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Napoleon is a 2023 epic biographical war film co-produced and directed by Ridley Scott from a screenplay by David Scarpa.Based on the life of Napoleon and primarily depicting his rise to power, as well as his relationship with his wife, Joséphine, it stars Joaquin Phoenix as Napoleon and Vanessa Kirby as Joséphine.
Scott’s “Napoleon” is not the first big-budget Hollywood attempt to bring the French emperor to the big screen. Stanley Kubrick famously tried and failed to get a Napoleon movie off the ground.
Nov. 24—The literal French definition of "tour de force," an admiring noun that gets thrown around a lot in English, translates as "feat of strength."
Napoleon conducts the French campaign in Egypt and Syria, 1798–1801, the Coup of 18 Brumaire, and avoids the Plot of the rue Saint-Nicaise, 1800. In 1804, Napoleon oversees the controversial arrest and execution of the duc d'Enghien, followed by the elevation of members of the House of Bonaparte, and Napoleon's imperial coronation.
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Plot summary [ edit ] After his defeat at the Battle of Waterloo and surrender to the British Empire , Napoleon Bonaparte is delivered into exile and imprisonment on St. Helena , setting the scene for a psychological character study of the fallen Emperor and those upon the island with him as he rakes over the ashes of his career.
Napoléon is a 1955 French historical epic film written and directed by Sacha Guitry, which depicts major events in the life of Napoleon (Daniel Gélin as a young man, Raymond Pellegrin in later life; the switch takes place during a scene at a barber).
It’s the latest in a series of brilliantly blunt replies to negative comments about his new movie