The trailer looked awful but I'm still stuck between wanting to support a film set in an era I really like and not watching it because it looks awful :( have to make a decision tomorrow where there no redeeming features in the film at all?

​@@DelogrosI heard it was good as an ironic watch.

Wouldn't call it disastrous, its pretty much a film that one could describe as Napoleon lite. Napoleon for the non-history buffs. As it's encompassing his WHOLE life, it would be impossible to fully encompass a single film properly covering Aushwerlitz AND Waterloo with everything else along the way. If you look at it from the entertainment aspect. Its very good. Obviously historical accuracy, especially Waterloo (Come on Ridley, you're telling me you couldn't fit in Wellington withdrawing to the backside of the hill and Ney thinking it is a retreat just to end up into infantry squares???) would be abbreviated or changed a bit.

@@jakobatredies1114 Most of the campaign should be entire films on there own.

@Delogros Then get out there and start a film company to do it! Lol. Trust me would be awesome to see films focus on singular spectacular battles for 120 minutes but they just don't do that these days.

Only he was pretty normal height for that time.

More like his ego.

@@infinitecanadian when your a genius like him, your ego is that of the whole universe hehe

@@reximingan9420 A large ego can lead to an equally large downfall.

@@infinitecanadian and can also lead to a legacy so unforgettable that people of tomorrow will copycat and paste their quotes in the social media and the real and shout their names into the cosmos. It's a double edge sword but eh, like a man once "You wanna make an omelet, you gonna break some eggs"

Samuel did france fight france

Al_xz no. In typical French fashion, France surrendered to France. Without a fight.

Napoleon really was this mythical dude. Every general of his time said he was the best. He did for France what would take both Phillip AND Alexander to do for Macedonia/Greece. He was so OP the entire continent had to unite against him seven times before he was finally out of luck. He forged an empire out of a horrible revolution and terrified the greatest powers of the world at the time.

Ryan Sansaricq he’s the greatest general to ever live

@@artruisjoew5473 try not to talk shite. france has fought plenty of conflicts over the years. they suffered huge casualties in WW1 and in 1940 they fought bravely against the Germans. Unlike the British they didn't run away and abandon their ally at Dunkirk. Saying things like you have here makes you look a completely ignorant. I suggest before opening your big mouth again you actually read some history and try not to look a complete tit

In actual Europe were every autoritarian figures are portrayed as villains or bad guys, the French saw him again as a hero this is impressive.

The greatest age of France. It made sure to put the country in the books of history for what will remain of human history.

I looked it up because of this comment. Very Cool!

@@afisto6647 He was neither a hero nor a villain.

@@TheButterMinecart1 exactly..! He's Napoleon Bonaparte, The Emperor of France

Frank Dodd Just shows the popularity he had over the French Army and the people.

He said if .

He Probably would have missed and then killed by his comrades because the guns then sucked

All great commanders always get the respect of their soldiers from Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great, Robert E Lee, Yao Fei, and also Napoleon.

True leader

Spot on.

This movie, in just 15-20 minutes, shows why and how Napoleon got to Emperor. Out of all the chaos of the revolution and collapsing monarchy, he was the unifying, INSANELY charismatic force the French so longed for. Good gracious, he made them feel like Romans!

@@thunderbird1921 makes sense considering he was Italian

@@neonflames3005 corsican*

@@liptongreentea3296 African*

Agreed.

100% this!

True, I was so excited to see a new Interpretation. End up I need this video to wash my eyes 😢

lmfao

lol

I can't even BEGIN to imagine what it must've really been like...

But still this is a good movie on its time and still now.

the movie was made in the Soviet union with red army volunteers I believe.

Did he ALIENate the orginal story

@@Assadul-Namlhe did, he also made the pacing and story weird, aswell as making him a horn dog for his first wife, it felt like a self insert man… For example when ney charged at waterloo he also showed napoleon charging with ney which didn’t happen at all

Salty Englishman

Scott's movies are usually hit or miss. It's obvious he admires Saladin but hates Napoleon.

