100% agree. CGI has its place, which is enhancement of practical effects. That however requires hard work and studios are no longer interested in quality control. Forget about making so called "epic films" actually look epic. Unless its skillfully blended, CGI is ultimately not capable of fooling the human mind. You just know what's really there and what is not. It's why epic films of the past were so breathtaking. If they wanted a scene with hundreds or thousands of extras, they'd have to find real people.
@@BULL.173, not to mention that many works like Waterloo had many historical experts from Oxford University who enabled the creation and accuracy of movies back in that time. The last movie to do was the film based on Alexander the Great in the 2000s. Nowadays, Scott and his Hollywood friends do not care. CGI, historical experts, etc, would rather cut down the production cost and instead think that people will not see the flaws of their works.
When filming Napoleon's abdication speech, producer Dino De Laurentiis ordered the cameraman not to load a new reel of film to save costs. The film ran out before Rod Steiger had finished delivering this highly emotional speech. The actor was not pleased. This historical war epic film was, at the time it was made, one of the most expensive pictures ever made. Soldiers of the Red Army were used as extras to portray the British army. They panicked repeatedly and scattered during the filming of some of the cavalry charges. Attempts to reassure them by marking the closest approach of the horses with white tape similarly failed, and the scene was cut. General Sir Thomas Picton (Jack Hawkins) is correctly shown dressed in a civilian coat and a top hat. He had traveled in haste to reach the army and had arrived ahead of most of his luggage - including his uniforms. It was joked at the time that the director was in charge of the seventh-largest army in the world. Actor Terence Alexander, who played Lord Uxbridge, has said that the Russian intelligence organization the KGB was monitoring non-Russian cast members throughout the production. This was the only English-language film directed by Sergey Bondarchuk. When Louis XVIII first appears on screen, he is reading "Le Moniteur Universel", the leading French newspaper from the time of the Revolution. It was founded in 1789 and ceased publication in 1868. In 1799 Napoleon seized control of the paper, which became the state propaganda organ of Imperial France. The paper still exists in a different form, under a different title, as the official state publication of the French Republic. When the British offered to surrender to the Old Guard, Vicomte De Cambronne supposedly said, "The Old Guard dies and does not surrender." A rumor was started that after British General Colville insisted they surrender Cambronne replied "Merde". However, it is widely understood that Cambronne was captured before he could respond. Cambronne himself denies both quotes, which seems to point to his capture before a response. "The Old Guard dies and does not surrender" was later found to be most likely said by General Claude-Etienne Michel. The Soviet army planted 5000 trees as well as crops of barley, rye, and wildflowers. They also installed six miles of underground piping to facilitate the creation of mud. Jack Hawkins's larynx had been surgically removed four years earlier due to cancer. All of his lines are dubbed by another actor. John Savident was badly injured when he fell off his horse during filming. Rod Steiger and Christopher Plummer didn't have a scene together in this film. A personal favorite of Peter Jackson. Before the charge of the Union Brigade, Ponsonby recounts the story of his father's death who he alleges was killed by the French. "His horse got bogged in a plowed field and the brute just gave up. Seven damn lancers had him like a tiger in a pit. (...) bad luck, he had 400 better horses in his stables at Hatton." That tale is pure fiction included only to foreshadow Ponsonby's impending death scene which is depicted in the same manner. In reality, Ponsonby's father, William Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby, was not killed by the French. He died in Seymour Street, London, on November 5, 1806, and was buried in Ireland. Ponsonby himself was given the chance to surrender at Waterloo by the French lancers who had recognized his rank and worth as a prisoner. However, Ponsonby failed to understand them, and when a group of his own Union Brigade spotted him and rode to his rescue, the French lancers had no option but to kill him. The smoke from the battlefield kept getting inside Jack Hawkins' stoma. Though third billed in the film's credits and on movie posters and promo materials, actor Orson Welles only appears in the picture very briefly, in a pre-credits sequence. Christopher Plummer would later reprise his role as the Duke of Wellington in The Duke of Wellington (1974). Filming took place over more than six months in 1969, the 200th