If Disney had produced this movie, Josephine would have been played by Lizzo.

The Duelists is a masterpiece.

Scott said that he did not read much about Napoleon and got his inspiration from paintings. Obviously you do not want to take this movie seriously.

Kudos to Nikki for actually conducting the interview at Ridley's speed -- which, unlike most 85-year olds -- is incredibly fast. Cheers.

Saw it last night! It was okay. I thought Vanessa Kirby out acted Joaquin Phoenix. She looked and acted more European precisely because she is. Phoenix is an American! Rufus Sewell would've been a better choice. I've read some about Napoleon, and he was nothing like what this movie portrays. Napoleon syndrome is a real thing for a reason! Napoleon was charismatic! He was controlling! He was domineering! He was also a charmer because he didn't have the looks to rely on! He was also brilliant and calculating! Lastly, he was very proud...not insecure! At least not in public. His public personna was kingly and mesmerizing. Phoenix's portrayal was sleepy! Uncharismatic! Tired! Easy to manipulate! He's also not much of a leader in this movie! He let's Josephine string him along like a love-sick puppy! He's manipulated by Alexander...a boy who had no military knowledge or experience! Lastly, Napoleon was not afraid of anything. Phoenix's portrayal shows Napoleon being insecure, and a somewhat of a coward which he was not. If Napoleon was outmatched, he didn't tuck tail and run. He strategically retreated with a plan to regroup. The only time in the movie I think they got his character right, was I how he bullied Josephine but kept coming back for more because that's what bullies do. His anger and temperament was accurate in this movie! But that's pretty much it.

Funny: "A picture is worth a thousand words": The quote is sometimes attributed to Napoleon Bonaparte, who said "A good sketch is better than a long speech" (French: Un bon croquis vaut mieux qu'un long discours). This is sometimes translated today as "A picture is worth a thousand words." (Wikipedia)

The way that Ridley Scott works visually, starting off with a painting is truly unique and unlike other directors. Great interview

Good for you Nikki Novak! Excellent interview!

Ridley managed to get the Joker dressed up in a period costume. Hurrah!

Thank you.

Seems as though some have had good things to say/favorable, others have had less than that to say in regards to the movie and or their perception of the film’s historical accuracy. Best part of any of it, could be, having had the chance to experience/explore more of RS’s dry wit/sense of humor. Clear his combined talents and personality have won him fans through his career in motion picture/films. Cheers and applause 👏 to that and of course the good of any of it.

Loved it

Behind every great man even ridley Scott couldn't screw this up messing up Napoleon is just about what you would expect from the English but the behing every great man Scott was out of his depth

Scott should have researched the film . Apple stupidly gave him 200 million for a fantasy film.

The "painting" concept reminds me of Barry Lyndon.

This was a really, really interesting interview with R. Scott. Well done!

I love a good actress... Kirby is stunning.

09:46 i know Joaquin is more timid, but why isn't he on the interviews? I did not saw a single interview of him about this movie and i don't remember about Joker either.

I had no idea Vanessa Kirby was so stunning. Pretty, sure - but wow, she really looks incredible here. Such eyes and cheekbones.

Just saw the movie today. Glad they made any history movie but this was 3 out of 5 stars. Watch Waterloo w/ Rod Steiger as Bony instead to get a true sense of the man, his genius, and the times.

Leave it to Hollywood to make a movie about Napoleon look like an episode of GOT without the dragons...

So interesting to hear the connection with the Duelists. Was wondering if there was something there

This sounds like a must watch movie Fabulous interview ladies! Thanks

The best interview I've yet seen about this film.

16:34. I like Vanessa asked Nikki

What a pleasant and informative videocast. At 16:55, I thought that it was so grand of Vanessa to not give her answer and let the interviewer say why Napoleon was obsessed with Josephine. Of course, she is right. When a man loves a woman more than she loves him; he cannot bear to be discarded; he must win her heart and when he fails to do so, his whole life becomes an obsession to find the way to impress her. In Napoleon's tormented career, something like 3 million soldiers went to their early graves and I am sure many were lost because of his desire to show Josephine he was king of the world and he would sacrifice anything and anyone for her love. In vain. Vanessa Kirby is an outstanding performer because she is an artist first and foremost who makes us see what an actor is all about: finding the way to express what someone else must have been going through and doing it with style. What an achievement for Ridly Scott and Joaquin Phoenix and Vanessa Kirby and the many, many other actors and performers and film crew members who made it possible to film such an epic.

Vanessa Kirby sounds like a younger cafe Blanchett in this interview

Hopefully the 4 hr will make it good

Did he just say that NAPOLEON LEFT HIS ARMIES IN EGYPT BECAUSE HE WAS AFRAID THAT JOSEPHINE WAS CHEATING ON HIM BACK IN PARIS? Or did I mishear?

The Duelllists is better than Napoleon imo

Vanessa was great in this movie! Her and Emma Stone are the BEST.

He speaks so well too gotta be an amazing director and definitely one of his best films

There is always a new ATH a year after each halving. It will hit around 300K in April 2025, then a million 4 years later.