@@jjrj8568 There's a lot to admire about Saladin but the weird thing is that there's a lot to admire in Balian of Ibelin also. I don't know why that movie's so biased.

Thats crazy! Is all of this true?

​@@jamesbrown6020yes.

Yep he said something to the effect of he was a Frenchman and would remain a Frenchman.

@@Cinderella121 yep, and when Ney was arrested and put to trial, the first general managing the court martial refused to try him and accepted a prison sentence over trying Ney. The second convened and ruled itself incompetent to try him. Then the King declared himself incompetent to try Ney. Then the THIRD court martial declared itself incompetent. Ney had to be tried by parliament in order to receive a sentence, he was that beloved.

There is a theory that Marshal Ney did not die, but escaped to America with the help of loyal Frenchmen. A man named Peter Stuart Ney taught school in North and South Carolina beginning about 1819 and visitors from France who saw him said that he was Marshal Ney. He confessed to being the Marshal on his deathbed in 1846.

Oversimplified?

Even so, they couldn't kill him. They had to exile him for fear that France would rise up if they did.

y'mean like Donald Trump? is that what you mean? like that?

​@@37centerdid you compare fucking Donald Trump to Napoleon??

They dignify him for making Napoleon into a country 🙌

yes

You said it brilliantly.

Yes! Napoleon’s story is truly one of myth and legend, yet it is actual history.

Damn what a literary comment

Thanks no one that found this video knew that....

👍 🇨🇵

@teslagod2003 in definition, they are still screwed, Napoleons path to the Throne was inevitable, and trying to arrest and put him on a iron cage will just enrage and antagonize more of the people and the military who already have a hatred the size of death to the bourbon trash heaps. hehehe

@@jadeimingan184 all it took was one single soldier to shoot and yet...

@@johngalvano5895 In the voice of the assistant director from tropic thunder. EXACTLY!!

@@johngalvano5895 it was inevitable, the soldiers their are all who fought with and for Napoleon on the last days of the war when the coalition stormed paris because of Talleyrands acts, even young recruits whom are recruited after Napoleons abdication view him as the Savior and in an almost god-like view to them and the french.

Didn't Catherine the Great do something like this too? I've heard she did this during the coup against her husband and that he was so unpopular the exact same result happened: the armies surrounded her cheering.

I couldnt have said it better. Like Napololeon's boys would ever have shot him at the behest of some royal who never so much as shouldered a rifle. He was theirs as much as they were his.

His Russian campaign alone lost 400'000 French men their life's

@@DissidentThoughts that is part of war during that time... as most comment said.. he was and never was perfect he has his faults and flaws.. but in the battlefield at that time people followed him till death.. and he wasnt just sitting and commanding from afar.. he was at the field with them

@end heart! to his credit he did get into the thick of it many times

Can’t wait to see Biden lead the navy during WW3

Nah, it lowers their expectations, so when they see this they’re even more blown away

Couldnt agree more

History Buffs is in danger of hating Ridley Scott as much as Mel Gibson, if he isn't careful. The episode on Waterloo is great, by the way.

just saw Scott's Napoleon the other day; the best part is the first hour (1973-1799) after that it nearly collapses; the return part is especially disappointing, about 30 guards in the forest, greeting him, the hell?

@jjrj8568 Yup it makes it look as if he was a captain and not literally the Emperor of France who worked as basically the grand marshal of a large army returning. At first I thought they were gonna show more people, but nope just thise few guys

His balls are stronger than kryptonite

A sigma move

Des paroles réellement prononcées

An actual quote, if the journals are to be believed.

He really say that😂.

Just like Hitler

@@coconutmuncher shut up u anglo saxon shite

@@AkshaySharma-rr2jx I'm not English, nor European

@@coconutmuncher Hitler exterminated jews and Polish people, Napoleon improved conditions for jews, gave freedom of religion, and created the duchy of Varsaw. Hitler exterminated homosexuals, while Napoleon had no problem leaving Paris to the care of someone who was a known homosexual

@@coconutmuncher yea you look like from shithole

Thats why they all declared war on him not France. Gotta be the only example where several nations conspired to wage war on a single individual.

