First look of Joaquin Phoenix in Ridley Scott's Napoleon
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First look of Joaquin Phoenix in Ridley Scott's Napoleon. Will it be kino?
First look of Joaquin Phoenix in Ridley Scott's Napoleon
Will it be kino?
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>Ridley Scott
>Joaquin
>Napoleon
I don't see any way that it wouldn't be
Scott is old and has lost his touch.
The last duel is fricking kino and better than most shit made but young bloods.
To be honest I didn't watch that. It looked really boring and depressing. Even with people praising it. Then I went on Twitter and I saw the hordes of roasties indignant at a man making a movie about rape and I remembered critical thinking has disappeared. And it just broke me. Never gonna watch it.
The battle scenes in The Last Duel were pretty kino and this film will basically be nonstop battles interrupted by a forced romance storyline between Napoleon and Josephine.
So it should be a solid 50% kino
>this film will basically be nonstop battles
Liar.
>Ridley Scott is making a biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte in which he will show 6 of Napoleon's battles.
These are confirmed proper battle scenes and not just brief clips. Most films are lucky to get 2 for context.
Though time will tell how much gets cut for the theatrical release since it isn't a Ridley film without a director's cut that's an hour longer
>without a director's cut that's an hour longer
how long do those typically take to be released
>Napoleon and Josephine
Lame, she cucked him and he hated her guts.
What if I want a more slice of life flick where we follow young Napoleon and his little brother Louis at Auxonne, struggling with poverty. Louis is receiving his education at the Military School as his older brother barely sustains them with his meager salary and his dreams of the future.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1156449/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_44
there's this about the early life of nappy
Holy shit I'd forgotten this existed. Thanks a lot, anon, I'll write it down to give it a watch when I can.
whole series isn't bad, lots of bong actors doing decent work
Then write a script?
Even Kubrick's script barely touches on that aspect, only giving it a brief montage at the start.
>with his meager salary and his dreams of the future.
Did their father not leave them anything? I thought Carlo was fairly well-off.
He was, but the Auxonne period I think is after they had to leave Corsica behind, they had a rough time in that epoch. Napoleon took a meal a day to save enough money to pay for Louis' schooling, send money back to his mother and be able to buy books. He lived partially on charity too.
i'm, going to kill joacquin phoenix, this movie is an insult
half of scott movies are shits
Ridley said it was about his relationship with Josephine, so no
>First look
It isn't
>mask
hahahahahaha
>the pic with the mask and the spirits
>bottom right
what the frick. he is not even 50
Joaquin has a vegan diet and he fricks his sister's pussy
too old
Yup
>Here's the 26 year old I told you about
>old
It's obvious Ridley is going to do CGI de-aging for the younger napoleon
Napoleon was a leftist and a proto-commie. Don't know why you gays love him so much.
>I am incapable of understanding anything outside of a 21st century American left-right dynamic
morons like you should never have been taught to read in the first place, it was a waste of effort.
Napoleon is by definition a leftist. Lets see. If the right-left dynamic was formed in France, which it was. And Napoleon was not a monarchist, which he wasn't. That would make him a leftist. Advancing liberty and equality makes him a proto-commie. Most empire builders were.
Napoleon was a radical centrist. Yeah his background was leftist, but he was a pragmatist that was willing to work with the rightists to maintain order. He's more like Putin than Stalin
Putin's Federation of Babel is gross too.
Exactly this. Napoleon did his own thing and anyone trying to claim him for their gay little modern ideology simply doesn’t get it.
Let's see. You like wiener, that makes you a homosexual
So Leftists are...Imperialists?
Yes. You'll note that Caesar was the progressive in his dustup as well.
Napoleon made himself Emperor and modeled himself after Caesar. You're a complete moron kys.
That anon is an idiot, but honestly I don't feel like Napoleon was very consistent in his imitation of Caesar either. He was an opportunist. His professed views changed based on whatever seemed likely to bring him power. Hell, when he was in Egypt he offered to convert to Islam if it would make the locals more amenable. The only two political positions that he seemed to never budge on were his love of tariffs and his hatred for the English
(Caesar was also a leftist who wanted to empower the citizenry against an increasingly unstable aristocratic class)
Caesar was an aspiring autocrat who used the division between Rome's citizens and its institutions to crown himself king. He used the people because that's what he could use. He didn't empower them, he empowered himself. Trump did the same and he is not a leftist.
