it, mate.'
 
Fluoxetine Man dijo:
In the Nick Cave script, Maximus is suck in the Netherworld, and is recruited by a sickly and weak Jupiter to kill the Greek God Hephaestus, and that's only the beginning of the craziness...through the film Maximus is flung across time and space and fights in all wars, from World War I, Vietnam and ending with Maximus at the Pentagon. When Crowe was presented with this script, he said 'Don’t like it, mate.'
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Crowe then pitched a version where Maximus got put in a cave and left it after three days. Apparently Ridley Scott got butthurt over that.
 
Montalbane dijo:
They will probably try and show napoleon as a cuck
Which to be fair josephine did have affairs
But this only lasted until napoleon terrified her enough that she basically acquiesced to become a cuckquean
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Probably? Ridley is an 80-year-old with the politics of a twenty-something transwoman who lives on reddit. He also has zero respect for history and uses it solely to frame his modern gay stories, like the MeToo Medieval movie he just did, or his anti-Christian crusades movie. Expect Josephine to be the real mastermind of anything great Napoleon ever did, while his cuckoldry will be given center stage so we can see how fucking powerful and independent SHE was.
 
Fluoxetine Man dijo:
In the Nick Cave script, Maximus is suck in the Netherworld, and is recruited by a sickly and weak Jupiter to kill the Greek God Hephaestus, and that's only the beginning of the craziness...through the film Maximus is flung across time and space and fights in all wars, from World War I, Vietnam and ending with Maximus at the Pentagon. When Crowe was presented with this script, he said 'Don’t like it, mate.'
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Reminder that we will never get this movie ever :(
 
The Battle of the Pyramids did not take place within sight of the Pyramids. Bonaparte did invoke the Pyramids in his famous pre-battle oration, but the Pyramids were well beyond the horizon of the battlefield.

I thought the Napoleon miniseries from the early 2000s was pretty good. The unrealized Kubrick film would have been probably the best.
 
Movie releases in a few days. Critics are polarized on it apparently but it will matter more what the general audience thinks.

Some reenactors did a nice little skit where Napoleonic soldiers go to a theater.

 
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