Ridley Scott Breaks Down Battle Scenes From His Movie Napoleon

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apparently there wasn't any cgi in any of the pixar films either, they used real monsters and talking cars, so impressive

Ridley Scott confirmed he has an 'extended' 4 hour version ready to roll, it will be released after the theatrical run. FANTASTIC!

If you guys want a great Napoleonic War movie, and just an all around good movie in general, you should watch Waterloo. It’s on YouTube free with no ads and has 17,000 Russian extras from the Soviet army as the soldiers. No CGI. It was made in 1970 but it probably the 2nd or 3rd best movie I’ve ever seen, and also Christopher Plummer and Rob Steiger play Wellington and Napoleon.

Okay. After watching this, I'm convinced that Scott didn't only not care for historical accuracy, he just made what he thought would look good without even taking accuracy into *consideration*.

Scott is being a bit silly here. Historians don't claim to know what happened because they were there, but because they have read the reports and recollections of those who were.

This is the first film I really want to see in theaters, in a long time.

05:48 Another Director who tries to lie and downplay the use of CG and VFX in a movie. That’s how he respects the hundreds of artists doing visual work in front of a computer instead of working on set. Bravo Ridley! You can join Christopher Nolan in this regard.

Any Total War fans here? I just want them to return to this time period!

There is a ridiculously methodical process that historians follow to know which is accurate and which is not. History isn't an easy subject to say "how do they know?"

Austerlitz was by itself a amazing story. No need to falsify the account. Napoleon doesn't need stupid Hollywood remake. In the battle of Rivoli, hos center was breaking, his right flank was gone and he had enemy troops blocking his path of retreat and yet he looked at the nap and said to the present officers: they are ours.

What we are looking at here 5:49 is not CGI?: at the very moment Ridley says 'NO', big CGI explosion 😂 As a (french) vfx artist this marketing argument is degrading the whole profession; we'll move to theater for the story, the performances and the craft; the hundreds of invisible VFX shots you won't even notice is part of it and should be celebrated and credited as the rest of the craft. It's like saying there is no historians, no props and set makers, no costumes designers, and everything appeared by magic ;

Stanley Kubrick once planned on making a Napoleon film and even had the script finished and began shooting background footage. It never got made, but he famously said that if it did, it would be the greatest film ever made. Kubrick's vision may never be realized, but Ridley's version may be the next best thing. At 85 years old, he's still making epics. A true legend of film making.

9 VFX studios, nearly 300 credit VFX artists specializing in compositing, tracking, lighting, 3D modeling, texturing and animation — But no CGI. Uh huh. Okay.

Waterloo is probably the best Napoleonic era film ever made. Over two hours focused on a single decisive battle really shows the drama and grittiness compared to two and a half hours in this new film trying to cover Napoleons entire life. I can definitely see how the rumors that this was a four-hour film cut down to the current running time. The focus on the Napoleon/Josephine relationship as the key narrative device would have benefited from longer more sympathetic character development. It seemed hard to care for any character in the film. The score was also a little wanting, with some rousing battle music and other classical ambience, but also some weird almost mongolian moaning at some points. The historical events & politics should have been the driving force. a mid-tier rating film for me. If you want to enjoy a good Napoleonic era film go watch the Classic Waterloo again, far superior with two hours being devoted to just one battle rather than the entire period

Congratulations Ridley Scott, you made 'Josephine!'

I’ve got 400 books about Napoleon! And there’s thousands more… what a ridiculous understatement about the man.

Ridley keeps saying there are 400 books written about Napoleon. According to historian J.D Markham, the actual number is over 300,000. There have been more books written about Napoleon than days since his death.

The Austerlitz scene does bother me. It is a small anecdote about the battle that some retreating troops were shot at while on ice, and he uses this to explain how Napoleon won… the true story is much more interesting how he tricked the allied armies into attacking him and sprung a trap. Scott’s explanation of history books and historians is completely wrong. History is written way different to how we wrote it and recorded it back even 100 years ago. Taking artistic license is fine but telling historians they are wrong when you are not a historian and don’t understand how history is studied and written isn’t fine. Edit: for clarity, I am okay with the historical inaccuracy for entertainment reasons, it’s normal for a Ridley Scott movie, but his misinterpretation of the study of history and using it as an excuse is pretty insulting. Dan Snow must feel bad that he couldn’t/can’t comment on this, because it’s Ridley Scott.

this man is 85 and is still doing his thing. Love it