“Napoleon” (2023) opens with an idea written in the shades of the ... which begins with the public and ostentatious beheading of Marie Antoinette and ends with the quiet, whimpering death of Napoleon ...

I was, however, somewhat impressed by “Napoleon,” director Ridley Scott ... else — in the crowd for the beheading of Marie Antoinette. He’s pretty impassive about the whole thing.

from the beheading of Marie Antoinette to the Battle of Waterloo, but not all of them might be fully accurate. As observed in Scott’s new interview with The New Yorker, the official “Napoleon ...

Furthermore, director Scott places Napoleon at the beheading of the French queen Marie Antoinette, when in fact he was laying siege to Toulon, about 500 miles away. In the movie, Napoleon trains ...

Joaquin Phoenix stars as Napoleon Bonaparte and Vanessa Kirby ... which shows the execution of Marie Antoinette in 1793. In a four-star review, NME wrote that this “vivid and dramatic start ...

The film opens with a frazzled yet defiant Marie Antoinette being led to the guillotine, with Napoleon present at her execution. Kudos to whomever designed Antoinette’s hilariously fake-looking ...

The movie follows Napoleon Bonaparte (Joaquin Phoenix) from his days as a gunnery officer watching the execution of Marie Antoinette to his rise in the military to General to his participation in ...

Ridley Scott’s “Napoleon” is well-cast, well-made, and without a thought-provoking theory of its subject’s world-changing appeal. After the violent throes of revolution, in a bankrupt ...

Ridley Scott’s Napoleon is another of his lavishly produced ... European History 101 highlights flash by: Marie Antoinette at the guillotine, the Reign of Terror, the siege at Toulon, the ...

The film shows Napoleon present when Marie-Antoinette was guillotined and later shows him blowing up the pyramids in Egypt — neither of which happened. Joaquin Phoenix, who plays Napoleon ...

After the infamous French Revolution that deposed (to put it gently) King Louis XVI and his wife, Marie Antoinette, via guillotine, Napoleon’s power and influence grew with his military and ...