I’m your 100th like 👍

​@@geordiejones5618 Napoleon pulled a sigma move

​@Geordie Jones Well, I mean there is Hitler too if we're gonna be honest

@@demaistre2458 The difference being that Napoleon had not only charisma but also a great military genius. And also the fact that he wasn’t racist and didn’t commit mass genocide for no reason.

Then have it happen several more times

Bourbons = dumb (other than Louis XIV)

Atleast the cannons were cool

@@haewymetalah yes the 3 minutes cannon fire of a 2 and a half hours movie total bullshit it was a romanticon only 3 battles in all the movie lol

one wonders

I love Napoleon so much. I wish I got to meet him, fight alongside him. I would give anything to go back to 1798 and meet him early on so I could become one of his trusted advisors.

@@gammadion he probably kill you if you weren’t French so keep dreaming

it was ridiculous, about 40 blokes and some trees.

@@jjrj8568hahahaa. it really was pathetic

It takes a brave man to be courageous at times of fear and uncertainty.

Two words: Practical effects. This movie is the gold standard. Most historically correct. Wait until you see this and see how bad the Scott film was off on the Waterloo. 15,000 extras were used.

Now he just needs o make a bad Henry II movie to make people watch Becket and A Lion in Winter.

Daddy, what did you do in the military? *Urrr....it's...hard to explain.*

Uh, for a time, I was French.

Don't forget the 100 horses that died. Or at least the said around 100 horses more or less.

@@nicklibby3784it’s unfortunate but horses can die from stepping in a hole a weird way. Pretty common, sad animals to own long term from what I hear.

@@satanscilantro4929they also were treated pretty rough in these older movies

Most certainly!

Scott's arrogant failure has only made this movie more popular/appreciated

this takes the #1 spot

His movie was a hit-piece. Typical anti-French, pro-British portrayal of Napoleon and he has the arrogance to act like the opinions of historians don't matter. No matter, his movie will be forgotten about in a year's time, count on it.

@@madgavin7568 This is bigger than anti-French, this is an attack on all great European men of the past, it is an attack on masculinity in itself even. We are in a time where Caesar's and Napoleons could be walking amongst us ready to rise up, it is no coincidence this was made today to undermine those men... but it will not work.

well he ironically also managed to turn the duke of wellington into a complete caricature as well came across as a completely over the top nincompoop not the veteran disciplined general he actually was.

@@madgavin7568”Anti-French, Pro-British portrayal” are we talking about the same movie where the British portrayed at Toulouse were a bunch of incompetent and pompous asses. The whole thing reminded me of pirates of the Caribbean, and they just had to include some random British private insulting Napoleon for no particular reason at all and you call it Pro British. If it was Pro British why did the film choose not to show any British victory except waterloo and ignore the entire peninsular war? Dismissing 13th vendémiaire as just a “royalist uprising” and acting as if the war of the second coalition was entirely the directory’s idea sounds, if I didn’t know better to be almost bonapartist propaganda. It’s not Pro British or Anti French, it’s just modern Hollywood.

@@imadeanaccounttocomment7800 Okay perhaps I take pro-British back since the Duke of Wellington was depicted as a scruffy old man when he was only a few months older than Napoleon, but the film is anti-French. Ridley Scott himself has a contemptuous view of the French by saying the French don't even love their country. Scott himself is British so you can't really accuse all of Hollywood for the mess of a film. It's all Ridley Scott, his warped take on history and his Jupiter sized ego.

A man like that can motivate a hundred.

@@TheBigMoof that's offensive. Atleast a quarter of a million

@@sdgamer9427a man like that can make or break a nation

Lmaoo.

Actually because this movie didn't make a lot at the box office was the reason Warner Bros pulled the plug. So Stanley made Barry Lyndon instead.

Someday I wanna make a Napoleon *trilogy*, respectively covering the general's early military career, his rise to emperor and his eventual fall.

