It takes one to know one, they say.
“My team does marvelous military costumes like I’ve never seen before.
The costumes are mind-blowing, and then I have a military expert for cause-and-effect battle sequences.
Joaquin Phoenix in ‘Napoleon.'.Courtesy of Sony PIctures / Apple Original Films
That’s all coordinated.
I plan it, in a funny kind of way, a little bit like a battle.”
“We have meetings once a week, and we go page by page.
Joaquin Phoenix in ‘Napoleon.'.Aidan Monaghan
Page one, I have a problem.
What’s the problem?
And then on to page two.
Joaquin Phoenix in ‘Napoleon.'.Courtesy of Sony Pictures/Apple Original Films
The new film starsJoaquin Phoenixas Napoleon Bonaparte andVanessa Kirbyas wife Josephine.
For all Napoleon’s brilliance on the battlefield, he severely miscalculated his invasion of Russia.
Soon, it was burning.
Moscow burns in ‘Napoleon.'.Courtesy of Sony Pictures/Apple Original Films
“I don’t think he was, in any shape or form, naive,” Scott says.
And while he was in Moscow, he found the city was deserted.
He wanted confrontation to see who could do what to who, but it was not what he expected.
There wasn’t much facing off on the battlefield, like there was at Waterloo.
The Russians employed a very efficient group called the Cossacks who did a lot of hit-and-run continual harassment.”
In a way, they neutralized his victory."
Scott, though, never wants his filmmaking struggle to end.
“These kinds of films are like climbing a mountain,” Scott says.
“At the ground level, the peak looks a long way off.
It’s a continual day-by-day process, but that’s why I do it.
I love it.”
Napoleonis set to hit theaters on Nov. 22.
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