>He was an opportunist.
Exactly like Caesar.
>to crown himself king
optimates baka, how many times do we have to teach you this lesson?
Are you anon in his and vst that uses every tangent to pronounce Caesar as a leftist
Curious what contemporary leftist you would compare Caesar to
>Curious what contemporary leftist you would compare Caesar to
Putin
what do you define as leftist? seizing property or industry?
>what do you define as leftist?
Anyone who believe the right to rule derives from the will of "the people".
Again you're stupid. I've heard of the Gracchus bros being compared to as the first proto commies but Caesar? Hell fricking no. Read a book.
imagine calling anyone prior to the industrial revolution a commie
You know nothing of honor and brotherhood, you only know the American political buzzwords your master use to keep you in line. You are less than human.
>You know nothing of honor and brotherhood
Yea that's kind of my point. The French Revolution and its consequences have been disastrous for the human race.
The truth is Napoleon didn’t give a shit about left or right. Napoleon cared about Napoleon. Anyone that has studied him for more than 10 seconds can tell that it was all about the guys personal ego. One of the most successful guys in history but he didn’t do it for your lame ideology, he did it for himself and his own power. That’s what makes him so interesting and that’s why you can’t transplant your gay little left/right battle onto the great man.
>he did it for himself and his own power
This is by definition leftism.
It isn't per se, only the consequence of leftism.
I guess. But they go hand in hand.
No one judges political history this way because its impossible to know what's inside someone's head. So you could reduce every political action to personal pathology or vice versa.
Instead the sensible thing to do is look at what actually was accomplished regardless of rhetoric. And by that measure Napoleon did much more for the Left faction than the rightists. Not even the big showy stuff, but things like the napoleonic code make the backbone of the modern liberal nation state we all know and love today.
>napoleonic code
That was based off Justinian's Code but made it so women had less rights than children.
>made it so women had less rights than children.
I'm refuting the claim that Napoleon's Code was the backbone of liberalism, it was more of a stepping stone in wiping out feudalism. You would be more correct to claim that Christianity is the backbone of a liberal society.
They're all stepping stones I guess, one thing leads to the next, civilization advances in layers. The modern world lives by supposed liberal ideas, and you'll always hear about muh French Revolution, but the truth is without Napoleon's victories the modern world wouldn't exist. It was his rule that secured it and expanded it, though it's not what you're taught because he was a despot.
I'm in the camp of Napoleon being one of the worst things to happen to Europe since his conquests brought about the Congress of Vienna.
Yeah when I say "his rule secured it" well, it's up to everyone to make up their minds whether that's a good thing. I haven't studied this well enough but I know enough to know that's when real trouble actually starts.
Even with Nazi Germany, you can follow the breadcrumbs of that all the way back to Napoleon via Congress of Vienna where all the German states confederated, albeit very unstable and weakly, after the collapse of the HRE.
Coping beta b***hes will always try because they can't think outside the constraints of their dogma bullshit. They can't dream of anything.
>Napoleon had an average size; he took, in today's measurements, a number 7 hat. The head seemed large because the neck was short. His feet were small: twenty-six centimetres long, that is size 6. His hands also were small and beautifully made, with tapering fingers and well-formed nails. Small too were the penis and testicles.
>Small too were the penis and testicles.
why did they have to go there? frick the british, hope muslims burn london down for good
Dilate
The author of that description was just trying to associate Napoleon with Classical ideals. The Greeks thought a large penis was a sign of a brute, after all. They were painting him like the Alexander of his time.
More photos from the set
something looks off with this but im a historylet
No memes, it's probably the most accurate I've ever seen French cavalry uniforms of the era portrait in film. Both the design and colors along with emblems are very accurate, but they might be ruined in the theatrical release by various filters.
now add the blue filter he puts on all his movies
THIS. Ridley Scott ruins all his modern movies with those stupid digital filters.
Uhh blue is the colour of France, brainlet.
Well, it'll be set in Europe, so yup, Europe is tinted blue in Ridley Scott's mind.
