“Napoleon” (2023) opens with an idea written in the shades of the French tricolor: “The people are driven by misery into revolution … and brought back to misery by revolution.” This cyclic statement ...

Napoleon (2023) Powered by Reelgood More On: Joaquin Phoenix ‘Joker: ... Our first introduction to Napoleon is at Marie Antoinette’s aforementioned execution.

Ridley Scott isn't concerned with "Napoleon" being historically accurate down the nth ... 2023 1:55pm PT ... and he said that Marie Antoinette “famously had very cropped hair for the ...

In “Napoleon,” which begins with Marie Antoinette at the guillotine and ends with Napoleon on St. Helena where he died at age 51 in 1821, it’s startling how much disregard the movie has for ...

Ridley Scott serves up dazzling spectacle in “Napoleon,” a historical drama about the French general played with comic and dramatic flair by Academy Award-winner Joaquin Phoenix.

One detail upon which Scarpa opened up was regarding the film’s opening scene, which shows the execution of Marie Antoinette in 1793. In a four-star review, NME wrote that this “vivid and ...

Napoleon continues to notch military victories and shocks the world, not necessarily by becoming emperor but by taking the crown and crowning himself, and then Josephine.

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.

December 4, 2023 5:04 AM ET. ... The film shows Napoleon present when Marie-Antoinette was guillotined and later shows him blowing up the pyramids in Egypt — neither of which happened.

Napoleon begins with the bloody fall of the French monarchy and, with it, the head of its famous queen Marie Antoinette. From there, we meet Napoleon (Joaquin Phoenix), a lowborn but ambitious ...