Despite its box office success, Ridley Scott's Napoleon received mixed reviews for its rushed story and incomplete portrayal of the French emperor. Starring Joaquin Phoenix, the film explores Napoleon's rise to power and his major victories and losses.
Summary SCREENRANT VIDEO OF THE DAY SCROLL TO CONTINUE WITH CONTENT Ridley Scott 's Napoleon tells the epic story of the titular French emperor's rise to power , yet the scope and scale of its narrative repeats a mistake made by a previous box office bomb.
There are differences between Alexander and Napoleon. For instance, Ridley Scott's moviemakes a more explicit attempt to focus on personal details from Bonaparte's life, rather than scattering them among a broad chronology like Stone's film. However, while the specifics differ, the bones of the two projects are remarkably similar, with each stuck between conveying the scale of their subject's achievements and reducing them to footnotes in a rushed compendium.
Napoleon Was Even Harder To Pull Off Than Alexander While Alexander was an incredibly complicated and singular figure, it's fair to say that his story is more suitable for cinema than Napoleon's. Although his various conquests and campaigns spanned several decades and multiple continents , the limited historical record makes it easier to airbrush elements of the world of ancient Macedon for the sake of narrative expediency.
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