@@jerrycoob4750 absolutely, I’ve always wondered if someday a studio might be brave enough to make a massive historical epic about Napoleon, he’s such a fascinating figure in history and definitely deserves more media about him and the Napoleonic era in general

@@kurtwagner350 I wonder what a movie that takes the epic story of Napoleon into a 20th century setting would be like. Good or bad idea?

@@kurtwagner350 You're in luck if any of you didn't know Ridley Scott's Napoleon movie is almost done being made right now, it's a huge epic and the set pictures look incredibly historically accurate, probably the most I've ever seen in a film to date. Joaquin Phoenix is playing Napoleon so that should be interesting to see since the last thing I saw him in was the Joker which he did really well in.

sooo much better. there was like no tension at all in the new movie

In the new movie Napoleon is portrayed as an autistic sad guy.

​@@MichalKaczorowskihe really looks like a useless pupet on a sting 😊

​@@MichalKaczorowskiliterally he wasnt anything like Napoleon in history

​@@MichalKaczorowski Napoleon in the new film: "I have become Porn, Edging Porn of Hollywood."

Whole lotta brain bleach to do that!

HE’S BACK! OLD BILLY’S COME BACK TO US!

LONG LIVE BILLY!

Like your foster father, whom you hate, telling you to kill your actual father, whom you love.

Yeah, the Soviets trained in lotsa conscripts for this movie

15,000 in total@@DylanoRevs

​@@Grandmastergav8615 thousand infantry and 2 thousand cavalry. and all were trained how to use muskets, cannons and carry out formations during the Napoleonic era.

Weren't they fight back the Scots Grey charge?

@@minhthanh09 nah, it was actually the 3rd and 4th Lancer regiments and some Cuirassiers that counter-charged the Scot Greys, the Polish Lancers were absorbed into the 2nd Lancer Regiment (Red Lancers) and were committed during the charges at the British squares.

MARCH, MARCH, DĄBROWSKI FROM ITALY TO POLAND

There's a legitimate argument to be made that Napoleon's refusal to sell out the Polish people was a key reason for his downfall. It was one of the reasons for Russia to turn on him

The polish were loyal to him like a baby and his mothers milk

which ones are the colonial troops I ask? I know the ones with the bearskins is the old guard but nothing about the colonials

@@robowisanveithasung6022 there are none. Ney is with the 5th line infantry and some Carabiniers. Napoleon is with the old guard and some Polish Lancers.

Colonial troops? I'm assuming you're talking about Africa then, in which case, you have the wrong Napoleon. France's presence in Africa during OG Napoleon's reign was relatively small. His focus was Europe. It wasn't until the reign of Louis Napoleon (Napoleon III) where France started ramping up its presence in Africa. North Africans were technically used in the Franco-Prussian War, but not for war (at least not according to any historical sources I've ever seen). They were used in Southern France as "peacekeepers." A little fun fact about the lesser-known Emperor Napoleon: Louis took a rudderless, defeated, almost backward France and molded into a truly formidable power (he was also responsible for turning Paris into the "City of Light"). Unfortunately for him, France, and tens of millions of others, he was also one of the main reasons the Germans united and immediately became the world's second most powerful country.

@@Tiwaz81Little known fact but those Polish lancers are Old Guard, the soldiers that we associate with the name old guard are the Grenadiers of Foot but Old Guard was a collection of all of the best units from across the empire. Holland, Poland even Lithuania and Italy.

this is 100x better

Nazi Germani also loved Hitler.

GV Games Don't forget the Austrians, Russians, and Brits as well.

My honest thoughts: If Napoleon doesn't take on Russia from 1812 on, and overthrow Spain in 1807, he probably rules France for decades. If he could crush coalition armies and unify/motivate the French people THIS much, no way Britain or the others win if Spain and others side with him. They probably would have had to sue for peace.

@@thunderbird1921 War was inevitible.Russia was chaffing the treaty of tilsit slowly.Tsar was reforming and mobilizing his army ,the british would have bribed russia in the form of subsidies and trade concessions to drclare war on napoleon.Once this happens austria and prussia would have betrayed napoleon again it would havelead to a continental war.

