What's some good Napoleonic television and/or film? I hate everyone who has ever even seen Sharpe much less liked it, btw. Any other recs would be great, also napoleonic general?
Have you tried Hornblower?
>>70704720
Count of Monte Cristo
>>70705236
fuck you
>>70705254
Napoleon is a character in the movie, pleb.
That "Waterloo" masterpiece of film, dated from the 1970s if you've never laid eyes on that yet. What kills it for me though is how inflated Waterloo's importance is throughout the story. The French empire was defeated at Leipzig. Enough with the britfags perpetuating this myth that "Waterloo ended Napoleon".
Then, there's that french series where Napoleon was depicted, much to my distaste, by Cristian Clavier.
But it's true that there aren't too many movies devoted to the era. I'm still banking a bunch on there being a Ney ("the iron marshal") biopic released. What a man.
>"Venez voir comment un maréchal de France meurt" (comme see how dies a marshal of France dies) at Waterloo when charging the brits
>"Etes vous la Garde? Etes vous français?" (are you the Guard? are you french?)
>>70704720
also a film that women will never understand
>>70705353
one of the best posts ive ever read on /tv/
>>70705388
W-why?
Thank you though. My God and I express our gratitude by having given you these dubs.
>>70705852
it was just so open honest and informed. dont see many of those here. don't make many myself really, so im not throwing stones. just saying. great post. one of the best ive ever read.
>>70705315
Holy shit. I'm so sorry.
>>70704720
>Napoleonic
War and Peace.
You're welcome.
War & Peace
Any recs besides war and peace? Im not watching that shit
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
>>70707794
What he said >>70707802
Best Napoleon movie ever
Voyage of No Survivors
Sharpe
>>70707794
>>70707802
>>70707824
There you go dipshit. Try Napoleon Dynamite while you're at it.
Time Bandits
>>70707802
>>70704720
>implying Sharpe isn't great
>>70705353
>"MERDE!"
>wants to discuss good Napoleonic TV & film
>immediately rejects Sharpe and War & Peace
OP is literally 12
>>70705236
Henry Cavill is Dantes's son in that
>>70707951
>All stop my decorated son
>>70707951
"I'm a count. Not a saint."
GOAT movie to be honest. I watched the 1976(?) one with Chamberlain as Dantes before the Caviezel one. I liked both, and while the Chamberlain one is vastly much more true to the book, I prefer the Jim one because of how damn comfy it is.
>>70705353
>the hundred days were irrelevant
how does it feel to be retarded?
>>70708114
So this guy is trying to kill the thread by making it about history but it's really about napoleonic movies and tv
>>70705353
Reminder that Ney survived his "execution" and went on to teach in the USA for another 20 years.
http://militaryhistorynow.com/2012/11/29/did-napoleons-most-feared-marshal-end-his-days-as-an-american-high-school-teacher/
>the firing squad actually shot blanks and the marshal (aware of the scheme) fooled onlookers by bursting blood packs concealed in his shirt
>The following year, history records the sudden appearance of one Peter Stuart Ney in Charleston, South Carolina. The redheaded immigrant matched the marshal’s physical description
>Marshal Ney’s father had been named Peter and his mother’s maiden name was Stuart
>According to his former students, Ney would parade and inspect them each morning, much like a field marshal might. He constantly pushed them to better themselves and had a tendency to challenge spirited and disruptive pupils to playful duels with wooden sticks
>upon learning of the death of [Napoleon] in 1821, Ney reportedly drove a knife into his own neck in a fit of grief almost killing himself
>the people of Rowan County actually knew full well the true identity of the hero in their midst and went to great lengths to cover for him
>In his final hours, Ney reportedly told those at his bedside that he was in fact the famous marshal.
>His gravestone, which still stands today in Cleveland, North Carolina, reads “A native of France and soldier of the French Revolution under Napoleon Bonaparte.”
>>70708114
>English people think they are "le badass" because they allied themselves with the entirety of Europe and defeated a country already done with
You must not realize how depleted of manpower France was by the Hundred Days. To exemplify that for you, do research "Marie-Louise soldier". They're the nicknames bequeathed on the 14 to 18 year old soldiers in that campaign,
You were litterary fighting against a ghost country that stood no chance.
Napoleon's sole hope was that other leaders would leave him be as emperor of France, and then was disheartened to have to fight Europe anyways when they declared war on him. The battle of Quatre-bras and Waterloo were his last ditch efforts to separate Prussians and Anglos, and hinder that they meet up.
But go on brit. Keep deluding yourself that "we won against Nappy annnn sheit".
>>70704720
War & Peace
>>70708343
>>70708889
some of the best posts ive ever read on /tv/
>>70704720
>I hate everyone who has ever even seen Sharpe much less liked it, btw
Fetch the horses, we've got work to do.
>>70709261
Why do you always say that to me? Is it mockery?
>>70705353
Because history remembers and continues to write about the winners. France and Napoleon were the losers.
Hornblower is fucking great.
>>70709261
pretty standard on /his/ tbqh
>>70709362
>manage to spazz out and conquer Europe with only Norway as your ally
>losers
Hmmm. Methinks you are on to something.
>>70705353
The Iron Marshal was Davout tho.
>>70709593
Damn it... Should've verified that with sources
beforehand.
Indeed, Ney became known as "the bravest of the brave" and was cheekily named "the last frenchman in Russia" for being the last soldier to tread the faulty bridge across the Berezina river with which the Grande Armée was escaping. He crossed the river that late for he'd been surveying the last of the french rearguard against the Russians, which he did pretty well. At least my ancestor surived is all I'm saying.
>The Battle of Berezina (or Beresina) took place from 26 to 29 November 1812, between the French army of Napoleon, retreating after his invasion of Russia and crossing the Berezina (near Borisov, Belarus), and the Russian armies under Mikhail Kutuzov, Peter Wittgenstein and Admiral Pavel Chichagov. The battle ended with a mixed outcome. The French suffered very heavy losses but managed to cross the river and avoid being trapped. Since then "Bérézina" has been used in French as a synonym for "disaster."
Davout was such a figure amidst the French army too. Fucker couldn't see well, so he was litterarily always in the enemy's sights and in immediate danger, for him to gaze at the battlefield better.
And his achievements at Auerstedt speak for themselves.
>>70704720
Here's forty shillings on the drum
>>70707832
Big guy
Jack of All Trades
