Ridley Scott's disastrous Napoleon movie is going to make Waterloo even more popular. This scene alone surpasses anything in that train wreck of a film.

@Delogros

5 ай бұрын

The trailer looked awful but I'm still stuck between wanting to support a film set in an era I really like and not watching it because it looks awful :( have to make a decision tomorrow where there no redeeming features in the film at all?

@thenotsookayguy

5 ай бұрын

​@@DelogrosI heard it was good as an ironic watch.

@jakobatredies1114

4 ай бұрын

Wouldn't call it disastrous, its pretty much a film that one could describe as Napoleon lite. Napoleon for the non-history buffs. As it's encompassing his WHOLE life, it would be impossible to fully encompass a single film properly covering Aushwerlitz AND Waterloo with everything else along the way. If you look at it from the entertainment aspect. Its very good. Obviously historical accuracy, especially Waterloo (Come on Ridley, you're telling me you couldn't fit in Wellington withdrawing to the backside of the hill and Ney thinking it is a retreat just to end up into infantry squares???) would be abbreviated or changed a bit.

@Delogros

4 ай бұрын

@@jakobatredies1114 Most of the campaign should be entire films on there own.

@jakobatredies1114

4 ай бұрын

@Delogros Then get out there and start a film company to do it! Lol. Trust me would be awesome to see films focus on singular spectacular battles for 120 minutes but they just don't do that these days.

The blindingly insane thing is that this ACTUALLY HAPPENED. And not just this one time, but EVERY SINGLE TIME ANOTHER FRENCH ARMY APPROACHED HIM. Damn it, this should be eight HBO series.

@AlxzAlec

4 жыл бұрын

Samuel did france fight france

@artruisjoew5473

4 жыл бұрын

Al_xz no. In typical French fashion, France surrendered to France. Without a fight.

@geordiejones5618

3 жыл бұрын

Napoleon really was this mythical dude. Every general of his time said he was the best. He did for France what would take both Phillip AND Alexander to do for Macedonia/Greece. He was so OP the entire continent had to unite against him seven times before he was finally out of luck. He forged an empire out of a horrible revolution and terrified the greatest powers of the world at the time.

@banger2998

3 жыл бұрын

Ryan Sansaricq he’s the greatest general to ever live

@redcardinalist

3 жыл бұрын

@@artruisjoew5473 try not to talk shite. france has fought plenty of conflicts over the years. they suffered huge casualties in WW1 and in 1940 they fought bravely against the Germans. Unlike the British they didn't run away and abandon their ally at Dunkirk. Saying things like you have here makes you look a completely ignorant. I suggest before opening your big mouth again you actually read some history and try not to look a complete tit

No wonder Napoleon was so short. His balls were weighing him down.

@dams6829

5 жыл бұрын

Only he was pretty normal height for that time.

@infinitecanadian

4 жыл бұрын

More like his ego.

@reximingan9420

4 жыл бұрын

@@infinitecanadian when your a genius like him, your ego is that of the whole universe hehe

@infinitecanadian

4 жыл бұрын

@@reximingan9420 A large ego can lead to an equally large downfall.

@reximingan9420

4 жыл бұрын

@@infinitecanadian and can also lead to a legacy so unforgettable that people of tomorrow will copycat and paste their quotes in the social media and the real and shout their names into the cosmos. It's a double edge sword but eh, like a man once "You wanna make an omelet, you gonna break some eggs"

It is difficult to overstate the impact Napoleon had on many of these men. There were parades in France nearly 50 years later where Napoleonic Wars veterans would march in full uniform in honour of their emperor. You can see photographs from the mid 1850s where actual Napoleonic veterans are pictured in their actual uniforms. It's incredible.

@afisto6647

3 жыл бұрын

In actual Europe were every autoritarian figures are portrayed as villains or bad guys, the French saw him again as a hero this is impressive.

@internetstrangerstrangerofweb

3 жыл бұрын

The greatest age of France. It made sure to put the country in the books of history for what will remain of human history.

@kkcuzz

2 жыл бұрын

I looked it up because of this comment. Very Cool!

@TheButterMinecart1

2 жыл бұрын

@@afisto6647 He was neither a hero nor a villain.

@kaptenhiu5623

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheButterMinecart1 exactly..! He's Napoleon Bonaparte, The Emperor of France

The significance of this moment cannot be overstated. If just ONE of those men had done what he was told, followed orders, Napoleon would've been dead. But they didn't. None of them. And then, they ran to embrace him. Remarkable.

@cocotaveras8975

4 жыл бұрын

Frank Dodd Just shows the popularity he had over the French Army and the people.

@natalkumar6132

3 жыл бұрын

He said if .

@Joes8186

2 жыл бұрын

He Probably would have missed and then killed by his comrades because the guns then sucked

@griffionwyvrus9063

2 жыл бұрын

All great commanders always get the respect of their soldiers from Julius Caesar, Alexander the Great, Robert E Lee, Yao Fei, and also Napoleon.

@shaquille.oatmeal.9623

2 жыл бұрын

True leader

I just saw the new Napoleon. This scene alone blows EVERYTHING out of that movie.

@JohnDoe-yr3lm

5 ай бұрын

Agreed.

@jovaneghtesadi1494

5 ай бұрын

100% this!

@austin19950618

5 ай бұрын

True, I was so excited to see a new Interpretation. End up I need this video to wash my eyes 😢

Ridley Scott probably hates this movie

@Assadul-Naml

4 ай бұрын

Did he ALIENate the orginal story

@noggy3133

4 ай бұрын

@@Assadul-Namlhe did, he also made the pacing and story weird, aswell as making him a horn dog for his first wife, it felt like a self insert man… For example when ney charged at waterloo he also showed napoleon charging with ney which didn’t happen at all

@cashwat210

4 ай бұрын

Salty Englishman

@jjrj8568

4 ай бұрын

Scott's movies are usually hit or miss. It's obvious he admires Saladin but hates Napoleon.