anniversary of Napoleon's birth. Eagle in a Cage (1972) and The Adventures of Gerard (1970), two other films about Napoleon, were made in the same year. All three were box-office failures. Russian director Sergey Bondarchuk was hired based on the strength of his four Russian "War and Peace" epic pictures he had directed during the mid-1960s but Bondarchuk had not directed the English language War and Peace (1956) movie. Sixteen days of the production shoot were lost with most of the delays due to inclement weather. Footage of the film's depiction of the Battle of Waterloo would later be used in The Man Who Saw Tomorrow (1981), which was presented and narrated by Orson Welles (King Louis XVIII). Rod Steiger and Christopher Plummer would later appear in Jesus of Nazareth (1977). Principal photography took about 28 weeks. Rod Steiger's marriage to Claire Bloom ended after she left him for the man he entrusted to look after her while he was away making this film. Opening credits: Napoleon Bonaparte, inspiring his people with his military and political genius and his revolutionary fervor, became, within a few brief years, Emperor of the French and master of all Europe. In 1812, after 15 years of victory, Napoleon met with disaster in the Russian Campaign. By 1813, defeated by the combined forces of Austria, Russia, Prussia, and England at Leipzig, Napoleon was driven to the very gates of Paris - there to await his destiny.
Nice.... But Napoleon did not master Russia, UK, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, in Europe. As for Ponsonby, he was a prisoner before being murdered by the Lancer officer. The French lancers were a ruthless bunch - throughout the campaign they murdered wounded helpless men on the ground with lance thrusts. The movie 'Adventures of Gerard' really did fail at all levels.... the Conan Doyle 'Brigadier Gerard' story was not honored.
@@BaronsHistoryTimes Here are some more facts about Napoleon Bonaparte: Despite being known for his diminutive stature (Many believe him to be around five feet tall), Napoleon was around 5'7, above average height for an 18th-century Frenchman (5'5). It was propaganda from his sworn enemy, England, that created his reputation as a miniature, petty tyrant. Several misconceptions have aided in perpetuating the image to this day. First, French feet of the period were longer than modern feet, causing his height in French feet to be numerically smaller. Also, his nickname Le Petit Caporal, ("The Little Corporal"), actually referred to his humble background and modesty around his troops, rather than his physical size. Finally, he was often seen during wartime on foot, surrounded by hulking bodyguards (who had a height requirement), making him look short by comparison. Ludwig van Beethoven dedicated his third symphony, the Eroica (Italian for "heroic"), to Napoléon in the belief he would sustain the ideals of the Revolution, but tore out the title page when Napoléon's true ambitions became clear. His second wife was Marie Louise of Austria, daughter of Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor. Married by proxy on March 11, 1810, they met for the first time 16 days later. Their son and only child, Napoléon François Joséph Charles (Napoléon II), was born on March 20, 1811. Marie Louise did not join Napoléon in his first or second exile. She married the father of her next three children three months after Napoléon died. In 1940, the body of Napoléon II (who died in 1832 without issue) was moved from Vienna to Paris, where he rests beside his father as a gift to France from Adolf Hitler. Rumored to have fathered at least five illegitimate children, Napoléon acknowledged only one, Charles Léon (1806-1881), whose birth was all the incentive he needed to divorce his first wife Joséphine, as she had failed to give him an heir. Oddly, he refused to have anything to do with Charles and his mother but provided for them. Sold the Louisiana Purchase to Thomas Jefferson for $11,250,000 ($0.05 per acre) plus the United States assumed claims of its citizens against France for up to $3,750,000. Created the Code Napoléon, a codifier of civil law, as opposed to English common law. Louisiana law is based on the Code Napoléon. Crowned himself Emperor on December 2, 1804. Claims that he seized the crown from Pope Pius VII during the ceremony are false; in fact, the procedure had been agreed upon in advance. After the Imperial regalia had been blessed by the Pope, Napoléon crowned himself, then his wife Joséphine. The ceremony was immortalized in Jacques Louis David's painting "The Coronation of Napoléon". Researchers have discovered genetic evidence that lice-borne disease played a key role in his retreat through Russia in 1812. Followers of Michel de Nostredame believe he named Napoléon as the first of three anti-Christs, Adolf Hitler as the second, and the third not revealed. His father, Carlo Buonaparte, an attorney, was named Corsica's representative to the court of Louis XVI in 1778.
