“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.