BloodyashesRidley Scott Has a ‘Fantastic’ Cut of ‘Napoleon’ That Runs Four-and-a-Half Hours and Features Way More Joséphine
Well now I want to wait for the director’s cut to watch.
it’ll happen in… 4 years price is right rules. can’t go over
MontaggeJust like Kingdom of Heaven
I’m still waiting for the DR of Prometheus where it all makes sense.
Any day now…
The movie made sense IMO, its main issues are that so much of the crew are hollow. Their characters are threadbare, they’re on screen for the express purpose of dying. Even if we don’t pick up on it specifically we pick up on it subconsciously and they feel off. The geologist and biologist that die early on have basically one trait each (biologist is fake tough guy, biologist is nerdy-nervous). They don’t feel like real people.
I liked Prometheus a lot, but the very-real problems with it would in my estimation require way more than a director’s cut to fix. Unless there’s a lot of filmed character development out there, I suppose. The insignificant characters needed to be replaced with a far smaller number of significant characters to join the handful of existing significant characters. Basically requires a rewrite.
Damn Napoleon going to be shorter than this cut of the movie.
(Yeah yeah i know he was average height for his time)
Akchua… Dammit.
Set to release on Nov 22 in major markets for anyone else about to ask in the thread instead of just look it up like I almost did.
BertramDitoreThe true hero. Preempting your own well-earned laziness to spare us all the same effort. I thank you.
The normal cut btw, not the long one mentioned in the title. In case someone, like me, thinks the long will be released in November. Not to downplay your comment though
idk Ridley, maybe it’s great but directors have a lot of hubris in thinking anyone would want to sit through a 4.5 hour film. at that point your best bet is to release it as a miniseries like the extended cut of Hateful Eight
Releasing Napoleon as a short film would be wrong on multiple levels.
apparently the theatrical cut will be 2.5 hours so not exactly short, but definitely much shorter than this supposed director’s cut. I definitely get why a movie like this would need to be long but 4.5 seems excessive. directors have a hard time killing their darlings
AltoMaybe I've just always had the wrong read on them, but extended directors cuts have always felt like they're primarily for people who are huge fans of the movie anyway. There's definitely a subset of people who would watch the full extended cut.
Wasn’t Kubrick originally going to do this movie?
Yea I remember seeing something about that. Wonder if the script ever ended up anywhere. Like how Spielberg ended up directing Ai which was a Kubrick script or idea? I can’t remember.
LeberechtReinholdThere has been many Napoleon projects, starting with the 1927 silent epic. Kubrick researched a long time for his project but never had time to do it. Spielberg is collaborating with HBO to use that script for a miniseries though.
What is it with Spielberg finishing Kubrick’s stuff? No disrespect to either, but it’s not like their works are very similar.
Because they were friends (or at least knew each other).
Me, an intellectual, wondering whether or not Josephine was the name of the llama, colorized:
Spoiler alert: ::: spoiler The llama was named Tina :::
That fat lard.
Make yourself a dang quesadilla!
A 4.5 hour cut of Napoleon Dynamite directed by Ridley Scott? I’m in.
Yeah, like, I had questions but I definitely wasn’t complaining
kingthrillgoreI'm starting to think Ridley may have lost it.
Will it also be in black and white so you can't tell how bad the effects are?
Alf4 and a half hours is too long
How many hours of Stranger Things did you watch?
Regular HumanIn one go?
imaqtpieTbf you don’t need to watch a 4 hour movie in one go either. Many movies used to build in intermissions for this very purpose.
ShalakushkaMaybe they could split it up into even more watchable bits, call them "episodes”. It could be like a series. Not like a whole series, maybe some sort of miniature series.
It's OK to make a TV show, Ridley.
Why not make it two separate parts, released fairly close together, like a month apart? You’d build up hype and make people want to see the first one before part two comes out, then offer some double feature screenings alongside the normal release when the second one comes out.
Effectively it would mean a single film taking up twice as many screens and pulling in twice as many tickets.
The key words being used to. We need to bring it back, but I fear that’s unlikely
For a theater, yes. But for home video, where people can and often do watch movies in chunks anyway, length doesn’t matter as much.
I’d love it if he just dropped it as two films, released a month apart. That would drive people to see the first part so that they can be caught up for part two.
Unfortunately that likely wouldn’t work great. The only people that would be interested in watching part 2 are the people that only watched part 1. And business is often a numbers game
That’s fair. But presumably the same number of people would watch part 1 as would watch the whole thing. And maybe even more, because of the lower time commitment.
RoundcatI just know they are going to attempt the first 24 hour movie in my lifetime.
24: The Movie
Watch every second of Jack Bauer’s day. Probably skip the first 8 hours, it’s just a long sleep scene.
But you will me the great snore at 03:35 or the ass scratching at 05:21 or…
My favorite part is when he gets up seventeen times to use the bathroom.
Prostate problems are a removed.
A good response to historical inaccuracies found in the trailer from the Waterloo Association: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlbXiYLi1ys
Historians React to the Napoleon Trailer - Waterloo Association Podcast
Christ, if the video is an hour long how long is the trailer??
Aha, three minutes I think? There is so much history in that period, that even the appearance and the fact that there is a speaking part for one person in the trailer gives those in the video hope for the movie.
Back in the day, the Soviet Red Army trained 16,000 troops in Napoleonic Era artillery, cavalry, and infantry tactics. They were first used in the Russian movie ‘War And Peace.’ Hollywood hired them out for ‘Waterloo’ with Rod Steiger.
If you want to see a great reenactment of the battle, watch that movie. I’m speaking specifically about military tactics.
Waterloo ~ Imperial Guard Attack and its Doom 1080p
Of course Ridley Scott has multiple different cuts.