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In the movie’s Waterloo scene, before the battle begins in earnest a British sniper informs Wellington that he has a clean shot on Napoleon. Wellington orders him not to take the shot, “on pain of death,” opining that generals already have enough to worry about.
Months before the cameras started filming, the 16,000 Soviet Army soldiers began training to learn 1815 drill and battle formations, as well as the use of sabres, bayonets and handling cannon. A selected 2,000 additional men were also taught to load and fire muskets.
Yeah and within Waterloo you see this play out when each side comitted to a Cavalry charge. Cavalry are highly trained expensive troops which means you really only want to use them for a full on assault when you're really sure its going to work so its the wild game of chicken where you bring them out because you think it can induce the other side to flee.
Hmm, hard to say that a 128 minute film has more content than a 4 hour 14 minute film. Both films did a number of other things differently that reflects their scope. Gettysburg has many scenes filemed on the battlefield itself, while waterloo was filmed in the Ukraine. Waterloo has 17000 extras, many from the soviet military trained and operating in very realistic merhods (I think the
Waterloo was twice as much/ or more, worse than the Austerlitz scene in the end. Whoever on the team conceived the movie's battle scenes really never researched the battles at all; they probably got their 'ideas' from phone apps wargames; seriously seemed similar. In fact, I was squinting - in holding back tears of laughter.
The film 1970 film Waterloo had this exchange in it here at 8:57. It's also definitely worth watching in its entirety - one of the best historical films of all time. Fun fact: all of the soldiers in the battle scenes are real men, not CGI. They paid and trained Russian soldiers to march and act. History Buffs did a vid on it
Don't ask me how, but somehow I stumbled upon this movie called The Battle of Waterloo. The whole thing is there, on youtube, in a decent quality. It is actually a really great watch, English speaking Frenchmen aside! The style reminds me a lot about Zulu.
That was Ridley Scott's thinking, actually. He admits he found Waterloo (1970) too confusing, so his solution seems to be to oversimplify it. Of course, something being "too complex" is subjective. Of all people, director Werner Herzog praised Waterloo and held it up as a model of geographical clarity in epic battles. (Werner Herzog is also the ...
Yes this is a stupid question but hear me out With the scale of their depictions of the Battle of Waterloo and no CGI, dummies could be used as dead soldiers but during a cavalry charge scene some people who were obviously real fell and it looks as if they got trampled by the horses, it’s a bloody good movie but im just curious if any actual harm was done to the extra’s because of the ...
Waterloo 1970 is the only film to really capture the scale of the armies fighting those battles ...