@Argumemnon

4 ай бұрын

@@jjrj8568 There's a lot to admire about Saladin but the weird thing is that there's a lot to admire in Balian of Ibelin also. I don't know why that movie's so biased.

Reminder that the general intercepting him, Marshal Ney, stood by him through the battle of Waterloo. When put on trial in a kangaroo court like many of the Napoleonic leaders, Ney was offered an out. Legally speaking, since his town was now owned by Prussia, he was a Prussian and couldn’t be tried as a Frenchman. Ney shouted down his own lawyer’s arguments, accepted his fate at the hands of men who couldn’t sleep comfortably with him alive, and when his execution came, he refused the blindfold, comforted his executioners (they were French soldiers after all), and even gave them the order to fire.

@jamesbrown6020

5 ай бұрын

Thats crazy! Is all of this true?

@BlackPigeonPilled

5 ай бұрын

​@@jamesbrown6020yes.

@Cinderella121

5 ай бұрын

Yep he said something to the effect of he was a Frenchman and would remain a Frenchman.

@Pantsinabucket

5 ай бұрын

@@Cinderella121 yep, and when Ney was arrested and put to trial, the first general managing the court martial refused to try him and accepted a prison sentence over trying Ney. The second convened and ruled itself incompetent to try him. Then the King declared himself incompetent to try Ney. Then the THIRD court martial declared itself incompetent. Ney had to be tried by parliament in order to receive a sentence, he was that beloved.

@oldschool1993

5 ай бұрын

There is a theory that Marshal Ney did not die, but escaped to America with the help of loyal Frenchmen. A man named Peter Stuart Ney taught school in North and South Carolina beginning about 1819 and visitors from France who saw him said that he was Marshal Ney. He confessed to being the Marshal on his deathbed in 1846.

One of the biggest reasons Napoleon commanded so much respect: He was one of the boys

@randomguy-xp7se

Жыл бұрын

I couldnt have said it better. Like Napololeon's boys would ever have shot him at the behest of some royal who never so much as shouldered a rifle. He was theirs as much as they were his.

@DissidentThoughts

Жыл бұрын

His Russian campaign alone lost 400'000 French men their life's

@SirMcLowen

Жыл бұрын

@@DissidentThoughts that is part of war during that time... as most comment said.. he was and never was perfect he has his faults and flaws.. but in the battlefield at that time people followed him till death.. and he wasnt just sitting and commanding from afar.. he was at the field with them

@DissidentThoughts

Жыл бұрын

@end heart! to his credit he did get into the thick of it many times

@beans00001

11 ай бұрын

Can’t wait to see Biden lead the navy during WW3

This scene explains what "legitimacy" means.

@VRichardsn

5 жыл бұрын

Spot on.

@thunderbird1921

3 жыл бұрын

This movie, in just 15-20 minutes, shows why and how Napoleon got to Emperor. Out of all the chaos of the revolution and collapsing monarchy, he was the unifying, INSANELY charismatic force the French so longed for. Good gracious, he made them feel like Romans!

@neonflames3005

3 жыл бұрын

@@thunderbird1921 makes sense considering he was Italian

@liptongreentea3296

3 жыл бұрын

@@neonflames3005 corsican*

@KolRevon

3 жыл бұрын

@@liptongreentea3296 African*

5:51 The French actors were so overwhelmed by the sight of Napoleon that the scriptwriters just said "fuck it".

@generaljeanmoreau6853

3 жыл бұрын

lmfao

@JW-zx5dr

3 жыл бұрын

lol

@davecrupel2817

2 жыл бұрын

I can't even BEGIN to imagine what it must've really been like...

@vin6665

2 жыл бұрын

But still this is a good movie on its time and still now.

@Anonymous-zu7dh

2 жыл бұрын

the movie was made in the Soviet union with red army volunteers I believe.

Imagine being so much of a badass that you're up declares war not against your government, not against your country, but you

@trollege9618

2 жыл бұрын

Oversimplified?

@starcityrc3298

2 жыл бұрын

Even so, they couldn't kill him. They had to exile him for fear that France would rise up if they did.

@37center

9 ай бұрын

y'mean like Donald Trump? is that what you mean? like that?

@AleCharlie

7 ай бұрын

​@@37centerdid you compare fucking Donald Trump to Napoleon??

@NightspeakerR

5 ай бұрын

They dignify him for making Napoleon into a country 🙌

This scene could have come out of the head of a screenwriter or a novelist. But no. It really happened. Napoleon lived in another dimension. That of ancient heroes. Those who despise their life for the benefit of their immortality.

@richtofenillingroth641

Жыл бұрын

You said it brilliantly.

@3rdEarlRussell

Жыл бұрын

Yes! Napoleon’s story is truly one of myth and legend, yet it is actual history.

@OrdinaryThings

11 ай бұрын

Damn what a literary comment

@elhior23

9 ай бұрын

Thanks no one that found this video knew that....

@Masquevertdupatriotetsonopinel

24 күн бұрын

👍 🇨🇵

“Courage isn't having the strength to go on - it is going on when you don't have strength.” Napoleon

@qy-exotic7717

6 ай бұрын

yes

R.I.P. for those who watched Ridley Scots version before this one…

@LitmusPapyrus

15 күн бұрын

Nah, it lowers their expectations, so when they see this they’re even more blown away

This scene alone shows how different Napoleon 2023 is and how bad it is. They simply don't carry the same tension on how dangerous of a situation this was.

@aidenpearce5549

5 ай бұрын

Couldnt agree more

@luckyspurs

4 ай бұрын

History Buffs is in danger of hating Ridley Scott as much as Mel Gibson, if he isn't careful. The episode on Waterloo is great, by the way.

