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December 1, 2023
At the Movies: In Ridley Scott's ‘Napoleon,' the emperor has no clothes but plenty of ego
By JAKE COYLE
AP Film Writer
AP Film Writer
For such a famed historical figure, Napoleon has made only fleeting appearances in movies since Abel Gance's 1927 silent film.
Stanley Kubrick had grand designs for a Napoleon epic that went unmade. (Steven Spielberg is attempting to revive those plans as a series ). Napoleon and his bicorne hat — more icon of history than a real character — mostly only pops up in time-traveling odysseys like “Time Bandits” or “Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure.”
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