Poppo
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Overall it's a nice historical film, well acted, nice battle scenes, nice historical setting. Naturally it is schematic as there are many facts to tell in a short time, but more could have been shown, for example the retreat of Russia, if a few useless scenes of the Napoleon-Josephine relationship had been cut. The choice of the love story seems to me to have been made to attract the female audience and because a scene shot in a bedroom costs less than a battle scene.....
There are several historical inaccuracies including 1) the wrong age of the actors,2) the fact that Napoleon never attacked with his sword drawn at the head of the troops but as an artillery expert that he was he stayed behind to give orders;3) he would not have sent the cannonball as a gift to the mother with whom he had a bad relationship;4) Napoleon never actually met Wellington etc.
But the wrongest thing about the film is the general portrayal of the character who is portrayed as a boor,grotesque, a vulgar, uncultured careerist, a weakling, an awkward, brutish person in short. This representation is false and corresponds to an Anglo-Saxon vision of the Congress of Vienna.
Napoleon instead, according to historians, had an undeniable charm, he came from a good family of the small Corsican nobility and knew how to behave in society. He was not only concerned with war but was a great legislator (Napoleonic code), he brought in all Europe the ideas of freedom of the French Revolution, was not limited to looting. He sent scientists and scholars to Egypt etc.
Here below, a statue of Napoleon, a copy(Napoleon Bonaparte as Mars the Peacemaker) in the Brera academy of arts courtyard of Milan.In Italy, Napoleon has a positive reputation.
There are several historical inaccuracies including 1) the wrong age of the actors,2) the fact that Napoleon never attacked with his sword drawn at the head of the troops but as an artillery expert that he was he stayed behind to give orders;3) he would not have sent the cannonball as a gift to the mother with whom he had a bad relationship;4) Napoleon never actually met Wellington etc.
But the wrongest thing about the film is the general portrayal of the character who is portrayed as a boor,grotesque, a vulgar, uncultured careerist, a weakling, an awkward, brutish person in short. This representation is false and corresponds to an Anglo-Saxon vision of the Congress of Vienna.
Napoleon instead, according to historians, had an undeniable charm, he came from a good family of the small Corsican nobility and knew how to behave in society. He was not only concerned with war but was a great legislator (Napoleonic code), he brought in all Europe the ideas of freedom of the French Revolution, was not limited to looting. He sent scientists and scholars to Egypt etc.
Here below, a statue of Napoleon, a copy(Napoleon Bonaparte as Mars the Peacemaker) in the Brera academy of arts courtyard of Milan.In Italy, Napoleon has a positive reputation.
