“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 ...

Napoleon (2023) is an American epic-action-historical ... young French army officer Napoleon Bonaparte witnesses Marie Antoinette’s execution by guillotine. Following the massacre, Napoleon ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Analysis: did Napoleon really fire at the pyramids? Was he present at Marie Antoinette's execution? And what was the story with Josephine? Directors of historical feature films face a difficult task.

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 ...

The new movie from Ridley Scott, “Napoleon,” with Joaquin Phoenix in the title role, runs for two hours and thirty-eight minutes. That’s almost as long as Napoleon’s coronation, at Notre ...

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 ...