@@StephenLuke - Well, Napoleon was portrayed smaller than tall even by his own artists because he was not tall and just about average height. Differences in height existed by averages in various parts of Europe, French were considered shorter than Brits, and I'll say Scandinavians were tall on average. South Euros were average smaller - like Napoleon. Political caricatures was common where there was no censorship. These images are aimed to mock the targeted persons. It's not odd that political cartoonists in various nations did excessive mockeries. Napoleon shut down scores of French newspapers, keeping only a couple alive as censored propaganda tools. He was definitely an Imperial Tyrant.... that's actual fact. But that's not to say his rival Empires were not tyrannical in their various degrees either. Napoleon's Dad was under-rated.... against all odds he got his son into France and a posh education - even if in abject poverty. The big key during the retreat was massive temperature drops - disease attacked frozen-weakened soldiers. Louisiana was Spanish owned before being exchanged to France which was lost in relation to Napoleon's disastrous decision to re-establish slavery in the French Caribbean which blew up in Haiti. Nobody told the Indigenous Natives their lands were staked out and owned by foreign Empires. In fact, his Polish Mistress Marie Walewska visited Napoleon on Elba clandestinely, bringing their son for some brief fun times together. She'd see him again after his escape and downfall in Paris. Beethoven was a wishful thinker in not realizing how Napoleon establishing an Imperial Dynasty had divorced himself from the Liberal leaning French Revolution aspirations.
I find it amazing that during the height of the Cold War, two NATO nations (Italy and UK) teamed up with USSR to make a movie about the Napoleonic wars era.
Somebody should have showed this to Ridley Scott. It took liberties with history and had flaws, but it's a freakin' masterpiece compared to the stinker he made.
And after a career of exceptional historical movies obviously Gladiator which even eminent historian Mary Beard rates as one of the best / accurate of all time
This movie is a contender for the highest historical fidelity and least deviations from reality, you'd be hard-pressed to find mistakes with the facts and I love it for that.
This movie bombed in the theaters at the time and actually got the Napoleon movie Stanley Kubrick was going to do's funding pulled last minute, and it's the greatest movie that never was. They had 5000 Hungarian horsemen hired, and all the Uniforms made, but then the funding got pulled.
*Leave it to an Italian to create an epic-like Waterloo; Agostino "Dino" De Laurentiis! Rod Steiger is just as brilliant when recreating the eminent Napoleon as he was when he played Al Capone, Dutch Schultz, Benito Mussolini, W.C. Fields & Sam 'Mooney' Giancana; there are very few actors with his versatility and depth.*
1:21:55 In that scene, I think the purpose of those farms was for the defenders to break up or weaken on the flanks the advance of the French infantry towards the army in the center where Wellington was. That is why Napoleon wanted to conquer those fortifications and allow the French infantry to advance without serious damage. But what I don't understand is why they didn't destroy those farms to the ground, with artillery or cannon fire instead of making multiple attempts to take it. PS: I'm still glad that those farms have been preserved as a historical relic.
That's a real test of greatness: after 55 years, even though this movie has been available on several TH-cam channels for over a decade, this upload has 1.1 million views in a month. That's a film with staying power. Ridley's Napoleon movie, on the other hand, has been all but forgotten (and rightfully so) after a mere few months.
@@tombardsley3081 Yeah, same thing with the Sopranos movie. You just can't do that much with 2 or even 3 hours. A limited series is the superior form for long, dense narratives.
@@tombardsley3081 The BEST Napoleon was the 4-part 1982 Napoleon by HBO staring John Malkovich as Talleyrand. Look for it -- it's everything the Ridley Scot atrocity wasn't.
