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…
Set to release on Nov 22 in major markets for anyone else about to ask in the thread like I almost did instead of just looking it up.
The true hero. Preempting your own well-earned laziness to spare us all the same effort. I thank you.
The normal cut btw, not the long one mentioned in the title. In case someone, like me, thinks the long will be released in November. Not to downplay your comment though
I just know they are going to attempt the first 24 hour movie in my lifetime.
Me, an intellectual, wondering whether or not Josephine was the name of the llama, colorized:
Spoiler alert:
The llama was named Tina
That fat lard.
A 4.5 hour cut of Napoleon Dynamite directed by Ridley Scott? I’m in.
Yeah, like, I had questions but I definitely wasn't complaining
Make yourself a dang quesadilla!
Damn Napoleon going to be shorter than this cut of the movie.
(Yeah yeah i know he was average height for his time)
Akchua.... Dammit.
A good response to historical inaccuracies found in the trailer from the Waterloo Association: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlbXiYLi1ys
Back in the day, the Soviet Red Army trained 16,000 troops in Napoleonic Era artillery, cavalry, and infantry tactics. They were first used in the Russian movie 'War And Peace.' Hollywood hired them out for 'Waterloo' with Rod Steiger.
If you want to see a great reenactment of the battle, watch that movie. I'm speaking specifically about military tactics.
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Christ, if the video is an hour long how long is the trailer??
Aha, three minutes I think? There is so much history in that period, that even the appearance and the fact that there is a speaking part for one person in the trailer gives those in the video hope for the movie.
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I'm starting to think Ridley may have lost it.
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.
Wasn’t Kubrick originally going to make this movie?
There has been many Napoleon projects, starting with the 1927 silent epic. Kubrick researched a long time for his project but never had time to do it. Spielberg is collaborating with HBO to use that script for a miniseries though.
Yea I remember seeing something about that. Wonder if the script ever ended up anywhere. Like how Spielberg ended up directing Ai which was a Kubrick script or idea? I can’t remember.
4 and a half hours is too long
For a theater, yes. But for home video, where people can and often do watch movies in chunks anyway, length doesn't matter as much.
I'd love it if he just dropped it as two films, released a month apart. That would drive people to see the first part so that they can be caught up for part two.
Of course Ridley Scott has multiple different cuts.
Will it also be in black and white so you can't tell how bad the effects are?