The director responsible for 2001: A Space Odyssey and A Clockwork Orange failed to complete one of his most desired projects.
NapoleonIn Ridley Scottjust arrived in theaters, but it wasn’t even close the first attempt to adapt the trajectory of the French emperor for the screen. Passing through the 1927 classic, directed by Abel GanceUntil Désirée, Napoleon’s lovesince 1954, with Marlon Brando There are many interpretations as Napoleon of this historically relevant character. However, the director’s project was a biopic that unfortunately never saw the light of day Stanley Kubrick.
Considered “Stanley Kubrick’s greatest frustration” and also what would have been, according to the filmmaker himself who passed away in 1999, “the best film of all time”, Kubrick’s Napoleon was abandoned in the late 1960s by MGM studios especially due to production costs.
The mythical story was saved through the book “Napoleon: The Greatest Film Ever Made”, published in 2011. After dealing with this great disappointment, Kubrick published several works such as Barry Lyndon, The enlightened onein addition to the long one With eyes tightly closedthe last of his career.
In Ridley Scott’s Napoleon, we follow the origins of Napoleon Bonaparte (played by Joaquin Phoenix) and his rapid and unstoppable rise to emperor, through his visceral and often volatile relationship with his wife and true love, Josephine (Vanessa Kirby). Um…
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