@jjrj8568

4 ай бұрын

just saw Scott's Napoleon the other day; the best part is the first hour (1973-1799) after that it nearly collapses; the return part is especially disappointing, about 30 guards in the forest, greeting him, the hell?

@rushimapa697

4 ай бұрын

@jjrj8568 Yup it makes it look as if he was a captain and not literally the Emperor of France who worked as basically the grand marshal of a large army returning. At first I thought they were gonna show more people, but nope just thise few guys

My God what guts Napoleon had to face down an army and turn them all over to his side.

@jadeimingan184

3 жыл бұрын

@teslagod2003 in definition, they are still screwed, Napoleons path to the Throne was inevitable, and trying to arrest and put him on a iron cage will just enrage and antagonize more of the people and the military who already have a hatred the size of death to the bourbon trash heaps. hehehe

@johngalvano5895

3 жыл бұрын

@@jadeimingan184 all it took was one single soldier to shoot and yet...

@jadeimingan184

3 жыл бұрын

@@johngalvano5895 In the voice of the assistant director from tropic thunder. EXACTLY!!

@jadeimingan184

3 жыл бұрын

@@johngalvano5895 it was inevitable, the soldiers their are all who fought with and for Napoleon on the last days of the war when the coalition stormed paris because of Talleyrands acts, even young recruits whom are recruited after Napoleons abdication view him as the Savior and in an almost god-like view to them and the french.

@thunderbird1921

3 жыл бұрын

Didn't Catherine the Great do something like this too? I've heard she did this during the coup against her husband and that he was so unpopular the exact same result happened: the armies surrounded her cheering.

Imagine how shocked and bewildered the monarchies of Europe must have been when they got news of this.

@geordiejones5618

Жыл бұрын

Thats why they all declared war on him not France. Gotta be the only example where several nations conspired to wage war on a single individual.

@TheIanverse

Жыл бұрын

I’m your 100th like 👍

@lordseelenfresserdemonking1168

Жыл бұрын

​@@geordiejones5618 Napoleon pulled a sigma move

@demaistre2458

Жыл бұрын

​@Geordie Jones Well, I mean there is Hitler too if we're gonna be honest

@LastsBobaTea

Жыл бұрын

@@demaistre2458 The difference being that Napoleon had not only charisma but also a great military genius. And also the fact that he wasn’t racist and didn’t commit mass genocide for no reason.

This film, in a mere 15 minutes, shows how and why Napoleon was made emperor. He basically took a nation in chaos from a collapsing monarchy and out of control revolution, rebuilt nearly everything, and made the desperate people feel like Romans!

@coconutmuncher

3 жыл бұрын

Just like Hitler

@AkshaySharma-rr2jx

3 жыл бұрын

@@coconutmuncher shut up u anglo saxon shite

@coconutmuncher

3 жыл бұрын

@@AkshaySharma-rr2jx I'm not English, nor European

@Kamfrenchie

2 жыл бұрын

@@coconutmuncher Hitler exterminated jews and Polish people, Napoleon improved conditions for jews, gave freedom of religion, and created the duchy of Varsaw. Hitler exterminated homosexuals, while Napoleon had no problem leaving Paris to the care of someone who was a known homosexual

@PredatorPeyami

2 жыл бұрын

@@coconutmuncher yea you look like from shithole

2:50 "If, you want kill your emperor. Ha, here I am." I like this part

@HalloPeeps_

2 жыл бұрын

His balls are stronger than kryptonite

@lordseelenfresserdemonking1168

Жыл бұрын

A sigma move

@damien4623

Жыл бұрын

Des paroles réellement prononcées

@baconpwn

6 ай бұрын

An actual quote, if the journals are to be believed.

@carkawalakhatulistiwa

3 ай бұрын

He really say that😂.

Napoleon’s return was done far better in this, than in the new film

@jjrj8568

4 ай бұрын

it was ridiculous, about 40 blokes and some trees.

@eschaton8758

4 ай бұрын

@@jjrj8568hahahaa. it really was pathetic

Why watch Ridley Scott’s garbage when you can watch this gem?

@haewymetal

5 ай бұрын

Atleast the cannons were cool

@francisco.repetto5701

5 ай бұрын

@@haewymetalah yes the 3 minutes cannon fire of a 2 and a half hours movie total bullshit it was a romanticon only 3 battles in all the movie lol

@nedlooby7419

5 ай бұрын

one wonders

@gammadion

5 ай бұрын

I love Napoleon so much. I wish I got to meet him, fight alongside him. I would give anything to go back to 1798 and meet him early on so I could become one of his trusted advisors.

@numericcash

5 ай бұрын

@@gammadion he probably kill you if you weren’t French so keep dreaming

Imagine sending an army to defeat napoleon once and for all and then finding out that all you did was gift him an army.

@heyokasamurai453

Жыл бұрын

Then have it happen several more times

@jjrj8568

4 ай бұрын

Bourbons = dumb (other than Louis XIV)

I love how that disastrous Ridley Scott movie renewed interest in this one. I've never seen it personally but after watching this scene i'm going to.

@kissmy_butt1302

4 ай бұрын

Two words: Practical effects. This movie is the gold standard. Most historically correct. Wait until you see this and see how bad the Scott film was off on the Waterloo. 15,000 extras were used.

@luckyspurs

4 ай бұрын

Now he just needs o make a bad Henry II movie to make people watch Becket and A Lion in Winter.

People watching clips of a GOOD Napoleon movie, I see

@boscochou9710

4 ай бұрын

Most certainly!

@jjrj8568

2 ай бұрын

Scott's arrogant failure has only made this movie more popular/appreciated

2:09 love how the actor gives small clues that Napoleon is anxious but is clearly hiding it in order to show himself strong towards them

@piercebrosnan9528

5 ай бұрын

It takes a brave man to be courageous at times of fear and uncertainty.

Ridley Scott has destroyed his legacy in his attempt to ruin the legacy of better men in Napoleon.

