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@user-fx9hv3up3f

5 ай бұрын

Metatron you should collect roman coins now that you can legally cause you live in the US also you can get many coins for under $15

@ksgermania6159

5 ай бұрын

Hitler was Black.

@somerandoinaknightsarmor9938

5 ай бұрын

Where did you get the funny hat, I need one.

@wisdomleader85

5 ай бұрын

Till this day, "Waterloo" is still the best Napoleon movie in my opinion, and it was filmed 53 years ago, ironically.

@ianmacfarlane1241

5 ай бұрын

Dan Snow isn't a "TikToker". He may utilise TikTok, but his career goes well beyond that.

As an alien I can assure you that Ridley Scott knows nothing about us either.

@forbidden-cyrillic-handle

5 ай бұрын

Shut up, Jar Jar Binks! You can't be in every movie.

@brucetucker4847

5 ай бұрын

Also, Dude, "alien" is not the preferred nomenclature. Xenomorph-American, please.

@KaiHenningsen

5 ай бұрын

@@brucetucker4847 ... story about the guy insisting a guy who never set foot in the US, nor did his parents, must be "African-American" and all other terms are impermissible ...

@jeffreyromain7336

5 ай бұрын

​@@forbidden-cyrillic-handle😂

@akl2k7

5 ай бұрын

​@KaiHenningsen I remember at least hearing about an interview where a reporter was asking a black British athlete about his experiences, but kept referring to him as African American.

Imagine a criminal going to the judge: "Well were you there? No? So stfu and get a life!"

@EvilEgg331

5 ай бұрын

Judge: Oh all right then, sorry. Case dismissed *whack*

@luelee6168

5 ай бұрын

It's more akin to the criminal telling the investigators who spent days collecting data, leading up to his arrest.

@iammicah895

5 ай бұрын

Judge: “ understandable. Have a nice day”…

@oscaralegre3683

5 ай бұрын

You won the Internet today 🤣🤣🤣

@williamshelton4318

5 ай бұрын

“You brought 9 of my peers in to give a verdict and the prosecutor wasn’t even there?!?!”

My dad made fun of me for not wanting to go see Napoleon with him(I already had plans anyway). But once he came back, he congratulated me on deciding not to go because it was awful.

@beyondlimitationsvideo

5 ай бұрын

I'm 45 now. I saw countless movies and tv-shows in my life. I was really entertainted when GLADIATOR came out in the year 2000. Yes, that one was as historically accurate as Star Trek, but it was at least very entertaining. By God, I watched Naploeon on Sunday and I felt Nothing, NOTHING. Ridley Scott might be just too old and stubborn now - he's 86... many people don't even live that long. And usually people get more and more stubborn and entitled in old age. He made some masterpieces, but WTF was Napoleon!

@Cavirex

4 ай бұрын

​@@beyondlimitationsvideo Scott began his downfall in 2005, with Kingdom of Heaven. Since then, he made a few decent films here and there, but most of them are atrocious.

@ArseneGray

4 ай бұрын

Is your dad a boomer?

@allisk8001

4 ай бұрын

@@ArseneGray He's on the older end of Gen X, with a couple older siblings who are Boomer.

@ArseneGray

4 ай бұрын

@allisk8001 so we have evidence of at least one person who is not a millenial who does not like ridley scott's movie 😅

my history prof had a doctorate in Egyptian history. she said she was consulted for several movies and tv shows. she said they tell them what they need to know but whether or not they use it or even listen to you is up to them, but they can still say they consulted historians.

@zombiedoggie2732

5 ай бұрын

yeah if it isn't in line with the director's "Vision" the director will discard it for some made up bunk. Clothing historians go through the same battle. Especially with "Of Corset hurts!" scenes where actresses get laced in a corset without a chemise. Corsets historically never was worn without a chemise. The chemise is there to protect the corset from the wearer's oils, and the wearer from the corset. Oh and directors who have actresses tightlace corsets in the 1700s. A thing that wouldn't exist till 100 years later. Looking at you, Pirates of the Caribbean!

@myowndata

4 ай бұрын

the historians working for babrians on netflix made video why they quit season 2 😅 kzread.info/dash/bejne/pqKn1MRvoNLcpag.html

@theBenStrothmann

4 ай бұрын

@@zombiedoggie2732 My first thought exactly. I remember reading some article where the main costume designer of Vikings said she consulted various experts or something of that sort. All I could think was: "You may have consulted them, but you sure as hell didn't listen to their counsel..."

@feedigli

4 ай бұрын

Well, you get an A for your thesis but you get an F for spelling, grammar and coherent sentence structure.

@zombiedoggie2732

4 ай бұрын

@@feedigli Heh he's a History major, not an English one. Even History majors have proofreaders for their books.

People are getting tired of altering history for the sake of either diversity or sensationalism.

@ohamatchhams

5 ай бұрын

For this case, it's probably more leaning into Ridley Scott's British's anti-French biases and anti-historical sentiments, making Napoleon an emotionally malleable military general with the film very specific angle to undermine his military achievements throughout DECADES OF ABLE TO CONQUER EUROPE, undermining his double-edged sword of his legacy with blatant biases on a film based of a historical figure, it's giving me reminiscence to the more recent and seemingly unrelated kind of USA lying about WMDs in Iraq or the incubator babies in Kuwait to brushing out the highway of death alongside Saddam's role in stabilising Iraq into national order, relative growth and notable anti-terrorism containment in the Middle East (so mass immigrations to The West are minimised to teeth), in spite of Saddam's many flaws and crimes (especially letting Uday's deranged antics existing) but I digress Making Napoleon being so submissive to his wife while not focusing on the actual women that's waaay more instrumental to Napoleon's life (namely his very own mother which he highly respected and loved so much) are akin to making an Ottoman series where Suleiman I's military and administrative achivements being reduced to him simping for Roxelana/Hurrem, it's historical revisionism into absurd degrees

@Duke_of_Lorraine

5 ай бұрын

To some extend, making the action more spectacular can be okay if it doesn't break the logic. An example I often use is the ice breaking under the Teutonic Knights in Alexander Nevsky, which didn't happen during the real battle.

@Cancoillotteman

5 ай бұрын

Alexandre Dumas (writer of the Three Musketeers) had a great saying for that : "You can rape history, at the condition to give her beautiful children" Although the rape allegory might be ill-suited to the modern times, i like the idea : you can change history for your fiction, at the explicit condition that what you show is more interesting than what actually happened.

@LawfulBased

5 ай бұрын

Always write die-worse-ity. Do it. Let us bark back a bit.

@samhavoc1066

5 ай бұрын

@@ohamatchhams Well congratulations on rambling from Scott's Napoleon bias to your own about Saddam and the U.S. in one long and barely comprehensible sentence.

Napoleon Bonaparte: "History is a set of lies agreed upon." Ridley Scott: "And I took that quote to heart."

@queenzelda1221

5 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@bas-tn3um

5 ай бұрын

every tyrant makes this claim to justify their own lies.

@die1mayer

5 ай бұрын

Napoleon was talking about bias in the aftermath of his fall, he never dismissed history.

