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AleksoMKD wrote: ↑20/11/2023 16:30 U traileru me nerviraju pustinjski i zimski filter.

Sir Ridley Scott has dismissed criticism that his spectacular Napoleon biopic is anti-French, saying the French “don’t even like themselves”.

The director’s interpretation of the story of the French soldier turned emperor, starring Joaquin Phoenix with a running time of two hours 38 minutes, has been criticised in Napoleon’s native land as being riddled with historical inaccuracies.

Patrice Gueniffey, a historian and author of two books on the Emperor, said the film not only peddled myths about Napoleon but was also too pro-British to be a credible account of his life.

Sir Ridley responded: “The French don’t even like themselves. The audience that I showed it to in Paris, they loved it.”

Mr Gueniffey, the author of  Bonaparte and Napoleon and de Gaulle: Two French Heroes, has damned the film.

In an interview with French magazine Le Point he pointed out that Napoleon was not present at the execution of Marie Antoinette and did not fire a cannon at an Egyptian pyramid, as seen in the film.

He said Sir Ridley had created a caricature of Napoleon as “a sullen boor and a cad with his wife, Joséphine” rather than the complex politician and military leader who shaped history.

He also called the film “very anti-French and very pro-English”.

He said: “The proof that this film is by an Englishman is that the most successful sequence is devoted to Waterloo and the revenge of Wellington, promoted to hero at the end.”

Others in France have taken offence at the delivery of some of the dialogue.

Le Figaro said the film could be renamed “Barbie and Ken under the Empire”. French GQ said there was something “deeply clumsy, unnatural and unintentionally funny” in seeing French soldiers in 1793 shouting “Vive La France” with American accents.

But the director of Gladiator and Alien said he had little time for historians who pointed out the film’s historical inaccuracies or inconsistencies, saying: “Were you there? Oh you weren’t there. Then how do you know?”

Asked in a BBC interview what he thought of historians who take aim at his film, Sir Ridley said:  “You really want me to answer that?... it will have a bleep in it.”

And while some in France have panned Phoenix’s portrayal of Napoleon, Sir Ridley described the star as “probably the most special, thoughtful actor” he has ever worked with.

Sir Ridley, who turns 86 next month, said his fascination with Napoleon harked back to his first film released in 1977, The Duellists, set during the Napoleonic Wars.

He added: “He’s so fascinating. Revered, hated, loved, more famous than any man or leader or politician in history. How could you not want to go there?”

"Vezir ima bogate haljine i vrijedne ukrase u izobilju, ali on nosi svo svoje bogatstvo na sebi. Ja sam Bošnjak, grub, neotesan vojnik, nenavnikut na dvorove i ljubaznost, ali odgojen u vojničkim logorima i na bojnim poljima. Nemam lijepa odjela, niti fine šalove; no moje čete su brojne i dobro plaćene. Ja sam stručnjak u rukovanju sabljom; jednim udarcem svoga mača presjekao sam na dvoje cijev muškete", govorio je tada Ahmed-paša.

A similar recollection was recorded by Emmanuel-Auguste-Dieudonné Las Cases in Memoirs of the Life, Exile, and Conversations of the Emperor Napoleon (Vol. II) which has Napoleon stating “Possessed of St. Jean d’Acre, the French army would have flown to Damascus and Aleppo…I should have reached Constantinople and the Indies; I should have changed the face of the world.”

Truba wrote: ↑20/11/2023 21:28 Nije napoleon kriv za to
Prva kampanja izvan francuske ako se ne varam
Egipatski narod se nije digao kako je predvidio

U egiptu je shvatio jefnu kvaku...u francuskoj ne daju da zvone crkve 15 godina ugnjetavaju narod u vjeri vrse dekristijanizaciju a u egiptu sto su osvojili pustaju narod da ide u dzamije i ne mijesaju se u vjeru

Kasnije kad je postao neko i nesto popustio je s fransuckim revolucionarnim terorom i pustio zvona da zvone i ljudi idu u crkvu...cak se i on pojavljivao na slikama u crkvi na krunidbi

n+1 wrote: ↑22/11/2023 01:47 Trubi frajer valja samo jer je dozvolio da se ide u crkvu, a to što je njegovo ime bilo eponim za zlo, kao što je danas Hitler, to je nevažno.

Dope_Man wrote: ↑22/11/2023 13:11

n+1 wrote: ↑22/11/2023 01:47 Trubi frajer valja samo jer je dozvolio da se ide u crkvu, a to što je njegovo ime bilo eponim za zlo, kao što je danas Hitler, to je nevažno.

Vidis to je zanimljivo kako se njegovo ime, koje je bas bilo Hitler prije Hitlera, danas opralo pa se cak i pozitivno gleda.