Mentions (20)
"he is the exact age that he was when he rose to power, he speaks french, looks smaller, has a wierd mix of charisma and awkwardness. I think that role is perfect for him"
"No depiction of his youth or even Corsica. Nothing about growing up on island that had just been conquered by France. And his journey from corsican to french nationalist. Absolutely nothing about any of Napoleon's domestic policies or why anyone would follow him."
"I don't care how mid the movie is going to be, I feel so energized after watching the trailer."
"Further to my last post about my friend who was accused of sexual assault and then announced he knew how Napoleon felt before retaking Paris: he has released a 30 slide PowerPoint presentation "proving" his innocence to a group chat of 15 people on Instagram"
"For me, it was the portrayal of Napoleon as both the bad guy and a neuro-atypical weirdo that really irked me. The movie is a hit-piece, but specifically makes Napoleon out to be a lonely and petulant man-child which feels very much in-line with the modern trend of assigning everyone with a neurolog"
"Alexander slept with the Iliad under his pillow. When Napoleon went on campaign he kept a copy of The Sorrows of Young Werther with him at all times."
"Napoleon was pretty much singlehandedly responsible for destroying the old order in Europe forever and ushering in the 19th - 20th century dominance of liberalism and the Enlightenment which are responsible for everything trad types hate. The right-wingers of the day, the royalists the term 'right-w"
"The greatness of Napoleon, Cesar or Washington is only moonlight by the sun of Lincoln. His example is universal and will last thousands of years."
"No longer do men want to become Napoleon, George Washington or Alexander the Great. They want to be John Lennon, James Dean or Kurt Cobain."
"Today he posted on Instagram notes that "he knows how Napoleon felt before retaking Paris" as he is about to post the evidence"
"Even Napoleon had his Watergate."
"haven't felt this good after a long ass screening since i went to see abel gance's NAPOLEON (1927) some years ago"
"for the record I don't watch movies. This is the second movie I saw this year. The other one was Oppenheimer. was a really weird movie. the first hour it was like there wasn't a scene that went over 60 seconds. just cut cut cut cut. He was funny though. The little mmmmmm noise he did to beckon for s"
"20th century was probably Hitler, 19th would be Napoleon? 18th, idk, Washington or someone."
"Rupert Everett as Wellington absolutely stole the last half hour of the film, just chewing the scenery in the best way."
"The Democrats and Mainstream Republicans were the Ancien Regime. Trump was Napoleon. Biden is the Bourbon restoration. Trump's re-election will be the Hundred Days. Global powers will fear him and defeat him once and for all and Biden will be put back, despite popular will but he will be opposed for"
"For those few pages, I am no longer a skeptical reader. I'm Buffet, I'm Napoleon, I'm Tiger wearing red."
"People correctly identify syphilis as a (likely Aztec) demon that ravaged society (eg. Napoleon, Hitler, Nietzche) but don't realize the same is happening right now with mold."
"he's a little fucking nerd with all the insecure twerp baggage Napoleon complex"
"haven't felt this good after a long ass screening since i went to see abel gance's NAPOLEON (1927) some years ago"