Ridley Scott announces the release of his latest film, Napoleon, starring Academy Award winner, Joaquin Phoenix as the titular lead.
sits at the end of a full circle in Scott’s career from his first attempt at capturing the lived experience of the Napoleonic Wars in his 1977 debut film,, which centred on the passionate yet vicious rivalry of two officers on opposing sides of the wars. Thetrailer hints at a similar tactic of revisiting 19th century bloodshed and political turmoil through a more intimate look at the internal strife of the people who lived them acting as allegory for history itself.
Film and art have always been a liminal space where people seek refuge in times of great strife or loss. The war film in particular has emerged from this culture of singing elegies as a powerful tool for both remembrance and anti-war education. The line is razor thin however between honouring history faithfully and romanticising the Babylonian scale of destruction which past generations have seen, precisely because they seem so far removed from reality that they become mythical.
A Napoleon Bonaparte biography is especially fitting for cinema because so much of Napoleon’s life and political career is indeed filled with urban legends and half-told stories. These myths around his great conquests hence become somewhat symbolic in their epic depictions on the silver screen, serving more so to tell the story of the great ego and behemoth yet ultimately tragic ambitions of the French Emperor.
The trailer gives us ample sneak peeks into some of these fantastical events, such as the fictional shelling of Egyptian pyramids during Napoleon’s four-year campaign to overthrow the Ottoman stronghold of 19th century Egypt and Syria and the decisive 1805 Battle of Austerlitz which was such a tactical masterpiece that it spawned the infamous myth of Napoleon luring Anglo-Swedish allied forces onto a frozen lake before firing artillery shells on them, drowning the allied forces in freezing...
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