Napoleon (2023)

Napoleon (2023)
Director: Ridley Scott
==Synopsis==
The film is an original and personal look at Napoleon Bonaparte (Joaquin Phoenix)'s origins and his swift, ruthless climb to the emperor, viewed through the prism of his addictive and often volatile relationship with his wife and one true love, Josephine (Vanessa Kirby).
==Male Deaths==
*Joaquin Phoenix [Napoleon Bonaparte]
*Sam Troughton [Robespierre]
==Female Deaths==
*Vanessa Kirby [Empress Josephine]
*Catherine Walker [Marie Antoinette]
==Gallery==
Marie's severed head.png|Catherine Walker
== Trivia ==
# While never directly addressed, the black French general who appears in several scenes, played by actor Abubakar Salim, is credited as General Dumas. This was the real figure of Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, a Haitian-born general who commanded troops during the Napoleonic Wars, and was the father of writer Alexandre Dumas. A brilliant tactician in his own right, he was nicknamed "The Black Devil" by contemporary revolutionaries.
# Sir Ridley Scott said the battle scenes utilised 11 cameras, all filming at the same time.
# The film was shot in 61 days. Sir Ridley Scott said that this was remarkably fast for a film of this scale. He credits the speed of the shoot down to being prepared and "not having ridiculous numbers of retakes".
# Sir Ridley Scott and screenwriter David Scarpa rejected Stanley Kubrick's Napoleon script as being underwhelming, but kept 80% of the structure, scenes, and development. The rest Scarpa wrote was unhistorical and for pure entertainment. Kubrick had a lifelong fascination with Napoleon, and began planning a film of his life after directing 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). He did extensive research, and watched other Napoleon films, including Napoleon (1927) and War and Peace (1965), both of which he disliked. He intended to shoot on location in France and Romania, with the Romanian People's Army providing 50,000 men. Jack Nicholson and Audrey Hepburn were eyed to play Napoleon and Joséphine, respectively. The project was canceled after the box office failure of Waterloo (1970), but Kubrick's research went into Barry Lyndon (1975), which ends in 1789, 14 years before the Napoleonic Wars began. Steven Spielberg, a longtime friend of Kubrick's, has been developing Kubrick's script as a miniseries for HBO since 2013, and said it was still in development as of 2023.
# Sir Ridley Scott said his four-hour director's cut will be released on Apple TV+.
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