He'd just be paying homage to the GOAT.
Such a good fricking movie.
Shame they never got to make the rest.
Chad aspect ratio at the end of the film too.
It's a beautiful film yeah, I'm glad someone recognized it.
This. Holy frick when will directors stop doing this?
If the battles don't immediately become some free-for-all mosh pit, I'll see it. Frick it.
another European iconic character to be played by a mutt
Tiresome.
Which European actor should play him?
already played by Cristian Clavier
>MON SIRE! UN SARACEN!
Aaah Vlodomyr Zelensky, a fine actor
Who is this beaner
Napoleon
>You can't wear that to invade Russia
>
Is Joaquin Phoenix also not considered white anymore?
River Phoenix is also no longer white. SAD!
Jews are not white so he never was.
Do you morons keep like a record and family tree of every actor or some shit?
how do you figure, his skins are white
next youre going to tell me he shpuldnt be riding a horse because the real life actor drives cars
Can't wait for his fight scene with the xenomorph
>In 1815, Napoleon escaped from imprisonment on the Island of Elba and set about returning to France. Back on French soil he met a regiment of French soldiers. Napoleon dismounted his horse, walked to within gunshot range, bared his breast and stated to the soldiers: 'Here I am. Kill your Emperor, if you dare!' The entire regiment defect and joined his cause.
Fricking what!?
Incredibly kino story but very likely fake. Napoleon constantly fed stories like that to people.
It's a true event, Marshal Ney had promised the king to bring him Napoleon in an iron cage, and he changed sides at this occasion
Yeah. Ney was lying to the king and Louis XVIII was a fricking moron who believed him for some reason. Yeah Napoleons most loyal Marshall is totally gonna capture him and not just defect back to him instantly.
>French officer Keith Carradine
Lol I should watch this movie
Onions reaction image but watch 'Waterloo'. They recreate that event
Is that the regiment of 1000 that then marched on Paris with him to retake it?
Anyone else would have been executed, especially after the defeat at Waterloo
Waterloo hadn’t even happened yet you absolute historylet
how about the disastrous retreat from moscow where he abandoned his troops and took a comfy luxury train back to paris while the troops ate their boots
>Train
You lack even the most basic historical understanding I am sorry to say
luxury baggage train my smug reddit friend
WHAT WAS HE SUPPOSED TO DO
FREEZE HIS FRICKING NUTS OFF IN THE MIDDLE OF WINTER LIKE A DICKHEAD?
weren't they literally couping him at time and he needed to get to paris asap?
Kino of the highest order
Can't be beat.
for me it's the newspaper headlines changing tone as he approaches paris
This. One of the funniest things I've read
irl kino
The Sphinx was missing its nose before Napoleon was even born.
Are you seriously just learning about this?
You people have no reference for history.
The funny thing is once you realize the Brits let him escape on purpose to crush the French army completely it’s kinda sad
Napoleon did nothing wrong
This was the army that Napoleon had essentially built and led for more than 10 years. The fact that the "restored" Bourbon king thought it was a good idea to send Napoleon's *own soldiers* into combat against him is by far the most ridiculous part of this entire story.
surely the ones he'd been leading for 10 years were overwhelmingly dead in russia
Leading personally into battle, sure. The Grand Armee was decimated in 1812. But on a larger scale, I'm talking about how the French army as a whole was inextricably linked with Napoleon, and how they were far more loyal to him than any Bourbon monarch.
>most famous frenchman in history is really an italian
frogbros...
Napoleon was French.
Napoleon spent his adolescence writing bloody fanfics about Corsica rising up against its French overlords
And after that he Galicized his name made the determination to become French and make his future in France. And then he led France to victory a hundred times. He was fricking French.
So immigrants can just... become American? lmao
It's all hilarious isn't it?
>Quintessentially French
>We never will see Kubrick's Napoleon film
I really hate hiring 45+ year olds to play people in their 30s.
Plus Ridley Scott is a proven hack at this point.
>Napoleon
Is he finishing what Kubrick couldn't?