Right from the off, great question. Good interview.

The red writing here, Napoleon is misspelled

Love Vanessa. Love Juaquin. Love Ridley's work... I will very much enjoy this movie. Thank you for a great interview and thanks to the incredible Vanessa for sharing her wisdom, insight and more.

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Wow Vanessa Kirby is stunning and she is the only good thing in the film.

Also got the whole demeanor of Marie Antoinette wrong. The silly smarting - arrogance was more like a spoiled young woman when her debut went wrong. Silly.

One person who’s more written about than Napoleon: Jesus

Kubrick should had a good data base about Napoleon.....

Great film. Must see.

His presentation is a title for triumph in film. I can compare the first motive. He has gone through pictures. The world is possible to him chance. Color brush and oil ink with his hand, he has been using his series. Artistic expression and professional service are out of curiosity.

He picked a 60 yrs old with cleft lip to play 20 years old Napoleon without removing wrinkles cosmetically is despicable. He was doing it from behind then asks why she is not having babies? Slap on the movie.Prof.Dr.Nasir Fazal gold medalist Cambridge USA

Unfortunately we were disappointed in this movie. We love Ridley Scott normally Napoleon was just terrible.

I waited for this movie so much. I could not be more happy when finally I was able to buy tickets and go to see it. I watched it and is sheat. Massive, huge fricken disappointment. The real title should be Josephine, and subtitle - Napoleon on drugs. Sorry, but either Phoenix was badly instructed what to do or he just deos not have the charisma to play characters like Bonaparte. Nearly 3 hours long movie about one of the greatest commanders and leaders in history, reduced to alcove’s ventures. Historically its just marvell level, it's beyond bad. I wonder what the purpose of this pic was? It has very little to do with Napoleon, even less with history. Btw, you will learn from this movie it was the russians that defeated Napoleon. Seriously. The movie is a conglomerate of completely random events without any significance and meaning. You can walk out, go to loo, get the food, come back and you will miss nothing. Waste of money and time. The ony good things are the battles,. All two of them. The rest is just incoherent gibberish. And the music, or sound rather is awful, some islamic (?) howling interlaced with orthodox one. Horrible.

It's not because the English never had their "Napoleon" that we have to make a dependent film, not at all realistic. If Ridley Scott had made a film about Abraham Lincon he would have changed history in his own right. like? I am not sure

I just watched this show today and I love the vibe of this movie, starting from costumes battles scenes music and main role played by Phoenix also love the architecture ❤❤❤❤

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Pour quand une biographie de la Reine d'Angleterre version zoophile, réalisée par un français ? Alors nous verrons bien la réaction britannique... (Et ils auront raison de s'indigner). PS : Gros bisous à Vanessa Kirby. ;-)

Thought Napoleon was terrific! I can see why some might have not enjoyed it, considering it's a compressed version of his life for the cinema screen, but for what it was, I loved most of it and found it to be Ridley's strongest film in nearly twenty years. Felt like a return to the old style of Ridley from the 80's and 90's at times, and reminded me a bit of 1492 Conquest Of Paradise, which is a very underrated film. Brilliantly staged battle sequences, stunning locations, set design, cinematography and attention to great detail as well. Now bring on the 4 hour cut.

I saw this movie tonight. Great movie. Excellent

Rotten Tomatoes hates Lady Ballers. That means it's a good movie.

This reporter has excellent questions

The mighty Ridley Scott !

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Napoleon was a Corsican first, last and foremost! As long as Ridley Scott admits that he was playing with history, we can swallow his caveats and untruths! It is like The Titanic, only worse! And he should acknowledge the first film that inspired Gladiator, with Alec Guinness as Marcus Aurelius and Christopher Plummer as Commodus! There is only Malmaison left, the Palais des Tuileries was demolished after the Franco-Prussian war of 1870!

From the trailers there's no French accent from Phoenix. I hate to be that person.

Is he exhausted here or soused?

Wrong, wrong, wrong. Jesus Christ: 24,000 books William Shakespeare: 18,000 books Abraham Lincoln: 14,000 books Winston Churchill: 12,000 books Leonardo da Vinci: 10,000 books Napoleon Bonaparte: 8,000 books Albert Einstein: 7,000 books Martin Luther King Jr.: 6,000 books Mother Teresa: 5,000 books George Washington: 4,000 books

Unpopular opinion Napoleon was so much better than Oppenheimer

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anyone else thinks vanessa looks like benedict cumberbach? and they look like aliens?

I liked it. Why people expect an exact replica of history is beyond me.

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Sembrano belle le immagini del film Napoleon...Rydley Scott è un regista anche esteta sono molto stilizzate le immagini dei film di Rydley Scott , per noi è stata la visione del film Blade Runner ...una rivelazione..addirittura un mio amico dell epoca , studente dell istituto d arte ci mostro delle immagini quadri di pittori del 900 Futurismo ..accanto alle immagini di Blade Runner ..di Rydley Scott ...un film Cult ..diciamo per noi ..

this film is unworthy of Ridley Scott! he should have taken inspiration from his film “The Duelists” which is an excellent film.

