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Ridley Scott has been typically dismissive of critics taking issue with his forthcoming movie Napoleon, particularly French ones.

While his big-screen epic, starring Joaquin Phoenix as the embattled French emperor with Vanessa Kirby as his wife Josephine, has earned the veteran director plaudits in the UK, French critics have been less gushing, with Le Figaro saying the film could have been called “Barbie and Ken under the Empire,” French GQ calling the film “deeply clumsy, unnatural and unintentionally clumsy” and Le Point magazine quoting biographer Patrice Gueniffey calling the film “very anti-French and pro-British.”

Asked by the BBC to respond, Scott replied with customary swagger:

“The French don’t even like themselves. The audience that I showed it to in Paris, they loved it.”

The film’s world premiere took place in the French capital this week.

Scott added he would say to historians questioning the accuracy of his storytelling:

“Were you there? Oh you weren’t there. Then how do you know?”

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[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (20 children)

He made the same arguments about Gladiator back in the day, pretty much word for word.

Thing is, it works for Gladiator. I have no idea how well it works here.

[–] MiltownClowns 48 points 1 year ago (13 children)

Well gladiator isn't named after one of the most documented people in history, so probably not as well.

[–] Deuces 32 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Basically all we know about him is that his name is Maximus Decimus Meridius. Father to a murdered child, husband to a murdered wife, and he will have his vengeance; in this life or the next.

[–] lickmygiggle 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Which brings to mind something one of my history teachers taught us about the implausibility of that movie. The main characters name is essentially “Most Tenth Middle”.

Quite the heroic name.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

"Maximus" and "Decimus" were both real Roman names, but they wouldn't have been used in that order. It would have been Decimus Meridius Maximus. Or something else in the middle, since I can't find at instances of Romans called Meridius

[–] lickmygiggle 1 points 1 year ago

Hey I didn’t know this - thank you for the information.

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