I don't trust Ridley Scott as much as I used to
Ridley has been missing the mark a lot lately so we'll have to just wait and see
I don't feel like Phoenix properly embodies the "virgin who married an unfaithful single mother" vibes I generally associate with Napoleon
history book I read said napolean was assassinated by Rothschild hitmen and he was the only person stopping them from spreading central banking to france
The poison theory gets floated, but honestly given how his dad died cancer really is more likely
No, the only napoleonic war movies you need are Waterloo, and War and Peace by Sergie Bondarchuk. The Duelists technically counts as well but it's not really focused on the war.
I don't expect it to be good, but I will watch it on theatres.
These homies eatin' horse
If you take Gladiator and Kingdom of Heaven as a reference it'll be a blander version of real history but still manage to BE ENTERTAINED.
He destroyed the greatest revolution in history, fricking dictator b***h tyrant.
Ridiculous statement, he was nothing but a boon to the American revolution
The what now?
>we will NEVER get Kubrick's version
I want to go back and help him make it bros
>Ridley Scott
>kino
they're practically synonymous
The Last Rape was the latest in a string of letdowns, anything you appreciate in it is in spite of the director and not because of him. ridley didn't do shit except ruin the costumes in post. He's a washed up hack who should stick to producing
>except ruin the costumes in post
How did he do that? Those helmets with the half-visors?
Yeah the guy is basically dead but his name keeps getting new cool stuff greenlit
I enjoyed it, very sweet film.
My man Z got that Gucci drip.
He's not a Black person
You're right, he's Russian.
>les boobies
Ou est le brape?
he's too tall and skinny to play napoleon
He is roughly the same height as Napoleon.
Do people still fall for the Napoleon was short meme?
This is your Tsar. Say something nice about him.
If he was a woman, I would make him my mistress.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ollivier_law
>The most famous person who himself espoused Caesarism was Napoleon Bonaparte, who admired and emulated Caesar during his rule in France.[3] Napoleon III's policy under the Second French Empire, which combined an authoritarian regime and a proactive social policy, notably with the Ollivier law of 1864, can be described as a form of “social Caesarism”.[4] According to historian Louis Girard (historian) [fr], this policy aims in particular to rally the workers to the regime in the face of hostile liberal bosses
Caesar and Napoleon depended on the army than they ever did the people
conscription armies made up of...the people
a priestly caste echoing the divine right of kings made up of....the people
>a priestly caste echoing the divine right of kings
that's what you have now with pmc experts
Yea but I follow a different God so I find it extremely distasteful.
Military creates a separate class you dullard. People's armies exist before conscription
> According to historian Louis Girard (historian) [fr],
>fr
Frick off zoomer
>the last duel flopped
>house of Gucci flopped
bros, is Ridley finally over after this inevitably flops?
when was his last actually good film?
Raised By Wolves cancelled too
Even though he didnt do anything on it that shows wb isn't aiming to please him
We've had enough fricking movies about Napoleon. We've had tens of thousands of years of civilized history and thousands of interesting persons and events that changed the world but Hollywood keeps making the same movies about the same few dozen people over and over and over again.
Film and television is the most creatively bankrupt entertainment industry on the planet.
Napoleon > everything else.
They can't really even get the more mainstream shit right. When I see an actual good movie about Alexander the Great, I'll give it a rest.
Wrong, but yes, need Diadochi kino asap
Diadochi on its own are understudied it would be a miracle to get any piece of media about it
Diadochi would mog GoT if kino.
>We've had enough fricking movies about Napoleon.
Such as?
>inb4 obscure movie from 1967
Google Movies About Napoleon yourself you mongoloid. There's literally dozens with many made after 2000. They're all the same shit with differing SFX and if Hollywood CGI is enough to make you rewatch the same movie that's been made 45 fricking times already you're a capeshitting nitwit.
We actually haven't had an English-language theatrical movie about Napoleon in around 50 years if even
imagine a bronze age collapse kino
I have a full series envisioned for that.
>puke brown filter over everything
>solitary female orchestral voice soundtrack starts
>multicultural Greek hoplites with archaic armor and short spears instead of pikes
>almost everything is Indian made greasy shiny CGI with terrible perspective and disjointed lines
>the enemy are imaginary lord of the rings esque pale orc monsters from an unnamed land
>"The world...is changing..."
