You may like it more or less, but the Napoleon of Ridley Scott It became the film that attracted the most audiences here, in Argentina, and in almost the rest of the world.
that the performance of Joaquin Phoenix Did it have much to do with the public response? Sure.
In Argentina, 141,397 spectators watched it from Thursday to Sunday. In the United States and Canada, 32,500,000 dollars, which added to the rest of the planet where the new director of Alien y Blade Runner totals about $78,800,000.
Scott and Joaquin Phoenix were in Spain to promote the film, which lasts more than two and a half hours.
“There are 2,500 books about Napoleon. “More than about God or any political leader,” the English director began. The question is, what is it about this enigmatic man about whom there is much mystery about his power and success? A success that was also bathed in blood. When you are the leader of an army and you become a dictator, you get covered in blood, that’s all. The figures that appear at the end of the film are exact, three million soldiers died in their battles,” he continued and assured that 90% of what was written about Napoleon “is speculation.”
Phoenix is nothing like Napoleon. The Oscar-winning actor for Joker He arrived with a black T-shirt and disheveled hair to meet with journalists in a Madrid hotel, hours before the premiere of the film at the Prado Museum, according to the media eldiario.es. And he explains that the keys to such a complex character for whom “there was always fascination.”
“It is a story that repeats itself. Look at these leaders who start out as idealists, with the interests of the people in mind, and who, somewhere along the way, become perverted and susceptible to their own greed and ambition. We see it again and again,” he said, stating that Napoleon Bonaparte “is a fascinating figure for many reasons,” and that in every culture he is perceived in a way.
According to Phoenix, Ridley Scott’s intention “was never to do a history class.”“I think Americans see him as a self-made man. Americans are obsessed with this idea that one of the founding myths of the country is that you can rise from nothing and rise to the highest offices. I think part of why it’s so interesting is that it really is significant to so many different cultures for different reasons. In Eastern Europe I think they consider him a liberator.”
Scott doubts that the figure of Napoleon is still valid today. “Likewise, in Europe it is still relevant, but in the United States we certainly don’t talk about it much or I haven’t noticed it. I guess the good thing about Napoleon Bonaparte is that there are many opinions about him. In France I think they don’t agree on how they see him. In Italy… no idea, how many presidents have they had in this century, a hundred? Being president must be a very complicated task, and on top of that Napoleon went one step further and he became a dictator. And there is no benevolent dictator.”
The questioned scene
PBX05. HOLLYWOOD (USA), 05/17/2017.- British director Sir Ridley Scott, when he printed his hand and foot prints, at the TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood. Photo EFEThe poor precision of several of the images has raised controversy, but above all that of Napoleon’s army firing its cannons at the pyramids of Egypt, something that Scott, in Madrid, took with humor. “Of course that didn’t happen! We took that liberty,” just minutes after Phoenix said that Ridley Scott’s intention “was never to do a history class.”
“What you want to avoid when you make a movie is the history lesson. If it’s a history lesson, no one is going to see it. My trick is to take a historical topic as in Gladiator o 1492and turn it into a film, not a history lesson,” concluded the director, who turns 86 on Thursday, November 30.