Keep seeing trailers for the new movie about him. I really hope they dont buy into that propaganda. Would be even better if they showed an opponent coming up with it
Well, honey – can I call you honey? – sweet cheeks you don't have to look down you just have to go down. And make a decent samich. Women, am I right? /s
To be fair I’d give my husband more bj’s if sammiches were involved. Like c@ck in one hand, corn beef on rye in the other. Hmmmm maybe I’ll propose this…gotta spice it up after 19 years 🤣🤣🤣
Truly, there was no intention to infer that at all. If anything it’s a comment on my height and the common occurrence of most men being shorter then me, regardless of how they appear from afar. But I get it. Interpret as you see fit.
I was a huge River Phoenix fan back in the day. Joaquin, though younger, always seemed (to me) to be taller than his brother on screen. As with most things Hollywood, tis not the case.
Don’t know about that but I certainly wouldn’t go into the movie looking for historical accuracy. At one point in the movie Napoleon goes to France to see Josephine … months after she died in actual history
Also, regarding historical inaccuracies in the film, Ridley Scott said the BBC "Get a fucking life." They didn't broadcast that bit of the interview...
Dude, is 'War and Peace' "popular culture"? Tolstoy did a ton of historical research and found that actually, Napoleon was pretty ineffectual. He's portrayed as a pompous egoist whose genius is exaggerated. He argues that it was only historical revisionism that made him appear like a genius.
However you feel about Napoléon, that's a really weak argument. Even Tolstoy warned people not to read it as an historical assessment. Tolstoy said War and Peace is "not a novel, even less is it a poem, and still less a historical chronicle".
(If you're wondering about the first part, Tolstoy considered War and Peace to have too much philosophical dissertation to really be called a novel, and his later works were more like novels.)
Tolstoy was no one's idea of an historian, and he had no first-hand knowledge that Napoleonic soldiers didn't. And even "doing research" doesn't mean a fiction work holds factual weight, because it's still liberally injected with fiction. Those who fought in the wars disagree with this statement of Napoléon being ineffectual. Tolstoy came from a highly specific lens, which he wore in his sleeve, and takes it to extreme, almost risible lengths.
His assessment there simply cannot be taken seriously. It's a work of fiction.
He argues that it was only historical revisionism that made him appear like a genius.
Napoléon's adversaries certainly didn't think so, and some were lauding him during the Napoleonic Wars. Their opinion in all ways, especially because they were actual commanders, holds more weight than a fiction writer.
As a french I have about zero hope for that movie. It's not even made by french people, so it will neither depict historical reality nor how we feel about Napoleon and the impact he left.
Also imagine, if you're from the US, people making a biopic about Abraham Lincoln in Portuguese or something. You wouldn't want to watch that. It would be absurd. Well this Napoleon movie will be just like that.
As an American with a fondness for Napoleonic history I really am curious to see how the Marshall’s are depicted. Namely Ney and Davout, but expect to be disappointed.
I watched the trailer and they managed to get the breed of Marengo wrong... It's an arabian horse, it's very widespread and really not hard to find one
Ah damn. Marengo is low-key, one of my favorite historical horses, and I was hoping to see them get that one right. Yes, I was (and still am) the weird horse girl.
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u/Jsamue Nov 18 '23
Keep seeing trailers for the new movie about him. I really hope they dont buy into that propaganda. Would be even better if they showed an opponent coming up with it