@bas-tn3um

5 ай бұрын

lenin said winners right history books and i bet i could find at least one roman emperor who makes the same claim. napoleon wasnt as bad as he is made out to be.@@die1mayer

@katarinatibai8396

5 ай бұрын

😂😂😂👍

Ridley Scott told me everything I need to know about this film when he decided to relegate historians to fairy tale peddlers. Hard pass.

@agonsfitness7308

4 ай бұрын

Wise choice. The movie it most reminded me of was actually Alexander...except without the close adherence to history.

@the_mowron

4 ай бұрын

Unfortunately, Hollywood is also re-writing the fairy tales, too. The Grimm brothers were serious about being accurate with their stories.

@antontaraskin8727

4 ай бұрын

@@the_mowron I mean, that train left the station a looong time ago. Disney's Cinderella is way tamer than the real Cinderella

@ronaldnelson6692

4 ай бұрын

@@antontaraskin8727 Same thing with Snow White.

@alexanderleuchte5132

3 ай бұрын

Historians know details scientifically correct but the overarching stories they tell are mostly speculation. The actually verifyable facts also play a secondary role in what is taught as "history". Being from Germany and critical both of the industry around it and its instrumentalization as well as of the "deniers", from my expirience most people around the world have completely skewed ideas about the "history" and the crimes of the 3rd Reich

Metateon .. I was one of the mounted Pretorian guard in the Germania Scene of Gladiator. ( filmed in Surrey ) I was also by the horrendous “war chariot “ that transported Comodious to the battle front .. We as extras where all told to bow when Comodious appears out of the war wagon .. I stepped forward and pointed out to Scott that as Pretorian guards we would not bow low as instructed as that would endanger Comodious .. He went ballistic and was about to throw me off set when the poor old historical advisor ( yeah, they had one honest ) stepped up and agreed with me.. He calmed down and reluctantly allowed us guards to stay up right .. true story ..

@gaspartiznado6418

2 ай бұрын

That must have been an amazing experience! And thank you for sharing it.

@atimidbirb

15 күн бұрын

Damn I hope you got to work with a better director after that

@lucidstatedept1267

14 күн бұрын

That is SUCH an amazing story! Good for you for standing up!

@bonitabeach3127

14 күн бұрын

Thanks

"My ignorance is as valid as your expertise." is the most modern statement of the year.

@TheFredmac

5 ай бұрын

I don't know about that.

@Aylasuki

5 ай бұрын

Also don't forget "It's my emotional truth"

@MorgorDre

5 ай бұрын

I dont like how its modern to use „ignorance“ instead of „unawareness“.

@annepoitrineau5650

5 ай бұрын

And as we know, modern is not the same as good.

@CyberiusT

5 ай бұрын

It's an *old* quote: "Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'” ― Isaac Asimov (sometime prior to 1970, I think) I believe Carl Sagan repeated the quote in the original COSMOS as well.

The fact that he had a consultant on Gladiator who asked to have her name removed when he ignored her input, says everything.

@Leprutz

5 ай бұрын

Really? wow. I must admit that it does not surprise me in anyway. Now I like the artist Ridely Scott. I do think he makes great films and I do know they are the farthest away from historical accuracy, yet he was always an idiot.

@aragmarverilian8238

5 ай бұрын

This wouldn't surprise me...

In Ridley Scott's defense, he did cut the scene where Napoleon used his alien spaceships discovered under the Sphinx to beam up some his troops during the siege of Moscow. Scott figured people would consider it historically inaccurate the spaceships couldn't save all Napolean's troops.

@wastrelperv

5 ай бұрын

🤧 I cri for the lost.

@feedigli

4 ай бұрын

…and I really missed that scene; I was really looking forward to it, since I’ve always heard so much about it…

@postmodernmining

3 ай бұрын

Napoleon would have won Waterloo, but SG1 blew up his Al'kesh

Dan Snow is no average Tik Toker, this guy was the OG historian back in the day with his Dad. And he also rugby tackled a looter during the London riots. Top lad

@michaelcoward1902

5 ай бұрын

yeah nothing says top lad like a nepo baby sticking it to the poors.

@wastrelperv

5 ай бұрын

​@@michaelcoward1902I'm confused. Is this in regards to his views or tackling a rioter/looter/whoever it was he tackled?

@jamesparke6252

5 ай бұрын

​@wastrelperv he only became a successful TV historian because his dad brought him on to his own, British media is rife with nepotism

@wastrelperv

5 ай бұрын

@@jamesparke6252 Almost all media. You think the west is bad? Look beyond your cozy bubble. We wish our countries were at your levels of corruption. Why do you think so many want in and few ever go back beyond vacation?

@ByddinRhyddidCymru

4 ай бұрын

⁠@@jamesparke6252hes also an englishman who ‘earned’ a bafta Cymru for making a documentary about an Italian who built a wall in england, typical thieving saes bastard

I used to know a guy who always tried to win every argument by saying, "Were you there?" It was such an ignorant, arrogant and hypocritical way to argue his point since he obviously wasn't there either, and would ignore all evidence and testimony from people who actually were there.

@Steelmage99

5 ай бұрын

Ken Ham?

@GrammarSplaining

5 ай бұрын

How did he think juries work? The whole point is to gather people to determine whether a crime took place. They examine evidence, listen to witnesses, and make a decision based on the thing called "reason."

@timothyfreeby1031

5 ай бұрын

I got into it with a Western History professor regarding the Berlin Wall coming down and surrounding events. Apparently his academic credentials trumped my first-hand direct experience from being in the military and stationed in West Germany at the time.

@nisonatic

5 ай бұрын

@@timothyfreeby1031 In fairness, a historian ought to have a better large scale view of things. But you get that by shutting up and listening to people who were there, and integrating their accounts into your understanding. So if he's disregarding a primary source, that doesn't speak well to his reliability as a historian.

@gilgameshkingofheroes5903

5 ай бұрын

​​@@timothyfreeby1031 nisonatic is right. It is true that first hand experience is important but Academics do not go of one singular persons experience. They need an overview with as many sources as possible, which would include you and your perspective. A thing you'd need to understand is that there are a whole lot of other first hand Accounts which may claim different things from you or your group. Historians need to navigate all of that.

Historian: discusses history Filmmaker: Get a life! Sir, that IS his life.

@samhavoc1066

5 ай бұрын

Never mind how epically ridiculous it is for someone spending his life creating make believe telling people who study the history of mankind to "get a life".

@MaliciousMollusc

5 ай бұрын

Not to mention, history is literally the culmination of human life in extended periods of time. 😂🤦‍♂️

@justaminute3111

5 ай бұрын

I quit watching bio-pics and historical “dramas” a while ago because I got tired of all the ways the directors twist the stories, usually to promote whoever they want to be the hero. And all the sheeple watch the movies and think that they are historically accurate.

I saw a cartoon about the RS Napoleon flick. It showed Napoleon next to a pyramid firing a shoulder launched rocket at a Spitfire while a Tyrannosaurus Rex trotted past. The caption read you can't criticise this because you weren't actually there. Sums up Scott's "argument" in a nutshell.

So Ridley Scott saw the issue of historic analysis and records being nebulous and sometimes hard to piece together, and decided to just say "screw it" and make up whatever the frak he wanted. So basically, the Hollywood attitude towards history and truth.

