Salvete Omnes,
today a little about the new Napoleon-themed film production directed by Ridley Scott.
so we waited for this latest attempt at the famous French Corsican who waged war, was a law giver and modernized the world around him.
For us, Polish people around the world, Napoleon also may represent our forlorn hope of restoring the Polish statehood - paradoxically this hope was realized by his enemy, tsar Alexander of Russia, who in fact created the Polish state, the so called Congress Kingdom of Poland, and crowned himself as our king in 1815, in spite of the resistance from our friends - Great Britain, Prussia and Austrian Empire.
Ad rem, Mr. Scott directed a feature film, supposedly based on Napoleon's life and times, bu this motion picture is a real biopic?
So I offer you two reviews for your pleasure:
First review is in English - from HistoryLegends of Yt channel of the same name. Among many things, the author, History Legends, analyzes the historic battles, from Toulon to Waterloo, allegedly 'portrayed' in this feature film.
The second one is the more scholarly review, via interview, by prof. Dariusz Nawrot of Silesian University, a Polish professional historian and Napoleonic period reencator, author of many scholarly articles and books. The review was done for the Polish National Radio. You can translate the review via Google translate, which does quite decent translating job from English to Polish et vice versa.
Like other historians eg Helena Schrader et al in their learned opinions about the other film by Mr. Scott, Kingdom of Heaven via Real Crusade History-YT (part 1-one & 2-two on R C H channel ) , here prof. Nawrot is informed, critical and precise in his review.
so could a horse laugh here - it does seem so...
ps,
now, if you wanna see & read an interesting take on the Napoleonic wars you could obtain a French comic novel - The Battle (eg from Amazon) which is a story drawn by Spanish artist Gill after being adapted from a novel by Rambaud.
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| Napoleonic soldier and author of this painting, the battle of Pyramids, Louis-Francois Lejeune is the protagonist of the mentioned French comics |
enjoy
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