You asked, he listened. Napoleon: The Director's Cut is now streaming on Apple TV+ #Napoleon

Directed by Ridley Scott from a screenplay by David Scarpa, “Napoleon: The Director’s Cut” stars Joaquin Phoenix as the French emperor and military leader. The film is an original and personal look at Napoleon’s origins and his swift, ruthless climb to emperor, viewed through the prism of his addictive and often volatile relationship with his wife and one true love, Josephine, played by Vanessa Kirby. The film captures Napoleon’s famous battles, relentless ambition and astounding strategic mind as an extraordinary military leader and war visionary. An Apple Studios production in conjunction with Scott Free Productions, “Napoleon: The Director’s Cut” is produced by Scott, Kevin Walsh, Mark Huffam and Phoenix, with Michael Pruss and Aidan Elliott serving as executive producers.

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[kennethbergan]

48 minutes of new footage? Alright that’s a lot, I’ll check it out.

[Geblawi]

He was gonna do it anyway. He’s *RIDLEY SCOTT.*

[thegrievancegordieshow]

I will watch it asap - all hail Kubrick

[Marciap]

Hi Mr Scott, I watched the Director’s Cut version this weekend, and I loved it. I understood the movie better. Thank you very much, God bless 😊

[AttyDouro]

Hope he listened to us all saying how dire it is

[alexandrostriantafyllou]

Did you fixed the french speaking of miles instead of kilometers?

[johntechwriter]

The director’s cut transformed this film, and maybe in the process elevated elevated “Napoleon” in years to come as Scott’s masterpiece.

And that is saying a lot. This is the director whose 1982 “Blade Runner” gave Stanley Kubrick a lesson in directing science fiction: how to use special effects to not replace, an exciting story line where the characters’ complex personalities are a welcome change from Steven Spielberg’s two-dimensional cardboard cutouts (Tom Cruise in “War of the Worlds”) that are intended only to serve as a landing field for the special effects and cornball themes (family values featuring Cruise pandering to his spoiled children while simultaneously saving the planet from alien invaders that use human blood as a source of nourishment).

I am no expert about Napoleon. And I do not think I need to read his biography to understand what this movie is about.

Which is EXACTLY what Kubrick demanded of the audience of “2001.” To figure it out I had to buy the novel that served as the movie’s foundation: Arthur C. Clarke’s eponymous masterpiece. As it happened I loved the book. But that does not excuse Kubrick from delivering a half-baked final product. A movie that so bewildered its audience that at a screening for MGM executives, the ones who bet the corporate farm on financing its production, half of them walked out before the halfway point.

As a sign of panic, MGM felt it necessary to reshoot the trailers to make “2001” appear to be about the ship-board computer Hal and the how artificial intelligence became a threat to the mission.

Hal’s story was a sub-plot, and had nothing to do with 2001’s central story about (spoiler for some) an advanced species selecting our ancestors to over time acquire the intelligence required to go to the next level: leave behind one’s body and be reborn as a space child, intervening in catastrophic wars and nudging early civilizations back on track to evolve beyond war and hate and become in accord with the universe.

As I said above regarding the film “Napoleon, “What it is about” is not a reference to Napoleon’s historical record, the battles he won or lost. This movie is about not the battles but the man.

Napoleon was a singular historical figure who in no way possessed the personality traits Hollywood rubber-stamps on their leading men: charismatic good looks; able to rouse the supporting cast to delirious exclamations of his brilliance; perceiving what the bad guys are up to when everyone else is oblivious; and at the movie’s end wrapping up the loose as he departs with his beloved. Spare me!

Scott instead gives us a believable insight into the character of a man who knew he was destined for greatness, to the point where after an early victory on behalf of a poitical patron, when that character condescendingly attempts to pay him a compliment, Napoleon openly scorns him. This moment early in the film leaves us bewildered, but as the film goes on we come to understand that Napoleon lived in a parallel reality, where the people and events around his life represented not the opportunities offered to him by Providence, but exactly the opposite: Napoleon embodied THEIR magical good fortune in making himself available to them. He is the phenomenon who caused empires to fall, the commoner who made kings tremble.

Through Scott’s brilliant direction, Joachim Phoenix pulls off one of the greatest-ever portrayals of a historical giant as a man whose genius was squandered on the less worthy, ultimately leaving him in the emotional state known to the French as”ennui, ” a kind of fatigue and lassitude felt by those for whom most of life is a predictable disappointment. From what Scott has revealed to me about this previously unfathomable figure, I am willing to accept this characterization. Napoleon was to ask Peggy Lee’s famous question 120 or so years before she did, “Is that all there is?”

[HENRYGCOLLINS]

Why dont they always release the directors cut? I finished the film earlier and really didn't rate it that much.

[dastemplar]

Welp, let’s see if it actually makes a difference..

Oh additional 48 minutes will not save this movie by a long shot, but I will see if it makes it a little less painful.

[Mythical.History]

But sir you told us the DC would be nearly 4 and half hours

[nordmannenfrank]

I’m still waiting for a physical relase apple, a steelbook with some french stuff would fit a lot of people’s shelves

[jonathancharles]

48 minutes in a three hour long film are not enough to save the embarrassing hit piece this has-been great director made

[blocboi]

Make a movie about the hero from 1930s-1940s. He’s German!

[andysummersthxcinemaandmyc]

boring cut not interested in woke movies woke colour woke atmos, woke will not watch it as its woke