@davidbouvier8895

4 ай бұрын

Not just Hollywood. US 'culture' is steeped in historical unawareness.

@hariman7727

4 ай бұрын

@@davidbouvier8895 sadly, yes. Also arguably world culture. How many people even know the term "Holodomor", or about the government poisoning alcohol during prohibition and killing 10,000 people, among other events?

The whole "were you there?" argument makes about as much sense as asking a quantum physicist whether they have actually seen a boson particle.

@jacquelineking5783

5 ай бұрын

The question might work if we were talking about something far more distant but Napolean was early 1800s mostly if I remember correctly. It isn't like he was a mystery lost to time. The guy had the relevancy of the US president has had since post WW2 in his time.

@morgancallewaert6165

5 ай бұрын

​@@jacquelineking5783 Totally, in Napoleon case, there are tons of contemporary books talking about his achievements, comportement and all the important figures around him. It can even be boring as some testimony talks about his day to day life.

@MarcelNL

5 ай бұрын

Religious people often say it. Ken Ham uses it basically in every reply to every comment that a scientist says to him.

@drconflict629

5 ай бұрын

You're implying the average person even knows what those things are 🤦‍♂🤦‍♂

@jeremias-serus

5 ай бұрын

@@MarcelNLDon’t lump wappies like Ken Ham with all of us normal humans.

When a filmmaker says "get a life" to people discussing films, he means we should stop wasting our time watching his childish movies.. right?

@anton7354

5 ай бұрын

Correct

@yurigagarine6998

5 ай бұрын

You people thought Ridley Scott was still relevant? He's 86 for the record.

@dangurtler7177

5 ай бұрын

That explains a lot. Senile dementia is a horrible thing…

@utrock5067

5 ай бұрын

Right-o!

@hugorosa307

5 ай бұрын

Thank you for help me understand it. Now, I can follow his sugestion.

As a history prof. there are a lot of movies I have a hard time watching because they are so far off the mark of what we know about an era, event, or personality that I have to constantly remind myself that it is supposed to just be entertainment but then I find even schools sometimes using such silly movies to teach kids a "history lesson." It is very frustrating. I have to correct a lot of stuff. I have even heard some young people say it has to be true or they wouldn't have it in the movie as an objection to an actual historical account. So, I completely understand your frustration with this stuff.

@SL-mj2eq

4 ай бұрын

Haha, yeah its just entertainment but nowadays movies arent even entertaining... :-(

@KK-rj7ij

4 ай бұрын

As an ex-teacher I apologize for showing movies in the classroom, we just get so tired sometimes and need a break. LOL Esp now during the Christmas season it's going to be either a Christmas quiz or a movie that is remotely related to whatever topic we are going through. We do point out that it's not accurate, but I have to admit, not every student understands or remembers that. Also many students forget absolutely everything they have learned after a while, it's really depressing.

It's the latest Hollywood trend: being as confrontational as possible when somebody even politely points out you're wrong,Hollywood is that spoiled child that throws an absolute world class tantrum if they get told no,and they're proud of it so you just have to get used to it Metatron *shrugs*

@MrJoeBlaze

5 ай бұрын

No, We have to change it. The world has hit a new low.

@godzilla5599

5 ай бұрын

@@MrJoeBlaze We can choose to not except it however these people are fanatics and will not change,keep not taking it however understand it won't change much until the next generation comes in and realizes that kind of thing doesn't work.

@mohammadtausifrafi8277

4 ай бұрын

They have become so rich and powerful that they can afford it, and they got that from the people, but the people are changing.

@mr_h831

4 ай бұрын

I will not get used to it. But I will expect it. Getting used to it implies acceptance of their behavior, which I won't do, ever.

@CarloNassar

4 ай бұрын

Rather than Hollywood, it's more likely to be certain people working there. I'm sure there are still plenty of other directors in Hollywood that don't make the same mistakes as Ridley Scott. Regardless, I do agree that it's a bit of a trend.

A wise person once said, "Just because you're famous does not mean you're smart."

@fattiger6957

5 ай бұрын

Scott is very good a one very specific thing. He can make very good looking movies. And the results are great when that's all he has to do. But the man can't recognize a good story if it walked up to him and punched him. He needs to work with good writers and good producers to keep him in line. That's why his movie started going downhill after Gladiator gave him enough clout to do whatever he wanted to do.

@Theduckwebcomics

5 ай бұрын

It's a subset of the Dunning Kruger effect, where if you know a little bit about something you think you know a lot more than you do, but when people are famous or have expertise in a high profile field that gives them high social status they think they know EVERYTHING about it, more than the experts. This is why a doctor will tend to think they know more about cars than a mechanic for example. It's also why we men tend to think we know more than women about subjects even when they're experts in them, it's because we're fooled into thinking social superiority equals expertise. Everyone does this to varying degrees though so it's pointless to single out a person or a group.

@anton7354

5 ай бұрын

@@fattiger6957"Raised by wolves" is not a very good looking film (OK, TV series). It looks like a low budget crap from 60s. The rest you said I agree with.

@anton7354

5 ай бұрын

@@TheduckwebcomicsI'm sorry but your understanding of the Dunning Kruger effect is skewed. DKE tells nothing about assessing of the competence of others but only about self-assessment. And even more: it was demonstrated that low competent people correctly estimate their competence with regard to the competence of high competent people.

@FlagAnthem

4 ай бұрын

you just demolished all the "celebrities" preaching morals theatre

"Were you there? So stfu." has the same energy as "I remember my grandmother said 'I don't care what they teach you in school' " 😅

@ericvulgate7091

5 ай бұрын

CLEOPATRA WAS FROM THE MOON

@exosproudmamabear558

5 ай бұрын

​@@ericvulgate7091Yeah she was a moon princess from an ancient moon kingdom.

@stuartfury3390

5 ай бұрын

Not sure the whole grandma disagreeing with what you learn in school is the best argument in 2023

@Dinosaur315

5 ай бұрын

​@@ericvulgate7091 No she was albanian

@jkausti6737

5 ай бұрын

The correct answer is "yes, yes I was". And if they question that just tell them that it is clear they weren't so they can't really say anything about it.

I have a degree in History. While I certainly don't consider myself a historian, I have to say that not understanding how historical research works, to this degree, is kind of shocking. Good video.

Sadly we live in a time when ignorance and arrogance are worshipped. We live in a time when people honestly think that they can make up their own reality, and that their personal fiction overrides history and science.

@davidjenkins2429

4 ай бұрын

So sad but so true

The thing is that every day of his active career, Napoleon's every move was recorded and reported in every newspaper in Europe, every diary of every politician, and every dispatch from every ambassador. After he was deposed, every other one of these people composed memoirs. Not just his followers and friends, but every one of his enemies. We may not know the color of the slippers he slipped into on some particular day, but every order, piece of law, and who he spoke with can be known if you look in the right document. A movie maker who disregards the historical record in favor of whatever he dreams up after too rich a meal is not going to make a very good movie about such a well known man. Every scene is probably going to ring wrong.

@NapoleonCalland

5 ай бұрын

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@wastrelperv

5 ай бұрын

From this perspective, it would make sense why Hollywood likes Medieval movies as they have a lot of flexibility, too bad they just bastardize everything.

