Robert Hunt

Felt as if Ridley Scott marginally addressed the things that historically he could not argue but took extensive liberty with the interpretation of the man. Face it, discussing Napoleon is going to be complicated because of the broad range of things he touched on: military leadership and tactics, politics and rule, and personal life/romance. It would be a challenge for anyone to try to address them with enough depth in 1 hr and 57 minutes. But the way in which Scott chose to portray Bonaparte as an insecure little man with predatory sexual deviant tendencies was a disservice to some of the other things that Napoleon was known for: Napoleonic Code, defeat of the majority of European armies fielded by regents that feared a “people’s army”, and feelings of the French populace towards him. I get it, Scott has to sell movie tickets. I just wish he wouldn’t have focused on ALL that was negative about the man.