Ridley Scott Has a ‘Fantastic’ Cut of ‘Napoleon’ That Runs Four-and-a-Half Hours and Features Way More Joséphine

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• psycho_driver@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  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.

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  • BertramDitore@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    The true hero. Preempting your own well-earned laziness to spare us all the same effort. I thank you.

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  • lou_profile@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    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

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• Roundcat@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  I just know they are goi g to attempt the first 24 hour movie in my lifetime.

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  • Sharkwellington@lemmy.one ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    24: The Movie

    Watch every second of Jack Bauer’s day. Probably skip the first 8 hours, it’s just a long sleep scene.

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• sin_free_for_00_days@sopuli.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Well now I want to wait for the director’s cut to watch.

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  • Montagge@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Just like Kingdom of Heaven

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    • ours@lemmy.film ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      I’m still waiting for the DR of Prometheus where it all makes sense.

      Any day now…

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• RvTV95XBeo@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Me, an intellectual, wondering whether or not Josephine was the name of the llama, colorized:

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  Spoiler alert: ::: spoiler The llama was named Tina :::

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  • Zorque@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    That fat lard.

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  • CarlsIII@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Make yourself a dang quesadilla!

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• potterpockets@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Damn Napoleon going to be shorter than this cut of the movie.

  (Yeah yeah i know he was average height for his time)

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  • panchzila@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Akchua… Dammit.

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• ABCDE@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  A good response to historical inaccuracies found in the trailer from the Waterloo Association: www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlbXiYLi1ys

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  • Dagwood222@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    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.

    youtu.be/rt4mYUKjzn0

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  • TWeaK@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    Christ, if the video is an hour long how long is the trailer??

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    • ABCDE@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      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.

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• kingthrillgore@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  I'm starting to think Ridley may have lost it.

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• ScorpionFrog@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  4 and a half hours is too long

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  • Zibobwa@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    How many hours of Stranger Things did you watch?

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    • regular_human@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      In one go?

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  • CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    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.

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    • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      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

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• AlicePraxis@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  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

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• reddig33@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Wasn’t Kubrick originally going to do this movie?

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  • LeberechtReinhold@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

    There 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.

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    • brsrklf@compuverse.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

      What is it with Spielberg finishing Kubrick’s stuff? No disrespect to either, but it’s not like their works are very similar.

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• CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Of course Ridley Scott has multiple different cuts.

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• Zorque@kbin.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨years⁩ ago

  Will it also be in black and white so you can't tell how bad the effects are?

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