LongTimeMovieLover
Joined Jul 2011
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What is fantastic about this production is that it bridges history, accurately enough for its intended audience. This is a hook for a broader review. Any who starts from the top may look down on it, but there are a lot of people that can look up to this production, simply because it's approachable. You get a fantastic first view of Napoleon that is in the real of accurate. It's a get you into the ballpark production. It's enjoyable with enough facts for a layperson. (And, in my view, far far superior to Ridley Scott's recent debacle that make Napoleon into a non-charismatic weak soft sort-of cuckheld joke by terribly casting of Phoenix.) This is a great production because it accomplishes what it should accomplish, accurately enough, for its intended audience.
What saved this story is the casting. Yes, the music is dated and the filmography is less than stellar, but so what. It's a basic good versus evil hero movie. Each of the characters looks the part and pulls it off. Thus, it's a great lesson in casting making the movie. Watched this flick again so many years later and it held my interest far better than other new flicks. It's not a 9 or 10 but it's not a 6 either, for reasons mentioned. A 7.5.
There is so much going on in this movie, but it is difficult to explain the act and scene context without spoilers.
Here'a tip: Watch the movie not as a horror, but as a philosophical study in self, vanity, self-loathing, the role of beauty in society, substance over form, and self-destruction for form over substance.
The movie transmutes itself much in the way of the protagonist, from reality to absurdity.
I was not a fan of Quaid in this film, sort of a male Effie character, over-the-top; otherwise, a great job from the actors.
There are scene cuts and scene transitions and social context that give cause to pause the reality, but the point of the movie is all about transmutations and robbing Peter to pay Paul.
If you're watching a horror flick, it will approach you accordingly, but if you're watching a work of personal and social philosophy and psychology, it will also approach you accordingly. And, truth be told, the latter is more horrific.
Here'a tip: Watch the movie not as a horror, but as a philosophical study in self, vanity, self-loathing, the role of beauty in society, substance over form, and self-destruction for form over substance.
The movie transmutes itself much in the way of the protagonist, from reality to absurdity.
I was not a fan of Quaid in this film, sort of a male Effie character, over-the-top; otherwise, a great job from the actors.
There are scene cuts and scene transitions and social context that give cause to pause the reality, but the point of the movie is all about transmutations and robbing Peter to pay Paul.
If you're watching a horror flick, it will approach you accordingly, but if you're watching a work of personal and social philosophy and psychology, it will also approach you accordingly. And, truth be told, the latter is more horrific.
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