Post by bushfire on Nov 14, 2023 20:58:30 GMT -7
Like you gentleman I am a lover of history, and as some of you may have figured out a bit of a Francophile. Thomas Jackson, Hannibal Barca and Napoleon Bonaparte are the three military leaders I have always been most fascinated with. Ironically all ended up defeated, which probably aided in their echo through history.
I've been nervously looking forward to the upcoming release of the film Napoleon due out next week, that is up until I a) saw the trailer and b) saw Ridley Scott's interview about historical accuracy.
Napoleons strategic masterpiece battle was easily Austerlitz, Scott has debased the whole battle into an austrian charge across the frozen lake. In reality this was done during the retreat. Between that, Napoleon shooting cannon at the pyramids and leading cavalry charges I was pretty skeptical.
Ridley Scott was also interviewed by the historian Dan Snow and when questioned on the historical inaccuracies of the film replied pretty much "how would historians know, they weren't there". Quite insulting to people who dedicate their lives and careers to learning about the past. He also compared Napoleon to Hitler and called him a tyrant, an interesting assessment from a proud brit I say!
It also appears that the film will infer that Josephine had as much to do with his rise as Napoleon himself which is absolutely absurd.
None of this would bother me if I didn't think that people who currently know nothing of Napoleon other than his name will take this as a history lesson.
It appears 200 years on that the anglo anti Bonaparte propaganda still continues!
Like the Revenant, based on Hugh Glass, sticking to the true history of Napoleon would have produced a much better film. Lord knows he had one of the most extraordinary lives in history.
I will watch it, but I fully expect to be thoroughly disappointed from an accuracy perspective. That seems to be the lot for us history lovers. Never the less, The Patriot, Last of the Mohicans and Jeremiah Johnson are some of my favourite films and nurtured my interest from childhood in the 18th and early 19th century long before I smelled the perfume of black powder, made a fire from flint and steel or experienced a flashing pan before the shot.
Any other Napoleon fans here?
I've been nervously looking forward to the upcoming release of the film Napoleon due out next week, that is up until I a) saw the trailer and b) saw Ridley Scott's interview about historical accuracy.
Napoleons strategic masterpiece battle was easily Austerlitz, Scott has debased the whole battle into an austrian charge across the frozen lake. In reality this was done during the retreat. Between that, Napoleon shooting cannon at the pyramids and leading cavalry charges I was pretty skeptical.
Ridley Scott was also interviewed by the historian Dan Snow and when questioned on the historical inaccuracies of the film replied pretty much "how would historians know, they weren't there". Quite insulting to people who dedicate their lives and careers to learning about the past. He also compared Napoleon to Hitler and called him a tyrant, an interesting assessment from a proud brit I say!
It also appears that the film will infer that Josephine had as much to do with his rise as Napoleon himself which is absolutely absurd.
None of this would bother me if I didn't think that people who currently know nothing of Napoleon other than his name will take this as a history lesson.
It appears 200 years on that the anglo anti Bonaparte propaganda still continues!
Like the Revenant, based on Hugh Glass, sticking to the true history of Napoleon would have produced a much better film. Lord knows he had one of the most extraordinary lives in history.
I will watch it, but I fully expect to be thoroughly disappointed from an accuracy perspective. That seems to be the lot for us history lovers. Never the less, The Patriot, Last of the Mohicans and Jeremiah Johnson are some of my favourite films and nurtured my interest from childhood in the 18th and early 19th century long before I smelled the perfume of black powder, made a fire from flint and steel or experienced a flashing pan before the shot.
Any other Napoleon fans here?