@madgavin7568

5 ай бұрын

His movie was a hit-piece. Typical anti-French, pro-British portrayal of Napoleon and he has the arrogance to act like the opinions of historians don't matter. No matter, his movie will be forgotten about in a year's time, count on it.

@piercebrosnan9528

5 ай бұрын

@@madgavin7568 This is bigger than anti-French, this is an attack on all great European men of the past, it is an attack on masculinity in itself even. We are in a time where Caesar's and Napoleons could be walking amongst us ready to rise up, it is no coincidence this was made today to undermine those men... but it will not work.

@poil8351

4 ай бұрын

well he ironically also managed to turn the duke of wellington into a complete caricature as well came across as a completely over the top nincompoop not the veteran disciplined general he actually was.

@imadeanaccounttocomment7800

Ай бұрын

@@madgavin7568”Anti-French, Pro-British portrayal” are we talking about the same movie where the British portrayed at Toulouse were a bunch of incompetent and pompous asses. The whole thing reminded me of pirates of the Caribbean, and they just had to include some random British private insulting Napoleon for no particular reason at all and you call it Pro British. If it was Pro British why did the film choose not to show any British victory except waterloo and ignore the entire peninsular war? Dismissing 13th vendémiaire as just a “royalist uprising” and acting as if the war of the second coalition was entirely the directory’s idea sounds, if I didn’t know better to be almost bonapartist propaganda. It’s not Pro British or Anti French, it’s just modern Hollywood.

@madgavin7568

Ай бұрын

@@imadeanaccounttocomment7800 Okay perhaps I take pro-British back since the Duke of Wellington was depicted as a scruffy old man when he was only a few months older than Napoleon, but the film is anti-French. Ridley Scott himself has a contemptuous view of the French by saying the French don't even love their country. Scott himself is British so you can't really accuse all of Hollywood for the mess of a film. It's all Ridley Scott, his warped take on history and his Jupiter sized ego.

Imagine being that one guy that does actually shoot, and then he looks around, "Oh, wait... we weren't supposed to. Damnit".

Much better than Napoleon 2023 movie. This 1970 co-production with the Soviet Red Army is a masterpiece !!

@martinh1309

5 ай бұрын

sooo much better. there was like no tension at all in the new movie

@MichalKaczorowski

5 ай бұрын

In the new movie Napoleon is portrayed as an autistic sad guy.

@rickyj5547

5 ай бұрын

​@@MichalKaczorowskihe really looks like a useless pupet on a sting 😊

@topsdaily_productions

5 ай бұрын

​@@MichalKaczorowskiliterally he wasnt anything like Napoleon in history

@Revolutionary_Fish

4 ай бұрын

​@@MichalKaczorowski Napoleon in the new film: "I have become Porn, Edging Porn of Hollywood."

I came here to wash my eyes after watching the scott ridley's movie.

@hoosieryank6731

2 ай бұрын

Whole lotta brain bleach to do that!

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@211pirate6

3 жыл бұрын

this takes the #1 spot

Napoleon was a confirmed shounen protagonist

@adrithmanvik1853

2 жыл бұрын

Lmaoo.

No cgi. All real men as extras. Incredible detail

@DylanoRevs

5 ай бұрын

Yeah, the Soviets trained in lotsa conscripts for this movie

@Grandmastergav86

4 ай бұрын

15,000 in total@@DylanoRevs

@carkawalakhatulistiwa

3 ай бұрын

​@@Grandmastergav8615 thousand infantry and 2 thousand cavalry. and all were trained how to use muskets, cannons and carry out formations during the Napoleonic era.

Thank you, thank you, and thank you a thousand times over Soviet film crew, cast, and ~16,000 extras from the Red Army --- for this movie. It's one of the best I've ever seen and nothing else has given more justice to this dramatic period in European history.

@sponge540

3 жыл бұрын

Daddy, what did you do in the military? *Urrr....it's...hard to explain.*

@beans00001

11 ай бұрын

Uh, for a time, I was French.

@nicklibby3784

9 ай бұрын

Don't forget the 100 horses that died. Or at least the said around 100 horses more or less.

@satanscilantro4929

9 ай бұрын

@@nicklibby3784it’s unfortunate but horses can die from stepping in a hole a weird way. Pretty common, sad animals to own long term from what I hear.

@jasonweitzel4393

7 ай бұрын

@@satanscilantro4929they also were treated pretty rough in these older movies

Here after see napoleon 2023... its no even close.

@martinh1309

5 ай бұрын

this is 100x better

This scene is worth the entire ridley scott movie.

@monsterfurby

4 ай бұрын

To be fair, the scene of him facing down the troops ordered to stop him is included almost verbatim in that movie. I'm pretty sure Ridley Scott meant that as a homage to the 1970 film.

To this day I’m still angry Kubrick died before he could make his Napoleon epic, I would’ve loved to see his version of this event and in general we need more media about Napoleon

@DarksaberForce

2 жыл бұрын

Actually because this movie didn't make a lot at the box office was the reason Warner Bros pulled the plug. So Stanley made Barry Lyndon instead.

@jerrycoob4750

Жыл бұрын

Someday I wanna make a Napoleon *trilogy*, respectively covering the general's early military career, his rise to emperor and his eventual fall.

@kurtwagner350

Жыл бұрын

@@jerrycoob4750 absolutely, I’ve always wondered if someday a studio might be brave enough to make a massive historical epic about Napoleon, he’s such a fascinating figure in history and definitely deserves more media about him and the Napoleonic era in general

@jerrycoob4750

Жыл бұрын

@@kurtwagner350 I wonder what a movie that takes the epic story of Napoleon into a 20th century setting would be like. Good or bad idea?