@emmitstewart1921

5 ай бұрын

@@wastrelperv The problem is that too many of movie makers place medieval Europe somewhere between Avalon and Camelot and slightly west of Sherwood. They have to stick in a bunch of dragons, witches, goblins, and magic. Being a bastard was a legitimate problem for a medieval person. the problem with most medieval plots today is being over fantasized.

@wastrelperv

4 ай бұрын

@@emmitstewart1921 Too many Robin Hoods, that's for sure. Too much Templar conspiracy theories. Too much Viking romanticization. Too many witch trials going on despite belief in witchcraft being much lower than before and after the Medieval period.

Scot has never been told "no" as a child. Ego is insane.

@Blisterdude123

5 ай бұрын

As someone who enjoys cinema, and loves history, I'm so tired of the 'it's a movie, its entertainment not a documentary' excuse for bad historical filmmaking. Master and Commander is fiction, historical fiction but still. And yet it stands as one of the most historically 'AUTHENTIC' pieces of cinema ever made. Not accurate, but authentic. And it is a great movie. Ridley Scott looks and history and just presumes he can do better. Even when he actually just makes history look smaller, and less significant.

@Cancoillotteman

5 ай бұрын

@@Blisterdude123 Alexandre Dumas (writer of the Three Musketeers) had a great saying for that : "You can rape history, at the condition to give her beautiful children" Although the rape allegory might be ill-suited to the modern times, i like the idea : you can change history for your fiction, at the explicit condition that what you show is more interesting than what actually happened.

@kelvyquayo

5 ай бұрын

or as an adult .

@RPGryphus

5 ай бұрын

@@Cancoillotteman Love it! Should be placarded on every historical show as a reminder.

@badlaamaurukehu

5 ай бұрын

​@@CancoillottemanBetween Dumas and Hugo I think we have a good insight that Scott has no idea wtf he is talking about.

I heard there’s a history documentary describing the life of Abraham Lincoln as a vampire hunter. May be Ridley Scott could do a take on that as his next project.

Ridley Scott seems to be such a strong narcissist and an as***le. Imagine how his staff likes to work with him.

The Pyramid scene is just more fuel to make Europeans look like the "destroyers of cultures" we're always accused of being.

@jed-henrywitkowski6470

5 ай бұрын

Well, our race has have been a top contributor to innovation in the neutralization of hostile groups. Howver, its balanced out by all the contributions white men and some women have made to the betterment of the race and humans as a whole.

@Blisterdude123

5 ай бұрын

Ordinarily I'd agree but honestly, Ridley Scott IS just that incompetent. Never attribute to malice what can be attiributed to incompetence. Ridley Scott genuinely thought a 'clever' piece of imagery to communicate Napoleon's conquest of Egypt was to have him shoot cannons at the pyramids.

@winstonsmith8482

5 ай бұрын

Not much different to how Ridley Scott depicted (demonized) the crusaders in KoH. [Edit: but at least KoH was actually a fairly entertaining movie.]

@v0rtexbeater

5 ай бұрын

Dont tell them that archeology and anthropology were almost entirely created by Europeans

@ElessarFrey

5 ай бұрын

Funny how the real person who tried to destroy the pyramids hundreds of years earlier than that was actually Saladin’s son, but we can’t say shit about Muslims

The moment the alien burst out of Napoleon's chest, i knew Scott had gone astray.

@johnnyxmusic

5 ай бұрын

He held it back as long as he could. (Hand in coat)

@alihenderson5910

5 ай бұрын

When Josephine declared she was non binary, it killed me.

@Neaptide184

5 ай бұрын

That was the most historically accurate scene in the movie….

@wastrelperv

5 ай бұрын

​@@alihenderson5910You kids are so obsessed with your phones you're still texting your emoticons over the web behind Heaven's pearly gates. P.S. My condolences, I am praying for your departed soul.

I got the impression from the movie that Napoleon was insecure, hesitant, and that the Hundred Days campaign was because the Czar of Russia was dancing and flirting with Josephine.

Scott was obviously "there", so he's totally qualified to depict Napoleon as an eight-legged Martian gas crab if he wants to!

From The Duellists to this, I think he got too confortable. With that confort came laziness and arrogance. Since Gladiator was a success and an entertaining film, despite its many historical innacuracies, it seems he started thinking he could crap out whatever and the audiences would swallow it. More concerning is that this ignorant little man now believes his opinions are as valid as the knowledge academics have accumulated over the centuries, more so even, since it's his movie and what he says goes. Spreading a little education along with entertainment in his movies would cost him nothing, but the thundering choir of his own ego must mute all dissention. Shame on him.

@DerAlleinTiger

5 ай бұрын

Yeah, he seemed to forget - or perhaps just miss entirely - the fact that Gladiator wasn't good because it totally ignored history but rather because its historical inaccuracies still served to build the setting in a cinematic and satisfying way. It also helps that Maximus himself was a fictional person. Historians can nitpick things like the Romans wearing lorica segmentata at a time when they wouldn't be wearing much of it, but all Scott has to say is, "It's THE iconic Roman armor. It looks cool, everyone knows that it's 'Roman armor,' and anyone who's wearing it on-screen is clearly a Roman. The barbarians are all in fur and hide with shoddy axes because they're the *barbarians.* You see them, you know who they are. I'm telling a story, not filming a reenactment." Boom. Done. He nails the 'vibe' of ancient Rome and tells a good story at the same time without pretending he's recreating history on-screen. It seems like he really got a bit full of himself as, as you said, too comfortable. He missed the fact that the inaccuracies in something like Gladiator still contributed to the setting. It made the Romans look and feel like *Romans.* The barbarians look like *barbarians.* Rome looks like Rome. The characters act, at least in the average person's mind, like Romans. The praetorians look like praetorians. On and on, accurate or not. Napoleon just... doesn't act like Napoleon, from all the reviews and summaries I've heard.

@johnandrewserranogarcia7223

5 ай бұрын

"Since Gladiator was a success and an entertaining film, despite its many historical innacuracies" I don't think that Gladiator had anything accurate, it was all historical inaccuracies. He should stick to fiction, his greatest hits were Alien and Hannibal

@oscaralegre3683

5 ай бұрын

You go and make your own movie then

@mikexunga4157

5 ай бұрын

@@oscaralegre3683 No thanks. I'll just not see his anymore.

@johnandrewserranogarcia7223

5 ай бұрын

@@oscaralegre3683, any creator who blames the consumer/audience for not liking their product is wrong, we decide what content we enjoy not him.

When someone tries the whole “we YOU there?” I say “yes, I was, I saw it all….and if YOU weren’t ALSO there then you can’t tell me I wasnt”. That usually gets them to realize how dumb they are being. Usually. Not always.

@CLDJ227

4 ай бұрын

I'm using that lol 🤔.

I am totally with you. As a student of history I am flummoxed by this descent into fantasy! It seems these people think you can construct the world anyway you like. They fail to realise this ends in total chaos. How then can you know anything or trust anything. Thank you for your videos. Stay sane.

This is like a detective pulling out all the evidence and getting a "but were you actually there" from the defense.

Once again, metatron suffers for both our entertainment and education against the forces of inaccuracy. Hats of to you, sir

@LeoTheI

5 ай бұрын

“Forces of inaccuracy” *puts on glasses* (Forces of liberalism)

We should weaponise angry internet historians.

