@Marcus75016

4 months ago

No build up to any scene, no attachment to anything, it’s just so messy and rushing from one moment to the other with no emotion bond to characters The battlefields were miles long with 100 of thousands of troops here it seems like it’s 500 men against 500 Austerlitz was a masterpiece and Scott managed to make it look like a normal trap.. And most importantly all the best moments of his career are left out… We don’t have any build up to any scenes or battles which makes it impossible to understand what is at stake or any emotions because we have no build up. The music is not emersive or emotional, Even the love story between Napoleon and Josephine is so blend… one scene they meet, the next he is obsessed in love with her and we don’t know how that happened. There is no connection with any scenes The example of all this that describes the whole movie you go from a meeting between Russian emperor and Napoleon being friends to next scene Napoleon invading Russia you don’t know why or how it happened, to next scene Napoleon capitulating… when in between there was so much happening it got me terribly frustrated it feels like a Wikipedia resume… For half an hour you ask yourself if Napoleon is just stupid, no charisma nothing when we know he was filled with charisma then they show Napoleon is just bad at sex and love The one good thing are the costumes and the color and image of this movie you really feel in the 19th century I will end with my thought on what should have been done It should have been done in a trilogy to take time to explain Doing an entry like in gladiator explaining what happened before and start in his Italy campaign in 1796 which is incredible and no mention of it here… that really frustrated me. Also using some epic music and not the none emotion music we had … maybe Hans Zimmer?? Ending the movie with Napoleon’s coronation Second movie : First scene starting with the trap for the surrounding of Mack’s army by Napoleon and capture of 70.000 men wjth nearly no shots fired To then The Russians learning about it and being shocked with some epic music and then the build up and preparation to the battle of Austerlitz which was as Napoleon described the best night of his life before the battle where all the soldiers lit torches 🔥 and yelled Vive l’empereur as he walked through the camp then following all the epic battles from Jena, Eylau, Friedland to Wagram And then end with invasion of Russia and leaving us with Napoleon having to take the decision to retreat from Moscow Third movie : his downfall starting Explaining the retreat of Russia and the political situation (we all know about it no need to spend long on the thing everyone knows about) But starting with the war of the 6th coalition and the campaign which was long and with a highlight of the battle of the nations (Leipzig) AND MOST IMPORTANTLY seeing the campaign to defend France in 1814 which made Napoleon enter even more in the legend defending france with 50.000 men against 600.000 and doing things people would have been more than amazed with And finishing with a much more epic battle of Waterloo it felt like there was 1000 men on the battlefield when there was 100.000 on each side and end the movie with the defeat at Waterloo Finishing, explaining how Napoleon ended his life And no scenes with the Imperial guard 💂‍♀️ you can no tell a story on Napoleon without talking about the famous Imperial guard 💂‍♀️ The most iconic troop in history which pissed me off even more Now conclusion : I am waiting for Spielberg’s HBO series on Napoleon more than ever now. What a disappointment.. I never thought a movie on Napoleon would make me feel so empty and bored …

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