Ridley Scott Has a ‘Fantastic’ Cut of ‘Napoleon’ That Runs Four-and-a-Half Hours and Features Way More Joséphine
Ridley Scott Has a ‘Fantastic’ Cut of ‘Napoleon’ That Runs Four-and-a-Half Hours and Features Way More Joséphine
Ridley Scott’s historical epic “Napoleon” clocks in at a whopping 158 minutes, but even at over two-and-a-half hours a lot of material was left on the cutting room floor. In the S…
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idk Ridley, maybe it's great but directors have a lot of hubris in thinking anyone would want to sit through a 4.5 hour film. at that point your best bet is to release it as a miniseries like the extended cut of Hateful Eight
Releasing Napoleon as a short film would be wrong on multiple levels.
apparently the theatrical cut will be 2.5 hours so not exactly short, but definitely much shorter than this supposed director's cut. I definitely get why a movie like this would need to be long but 4.5 seems excessive. directors have a hard time killing their darlings
Maybe I've just always had the wrong read on them, but extended directors cuts have always felt like they're primarily for people who are huge fans of the movie anyway. There's definitely a subset of people who would watch the full extended cut.