@tiglishnobody8750

5 ай бұрын

*Do it*

@tinymetaltrees

5 ай бұрын

youtube.com/@InternetHistorian?si=G1jfRKRn6UhQ1-Dz

@sweethistortea

5 ай бұрын

I am on board with this. I support this.

@huntclanhunt9697

5 ай бұрын

Nah. Use them as a power source.

@gilessaint-loup2426

5 ай бұрын

I mean it happened with MatPat's episode of Game Theory covering "For Honor" it brought Skallagrim, Metatron and Shadiversity to my attention with them going, "You wot?"

I think social media overall has massively overreacted to Napoleon, since many of the historical inaccuracies fall well within the standards for “good” directors like Kubrick and even Scott himself. There’s a lot of time compression adding people to scenes where they were not present and having characters talk who never met. That’s all standard movie stuff, and not particularly egregious. However, Scott himself also completely overreacted. He could have just said, “Who cares? We changed a few things to help with narrative and pacing. If we’d covered everything the movie would be 12 hours long and only of interest to war buffs. “

@ByTheStorm

4 ай бұрын

I agree, though I have to add something. He could’ve turned the movie concept into a 12 episode single season series since TV is much bigger and creatively freer than the film landscape. The director of Australia turned his film into a mini series, so it’s not unheard of. His overreaction turned me off of him for the moment.

You owe everything to your viewers! Thanks for remembering us, and thank you for all your hard work. I love your channel!

Historian makes comments about a movie based on actual historical figures and events. Tells that historian to get a life. "But... history IS my life...."

@fattiger6957

5 ай бұрын

So I guess whenever Scott wants to criticize a movie for mistakes in film making techniques, people have the right to tell him to get a life.

@FlagAnthem

4 ай бұрын

Should have replied with "get an education!"

As a historian, Scott's words were like a stab. Fortunately, I have a certain ability to separate the work from the artist, although sometimes it becomes very, very challenging.

@samsmith2635

5 ай бұрын

As a Historian I always wonder how many of us actually have sheep skins that claim this. lmao

@jaredmccormick

5 ай бұрын

As AN Historian!!!

@adamtennant4936

5 ай бұрын

He's pissed us VFX artists off as well by saying "it's all practical" when over 360 digital artists worked on the film.

@genera1013

5 ай бұрын

​@@jaredmccormickHuh?

@mandowarrior123

5 ай бұрын

​@@jaredmccormick A 'oop! An Hoop! Monty python, great sketch.

His first movie "The Duelists" was well done with correct uniforms and event chronology. I still have to see the movie, but seeing Napoleon leading a cavalry charge makes me skeptical. By the way, latters were used to storm Regisburg in 1809, and Napoleon was shot in the foot leading the assault.

One thing that seems to have changed since The Last Duel, is that we millenials are no longer the intergenerational whipping boy. Thanks GenZ (and in Scott's case historians, as well as the French, apparently). I'd dance a dance of joy, but my back has been acting up lately...

I really dislike filmmakers ignoring historical accuracy. Big budget movies get watched by millions of people who can get a very distorted view of the past this way. Such an inportant source of information should keep high standarts.

@fattiger6957

5 ай бұрын

I wish filmmakers would just admit that their historical movies are just supposed to be fun and not taken seriously. Like how historical anime that make Oda Nobunaga a demon aren't supposed to be taken seriously. But in Hollywood, every historical movie is treated like it's the pinnacle of high art and accuracy.

@dannyhernandez1212

5 ай бұрын

It depends on the movie. By a movie's nature, it has to condense complicated history into a restricted time frame with a restricted budget and have to make a profit. So they cannot be 100% accurate in any way. But that doesn't excuse just plain ignoring or dismissing the facts.

@i.b.640

5 ай бұрын

Ah, I don't mind, if they upfront about it. After the spectators Stomped "We will Rock you" in a Knight's tale", I was down for anything. I didn't mind Octavian's mom to be alive until the end of the Rome series. It was just fun and entertaining and she was a deliciously evil matriarch. I don't know if there is a hard line for me, but as long as the vibe is right, I forgive a lot.

What's insane is Scott directed The Duelists, which is an awesome film that had a lot of attention to detail regarding the Napoleonic period.

@Lonovavir

5 ай бұрын

Ridley Scott is a hit or (very) miss director. No consistency at all with the man.

@nicolaspeigne1429

5 ай бұрын

he is an old man now, with more fame and more money, and more ego

@Lukas-Trnka

5 ай бұрын

I guess we can contribute it to the writers who kept the script right.

@helvete_ingres4717

5 ай бұрын

not really 'insane' that an artist in his 80s is less inspired than he was in his 20-30s

@badlaamaurukehu

5 ай бұрын

Had to watch some P's and Q's still at that time. Stick to the book.

I’d like to thank Ridley Scott for making me feel so much better about choosing not to go see his movie.

The magically appearing bayonets between "present" and "fire" bugged me the worst. I would just recommend Waterloo 😆

Basically, the way I see it, Ridley Scott entered this stage of movie creator's life cycle where he is intoxicated by illusion of his own grandeur induced from sniffing his own farts.

@claracarcinale7568

5 ай бұрын

He is a very good director. Knows absolutely nothing about history though

@AndriyValdensius-wi8gw

4 ай бұрын

Very well summarized.

@KathrynsWorldWildfireTracking

4 ай бұрын

@@claracarcinale7568 He _was_ a good director. Other than The Martian, he hasn't made a good film since 2010. He's just another George Lucas now. Insisting Jar Jar Binks is cool.

@gr-8166

4 ай бұрын

@@KathrynsWorldWildfireTrackingGeorge Lucas doesn’t even pretend to be like that. The prequels had direct homages and parallels to the works of early cinema. Lucas is no hack… I’d also say Ridley works a whole lot at his late age and he does have great work after the Martian. Raised by Wolves has his son and Ridley directing a few episodes and also producing…

Peter Weir directed Master and Commander and did a great job with his research, a great film of it's period! A great director

@staggerlee7301

5 ай бұрын

I’m still sad that the planned sequel(s) never happened. One of my favorite films.

@adamtennant4936

5 ай бұрын

M&C is an outstanding film!

@benjaminthibieroz4155

5 ай бұрын

Now, this one should be an absolute reference

@IvanBarsch

5 ай бұрын

Indeed it is. I wish we’d gotten sequels too.

@davebloke829

5 ай бұрын

@@staggerlee7301 If you haven't read the books then do yourself a favour, a great read!

Scott telling a historian to get a life...history is a historian's life, so Dan Snow really does have a life!!!

Woah, woah, woah! Dan Snow is not a TikToker - he’s a highly respected historian who has worked hard to introduce historical content to newer generations through contemporary media (KZread, TikTok etc). Take it back, Metatron!

@straingedays

5 ай бұрын

Glad you said this. 😊👍 I couldn't have said it better !!