Mate, it's perfidious Albion (England) which paid all of Europe to be enemy of France not the other way... England paid all the european Kings to make war to France, she is the main reason of millions of death, not Napoleon. Napoleon secured the republican ideas in 1799, did interior peace and pardonned the royalists and rebels from western France, then he did peace with Europe 'Lunéville" 1801 then with England (Peace treaty of Amiens 1802)... It's England which broke the peace, then paid Austrian and Russian Empires to make war on the ground and in her place. The terrific defeats of all of the European powers against France was done because of that. The thrashing defeat of 1806 for Prussia came just the same (Napoleon and his army after only 3 weeks, without motor engines in those old time, crushed the best disciplined army of Europe)... all the resentment of Dutch, Prussians, Russians, Austrians, Portuguese and even Spanish SHOULD have been done towards England.

@@jpc7118 Yeah, Russia, Austria, Prussia, etc. should direct the ire towards the people that helped them avenge their losses and humiliating defeat instead of the nation that wounded and subjugated them. That makes total sense!

To be fair, the scene of him facing down the troops ordered to stop him is included almost verbatim in that movie. I'm pretty sure Ridley Scott meant that as a homage to the 1970 film.

The historical moment was even more epic

It happened EVERY time.

The return of Napoleon is written like an illogical fan fiction. Without context, that is.

@@internetstrangerstrangerofweb what?

@@saywhatnow2173 It’s just so ridiculous. Like come on a guy just winning enemy armies over just by saying a few words, that’s the stuff of bad isekai and historical drama stories or something a Y/N character would do. *But it actually happened*

And for Napoleon’s Old Guardsmen to hoist that man up like a champion. Must’ve been the first time in years that anyone gave a shit for who he was.

Might have lost it to frostbite trying to get home from finding Moscow deserted.

He could of been acquitted if he had played on the fact he was from a German region of France or was coerced but a man as proud and brave as him refused to be anything but a Frenchmen.

@@lufsolitaire5351 I heard a story that he survived and left France to become a school teacher in North Carolina USA. I think it may be true, haha.

That was the average man’s height back then anyway, but at the end of the day, who cares? If he’s shown to be of similar height to everyone else, it’s fine.

American Cinema would disintegrate into dust. And I am a die-hard American authoritarian nutcase.

@@jackremington3397 Je suis ravi de lire un avis divergent de la part d'un américain ;-)

@@Heimrik01 Merci!

At the time this was one of the most expensive movies ever made - and that's even with the Soviet government giving them an entire division of the Red Army to use as extras.

@@jackremington3397 Indeed. They would be a powerhouse just as Hong Kong Cinema was competing for the film market.

Il faut lire la prophétie de Marie-Julie Jahenny sur l'avenir de la France, notre pays tombera bien bas dit la sainte, mais il se relèvera à la vitesse d'une balle qui rebondit et redeviendra plus GRAND qu'il ne l'a jamais été.

Its not Phoenix fault tho, Ridley is to blame

@@Michael_I. I agree 100%.

@@Michael_I. yes and no. He seemed to be stuck a little in Joker mode.

@@Michael_I. It is his fault, he can't play a charismatic character... he shouldn't have accepted the role.

@@kissmy_butt1302 Ridleys idea of napoleon is a cuck, not a charismatic leader, a different actor wouldnt chamge much

Viva la MeXicA!!

Richard Valens Vive Israel y Los Estados Unidos

Coco Taveras That’s gonna be controversial.

Inki Gaming No, I don’t think it will be.

@@cocotaveras8975 .

Everyone knows the British were hypocrites and the Prussian evil during the Napoleonic Wars; and don't get me started with Austria and Russia; Europe entered an era of darkness until 1848

Robert Green in 48 Laws of Power and The Art of Seduction makes it seem like Talleyrand is the real genius

Well I say, if the greatest military leader of all time has been given to your country, you shouldn't let him go to waste.

Ney didn't exactly like Napoleon much either. he believed he was a warmonger and didn't care for France at all.

Ney knew that war was the only way France would be free. The Monarchy was a tyranny and Napoleon was a great Emperor

Based Mel Gibson has shown us the way

He was the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of France

The man with the square mustache would beg to differ

He was great too, but his generals bulked up the power of the German army. @@Chaotic_Good

What does that make Wellington?

