I went to the cinema last week to ** "Napoleon", and my feeling after watching the movie is that this is the most amazing movie for me this year, Scott is still young, and the expression of film aesthetics has risen to a new height, and the evaluation of this movie on the Internet is really more derogatory than praised, mainly because Napoleon's character creation and historical figure characterization do not conform to the mainstream view of history, and the sadomasochistic love affair between Napoleon and Josephine is really spicy, as an epic blockbuster, the personal bloody sadomasochistic plot accounts for too much, netizens jokingly said that the film should not be called " Napoleon" should be called "The Secret Between Napoleon and Josephine". Although the film has a bad review, and it is reflected in the box office, it is indeed mediocre, but according to the author's perception after the second brush, "Napoleon" is one of the few eye-catching epic films or biopics after the author's theater release in recent years.
Fans who are familiar with Scott know that Scott has made many famous film works in film history, such as the earliest "Gladiator", "Blade Runner", and created a series of genre films "Alien" that integrates sci-fi thrillers. Scott is not like other directors who have their own distinct personal style, Scott is a cross-border all-round film creator, different film genres can be easily obtained from him, and can be independent, which is a great challenge for a film creator, requiring talent and creativity.
Specific to this "Napoleon", after watching it twice, I was first amazed by the director's picture expressiveness, each frame is like the original oil painting, Scott said in an interview that he observed a large number of paintings that reflected history at that time, and when talking about his creative experience, he said that the authenticity of the paintings is much higher than that of books, and the famous paintings that have been handed down to later generations are like the storyboards of the times, and like the moving time-lapse** , faithfully recording the original appearance of the times, gave him a lot of creative inspiration, unlike the vast biographical books mixed with a lot of speculation and untruths, the film is full of a kind of classical pictorial imagery of a lot of historical paintings in the 1:1 ratio, which pulls in the distance between people and history, and enhances the true touch of history;In addition, Scott creatively uses medium-shot shots to show the arrangement of people and landscapes, and constructs a delicate picture. The overall cold and glamorous tone of the film shows the director's detached narrative attitude, there is no praise or criticism, just an objective record, and there is a sense of abstract beauty in the perception.
The topic of "Napoleon" off the screen is quite controversial, focusing on Napoleon's characterization and historical characterization, online comments are far from history, not in line with mainstream values, and accuse the director of smuggling in the shadows, ambiguously implying that Napoleon is a tyrannical **;And Napoleon's love affair with Josephine is too bloody, how can the great Napoleon be a love brain, how can he be so infatuated with a second-married woman who is six years older than himself, this is not the Napoleon in my mind, emmm....Watching the movie is a very private experience, there are a thousand Hamlets for a thousand audiences, in terms of the story narrative of the film, aside from the details of the content, the main story line is very similar, and the life deeds of the characters are basically the same, even if it is the lace love history of Napoleon and Josephine, it is also based on the deduction and deduction of a large number of private love letters handed down, in terms of the original intention and motivation of the characters, Napoleon is indeed very fascinated by Josephine, otherwise it cannot be explained that a housewife with two children in a second marriage will be entangled with Napoleon for more than ten years and finally become the queen, and she will not be able to give birth to an heir (Josephine has used sulfur and arsenic to abort many times, and the side also reflects that Josephine is indeed romantic) , and finally the marriage of the two broke down.
Speaking of Napoleon in history, Napoleon's fifty-one years of life have been condensed into the fantasies of several generations, and now they have been compressed into a few hundred minutes of film. He is so complex and contradictory, how difficult it is to resist the invasion of history, fate and time, and try to live up to the expectations of the name "Napoleon"!
Just like the controversy that appears in the movie network review, Napoleon's historical evaluation will also experience a lot of romanticization or slander with the passage of time, even the self-reports of the contemporaries will show a strong tendentious description based on their own situation or position, so that the event itself is added with multiple "filters", so that the historical facts are distorted to varying degrees, but fortunately, Napoleon left more than 10,000 letters, and future generations can follow the map and crawl out the overall context of history.
Since the Napoleonic era was an era of drastic changes, and the historical events and relationships between the characters were intricate, we will vividly review Napoleon's life in the form of illustrations
1.Artistic propaganda portrait of Napoleon at the Battle of Arcole on November 15, 1796, by Antoine-Jean Gro. Napoleon was squeezed into the ditch only for a moment.
