Ridley Scott Has a ‘Fantastic’ Cut of ‘Napoleon’ That Runs Four-and-a-Half Hours and Features Way More Joséphine
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Set to release on Nov 22 in major markets for anyone else about to ask in the thread like I almost did instead of just looking it up.
The 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
I 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 then you will miss 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.
Well now I want to wait for the director's cut to watch.
Just 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.
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.
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
Make yourself a dang quesadilla!
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.
A good response to historical inaccuracies found in the trailer from the Waterloo Association: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlbXiYLi1ys
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.
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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.
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I'm starting to think Ridley may have lost it.
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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.
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).
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.
4 and a half hours is too long
How many hours of Stranger Things did you watch?
In one go?
Tbf you don't need to watch a 4.5 hour movie in one go either. Many films used to incorporate intermissions for this very purpose.
Maybe 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 to encourage viewings of the second one. It would then also gain a surge in ticket sales as people finally went to see part onento get caught up.
Effectively it would mean a single film taking up twice as many screens and pulling in twice as many tickets.
All of that's assuming it's any good, of course. But I would think by this point with Ridley Scott that's a decent bet.
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 watched (and liked) 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.
Of course Ridley Scott has multiple different cuts.
Will it also be in black and white so you can't tell how bad the effects are?