(05-06-2021, 07:05 AM)Sir John Cope Wrote: Marking the occasion by re-watching The Duellists (1977), Sir Ridley Scott's first movie. One of my favorite period films, in part (obviously) for the Napoleonic subject matter, but also because it was brilliantly cast against type. 

Harvey Keitel and Keith Carradine are not actors immediately summoned to mind when the phrase "Napoleonic Wars" is uttered, but Keitel is perfect as the pugnacious homicidal Feraud.  Carradine likewise is very near to perfect as his foil (as it were), D'Hubert - a light cavalry officer who accepts the terms of his rank as an officer and gentleman without quite understanding why he has to.  

Napoleon himself never actually appears in the film, but I don't know of another which captures a certain feel for his era - thanks in part to Scott spending almost his entire meagre budget on magnificent uniforms and props.

(08-25-2021, 04:12 PM)bigus Wrote:

(05-06-2021, 07:05 AM)Sir John Cope Wrote: Marking the occasion by re-watching The Duellists (1977), Sir Ridley Scott's first movie. One of my favorite period films, in part (obviously) for the Napoleonic subject matter, but also because it was brilliantly cast against type. 

Harvey Keitel and Keith Carradine are not actors immediately summoned to mind when the phrase "Napoleonic Wars" is uttered, but Keitel is perfect as the pugnacious homicidal Feraud.  Carradine likewise is very near to perfect as his foil (as it were), D'Hubert - a light cavalry officer who accepts the terms of his rank as an officer and gentleman without quite understanding why he has to.  

Napoleon himself never actually appears in the film, but I don't know of another which captures a certain feel for his era - thanks in part to Scott spending almost his entire meagre budget on magnificent uniforms and props.

How About Waterloo with Rod Steiger as Napoleon and Christopher Plummer as Wellington?
Best movie ever....