"Napoleon was not only the greatest military commander of his time, but also one of the most impressive individuals in the entire world history. More than two centuries after his death, the emperor casts a powerful shadow. Paris streets and stations are still named after his battles, while the Arc de Triomphe, built to celebrate his victory at Austerlitz, remains one of the great symbols of French patriotism ." says Dominic.
Scott's film joins a host of cultural testaments to Napoleon's legacy. During his lifetime he was the subject of countless paintings. He inspired Beethoven's Third Symphony and played a key role in Tolstoy's novel War and Peace. Napoleon was a self-made man, of extraordinary drive and strength, who conquered vast parts of Europe and placed himself at the very center of the world's imagination.
However, his life was full of contradictions. An ardent supporter of the French Revolution, he betrayed its ideals by seizing absolute power. A fierce advocate of the Enlightenment, he had an insatiable greed for jewels and money and left his country poorer and weaker. For all his talk of liberty, fraternity and equality, his legacy across Europe was fire and carnage on a colossal scale, with millions of lives sacrificed to satisfy his vanity.
How the story of the famous military leader is told in Ridley Scott's new film "Napoleon" remains to be seen.
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