11:04 he was a man, with no mercy in his wars, and yet he cried, cried for his country, for his people, what a legend, my heart broke up in this scene, this made me tear up.
As many times I've watched this over the years that has always been my favourite scene, " This man knows how to defend a hopeless postion. Raise him to Corporal. ! "
Marshall DAVOUT, and not Grouchy, should've been in the Waterloo campaign and assigned the pursuit of the Prussians...HE would've known to march to the sound of the guns! The Iron Marshall would've swept the 'Iron Duke' from the field... Alas.
"Though I love you all, I cannot embrace you all. With this kiss, remember me. Goodbye my soldiers, goodbye my sons, and goodbye my children". What a powerful way with words Napoleon had, which is probably also why he was able to once again to bring all of France back to his side when he made his unprecedented return from Elba.
Don't be blinded by words that were a means to an end. Napoleon was completely indifferent to his soldiers in Russia when he abandoned them and fled back to France alone. He didn't care about them after the Battle of Leipzig when he left them starving and thirsty on the side of the road in Germany. These soldiers didn't even dare to go into nearby villages to beg for food because they were afraid of simply being beaten to death by the villagers. And not all of France was waiting for his return; on the contrary, he had to choose his route to Paris by leaving out the larger cities because the population no longer wanted him. The fact that the army deserted and defected to him is simply explained: he promised new wars, i.e. good pay for the poor soldiers and the chance to accumulate some wealth through looting. Like in Russia today, where the rural population without any means of income enlists in the military in order to have a paid job at all.
Napoleon liked speeches he knew that his soldiers liked. I don't think his speeches impressed the general public. The movie gives a gist of the actual speech that was made. It's not the actual speech itself, which was longer but still moving.
La inesperada caída de Napoleón se debió a la llegada del Mariscal de Campo Prusiano Von Blücher en apoyo de Wellington..sé suponía qué nó llegaría a causa de la lluvia...
The actual decisive battle that ended the Napoleonic Wars was his defeat at The Battle Of The Nations at Leipzig in what is now Germany. The British Peninsular Campaign contributed little except the destruction of Spain and its Empire by its supposed ally Great Britain. Waterloo was basically an afterthought which the British almost lost before the real battle was won by the Prussians showing up.
Well the French do reenactments regularly & this is where all the bodies come from with other countries as well taking part. Same with films of the English & American Civil war, who use the reenactments societies as extras who know what to do.
An epic film depicting the brilliance, sadness and futility of this period. What is little shown is the strategic genius shown by Napoleon...and his decline. Davout, in his memoirs, referred to the conduct of Napoleon as a tragedy. The man at Waterloo was considerably different to the man who made his name in Italy. It becomes the ultimate folly, in that of human nature....and we never learn.
that was one of the best period of man kind, sad that a buffon like this one managed to convince men to die for him in pointless wars to fuel his greed
God seeing that British line infantry leave the formation to question the war was so sad. Hearing his voice echo through out the battle field as the camera pans out to show the destruction and death as a result of the war makes you realize how courageous and the soldiers were to bleed for their country. May God bless all of the infantry who fought valiantly.
I can remember watching it at the cinema with my mum and dad when it first came in 1970. It was probably the first film that really struck me as a great film. Rod Steiger was awesome as Napoleon, what a performance. I later read up on Wellington, what a fantastic general he was. When I first went to Dublin, I had to see his family home. I used to live not from Stratford Turgis his home I'm Hants. Hilter fashioned himself on Napoleon and came to the same sticky end. Though Wellington had help from other armies, it's a bit like Agincourt when Henry V gave the Frenchies another kicking, not wonder the French don't like us English, and no wonder Charles de Gaulle didn't want the British army to enter Paris when it was liberated in WW2
Rod Steiger’s portrayal of Napoleon has the same quality standard as Bruno Ganz’s portrayal of Adolf Hitler. had to of required immense study of both men and their mannerisms.
1:34:21 best part
Epic on a massive scale brilliant movie
Great 👍
Fantastic film
1:54:58 everybody gangsta till Prussia shows up
fantastic movie
When you look at the pathetic CGI films of today, and then look at this, it is an indictment of Hollywood.