@aralornwolf3140

5 ай бұрын

If he uses TikTok, that makes him a TikToker. :p

@nathanthom8176

5 ай бұрын

​@@aralornwolf3140 don't be disingenuous when, we say TikToker you know we are refering to someone whose career revolves around making TikTok content. If a KZreadr happens to occasionally use TikTok, you would still call them a KZreadr and Demetrios Johnson is still described as an MMA fighter and not a Twitch Streamer. Metatron described Dan Snow as a TikToker which is incorrect as he is a historian with a First Class Honours Degree in Modern History (1450 onwards). Secondary to this he is a TV presenter who has presented over 2 dozen history TV shows and he is also a published author (8 books), the tiny portion of his work that is on TikTok which is informed by his actual profession and only been going on for around a year, does not get to be stated as his profession.

@wastrelperv

5 ай бұрын

​@@nathanthom8176 Thanks for the context.

@josefavomjaaga6097

5 ай бұрын

I've seen parts of the interview with Ridley Scott. If this person is really a historian, he totally sold out. How could he listen to Scott's answers and not immediately challenge him on his attitude? The way I see it, that interview was nothing but promotion for the movie, and ass-kissing par excellence.

Ridley Scott's first feature film was about two officers in Napoleon's Army who carry a grudge and demand 'satisfaction' across a few decades. Released in 1977 it is called 'The Duellists'. Favorably critiqued and highly rated it comes with this note from its wikipedia entry "The film is lauded for its historically authentic portrayal of Napoleonic uniforms and military conduct, as well as its generally accurate early-19th-century fencing techniques as recreated by fight choreographer William Hobbs."

@T-h-a-t_G-u-y

5 ай бұрын

Age is getting to Ridley Scott.

@utarefson9

5 ай бұрын

A fall from grace.

@Riceball01

5 ай бұрын

The question is, did he write and direct both movies or only directed both or wrote and directed one? Not all directors write their own films and many are essentially hired guns. The studio has a script that they like and so they look around fr someone to direct and that director may or may not have much or any input in wat the final shooting script is like. But giong by his statement, it sounds like maybe he either wrote the script or screenplay for Napoleon or, at the very least, had considerable input in the script/screenplay.

@gabrielinostroza4989

5 ай бұрын

Ridley was only ever a good director, i hope people finally unglue their mouths from his rear and realize that all of his greatest movies had a stellar cast of scriptwriters and producers that have been overshadowed by him.

@angelachouinard4581

5 ай бұрын

@@T-h-a-t_G-u-y It was his first film. He was not a big shot then. It may be age but also ego and its a bad combination.

Those who forget the past are destined to make movies about it.

@iuliannastasa6592

5 ай бұрын

😄

The Last Duel was disgusting. I can see why Disney didn't spend a dime to market it.

I was so looking forward to seeing that movie. I'm so sad now that it has fallen so short of my expectations

As a Czech, I was kind of surprised how it looked in the movie in Austerlitz (Slavkov in Czech), there are no bigger hills and that massive lake was just a pond, but I respect that it's just a movie, what I don't like is when creators know how it should be correctly and they don't do it on purpose to make historians angry.

@antonycharnock2993

5 ай бұрын

He filmed it in an old quarry in Surrey where he filmed the battle scenes for Gladiator...very lazy especially with what you can do with CGI now. It was in the interview he had with Dan Snow for History Hit.

@badlaamaurukehu

5 ай бұрын

I'd like a movie/series in period about skirmish and probe units. Similar to the Sharps' series. That would be cool.

@neverstopschweiking

5 ай бұрын

I live in Brno. When I saw the trailer I remembered a moment in cinema years ago where in the movie "Wanted" with Angelina Jolie the protagonist is on a pendolino train in "Moravia" that goes through a tunnel and than it goes straight to a bridge over a massive ravine where it crashes... At that moment one guy in the cinema shouted "Ty vole, Macocha" and the whole audience started laughing. After seeing Scot's depiction of Austerlitz, I must admit Wanted was the second worst depiction of Moravia in US cinema.

@Pidalin

5 ай бұрын

@@neverstopschweiking It looked like some Norway or something. 😀

@richardmathews6236

5 ай бұрын

Were when draining the pond after the battle they found several bodies and dead horses

The Napoleon movie looks like an absolute farce of a film. I honestly fear its the beginning of the bastardization of history for entertainments sake and I'm terrified with the possibilities it could result in.

@nobeardthepirate9172

5 ай бұрын

Its a bad love story, with "highlights" so to speak of Napoleon's life scattered without any explination.

@akl2k7

5 ай бұрын

Unfortunately, history has been treated this way for decades. Look at the likes of Braveheart, regarded as one of the most historically inaccurate movies ever made.

@thepubknight6144

5 ай бұрын

​@@akl2k7yup also the movies Titanic , Pearl Harbor, and The Patriot (especially the scene of slaves defending their slave owner against joining the British army)

@535phobos

5 ай бұрын

​@@thepubknight6144I have to defend Titanic here. The love story aside, its a good representation. Cameron knows his stuff, and did some serious research. And on top of that you got of course some dramatisation

@Quandry1

5 ай бұрын

​@thepubknight6144 you do know not all slave owners were hated by slaves don't you?

Regarding Mr Scott, it brought this "old" quote up to the surface of my mind: "You Either Die A Hero, Or You Live Long Enough To See Yourself Become The Villain"

They made Napoleon look like a creepy sex pest.

Maybe Ridley Scott was beaten up and bullied by all the cool Historians at school when he was a kid?

@winstonsmith8482

5 ай бұрын

🤣

The Metatron has more godlike knowledge in his little finger than all of these haters combined!!! Keep clapping those historical cheeks Metatron!!! All of mankind thanks you!!!!

@The_Ragequit_Cannon

5 ай бұрын

It's not even god-like knowledge. Anyone can learn the stuff he knows. And those who watch his videos learn what he knows. It's just that many people would rather live in ignorance than discover the truth

@panzer00

5 ай бұрын

​@The_Ragequit_Cannon it's more that the first thing someone is told about a topic is the truth they stick with because they don't want to explore the topic further or it fits a narrative they're trying to push as truth.

@badlaamaurukehu

5 ай бұрын

​@@panzer00Thus: Propaganda

@badlaamaurukehu

5 ай бұрын

And if I recall it was the Seljuks that attacked the Egyptian(documented by Seljuk scribes) monuments before Europeans even ever ruturned to appreciate them.

@panzer00

5 ай бұрын

@@badlaamaurukehu I guess that one word sums up my word vomit

Remember the Rosetta Stone? It might have not even been discovered if Napoleon and his peeps weren’t trying to conquer Egypt. They cared more for ancient Egypt than the descendants who lived there. That Scott had the artillery use the Sphinx as target practice was over the top. It was not necessary for the story line. What was he trying to portray?

On the topic of helmets, despite it's many historical inaccuracies, I have to say that the show Spartacus: Blood and Sand tackled the obfuscation of the characters faces due to the helmets really well. In one of the fight scenes where Spartacus and Crixus are fighting while wearing gladiator helmets, they used a technique where it looks like a camera was located inside the helmets themselves, showing the characters faces in jump cuts between the sword strikes and blows. Personally I loved that. It really took you as a viewer into the very thick of the fighting in a very intimate manner. Hundreds of times better than having silly half helmets on the heads of the actors

the irony is Scott's first film, his directorial debut, "the Duelists" is one of the best historical films ever made. I have no idea why/how he forgot to make good/accurate films when he made "the Last Duel" or potentially "Napoleon"(haven't seen it yet).