>zero choreography battle with no lines where the hoplites don't even bother with their spears and just mindlessly hack hundreds of monster orcs to death cutting through armor as if it were made of cotton candy full of zoom in and slo mo and shaky cam with CGI blood flying everywhere
>"...a WAR is coming..."
>soundtrack changes to lutes and electric guitars
>a bunch of shittily composited stone Greek cities on fire with BMWF toga clad couples running around in the streets getting hacked down by enemies wearing helmets that vaguely resemble the Stahlhelm
>gigantic super buff black hoplite with scars struts along a CGI ship deck with other hoplites kneeling as he passes until he reaches the prow and the camera spins around to reveal a cgi sea battle with a million ships on fire and exploding
>"...We must let go of the past..."
>a black woman takes off her horse hair helmet and hurls it to the ground at the cgi stone steps in front of the cgi throne where Idris Elba sits wearing a crown
>"...their world..."
>montage of increasingly faster rapid cuts
>"...is ending..."
>final cut of a gigantic barely seen monster rising out of the mass of cgi soldiers
>black screen music stops
>nothing but quiet breathing for several seconds
>SUDDEN CUT TO A GIANT SCREAMING WHITE FACE RUSHING TOWARD THE SCREEN
>Title appears: "The Bronze Ages: Armageddon"
They would turn it into something more like 300 and you probably wouldn’t enjoy it
i would enjoy kino, if i didn't it wouldn't be kino, now would it?
300 is kino.
I'm ready to hon hon hon anon.
Why did they do it? What possessed them to destroy ruin Europe for all time?
Transgenderism.
Unsalvageable class division, ruinous wars, and a dose of climate change, sound familiar?
They coveted, Clarice
Imagine wanting to be ruined by a king, like a buck broker homosexual.
ruled*
Better then a bureaucracy. And that's the best case.
They were a bunch of arthoes and law students who got power and immediately started chopping heads off instead of administering the kingdom adequately.
Napoleon was at the right place at the right time. And he studied history and not gay shit like those other guys.
I will watch this for the modest sum of CAD $10,000.
>designed to present history in a way that's palatable to center-left british office workers
kek
Napoléon had more in common with Hitler, Mussolini, or Franco than Lenin or Mao. Napoléon was against the old regime of honour and duty - but, he was NOT a figure of communism.
kek
>Hitler, Mussolini,
These were also leftists. Fascism, Communism, and Democracy are the triplet bastard sons of Liberalism. Thanks France.
I think that you are downplaying how genuinely conservative Fascists can be, especially Franco and Salazar.
Napoléon arguably created nationalism and ended the ultraprogressive nonsense of the early Revolutionaries. Napoleon was a radical, but so was Hitler.
In my defense, as an American, Franco and Salazar do not exist. I had to learn on my own the Spain had its own thing going in. This is not taught in any high school in America. Probably because it worked. My pet fascist is Codreanu though.
>nationalism
This is a trap. Its been propositional nations for years and those are garbage. Its time for neo-Feudalism.
>Napoléon had more in common with Hitler, Mussolini
Fascists explicitly reject all the values napoleon believed in, and more importantly, exported to all of europe. The thing they wanted to roll back was the progress he had made. Its explicit for Hitler who hated napoleon not just because he was a german nationalist, but because napoleon gave the israelites citizenship and made them more accepted across europe.
The first place Hitler visited when he took Paris was Napoleons tomb.
>Napoléon was against the old regime of honour and duty
no
>Tahar Rahim as Paul Barras
>We might actually get kino of Napoleon btfo'ing the libertine intellectual dickheads who initially controlled France after Robespierre and did jackshit except host orgies
Frick yes. If he takes cues from Kubrick's script, this could be good. Wondering if they'll de age Joaquin for earlier scenes.
ah, a wog
>First look
You're like 9 months late
>Ridley Scott
oh frick no
Napoleon fricked with Europe simply because he saw the opportunity to do so. His actions eventually led to the World Wars.
he created hitler? based
He's indirectly responsible for the Congress of Vienna so in a marginal sense, yes.
>The most influential shitlord ended up trolling all of Europe
Based
I'd like to see a film all about Austerlitz, with the same level of detail and focus as Waterloo had... but you know, not riddled with inaccuracies and melodramatic bullshit.