@SmugCanadian

Жыл бұрын

@@kurtwagner350 You're in luck if any of you didn't know Ridley Scott's Napoleon movie is almost done being made right now, it's a huge epic and the set pictures look incredibly historically accurate, probably the most I've ever seen in a film to date. Joaquin Phoenix is playing Napoleon so that should be interesting to see since the last thing I saw him in was the Joker which he did really well in.

"The way is forward!" fucking badass, true soldier.

@TheBigMoof

2 жыл бұрын

A man like that can motivate a hundred.

@sdgamer9427

2 жыл бұрын

@@TheBigMoof that's offensive. Atleast a quarter of a million

@Autumnz2005

10 ай бұрын

@@sdgamer9427a man like that can make or break a nation

What makes this scene even more impressive: this actually happened in real life! And not just this one time, but the King of France send several other army regiments to capture Napoleon and every time the same thing happened. Napoleon stepped forward and told them: ''Here I am, if you wanna shoot me, DO IT! Or you can join me and help me save France..." And every time, they joined forces with him, until he amassed a huge army and arrived in Paris. Oh and the one soldier who literally fainted, that actually happened also, on several occasions, according to some historians!

@jjrj8568

4 ай бұрын

Like your foster father, whom you hate, telling you to kill your actual father, whom you love.

7:03 The class clown coming back from the director office

@internetstrangerstrangerofweb

3 жыл бұрын

HE’S BACK! OLD BILLY’S COME BACK TO US!

@the_name_is_sock

2 жыл бұрын

LONG LIVE BILLY!

Now this is napoleon!

The thing that made Napoleon so beloved by the French people is that while the old Bourbon family were wasting away their lives partying and ignoring the state, Napoleon was out there in the field, taking French troops as far as Moscow and crushing every force that got in his way. No wonder they all flocked to his banner.

@usagi_t

9 күн бұрын

Nazi Germani also loved Hitler.

Ridley Scott’s movie is a dumpster fire. This is a GOOD movie about this man

The beauty of this scene hits even harder after seeing the pile of crap that is Ridley Scott's new Napoleon movie. There was this same scene in 'Napoleon', but while the 'Waterloo' scene is a 10/10, the one with Phoenix is so bland and underwhelming.

Phoenix can't hold a candle to Steiger's Napoleon.

@Michael_I.

5 ай бұрын

Its not Phoenix fault tho, Ridley is to blame

@RommelsAsparagus

5 ай бұрын

@@Michael_I. I agree 100%.

@kissmy_butt1302

5 ай бұрын

@@Michael_I. yes and no. He seemed to be stuck a little in Joker mode.

@Bayard1503

5 ай бұрын

@@Michael_I. It is his fault, he can't play a charismatic character... he shouldn't have accepted the role.

@Michael_I.

5 ай бұрын

@@kissmy_butt1302 Ridleys idea of napoleon is a cuck, not a charismatic leader, a different actor wouldnt chamge much

Much better than Ridley Scott's movie...

Recently I learned that part of Napoleon's Elba escort were a squadron of Polish Lancers of the Guard. As said this was new knowledge to me, but I remembered it and during my most recent rewatch of Waterloo I thought what a pity it was that we didn't see them in the movie. Yet we do. And I noticed them during that rewatch. There they are, at the back of the scene when Napoleon and Ney first see each other. This movie isn't perfectly accurate, but my God it does get a lot right.

@minhthanh09

2 жыл бұрын

Weren't they fight back the Scots Grey charge?

@trollege9618

Жыл бұрын

@@minhthanh09 nah, it was actually the 3rd and 4th Lancer regiments and some Cuirassiers that counter-charged the Scot Greys, the Polish Lancers were absorbed into the 2nd Lancer Regiment (Red Lancers) and were committed during the charges at the British squares.

@ianrastoski3346

9 ай бұрын

MARCH, MARCH, DĄBROWSKI FROM ITALY TO POLAND

@baconpwn

6 ай бұрын

There's a legitimate argument to be made that Napoleon's refusal to sell out the Polish people was a key reason for his downfall. It was one of the reasons for Russia to turn on him

@ButHerMama

5 ай бұрын

The polish were loyal to him like a baby and his mothers milk

Now THAT is loyalty.

1000x better than the 2023 Napoleon movie

It's amazing that this is bazed off history, it looks too much like movie acting but it actually happened.

@ShayPatrickCormacTHEHUNTER

3 жыл бұрын

The historical moment was even more epic

@prophetic0311

3 жыл бұрын

It happened EVERY time.

@internetstrangerstrangerofweb

3 жыл бұрын

The return of Napoleon is written like an illogical fan fiction. Without context, that is.

@saywhatnow2173

3 жыл бұрын

@@internetstrangerstrangerofweb what?

@viacrucishector1821

3 жыл бұрын

@@saywhatnow2173 It’s just so ridiculous. Like come on a guy just winning enemy armies over just by saying a few words, that’s the stuff of bad isekai and historical drama stories or something a Y/N character would do. *But it actually happened*

compare this with the soulless scene from Napoleon (2023) with about 12 extras. How did that scene ever get past editing when they obviously knew about this glorious scene?

Compare this scene to Napoleon 2023 You'll wish you hadn't seen the new movie

I love how they get some of the smaller details right. Like napoleon's personal guard having those hats and the presence of colonial troops in the background.

@robowisanveithasung6022

2 жыл бұрын

which ones are the colonial troops I ask? I know the ones with the bearskins is the old guard but nothing about the colonials

@Tiwaz81

2 жыл бұрын

@@robowisanveithasung6022 there are none. Ney is with the 5th line infantry and some Carabiniers. Napoleon is with the old guard and some Polish Lancers.