@Lttlemoi

5 ай бұрын

Too much money and too few constraints are the twin assassins of relevant art.

@johnandrewserranogarcia7223

5 ай бұрын

He loves to take creative liberties, Gladiator was innacurate in pretty much all of its portrayal of Roman history.

@colbunkmust

5 ай бұрын

@@johnandrewserranogarcia7223 Sure, but that was decades after The Duelists, and after he cut his teeth on Aliens et al.

3:54 Ridley Scott thinks Napoleon lived in the 1600s 💀

I was already skeptical about this movie since the first trailer because it seemed it was going to cover a very big chunck of Napoleon's life, from Toulon to Waterloo. Synthesize almost 20 years of someone like Napoleon in a 2-3 hours movie is a huge gamble. Having said that I am still gonna watch the movie, despite already expecting it will be most likely a delusion. If there is going to be one good thing that will come out of this movie is making me wish to rewatch the 2002 miniseries of Napoleon directed by Yves Simoneau, which I love very much.

I would love to hear your commentary on the historical accuracy of "Master And Commander: Far Side of the World."

Once famous creators aging out of their field of employment to the point that they have no idea anymore what their target demographic wants, or even considers a good idea, is a thing. I wish they wouldn't pretend it wasn't.

@arthas640

5 ай бұрын

seems like we're seeing that same sort of thing play out across the world really. Politicians are getting older, many people cant get promoted because people above them arent retiring even after they've aged to the point that their abilities have degraded (which often leads to those under them doing their superiors job for them without a raise OR promotion), and overall it seems like older generations are just refusing to relinquish control even after they've grown out of touch with the modern world like boomers yelling at Gen Z service workers about how things were so much harder in their day back when a high school drop out could afford to buy a house while that Gen Z worker is making slave wages to pay off his college degrees that he needed to work at McDonalds.

@alihenderson5910

5 ай бұрын

Scott knows his target demographic and it isn't anyone interested in truth.

This is how Mr Scott pais respect to the work of others. This behavior speaks volumes about the character of a person.

Your quest for accuracy and interesting personality is a breath of fresh air. Love your storytelling, Sir.

I can imagine Ridley Scott as a defence lawyer. Defence: Your Honour, the prosecution would have you believe that this man murdered his neighbour. But I ask were they there? did they see if not then my client is innocent. Judge: Fair enough, case dismissed.

Sort of like Jack Sparrow's response after hearing that the cursed pirates left no survivors: "I wonder where the stories come from then."

I jokingly say that the name of the movie should have been "Josephine"

@winstonsmith8482

5 ай бұрын

It should be called that, but even still it's more of a Josephine FAN-FICTION film than an actual historic biopic.

@lsthero5863

5 ай бұрын

@@winstonsmith8482 WhErE yOu ThErE?!

I didn't realise that in the time of Napoleon there were no bright colours, only pastel shades

@normanstewart7130

4 ай бұрын

Climate change.

@feedigli

4 ай бұрын

100 years before it was black and white only; colors were just starting to grow into what they are now. At least that’s what I learned on the Internet last week.

I never really knew much about Scott but when I heard his interview over the historical inaccuracies he came across as a “you can’t tell me anything “ type of man. Arrogant and condescending.

The irony here is that in one of his first films, Scott took a historical tale and made an excellent film set in the Napoleonic era. That film was "The Duellists." And he did it on a very meager budget. But now he's...superior. He took one of the most charismatic leaders in world history and turned him into a schlub. And in reference to his "Were you there?" comment, I can only point out that dozens of contemporary persons WERE there, recorded the facts at the time and set them down with some accuracy and established something some of us refer to as "History." Histories can be wrong...usually when written by people who weren't there and 200 years after the fact. But the facts of Austerlitz and Borodino and Waterloo are known. Napoleon's life is not a fantasy made up on a spaceship with upturned milk crates for decking (as it was in his film "Alien.") Men fought and died for this man. And when he fell and returned...they came back and fought and died for him again. And he was more than just a general...he was a political and legal innovator who's acts are still alive in the world today. Whereas Mr. Scott is...just a jester and should have bells on his hat.

@danyael777

5 ай бұрын

"The Duellists" was a great movie, i agree.

@ukaszwalczak1154

5 ай бұрын

Nah, he's more or less a clown. Jesters make fun of the audience for their entertainment, Clowns make fun of themselves for the audience's entertainment.

@Spectrue

5 ай бұрын

I mean, he did clean up the legal system but also took away the rights of most of France's citizens and brought back slavery. So, he wasn't really a legal innovator, more like a legal repealer.

@kamiloniszczuk9685

5 ай бұрын

Seriously, there are books that are widely known and published in the modern times, that were written by people who literally were there and knew Napoleon personally. Jomini and his works on the art of war for example, he participated in the Napoleonic wars on both sides of the conflict as a high ranking staff officer and his works are literally being published today

@mrsnezbit2219

5 ай бұрын

He has to push the self made man american dream

It’s a shame because his first movie The Duellists is a really great movie set in the Napoleonic era. Scott’s movies are always beautifully shot but storywise his track record is so all over the place it makes me think the guy is not a storyteller AT ALL but basically just a glorified cameraman who sometimes is lucky enough to work with good screenwriters and then he gets the credit (because people tend to exaggerate the importance of directors and ignore the writers).

@Darrylizer1

4 ай бұрын

You hit the nail squarely on the head with this comment

🙏 Metatron gives his opinion on the new Napoleon film 🙏 .... Wait, Metatron gives his opinion on Ridley Scott's attitude towards historians instead. Not what I hoped for but still brilliant, as per usual 👌

My 11 year old son wanted to go watch Napoleon but i said i have a better movie so we watched Waterloo (1970) together.

@Lame_Duck

5 ай бұрын

👍 Good choice, well done !

@archibaldthearcher

5 ай бұрын

I would also recommend tv series from 2002 starring Christian Clavier as Napoleon and John Malkovich as Talleyrand, there are reuploads posted here on youtube (I've even seen someone posting version upscaled to 4k)

Considering how recent Napoleon's life was compared to say, Julius Caesar or Qin Shi Huangdi, Ridley Scott really has no excuse going on for him. We have so much information on Napoleon because of how important he was in the world stage and because of the typical observation that we can obtain more information from people who lived closer to our time period than those from further back.

@cp1cupcake

5 ай бұрын

I'm 100% with you. Granted these are a lot newer, but there are channels which take a conflict, like the Battle of Stalingrad, and make videos about what happened every day because people would write diaries, reports, letters, and so on. To the extent that one of them I watch (the one doing the Battle of Stalingrad) goes through why a diary which has been used for decades as 'how the Germans on the ground saw the conflict' was probably written, or at least heavily edited by the KBG because he found discrepencies in the details of the record.

@aralornwolf3140

5 ай бұрын

LazerPig has issues about historical accuracy because many reports that were written about certain events were fabricated and the other participants were too lazy to do more than the bare minimum... so the lies were then treated as truth by everyone else!

