This is the cinema of the week, but also a media event, The Liberation of Napoleon by Ridley Scott, accompanied by the quarrel of these historians, is inevitable when encountering such a monument of the country’s heritage.
To play the Emperor of France, Ridley Scott called upon Joaquin Phoenix, an actor he rediscovered twenty years after Gladiator, in which he played the character of Commodus, a role that earned him his first Oscar nomination.
It is with this actor that we are going to play today and try to identify some of his movie posters using simple details. Before that, some secrets of his new film.
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Long version 4h30
If Napoleon has a substantial length of 2h38, Ridley Scott announced that a longer version would be well suited to see the light of day. Indeed, the director has many hours in a hurry; With all this material, he has enough time to process in 4 hours and 30 minutes!
Conflict of agendas
After their last duel, Jodie Comer and Ridley Scott were to team up for Napoleon. But the actress cast as Josephine had to withdraw from the project due to scheduling conflicts before being replaced by Vanessa Kirby.
A history enthusiast
This is not the first time that Ridley Scott brought historical subjects to the screen. We owe him Les Duellistes – his first feature film, also set during the Napoleonic Wars -, 1492: Christopher Columbus, Gladiator, Kingdom of Heaven and the Last Duel. The director has long wanted to bring the fate of the French emperor to the screen: “I love historical stories because history fascinates me. Napoleon’s history marks the beginning of modern history. He changed the world and redefined the rules“.
Take to the battlefield with this challenge to try to identify these eight posters from Joaquin Phoenix’s filmography.
Source: Allocine
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