@rodafowa1279

Жыл бұрын

Colonial troops? I'm assuming you're talking about Africa then, in which case, you have the wrong Napoleon. France's presence in Africa during OG Napoleon's reign was relatively small. His focus was Europe. It wasn't until the reign of Louis Napoleon (Napoleon III) where France started ramping up its presence in Africa. North Africans were technically used in the Franco-Prussian War, but not for war (at least not according to any historical sources I've ever seen). They were used in Southern France as "peacekeepers." A little fun fact about the lesser-known Emperor Napoleon: Louis took a rudderless, defeated, almost backward France and molded into a truly formidable power (he was also responsible for turning Paris into the "City of Light"). Unfortunately for him, France, and tens of millions of others, he was also one of the main reasons the Germans united and immediately became the world's second most powerful country.

@crabberdabberye

6 ай бұрын

@@Tiwaz81Little known fact but those Polish lancers are Old Guard, the soldiers that we associate with the name old guard are the Grenadiers of Foot but Old Guard was a collection of all of the best units from across the empire. Holland, Poland even Lithuania and Italy.

This scene was better than the entire Napoleon 2023 movie

This is my favorite version of the battle. Great film. Napoleon had made too many enemies and the Dutch, also crucially the Prussians, wanted revenge.

@cocotaveras8975

4 жыл бұрын

GV Games Don't forget the Austrians, Russians, and Brits as well.

@thunderbird1921

3 жыл бұрын

My honest thoughts: If Napoleon doesn't take on Russia from 1812 on, and overthrow Spain in 1807, he probably rules France for decades. If he could crush coalition armies and unify/motivate the French people THIS much, no way Britain or the others win if Spain and others side with him. They probably would have had to sue for peace.

@tsarnature6587

3 жыл бұрын

@@thunderbird1921 War was inevitible.Russia was chaffing the treaty of tilsit slowly.Tsar was reforming and mobilizing his army ,the british would have bribed russia in the form of subsidies and trade concessions to drclare war on napoleon.Once this happens austria and prussia would have betrayed napoleon again it would havelead to a continental war.

@jpc7118

2 жыл бұрын

Mate, it's perfidious Albion (England) which paid all of Europe to be enemy of France not the other way... England paid all the european Kings to make war to France, she is the main reason of millions of death, not Napoleon. Napoleon secured the republican ideas in 1799, did interior peace and pardonned the royalists and rebels from western France, then he did peace with Europe 'Lunéville" 1801 then with England (Peace treaty of Amiens 1802)... It's England which broke the peace, then paid Austrian and Russian Empires to make war on the ground and in her place. The terrific defeats of all of the European powers against France was done because of that. The thrashing defeat of 1806 for Prussia came just the same (Napoleon and his army after only 3 weeks, without motor engines in those old time, crushed the best disciplined army of Europe)... all the resentment of Dutch, Prussians, Russians, Austrians, Portuguese and even Spanish SHOULD have been done towards England.

@omgpix

2 жыл бұрын

@@jpc7118 Yeah, Russia, Austria, Prussia, etc. should direct the ire towards the people that helped them avenge their losses and humiliating defeat instead of the nation that wounded and subjugated them. That makes total sense!

you know what this movie did so good? it actually made us root for Napoleon to win at the end

@jjrj8568

2 ай бұрын

Everyone knows the British were hypocrites and the Prussian evil during the Napoleonic Wars; and don't get me started with Austria and Russia; Europe entered an era of darkness until 1848

Who's here after watching the disaster that was Ridley Scott's Napoleon?

@McLarenMercedes

5 ай бұрын

Every parrot who prides himself/herself in being a PARROT. If you really enjoyed this movie you wouldn't need to seek validation/consolation among total strangers you will never meet in real life. Sheep. You know, I hate to ruin your day but the fact is that "Waterloo" was an *economical flop back in 1970* . "The picture was a commercial failure at the theatrical box office in 1970. Producer Dino De Laurentiis blamed the film's poor performance on the picture's lack of stars." From the trivia section on Imdb. "Contrary to the popular misconception, its poor performance at the US box office was not the reason that MGM cancelled their Stanley Kubrick Napoleon project. MGM and Kubrick announced that they had parted company amicably in January 1969, four months before this film went into production." Imdb trivia. "It was the fifth most popular "reserve ticket" movie at the British box office in 1971. However, it failed to recoup its cost" Wiki page. So a lot of people back in 1970/1971 sounded exactly the same like you do today. I guess if you listened to what most sheep liked or didn't like back then ("Lovestory" which made $50 million in the USA alone) this film would have been forgotten too. Time is the only fair judge of quality. Once the chimpy hoopla all dies down different individuals come to their *own* conclusion. I wouldn't call Ridley Scott's Napoleon a "disaster" merely a medley of fast-forward history which clearly seems to have been cut-down from its original form. You could have used the word disappointment (which would indicate you have a modicum of reason) or misfire or even "ambivalent". But you chose disaster, which isn't quite fair is it? Perhaps you live in a false dichotomy reality, i.e. a totally black-and-white world. That certainly would explain your infantile comment. You must be mentally 12. There's no pride in being a parrot and seeking refuge among other parrots. And yes, this applies to likeminded people who *did like* Movie X, Y or Z.

The new Napoleon film is a joke compared to this masterpiece.

"I have come back only to make France happy" if he could come back today to save us, we would be just as happy.

@Heimrik01

Жыл бұрын

Il faut lire la prophétie de Marie-Julie Jahenny sur l'avenir de la France, notre pays tombera bien bas dit la sainte, mais il se relèvera à la vitesse d'une balle qui rebondit et redeviendra plus GRAND qu'il ne l'a jamais été.

History itself is more badass than any fantasy novel.

This movie and even the 2002 miniseries made an effort to highlight a sense of camaraderie between Napoleon and his troops, that he was more to them than just their emperor. He won them over with more than just his authority, though his larger-than-life status certainly played a big part in it. Meanwhile, Ridley Scott just had him mumble a pathetic sob story to his troops, amounting to him telling them "I just wanna go home" all the while looking embarassed throughout the whole thing. Leave it to Scott to turn one of the greatest military commanders in history into a meek, introverted doofus.