What a glorious roasting. Well deserved too. Loved the Renaissance hoodie you're wearing from before you brought attention to it. Napoleon was a genius strategist. I can't say I like the man, but having my original degree in Peace and Conflict Studies I respect his abilities. Pity about the ego that caused him to overreach himself. I won't waste my time on this film, I'll try and get access to the King Louis film with Mr Depp instead. My ex is a retired Chair in Irish History, that's why I appreciate, and support, your rant. I hope your blood pressure has fallen by now.

Ridley Scott would probably walk into the airplane’s cockpit and yelled at pilots “can you fly on your own? do you have wings? Well then shut the eff up!” 😂😂😂😂😂

Him and History Bro tearing Scott a new hole is just beautiful 😗🤌

@andrewlustfield6079

5 ай бұрын

Napoleon's rise to power all the way to Waterloo is too big of a story for a 2-1/2 hour canvass. There's no real focus to it at all. Many moons ago, I read David G Chandler's 1100 page work: The Campaigns of Napoleon, and this only covered the military aspects of the man's career and life. Diving into his personal life with Josephine, and throughout his Mastery of Europe---there's no way to capture all of that in one feature film. This should have been three movies--his rise to power, from Toulon to his coronation. His mastery of Europe, from 1805 Austerlitz campaign through 1809 and the battle of Wagram, and the beginnings of his Spanish Ulcer. And then his fall 1812-1815. These are still huge time pieces with enormous scope, but this would give the movies some degree of focus which Scott's lacked.

@fiddlesticks7245

5 ай бұрын

@@andrewlustfield6079 It's inarguable that you can't fit Napoleon's whole story into a 2.5 hour movie, noobdy's arguing that dipshit. The movie sucked all around. Phoenix's Napoleon completely lacked all of the real one's charisma, he had no presence, and the movie was boring all on its own.

@badlaamaurukehu

5 ай бұрын

​@@andrewlustfield6079Write a sceenplay and send it to your dad.

@EvilEgg331

5 ай бұрын

@@badlaamaurukehu Uh oh, someone’s trying to be Scott..

Scott was leagues better when he was: a) younger and not as spoiled by fame as he is now b) restrained by limited budgets and kept in check by studio execs (yes, they DO sometimes work as a healthy boundaries setters for overambitious buffoons) an actor/director getting over their heads throughout their career is a story as old as that industry itself.

@bjornh4664

5 ай бұрын

"The Duelists" is a gem of a movie, and way more historically accurate. Scott lost that touch along the way.

@beyondlimitationsvideo

5 ай бұрын

I just was thinking about his first movie The Duellists that was also set in Napoleonic times. That one was really good. But, well, like many artists before... after a certain time, they lose their Mojo.

@magicbuns4868

4 ай бұрын

Usually, the main thing is getting old, and thus, not as good as the arts and making a story.

@ShaneHill-mu4yi

4 ай бұрын

The simple truth@Thsnk you friend

@marcellogenesi6390

4 ай бұрын

To be fair, he is not the only one; in the film King Arthur, one of the Roman was using a bow and arrow while riding a horse that did not exist until centuries later with the Mongols of Genghis Kahn, a bow and arrow used by the Roman, would have been too long to be used while riding the horse, and of course barbed wire, also seen in the film did not exist either. Norman Freeman plying a black Muslim, warrior moving to cold Nottingham with Robin Hood, (Kevin Costner) who presumably joined the Crusades to kill Muslims.

I imagine if he dug deep enough into Napoleon he could have found plenty of historically accurate stories that were more interesting than whatever they made up!

"History is written by the victors." I've always understood this as meaning that those who win a war, can then shape the region in various ways from that point on and not, as most people seem to understand it, rewrite history books.

Scott's refusal to address Napoleon's three day disappearance to San Dimas, California is unforgivable.

@fitmesslife

5 ай бұрын

I want to congratulate you. I actually googled that as I hadn't seen the movie in a couple decades. Was honestly a bit excited. So bogus, dude. 😂

@Tcoldsteel

5 ай бұрын

😂 awesome comment 😂

@doctorlolchicken7478

5 ай бұрын

Was staring at San Dimas for a good 5 seconds. Gears turning. Then I got it.

@daysofboyhood

5 ай бұрын

Bogus.

@The_Green_Man_OAP

5 ай бұрын

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Everything I’ve heard about Ridley Scott’s perspective on making this movie and the following criticism. Just makes me wonder why no one said to him “you know you don’t _have_ to make this movie?” Like he seems to not give a shit about any of the subject matter at all.

@svenm4740

5 ай бұрын

The Apple money they got for the movie helped a lot to not think about stuff like that.

I just watched Waterloo (1970). Brilliant film and the portrayals of Napoleon and Wellington were terrific!

@AndyFurze

3 ай бұрын

A fantastic film

Maybe Mr. Scott should change his name to Michael.

The fuckin' EGO of Hollywood as a whole has grown beyond anything I thought I'd ever see. We all know that celebrities have an inflated sense of self-importance, but the whole town has just gone off the rails with narcissism.

@azoniarnl3362

5 ай бұрын

Its because normal people like us keep telling how awesome they are, asking for signatures, paying money to see them etc etc..

I love when casuals try to use the “were you there?” argument. Absolute classic.

@user-xz3pb3dt2u

5 ай бұрын

I can say that Riddley Scott does not exist according to him. I was never there ......

@ms-ht1cj

5 ай бұрын

Also: don't like, don't read. And of course "don't criticize if you can't make it better yourself". 🙄

@MKahn84

5 ай бұрын

Simple reply to such cretins - ask them if they believe Alaska, Antarctica, Africa, or Australia exist.

@tlilmiztli

5 ай бұрын

Shocking part is that this "argument" wasnt made by kindergarten kid but a grown up man...

@AntediluvianRomance

5 ай бұрын

That reminds me of religious apologetics. Many apologists use the schtick.

The line on the poster wound me up..."Came from nothing, conquered everything"...No he didn't, not even remotely !

@metatronyt

4 ай бұрын

Ye, it should have been “defeated the Romans at first, then he paid for it with his life when he faced Scipio”

Great video! Totally agree. He was always going to get criticism from historians. To think he had as long as he did to prepare for the critique and those were his responses!? The man should have thicker skin by now surely.

Just for reference, Dan Snow isn’t just a “Tik-Toker” him and his dad have been doing documentaries for the BBC for years.

Suppose one were to claim that the Romans were Aboriginal Australians and that there were no genocides of any kind in history and that the alleged victims of such were just left under the sofa cushions, would Ridley still say "Were you there? No, so shut up!"

@Dowlphin

5 ай бұрын

Flat Earth has entered the chat. Maybe it used to be flat and then became round. 🤪

@cocacola4blood365

5 ай бұрын

@@Dowlphin "We live inside the Hollow Earth" now joins to give it's two cents. Disc World will soon follow.

As a history buff, and HEMA enthusiast , the half helmet in the last duel had me WEAK😂

Is it not probable that Ridley's design for the helmet is intentional, a custom design as per thematic representation of the character's internal world. Customized, not by Ridley, but by literary demand of the character. He's two faced, and can be perceived as a noble Knight, or as a man of frailty depending on the context. Extrapolating this out to any future film Ridley releases, we'd be hardpressed not to consider that what's done with the helmet is done with much if not most of his craft.