Seriously. What happened to you guys? Then again, USA has little room to criticize you fine folks these days.

@@randomguy-xp7se Don't pay too much attention to these comments. They are only generalization with little grasp of the world's circumstances. And... in my humble opinion. They are just glorifying the past.

@@randomguy-xp7seamerica needs a napoleon as well

​@@steviechampagne we did But they chose a potato as Potus and a hyena as VP

Every country needs a napoleon, the idea of a emperor that is loved by the people and makes their country a superpower is what everyone needs

You would be surprise by how often the breathtakingly stupid things happen in history

@@apiwutintongkam3149 The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible. - Mark Twain

@@aguyonasiteontheinternet578 what about this doesn't make sense?

​@@martinguerra5152For example imagine you write this scene in a Fictional Sci Fi world the Emperor returned to his Galaxy after exiled for so long. He returned with full blown startship pointing at him with permission to fire. But none did they shout at the engineer to fire their lasers at him but none did. Instead they all showed their loyalty and shouted im unison at their Emperor returned. My review: Emperor is god damn mary sue character wtf... don't read this bull

Only if there’s good enough set up. Introduce your character’s charisma, intelligence and camaraderie with his men in the first arc and this will be a good pay off. 😉

Every parrot who prides himself/herself in being a PARROT. If you really enjoyed this movie you wouldn't need to seek validation/consolation among total strangers you will never meet in real life. Sheep. You know, I hate to ruin your day but the fact is that "Waterloo" was an *economical flop back in 1970* . "The picture was a commercial failure at the theatrical box office in 1970. Producer Dino De Laurentiis blamed the film's poor performance on the picture's lack of stars." From the trivia section on Imdb. "Contrary to the popular misconception, its poor performance at the US box office was not the reason that MGM cancelled their Stanley Kubrick Napoleon project. MGM and Kubrick announced that they had parted company amicably in January 1969, four months before this film went into production." Imdb trivia. "It was the fifth most popular "reserve ticket" movie at the British box office in 1971. However, it failed to recoup its cost" Wiki page. So a lot of people back in 1970/1971 sounded exactly the same like you do today. I guess if you listened to what most sheep liked or didn't like back then ("Lovestory" which made $50 million in the USA alone) this film would have been forgotten too. Time is the only fair judge of quality. Once the chimpy hoopla all dies down different individuals come to their *own* conclusion. I wouldn't call Ridley Scott's Napoleon a "disaster" merely a medley of fast-forward history which clearly seems to have been cut-down from its original form. You could have used the word disappointment (which would indicate you have a modicum of reason) or misfire or even "ambivalent". But you chose disaster, which isn't quite fair is it? Perhaps you live in a false dichotomy reality, i.e. a totally black-and-white world. That certainly would explain your infantile comment. You must be mentally 12. There's no pride in being a parrot and seeking refuge among other parrots. And yes, this applies to likeminded people who *did like* Movie X, Y or Z.

"Woooow!!!! Dope haircut!!!!!!" They were so amazed, that they made him emperor.

It did, but a little lacklusterly. They didn’t do a good enough job showing us why Napoleon was beloved

@@jaredmelloyea I just saw it. They made him such a soy boy lunatic.

Not really, if you look closely you can see some fellow soldiers in the back trying to help him get up so at least nothing happened to him

@@wp9746 I can't see him

When?

3:35

He was impressive but a warmonger.

5 countries (UK, Prussia, Russia, Austria and Sweden, you could also add portugal and Spain but I guess that a details), and they had to try 6 times

Kept starting wars that he lost,,,some Genius.

​@@nickwake5484what are you talking about? His only fault is invading Russia and try to take Spain. The Coalition tried 5 time to defeat him and lost, Napoleon and his grand army defend and defeat multiples nations on their own.

@@nickwake5484 The only 2 wars he started was against russia and spain

@@johnvanuatu9181 I’m not sure how you feel that contradicts what I posted.