So basically Bondarchuk's War and Peace's Austerlitz scenes, given more screen time.
Napoleon at his height, pulling off a daring gambit to lure the arrogant allies off of their high ground and into the valley, and with his coordinated and concentrated forces he destroys their bumbling columns in detail, and change the face of Europe with a humiliating peace.
>I want a movie that already exists but better
based
Do you think they'll use forced perspective or CGI to scale Joaquin down to Napoleon's size?
>Which leads me to add one Remark: That the Number of purely white People in the World is proportionably very small. All Africa is black or tawny. Asia chiefly tawny. America (exclusive of the new Comers) wholly so. And in Europe, the Spaniards, Italians, French, Russians and Swedes, are generally of what we call a swarthy Complexion; as are the Germans also, the Saxons only excepted, who with the English, make the principal Body of White People on the Face of the Earth. I could wish their Numbers were increased. And while we are, as I may call it, Scouring our Planet, by clearing America of Woods, and so making this Side of our Globe reflect a brighter Light to the Eyes of Inhabitants in Mars or Venus, why should we in the Sight of Superior Beings, darken its People? why increase the Sons of Africa, by Planting them in America, where we have so fair an Opportunity, by excluding all Blacks and Tawneys, of increasing the lovely White and Red? But perhaps I am partial to the Complexion of my Country, for such Kind of Partiality is natural to Mankind.
>Continentals
>Swedes are swarthy
snowBlack folk
>Cornelius Hawthorne : [spits in disgust] Swedish dogs! Your blood is tainted by generations of race mixing with Laplanders. You're basically Finns!
>let me tell you who is white
the founding fathers truly represent american values
>mfw everyone always ignores the bit about the aliens being impressed by keeping blacks out
>Citoyen Barras.
>I'm LGA.
Joaquin Phoenix as Napoleon is such a weird choice
How old is this Napoleon suppose to be in to be? By the end of his reign, Nappy was old and near death.
Napoleon vs Sharpe
Sean Bean always dies.
Napoleon is impressive for how good he was at war, but he was a piece of shit.
He forced his men to bayonet and entire group of surrendering men on the beach.
if only soldiers did that now with the "migrants"
You can't be anything but a leftard zoomer. Go do your homework.
Napoleon was a terrible person, but an amazing leader and general.
You're a stupid homosexual, stop using him as your surrogate father and go out fishing with your dad.
Defaulting to thinking he's my surrogate father immediately gives away the way you think is that of a post-2000 lost generation zoomshit. You kinda keep proving my point. Napoleon is not my father. Andrew Tate is not yours.
>Wearing his hat athwartships
If old Boney wore his hat fore and aft like a true Navy man then he wouldn't have lost, you know.
>mfw France has no good composers and their artists are midling
>mfw their great writers mostly produce pornography
Seriously. What went wrong?
>their artists are midling
Quoi?
Derivative.
Who plays this man? I need to know.
Kevin Dunn
We shall see.
Russell Brand
Never stumbled upon the perfectibility of the concept of having Russel Brand play Murat. The douchebag energy oozes off of him.
>Ridley Scott
His last good movie was the duellists so not really sure what to expect. One thing is guaranteed, he won't surpass Waterloo
...that was his first movie
I'm aware
>11 reviews
I made one mistake in my life. I should have burned Rotten Tomatoes.
High audience score and low 'real' critics score means it's absolutely kino.