I think Steiger's portrayal here of Napoleon is probably the best representation of what Napoleon physically looked like, except that Steiger was 5' 10" and Napoleon more like 5' 7". An original of the grey coat seen in the clips is on display in Fontainebleau.

@alexman378

5 ай бұрын

That was the average man’s height back then anyway, but at the end of the day, who cares? If he’s shown to be of similar height to everyone else, it’s fine.

Vive la France

@richardvalens7989

4 жыл бұрын

Viva la MeXicA!!

@cocotaveras8975

4 жыл бұрын

Richard Valens Vive Israel y Los Estados Unidos

@inkigaming4279

4 жыл бұрын

Coco Taveras That’s gonna be controversial.

@cocotaveras8975

4 жыл бұрын

Inki Gaming No, I don’t think it will be.

@baptistebrigand5882

3 жыл бұрын

@@cocotaveras8975 .

I genuinely feel bad for that veteran, lost both of his legs in battle, presumably at the Battle of Austerlitz or some time during the War of the First or Second Coalition. And has pretty much lost everything except for his dirty old uniform and his medal. 😢

@dastemplar9681

6 ай бұрын

And for Napoleon’s Old Guardsmen to hoist that man up like a champion. Must’ve been the first time in years that anyone gave a shit for who he was.

@luckyspurs

4 ай бұрын

Might have lost it to frostbite trying to get home from finding Moscow deserted.

Between this movie and Come and See, I wonder what Soviet cinema would have been like if it was as well funded as Hollywood.

@jackremington3397

3 жыл бұрын

American Cinema would disintegrate into dust. And I am a die-hard American authoritarian nutcase.

@Heimrik01

Жыл бұрын

@@jackremington3397 Je suis ravi de lire un avis divergent de la part d'un américain ;-)

@jackremington3397

Жыл бұрын

@@Heimrik01 Merci!

@CarzorStelatis

Жыл бұрын

At the time this was one of the most expensive movies ever made - and that's even with the Soviet government giving them an entire division of the Red Army to use as extras.

@yeng1855

Жыл бұрын

@@jackremington3397 Indeed. They would be a powerhouse just as Hong Kong Cinema was competing for the film market.

Napoleon fucking killed that guy with his stare

This scene was far better done here than in Napoleon by Ridley Scott

I think this is what got Ney shot(apparently) in the end, he joined Napoleon instead of capturing him. It was Ney himself who commanded the soldiers to fire.

@lufsolitaire5351

Жыл бұрын

He could of been acquitted if he had played on the fact he was from a German region of France or was coerced but a man as proud and brave as him refused to be anything but a Frenchmen.

@monkeyboy4746

Жыл бұрын

@@lufsolitaire5351 I heard a story that he survived and left France to become a school teacher in North Carolina USA. I think it may be true, haha.

When you dump your points into Charism and Luck.

I am France and France is Me - Napoelon. "Im a wimpy retard" - Napoleon by the britt Scott.

Napoleon to Louis: “Hey, stop sending me troops. I have enough.”

Watching this clip now in December 2023, after watching the HORRIBLE film "Napoleon" by director Ridley Scott. Wow, this version is soooo much better.

When I think of the definition of the word "epic", immediately this comes to my mind.

France's greatest soldier. My wifes family hated him because they are Royalists. I saw Napoleons Tomb on my honeymoon.

@THEREALZENFORCE

5 ай бұрын

Napoleon in his life was crowned emperor which makes your comment a little ironic isn't it.

@Phalanx11

5 ай бұрын

@@THEREALZENFORCE You get beat up alot I'm guessing...

@borakaraca9788

4 ай бұрын

@@THEREALZENFORCE there are 3 types of monarchists in france bourbon orlean and bonaparte dyntasty supportters. and I can definetelly say that bourbon supporters are the worst ones

@THEREALZENFORCE

4 ай бұрын

@@Phalanx11 you upvoted your own comment that's pathetic 🤣 And i guess you are also 9 times national and 1 time international martial arts champion.

@Phalanx11

4 ай бұрын

What's pathetic is when you look in the mirror....

Napoleon's off the charts charisma. He knows which regiment they are "soldiers of the 5th" and it's like the father and prodigal son reunited. Great scene showing how Napoleon is actually very nervous with how he wrings his hands behind his back and the flinching at the 'Fire!' command. He probably needed a change of underwear after the cheering died down. (He was suffering from hemorrhoids at this time to boot which contributed to his defeat at Waterloo because they were so painful he couldn't ride horseback for long periods to personally check the battlefield.)

Napoleon was the last greatest man of the universe. An absolute legend of the modern era of military strategy.

@piercebrosnan9528

Жыл бұрын

Based Mel Gibson has shown us the way

@alfredodistefanolaulhe2212

Жыл бұрын

He was the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of France

@Chaotic_Good

8 ай бұрын

The man with the square mustache would beg to differ

@vornadopro6502

8 ай бұрын

He was great too, but his generals bulked up the power of the German army. @@Chaotic_Good

@luckyspurs

4 ай бұрын

What does that make Wellington?

One of the best men in history

Fun fact " the entire escape plan for Napolean from the British warships was made by his minister Talleyrand who opposed Napoleon from the period when he was set to be exiled." In the end he wanted to finish it all at once , since Napolean lacked funds, almost a bankrupt nation a war could only last for a few months for his side , therefore in Waterloo 1815 he was defeated for good

@jaredmello

5 ай бұрын

Robert Green in 48 Laws of Power and The Art of Seduction makes it seem like Talleyrand is the real genius

Much better than 2023

4:00 He does not smile because he is not happy, nor angry. He gives the straight face because he is not as disillusioned as the troops are. He knows the only thing Napoleon is bringing to France is war, and that the peaceful jubilee is only temporary.

