Napoleon is a sad waste of money

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Watching the recent Napoleon movie was painful, but I’ve finally gotten around to reviewing it. Director Ridley Scott seems to be really hit-or-miss. I really liked the Last Duel. This time is not just a failure, a ridiculously botched opportunity. Napoleon himself is one of the most influential people ever, and possibly the most influential person in modern history and it should be extraordinarily easy to make a compelling story about him. In fact, there’s really too much to talk about, which may be the movie’s ultimate blunder, rendering it a disorganized mess without enough compelling plot to drag the reluctant viewer along. In order to understand that, let’s briefly cover Napoleon’s biography, for truth is so much more fascinating than what artistic license could ever replace.
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Errata
30 : 54 depicts Marshal André Masséna, not Joseph Bonaparte (thx @mosscow6056 )

Bibliography
David A. Bell, Napoleon: A Concise Biography (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2015). https://amzn.to/44EYOXs

Will Durant and Ariel Durant, The Age of Napoleon: The Story of Civilization, Volume XI (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1975). https://amzn.to/2NYVuiv

J. Christopher Herold, Napoleon (Rockville, MD: New Word City, 2015). https://amzn.to/44EYEPQ

Andrew Roberts, Napoleon: A Life (New York: Penguin Books, 2015). https://amzn.to/3t1RV4Z
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0:00 intro
2:27 reality
25:20 scholarship
29:05 accuracy
32:04 inaccuracy
42:14 outtro