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I never realized until this movie that France outright refuses to accept that they were kind of the bad guys of Europe during Napoleon's reign. They deny any wrong doing and keep saying "he was anti monarchy though!" As if it were monarchs and not regular folk dying all over those battlefields.
Anyways it's funny watching the French get twisted up that this movie makes them look like the bad guys, they also don't seem to realize Ridley Scott movies are historical fiction. I'm any case, this is like Germans being mad that they were made to look like the bad guys in ww2 movies.
Napoleon was a villain, but he is definitely an interesting historical figure. Movie looks like it turns him into a cartoon villain. I haven't seen it, but given ridley Scott's recent output, I wouldn't be surprised if it was a boring, melodramatic mess.
Ridley’s theatrical epics are like “first drafts” anyway. I’ll always wait for the extended edition or Director’s Cut. They are always infinitely better. Every time.