2.Imperial Heroism: Napoleon in a Coronation Robe. Written by Jacques-Louis David.
3.Napoleon's younger brother Lucien, a key figure in the coup d'état. Napoleon's opposition to Lucien's marriage led to the two becoming estranged from each other, but before the Battle of Waterloo, Lucien finally returned to support Napoleon.
4 For most of his life, Napoleon was close to his wise but weak brother Joseph. Napoleon made Joseph King of Naples and later King of Spain, but for Napoleon, Joseph brought more political burdens than political benefits.
5.The Queen Mother, Napoleon's shrewd mother. Napoleon gave the Queen Mother a lot of money, but she was still frugal, and when asked why, she replied: "Maybe one day I will have to find bread for all these king's children." ”
6.Napoleon's sister Elisa. Napoleon made her Princess Luca and Piombino, Grand Duchess of Tuscany.
7.Napoleon's younger brother Louis. Napoleon made him King of the Netherlands. Because Louis put Dutch interests ahead of those of the French Empire, Napoleon later deposed him.
8.Together, Napoleon and Josephine brokered the marriage of Séphine's daughter, Alttens, to Louis. It was an unfortunate marriage, although the two gave birth to the future emperor Napoleon III.
9.Among Napoleon's siblings, his charming sister Polina was the closest to him. She did show love and loyalty to him.
10.Josephine de Beauharne. In March 1796, Napoleon married Josephine and left her forty-eight hours later to go to the front. Although both of them cheated and eventually divorced, he always considered her to be his lucky star. At the wedding, he gave her a gold medallion painted with enamel engraved "To fate".
11.Désirée Clary was Napoleon's first love, and his proposal to her was rejected. Désirée later married Marshal Bernadotte and became Queen of Sweden.
12.When Napoleon discovered Josephine and the hussar Hippolyte Charles, he took Polyna Fures, the wife of a 20-year-old cavalry lieutenant, in Cairo.
13.In 1800, Napoleon began a long-term affair with 27-year-old opera singer Giuseppina Gracini in Milan.
14.In 1802, at the age of 15, Marguerite Weimmel became Napoleon's **, and at that time her stage name was "Miss George".
15.On New Year's Day 1807, Napoleon met Marie Tsolona-Valewska, Countess of Poland, who was 20 years old at the time and married to a 72-year-old Polish landowner. Napoleon had 22**, and Valewska became the most favored. In 1814 and 1815 she visited him on the island of Elba and at the Château de Fontainebleau.
16.Napoleon's illegitimate son, Count Alexander Valewska, who served as *** president and president of the Legislative Council during the reign of Napoleon III.
17.In 1806, Napoleon took in the 17-year-old Eleonor de Nuel de La Plagne, a "beautiful woman with dark eyes and dark brown hair." Napoleon and Eleonore gave birth to an illegitimate son, the Count of Leon. Leon looked so much like the emperor that in his later life, people on the streets often stared at him.
18.Actress Anne Hippolyte Butai Salveta, stage known as "Miss Mars". In 1815, she paid tribute to Napoleon with violets, symbolizing his return to Paris in the spring.
19.The last ** Albiena de Montolon that Napoleon looked for on St. Helena. She named one of her daughters, Josephine Napoleon, and the child was probably his.
20.Queen Marie-Louise, by François Gérard. In the year it was created, Marie Louise became Napoleon's second wife. At the time, she was only 18 years old and he was 40 years old, but their marriage was very successful at first.
21.In June 1800, in Marengo, Napoleon's closest friend, General Louis Desai, was shot in the forehead and died. If Desai hadn't died, he would have become the Imperial Marshal.
22.Marshal Jean Lannes was one of the few who could speak frankly with Napoleon, but in May 1809 he lost a leg at the Battle of Aspein-Essling, and a few days later he died in agony.
23.Marshal Jean-Baptiste Besier. In May 1813, Bessière, who had been Napoleon's confidant, had been a confidant of Napoleon, was killed after being shot in the chest by a cannon shell while scouting enemy positions.
24.Apart from Napoleon's family, only the court ceremonial general, General Géraud Dilroque, could address him with the affectionate "you". In May 1813, after Besier, Dilocke was blown up by cannons in the Battle of Reichen**.
To be updated in the future