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its the worst piece of shit ive ever seen, it made me go and watch Napoleon 1927, Waterloo 1970 and the Soviet War and Peace film series, all of which are absolute cinema and all of them are what i consider some of the best films of all time.

My suggestion is counter intuitive since i hated the movie so much but it needed to be way longer. We're really going to cover Napoleons political and military campaigns AND his love life in just two hourse? From the siege of toulon to st elba? fucking horse shit, at 5 hours runtime even the 1927 film didnt feel long enough and that ended at the Italian campaign. Scott also needed to make Bonaparte likeable? The success of the 27 film depicted him as a charasmatic figure with it all figured out already to the point where it felt like a propaganda film, make it so Phoenix is likeable and not a faggoty weirdo? Basically recast the leads, rewrite the script, make it 10 hours long to filter out the casuals, dont be afraid to add colour to the movie, light it properly, stop making shit up and reapproach the framing so it feels like a heroic triumph rather than a retarded incel hamfisting his way into European court drama and drop the sex scenes. Make it like a romanticised painting from the 19th century wants you to feel