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Ladybbird · 15-11-23, 06:08

Napoleon Review – Joaquin Phoenix as Napoleon Makes a Magnificent Emperor in Thrilling Biopic

Ridley Scott dispenses with the symbolic weight attached to previous biopics in favour of a spectacle with a great star at its centre

BBC 15 NOV 2023

Many directors have tried following Napoleon where the paths of glory lead, and maybe it is only defiant defeat that is really glorious.

But Ridley Scott – the Wellington of cinema – has created an outrageously enjoyable cavalry charge of a movie, a full-tilt biopic of two and a half hours in which Scott doesn’t allow his troops to get bogged down mid-gallop in the muddy terrain of either fact or metaphysical significance, the tactical issues that have defeated other film-makers.

Scott cheekily imagines Napoleon firing on the pyramids in the Egyptian campaign as well as witnessing the execution of Marie Antoinette (but not the humiliation of Louis XVI by the Tuileries mob, which he might actually have seen). Out of deference moreover, Scott and his screenwriter David Scarpa suppress all mention of Napoleon’s reintroduction of slavery into the French colonies.

But above all, there’s a deliciously insinuating portrayal of the doomed emperor from Joaquin Phoenix, whose derisive face suits the framing of a bicorne hat and jaunty tricolour ****ade. Phoenix plays Napoleon as a military genius and lounge lizard pea**** who is incidentally no slouch on horseback. Others might show Napoleon as a dreamy loner, but for Scott he is one half of a rackety power couple: passionately, despairingly in love with Vanessa Kirby’s pragmatically sensual Josephine.

Scott makes this warring pair the Burton and Taylor of imperial France.

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Ladybbird Join Date: Feb 2011 Posts: 50,631 Thanks: 28,768 Thanked 14,429 Times in 10,235 Posts Awards Showcase Total Awards: 8	Joaquin Phoenix as Napoleon Makes a Magnificent Emperor in Thrilling Biopic Napoleon Review – Joaquin Phoenix as Napoleon Makes a Magnificent Emperor in Thrilling Biopic Ridley Scott dispenses with the symbolic weight attached to previous biopics in favour of a spectacle with a great star at its centre BBC 15 NOV 2023 Many directors have tried following Napoleon where the paths of glory lead, and maybe it is only defiant defeat that is really glorious. But Ridley Scott – the Wellington of cinema – has created an outrageously enjoyable cavalry charge of a movie, a full-tilt biopic of two and a half hours in which Scott doesn’t allow his troops to get bogged down mid-gallop in the muddy terrain of either fact or metaphysical significance, the tactical issues that have defeated other film-makers. Scott cheekily imagines Napoleon firing on the pyramids in the Egyptian campaign as well as witnessing the execution of Marie Antoinette (but not the humiliation of Louis XVI by the Tuileries mob, which he might actually have seen). Out of deference moreover, Scott and his screenwriter David Scarpa suppress all mention of Napoleon’s reintroduction of slavery into the French colonies. But above all, there’s a deliciously insinuating portrayal of the doomed emperor from Joaquin Phoenix, whose derisive face suits the framing of a bicorne hat and jaunty tricolour **ade. Phoenix plays Napoleon as a military genius and lounge lizard pea who is incidentally no slouch on horseback. Others might show Napoleon as a dreamy loner, but for Scott he is one half of a rackety power couple: passionately, despairingly in love with Vanessa Kirby’s pragmatically sensual Josephine. Scott makes this warring pair the Burton and Taylor of imperial France. __________________ AMERICA WAS ONCE AN INNOVATED & RESPECTED COUNTRY and THEN ALONG CAME TRUMP..... That buzz you hear is George Washington spinning in his grave**