Another "opinion" by a "Napoleon" cast member (for what its worth): I can pretty much guess how this movie is going to go from these quotes. (And having actor playing Napoleon, who was seven or so years younger than Josephine, being fifteen years older than the actress playing Josephine changes the dynamic of their relationship.
[The} actress continued: "Napoleon wasn't stoic and wonderful like Russell Crowe was in 'Gladiator'. He was a dictator, a war criminal, really.
"It couldn't be rousing, because that man killed hundreds and hundreds of thousands of men, in my opinion needlessly. And for what? To get an empire, for what?
"In the end, it all disintegrated anyway. That psyche run wild is dangerous as hell, and very strange. And this is a portrait of that."
Another "opinion" by a "Napoleon" cast member (for what its worth): I can pretty much guess how this movie is going to go from these quotes. (And having actor playing Napoleon, who was seven or so years younger than Josephine, being fifteen years older than the actress playing Josephine changes the dynamic of their relationship.
[The} actress continued: "Napoleon wasn't stoic and wonderful like Russell Crowe was in 'Gladiator'. He was a dictator, a war criminal, really.
"It couldn't be rousing, because that man killed hundreds and hundreds of thousands of men, in my opinion needlessly. And for what? To get an empire, for what?
"In the end, it all disintegrated anyway. That psyche run wild is dangerous as hell, and very strange. And this is a portrait of that."