Extended interview: Ridley Scott on his career, "Napoleon" and more

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Legend was a great movie. I still love it. Wonderful set, wonderful music too

Great interview. FYI that OTS graphic@2:51 has an incorrect photo. The picture on the bottom is visual effects wizard Douglas Trumbull, who worked with Ridley on Blade Runner.

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It’s ALL ABOUT Alien, Blade Runner, and Thelma & Louise.

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if they let him make the film without cgi it would be alot better ?

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My vavorite is 1492 Conquest of Paradise 1992

A more interesting version would've been Kubrick's. Maybe he would've mentioned he was a selected freemason who was given everything and then selected to fall.

Love Ridley! He's a true artist, painting with light! I'd rather watch a "bad" Ridley film than almost any other director's film. His vision of Napoleon wasn't at all the impression I got off Napoleon when I studied him, but his version was still really, really interesting! Ridley has always been interested in the quiet hero who draws people in with their power, rather than the blustering speech giving strong man. It should be no surprise this is how he portrayed Napoleon!

Ridley could have made one of the greatest historical epics in years, but instead to make a movie as though he were some miserable British aristocrat 200 years late with his anti-Napoleon character assassination propaganda.

What is this thing about AGE in America? You start the piece by saying he made his first film in his 40's! (as if that was sooooo old) in the industry. Gee... I thought America had learned how to deal with that "ages" ago. Look at the ages of both major contenders to be the president of the country. By doing that, the corporate TV propagates this ridiculous stereotype about age. Sad...

Napoleon was Definitely a Leo...born on August 15 he has all the characteristics of what a Leo is whether you believe in the Zodiac or not...his name is literally The Lion of Naples...Napo being the shorthand for Napoli which is Naples Italy and Leon meaning Lion...Ridley has an eye for cinematics but he decided to critique Dictators like Napoleon and portrayed him as a Uncharismatic figure...Upon first sight many did dismiss this small statured man but Napoleon had a fiery passion that eventually engulfed everyone around him...His personality was more Charismatic, bombastic, and energetic than what Joaquin portrayed...that said I still would give the movie a B.

I'll be watching NAPOLEON, soon.

Couldn't stand Joaquin Phoenix in Gladiator, so I should have known how much I would dislike Napoleon. I wanted to like it, but couldn't. Really inaccurate as well.....

Such a shame Napoleon was so inaccurate

Napoleon was a shoddy film made with the skill of a high school student who failed history

Napoleon was the worst movie of the entire century. Nothing can possibly be worse. It was so bad that I wanted to tear out my own eyes. I hope Ridley Scott and Mel Gibson can go butcher history in a different dimension, anywhere but here. They are so so bad at history. Disgusting.

Ridley Scott is an amazing director but, his rendition of Napoleon is atrocious. The movie is so bad it's disrespectful to the military and political genius of Napoleon. It is visually spectacular but gives the impression he was forced to make it.