Ridley Scott creates an outrageously enjoyable cavalry charge of a movie in his biopic of Napoleon, disregarding the symbolic weight attached to previous biopics. Scott cheekily imagines Napoleon's actions in the Egyptian campaign and the execution of Marie Antoinette. The film avoids mentioning Napoleon's reintroduction of slavery into the French colonies.
Ridley Scott dispenses with the symbolic weight attached to previous biopics in favour of a spectacle with a great star at its centre. Many directors have tried following Napoleon where the paths of glory lead, and maybe it is only defiant defeat that is really glorious.
But Ridley Scott has created an outrageously enjoyable cavalry charge of a movie, a full-tilt biopic of two and a half hours in which Scott doesn’t allow his troops to get bogged down mid-gallop in the muddy terrain of either fact or metaphysical significance, the tactical issues that have defeated other film-makers. Scott cheekily imagines Napoleon firing on the pyramids in the Egyptian campaign as well as witnessing the execution of Marie Antoinette (but not the humiliation of Louis XVI by the Tuileries mob, which he might actually have seen). Out of deference moreover, Scott and his screenwriter David Scarpa suppress all mention of Napoleon’s reintroduction of slavery into the French colonies
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