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Topics: Film and TV
Stewart Perrie
Topics: Film and TV
Whenever a film is done on a historical figure, you can bet your bottom dollar that people will be keeping a very keen eye on it being accurate.
While some filmmakers deliberately change certain facts to suit their narrative, there might be a few mistakes here and there that don't stack up with history.
The team attached to Ridley Scott's latest movie, Napoleon, spent a lot of time trying to make it as historically accurate as possible.
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They spent ages trying to find the perfect location to create the Battle of Waterloo and poured through books to learn how the English and French fought differently.
However, when the trailer for the movie came out, it was picked apart by TV historian Dan Snow.
Snow posted a TikTok where he brought up some of the inaccuracies contained in the two minute clip.
“I love historical epics, I love Ridley Scott, I’m going to be watching this movie,” he said.
"It ain’t a documentary, we know that much!”
Snow authored the book The Battle of Waterloo Experience, so he definitely knows what he's talking about when it comes to Napoleon and his life.
He started off with the movie's poster, which says Napoleon 'came from nothing' but 'conquered everything'.
“He did not come from nothing," Snow said in his clip.
"His dad was in fact an aristocrat. He did not conquer everything. He conquered quite a lot. It was very impressive, but he did not conquer everything."
Dan explained how Napoleon managed to do a lot in his life from from 1769 to 1821, however 'he didn’t conquer Britain'. "That’s part of ‘everything’, so...” he said on TikTok.
He then rounded on a scene that depicts the execution of Marie Antoinette.
“Love this scene – Marie Antoinette didn’t look like that,” Snow said.
“She famously had very cropped hair for the execution and hey – Napoleon wasn’t there. He was at the other end of France.”
Dan then called out a bunch of other moments depicting battles and historical moments from the trailer that don't exactly align with what is documented.
Well, Ridley Scott was asked about all these different moments and his response was hilarious.
"Get a life," the director said in an interview with The New Yorker.