Napoleon : An impressive biopic about Ridley Scott
Ridley Scott he is undoubtedly one of the last directors capable of directing hundreds of extras stage an epic film. Now, most productions prefer to use digital effects to recreate the crowd. But Ridley Scott still has enough importance in Hollywood to shoot “the old fashioned way”. He has proven it more than once during his career. And this will still be the case his next two films: Napoleon AND Gladiator 2.
For Gladiator 2we were able to see images of the filming in Malta where the directorial would take place he built a huge Colosseum. And about it Napoleon, the first trailer speaks for itself. But Sony Pictures also revealed it a short making of (video on the first page of an article) showing impressive images from the shoot.
To tell the story of the French emperor, embodied here Joaquin Phoenix, Ridley Scott could not skimp on the means and not stage some of Bonaparte’s famous battles. The director explains in the video that to capture everything on the screen he had above all available 300 men, 100 horses and 11 cameras! Ridley Scott was able to do it like this real reconstructions of the battles led by Napoleon.
The director admits in this making of that he had a sort of delusion of grandeur when he started”think like Napoleon“. An influence that describes how to be “great or deadly“.
The portrait of a tyrant and his wife
This biopic it promises to be grand and absolutely epic. At least in terms of battles. But Ridley Scott, who directed it specifically Kingdom of Paradise (2005) or recently The last duel (2021), will not only tell about these fights Napoleon. The film should above all establish a comprehensive portrait of the Emperor with its positive sides, but also its character and his tyrannical decisions. This is also what is mentioned in another making of proposed by Sony Pictures and which you can discover below:
Finally, we will add to this his relationship with Empress Josephine of Beauharnaiswho became his wife and who, according to the trailer, had a considerable influence on Bonaparte. Vanessa Kirby (Mission impossible 7) was chosen to play her, while the cast is also made up of French people Tahar Rahim as Paul Barras.
Napoleon is to be discovered in theaters November 22, 2023.
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Source: Cine Serie
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