@hughg.gaines6027

3 жыл бұрын

Well I say, if the greatest military leader of all time has been given to your country, you shouldn't let him go to waste.

@robowisanveithasung6022

Жыл бұрын

Ney didn't exactly like Napoleon much either. he believed he was a warmonger and didn't care for France at all.

@JM-dy4ty

8 ай бұрын

Ney knew that war was the only way France would be free. The Monarchy was a tyranny and Napoleon was a great Emperor

Took 4 countries to defeat him but french people did not overthrow him What a military genius

@johnvanuatu9181

5 ай бұрын

5 countries (UK, Prussia, Russia, Austria and Sweden, you could also add portugal and Spain but I guess that a details), and they had to try 6 times

@nickwake5484

4 ай бұрын

Kept starting wars that he lost,,,some Genius.

@bunnitomoe3866

4 ай бұрын

​@@nickwake5484what are you talking about? His only fault is invading Russia and try to take Spain. The Coalition tried 5 time to defeat him and lost, Napoleon and his grand army defend and defeat multiples nations on their own.

@johnvanuatu9181

4 ай бұрын

@@nickwake5484 The only 2 wars he started was against russia and spain

@nickwake5484

4 ай бұрын

@@johnvanuatu9181 I’m not sure how you feel that contradicts what I posted.

This movies kicks Ridley Scott's version in the butt! Waterloo is Epic!

better than new napoleon 2023

Fiction writers: I can’t write that nobody would believe something so breathtakingly stupid happened History: it actually happened multiple times Fiction : dafuq

@apiwutintongkam3149

2 жыл бұрын

You would be surprise by how often the breathtakingly stupid things happen in history

@aguyonasiteontheinternet578

Жыл бұрын

@@apiwutintongkam3149 The only difference between reality and fiction is that fiction needs to be credible. - Mark Twain

@martinguerra5152

Жыл бұрын

@@aguyonasiteontheinternet578 what about this doesn't make sense?

@breakerdawn8429

9 ай бұрын

​@@martinguerra5152For example imagine you write this scene in a Fictional Sci Fi world the Emperor returned to his Galaxy after exiled for so long. He returned with full blown startship pointing at him with permission to fire. But none did they shout at the engineer to fire their lasers at him but none did. Instead they all showed their loyalty and shouted im unison at their Emperor returned. My review: Emperor is god damn mary sue character wtf... don't read this bull

@alexman378

5 ай бұрын

Only if there’s good enough set up. Introduce your character’s charisma, intelligence and camaraderie with his men in the first arc and this will be a good pay off. 😉

"Like a last signpost to the other path, Napoleon appeared, the most isolated and late-born man there has even been, and in him the problem of the noble ideal as such made flesh--one might well ponder what kind of problem it is; Napoleon this synthesis of the inhuman and the superhuman" - Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals

Ridley Scott could have learned something from this epic, unfortunately he chose to cuck.

Have to come back and watch this movie after the travesty that was Ridley Scott’s “Napoleon”. Over a half century’s worth of improvements to cinematic technology and Napoleon confronting the 5th in that movie is absolutely pitiful in comparison to this one.

I love the shock of fear and quiver in his eyes when the commander shouts "Fire!" It's a moment of, not weakness but, humanity. It shows that, like us, Napoleon was only human. Even he had his doubts about this encounter with his men. But he prevailed. Such a masterstroke in cinematography, even with the choppy splice in editing there!

So much better filmmaking and emotional writing then the 2023 movie

This scene is missing one important background. It was Marshal Ney who hated Bourbons the most and was very patriotic. He wanted his troops to defect to Napoleon. Before marching towards Napoleon, he had told his officer that only Napoleon can save France .

Just compare this particular scene with the corresponding one from Scott: the difference in scope/atmosphere/performances is abysmal! Rod Steiger WAS Napoleon in this film...

Now this is a proper movie about Napoleon

watching this scene compared to what Ridley Scott put in his Napoleon is night and day the personality the aura this napoleon gives off Joaquin had none of this just smug and boring also didn't enjoy that ridley scott would have you believe everything Napoleon did was for Josephine

This is how its done

france needs him now more than ever

@randomguy-xp7se

2 жыл бұрын

Seriously. What happened to you guys? Then again, USA has little room to criticize you fine folks these days.

@yeng1855

Жыл бұрын

@@randomguy-xp7se Don't pay too much attention to these comments. They are only generalization with little grasp of the world's circumstances. And... in my humble opinion. They are just glorifying the past.

@steviechampagne

Жыл бұрын

@@randomguy-xp7seamerica needs a napoleon as well

@lordseelenfresserdemonking1168

Жыл бұрын

​@@steviechampagne we did But they chose a potato as Potus and a hyena as VP

@merucrypoison296

9 ай бұрын

Every country needs a napoleon, the idea of a emperor that is loved by the people and makes their country a superpower is what everyone needs

Still obliterates Ridley Scotts abomination

After watching Ridley Scotts film I had to come back to this one, its insane how much more passion and energy is on display here. Rod Steiger gave such heart to his speech that he looked like he was ready to embrace every man. Sadly Joaquin Phoenix who I think is very good actor just didn't deliver it, he sounded bored

Sooooo much better then the new Napoleon movie

@garimto3696

4 ай бұрын

The new movie is a fcking joke

That new Napoleon movie better include this scene

@jaredmello

5 ай бұрын

It did, but a little lacklusterly. They didn’t do a good enough job showing us why Napoleon was beloved

@constantinexi3743

4 ай бұрын

@@jaredmelloyea I just saw it. They made him such a soy boy lunatic.

Who’s here after watching the shitty new Napoleon movie

@McLarenMercedes

5 ай бұрын

Wait for the *real cut* of 4 and half hours.

@igorp639

5 ай бұрын

@@McLarenMercedes keep coping, they will just add more josephinine and jokes that napoleon was retarded, or some shit