Napoleon is in theaters November 22. Napoleon Bonaparte became the ruler of France at age 30, conquered most of Europe before he was 40, and died in exile at 51. It’s the sort of life that seems like it would make a pretty good movie — yet every modern attempt has either stunk (1954’s Désirée, 1970’s Waterloo) or fallen apart before cameras rolled (Stanley Kubrick’s unmade biopic). That makes Ridley Scott’s Napoleon, a $200 million, 157-minute epic starring Joaquin Phoenix, by default the definitive film about the French emperor. The director of Gladiator and Black Hawk Down has restaged so...…Napoleon is in theaters November 22. Napoleon Bonaparte became the ruler of France at age 30, conquered most of Europe before he was 40, and died in exile at 51. It’s the sort of life that seems like it would make a pretty good movie — yet every modern attempt has either stunk (1954’s Désirée, 1970’s Waterloo) or fallen apart before cameras rolled (Stanley Kubrick’s unmade biopic). That makes Ridley Scott’s Napoleon, a $200 million, 157-minute epic starring Joaquin Phoenix, by default the definitive film about the French emperor. The director of Gladiator and Black Hawk Down has restaged so...WW…
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