Watch it dude
Imagine being an Austrian soldier in the Napoleonic Wars and your officers are this stupid:
>“I am not jesting,” Bilíbin went on. “Nothing is truer or sadder. These gentlemen ride onto the bridge alone and wave white handkerchiefs; they assure the officer on duty that they, the marshals, are on their way to negotiate with Prince Auersperg. He lets them enter the tête-de-pont. * They spin him a thousand gasconades, saying that the war is over, that the Emperor Francis is arranging a meeting with Bonaparte, that they desire to see Prince Auersperg, and so on. The officer sends for Auersperg; these gentlemen embrace the officers, crack jokes, sit on the cannon, and meanwhile a French battalion gets to the bridge unobserved, flings the bags of incendiary material into the water, and approaches the tête-de-pont. At length appears the lieutenant general, our dear Prince Auersperg von Mautern himself. ‘Dearest foe! Flower of the Austrian army, hero of the Turkish wars! Hostilities are ended, we can shake one another’s hand.... The Emperor Napoleon burns with impatience to make Prince Auersperg’s acquaintance.’ In a word, those gentlemen, Gascons indeed, so bewildered him with fine words, and he is so flattered by his rapidly established intimacy with the French marshals, and so dazzled by the sight of Murat’s mantle and ostrich plumes, qu’il n’y voit que du feu, et oublie celui qu’il devait faire faire sur l’ennemi!” *(2)
(1/2)
>In spite of the animation of his speech, Bilíbin did not forget to pause after this mot to give time for its due appreciation. “The French battalion rushes to the bridgehead, spikes the guns, and the bridge is taken! But what is best of all,” he went on, his excitement subsiding under the delightful interest of his own story, “is that the sergeant in charge of the cannon which was to give the signal to fire the mines and blow up the bridge, this sergeant, seeing that the French troops were running onto the bridge, was about to fire, but Lannes stayed his hand. The sergeant, who was evidently wiser than his general, goes up to Auersperg and says: ‘Prince, you are being deceived, here are the French!’ Murat, seeing that all is lost if the sergeant is allowed to speak, turns to Auersperg with feigned astonishment (he is a true Gascon) and says: ‘I don’t recognize the world-famous Austrian discipline, if you allow a subordinate to address you like that!’ It was a stroke of genius. Prince Auersperg feels his dignity at stake and orders the sergeant to be arrested. Come, you must own that this affair of the Thabor Bridge is delightful! It is not exactly stupidity, nor rascality....”
(2/2)
Source is Tolstoy's War and Peace.
>austrian discipline
>world famous
kek, banter. Karánsebes says hello
>Damn, why did I ever simp for that c**t Josephine?
>This Austrian archduchess is going ass-over-applecarts for me and all I did was dismantle her father's empire.
I hope they depict his reliationships
He was a complete virgin simp for Josephine when he left, and she cucked him with the whole continent
And then he came back as the most powerful man on the planet and he basically ignored her as she chased him everywhere
That was the funniest shit
So what in the actual frick was Napoleon's problem?
He got bullied for his accent and ended up conquering nearly all of Europe for the sole purpose of spite.
Bit of an overreaction.
Nah, they had it coming.
>We've got you surrounded, re-establish the king
>I HATE MONARCHY ! I HATE MONARCHY ! I HATE MONARCHY !
Septemberists and bounapartists will face the wall
He was autistic and his thing was history.
>The film is scheduled to be released by Apple TV+.
I take it back. This will be shit.
Reminder that everything has been going south since Rome killed their king (Superbus not Caesar).
So you're saying we should all just go back to monke?
The main issue is the rule of money. Abolish this and we'll have paradise.
Commieshit I don't like.
No one does. Economics is the vulgar science. But we live in the tail end of the Mercantile Age.
I'll keep re-iterating the point that you can pinpoint all the wars we have fought since the aftermath of the Napoleonic wars through the Congress of Vienna. That's the key element.
>That's the key element.
No it isn't. Its the negative impact those wars have on our society.
Vienna was the makeshift bandage that festered more than it healed the wound Napoleon left Europe.
Oh we're on the same team. Don't get me wrong.
qrd why
Formulated the Concert of Europe. Keep in mind the Congress of Vienna wasn't even a Congress itself, not in any official sense.
>"There is a man alone, without family, without children, without God... He builds legions but he doesn't build a nation. A nation is created by families, a religion, tradition: it is made up out of the hearts of mothers, the wisdom of fathers, the joy and the exuberance of children.
>quote from Kaiser Wilhelm II after the Nazis told him they had 0 interest in bringing him back as a monarch
Pure sour grapes. The Nazis were lunatics, but if they had offered Wilhelm his crown back he would have snatched it up in a heartbeat.
and then he would've proceeded to betray them, as the monarchs in spain and italy did
>could go south, liberate serbia and greece and become the emperor of constantinople
>choose to go east, weakening russia, losing his entire army and ensuring germobongish domination of europe
why
Napoleon listened to his caddy instead of his marshals during that episode.