Absolute embarrassment of a movie.

Capitato spesso ed è funny che mi sono piaciuti e mi piacciono film e musica produzione americana ed inglese che spesso persone di quei paesi nazioni non conosco o non apprezzano molto , persone dell Inghilterra e della America mai visto blade Runner di Rydley Scott mai visto taxi driver ..film di Martin Scorsese ...però conoscono questi registi ...a me piacciono anche i Beatles persone dell Inghilterra non piacciono perché musica vecchia mi piacciono i rolling stones invece persone inglesi non piacciono ...ecco per dire Anglofoni Anglosassoni ..si ho letto Ivanhoe ...Walter Scott ..alcune persone inglesi in Italia ma che libro è ??, che libri leggi Ivanhoe ???

You know, folk who claim to know about the history of NB have thrown rottern tomartos at it. I said to my misses, watch it with a clean mind and we enjoyed it. I visited the Duke of Wellington's house today and spent some time looking at paintings of Empress Josephine. I think Vanessa Kirby good acting job for sure and i get the connection

I have watched movies for decades and this was in the top ten WORST movies I have ever seen. By far Ridley Scott's worst movie. What a shame.

Would have loved to see Stanley Kubrick napoleon film but this will suffice enough. I dont like how the love story is the main point of the story though

Those who dislike it I have to say to them this is an entertaining movie, not a documentary! It was a complex historical period, they could not cover everything in 2.5 hours. They did not cover any of Napoleon's institutional reforms such as the civil code, because it would be awkward and boring as a movie.

Vanessa's no idea abt what she's talking about...I mean her impressions of a castle, where Josephine died. That was Malmaison, but in the movie we don't see Malmaison, that's totally another castle! I've been to Malmaison twice in 2019 and 2022!

What a haughty aristocratic accent Vanesa has, home bred for a thousand years from the mountains and forests of Skane. The icy fjord gaze rolling in the Albion green hills buries a longship in its silt.

Very disappointing with this WOKE Napoleon movie. Had a huge hope before watching, was expecting something like Gladiator and it was joke of a movie.

To save your time and money, DO NOT watch "Napoleon". You will thank me for this advice. The weak movie has nothing to do with history besides the name.

This interview was the downfall of the movie!! I wished they brought his defeat in Acre (Akka), Palestine, a history we are proud of.

Awful film. Comes across as a hatchet job on Napoleon, cut to pieces to fit into 2.5 hours. Doesn't know what it wants to be. No character development so they needed to put on screen titles to label who some people were. No accents so at one point, the messenger tells a king that Bonaparte landed. Turns out it was Louis XVIII with a Basingstoke accent. Not fussed about accuracy, but there's no cohesion in the jumps from one time to another. I love Phoenix, but he plays a jaded miserable mumbling napoleon from the beginning to end. At 23 he was dynamic, charismatic and ambitious. Not world weary and quiet as played. The grading was appalling. The whole thing looked like a Nuclear winter had fallen on Europe. Pointless scenes here and there - what that Mummy scene all about? Finally, Phoenix's Napoleon looked the same at 23 as at 46 at Waterloo. Avoid.

Garbage movie, too bad for the actors. Ridley make a kitsch just like Gladiator.

As far as I know, Napoleon didn't have a "harelip"! The choice of the main character was completely wrong! I can't see him as Napoleon with his face, nor age. In the case of a biographical film, I think the similarity between the real person to be portrayed and the actor portraying it is important for authenticity. (See Oppenheimer and upcoming Bernstein movies.) No matter how fantastic the actor is chosen, but I can not believe that he is Napoleon. Now we can see Commodus as a Warlord instead of Napoleon! Super!!! If the director wanted Joaquin Phoenix in his film at all costs, he could have given him the role of General Von Blücher. He had a mustache. Sorry!

Movie was Epic,a triumph,a love story of a egomaniac😊

Joaquin was great, as Vanessa Kirby. But Rupert Everetts voice and face left quite an impression on me.

This movie was horrible, except for Vanessa Kirby she was great

I hope people aren't turned off by the comments on this movie. It is a work of art in my opinion. If you want a boring documentary then find one. If you want a beautiful portrait, go see it. Brilliant

Più che un film un lassativo.

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The film is dire

Good interview. Film was incredible in some ways but full of artistic license and a bit like an (uncomfortable) domestic soap opera.

Poor movie and not comparable to 1970 Movie….rod Steiger

Bravo A MOVIE think Barry Lyndon not GOT

Unfortunately I was very disappointed by this movie :(. Wrong casting with Joaquim Phoenix. Looked old and too fat … And missing charisma… it was more like a bad caricature:(((

forcing this feminism bad movie

By far his worst movie. He even managed to make Joaquin Phoenix delievered a horrible performance.

One of the worst movies depicting one of historical giants. You did a horrible job!

Ridley is not short on ego which is fine because he is great