100% agree. CGI has its place, which is enhancement of practical effects. That however requires hard work and studios are no longer interested in quality control. Forget about making so called "epic films" actually look epic. Unless its skillfully blended, CGI is ultimately not capable of fooling the human mind. You just know what's really there and what is not. It's why epic films of the past were so breathtaking. If they wanted a scene with hundreds or thousands of extras, they'd have to find real people.
Filmed in Spain, the troops were actually units of the Spanish army. No CGI in 1970!
@@davidc5191Sure of that? Other comments mention Russian extras as soldiers and KGB spying the production.
It's a soviet/italian production, not hollywood
@@BULL.173, not to mention that many works like Waterloo had many historical experts from Oxford University who enabled the creation and accuracy of movies back in that time. The last movie to do was the film based on Alexander the Great in the 2000s. Nowadays, Scott and his Hollywood friends do not care. CGI, historical experts, etc, would rather cut down the production cost and instead think that people will not see the flaws of their works.
Thumbs up to as ll on here
. Great film..
日本での、公開時の題名は…ワーテルーローです😮
Il s’appelle Waterloo ces luis qui la changer
The way he managed to cry real tears during the acting. Give this guy an Oscar!
It seems they need to re-release some of these old movies for the new generations
Im only at the beginning and its soooo goooood
Wonderful, thank you.
Top 👍
When filming Napoleon's abdication speech, producer Dino De Laurentiis ordered the cameraman not to load a new reel of film to save costs. The film ran out before Rod Steiger had finished delivering this highly emotional speech. The actor was not pleased.
This historical war epic film was, at the time it was made, one of the most expensive pictures ever made.
Soldiers of the Red Army were used as extras to portray the British army. They panicked repeatedly and scattered during the filming of some of the cavalry charges. Attempts to reassure them by marking the closest approach of the horses with white tape similarly failed, and the scene was cut.
General Sir Thomas Picton (Jack Hawkins) is correctly shown dressed in a civilian coat and a top hat. He had traveled in haste to reach the army and had arrived ahead of most of his luggage - including his uniforms.
It was joked at the time that the director was in charge of the seventh-largest army in the world.
Actor Terence Alexander, who played Lord Uxbridge, has said that the Russian intelligence organization the KGB was monitoring non-Russian cast members throughout the production.
This was the only English-language film directed by Sergey Bondarchuk.
When Louis XVIII first appears on screen, he is reading "Le Moniteur Universel", the leading French newspaper from the time of the Revolution. It was founded in 1789 and ceased publication in 1868. In 1799 Napoleon seized control of the paper, which became the state propaganda organ of Imperial France. The paper still exists in a different form, under a different title, as the official state publication of the French Republic.
When the British offered to surrender to the Old Guard, Vicomte De Cambronne supposedly said, "The Old Guard dies and does not surrender." A rumor was started that after British General Colville insisted they surrender Cambronne replied "Merde". However, it is widely understood that Cambronne was captured before he could respond. Cambronne himself denies both quotes, which seems to point to his capture before a response. "The Old Guard dies and does not surrender" was later found to be most likely said by General Claude-Etienne Michel.
The Soviet army planted 5000 trees as well as crops of barley, rye, and wildflowers. They also installed six miles of underground piping to facilitate the creation of mud.
Jack Hawkins's larynx had been surgically removed four years earlier due to cancer. All of his lines are dubbed by another actor.
John Savident was badly injured when he fell off his horse during filming.
Rod Steiger and Christopher Plummer didn't have a scene together in this film.
A personal favorite of Peter Jackson.
Before the charge of the Union Brigade, Ponsonby recounts the story of his father's death who he alleges was killed by the French. "His horse got bogged in a plowed field and the brute just gave up. Seven damn lancers had him like a tiger in a pit. (...) bad luck, he had 400 better horses in his stables at Hatton." That tale is pure fiction included only to foreshadow Ponsonby's impending death scene which is depicted in the same manner. In reality, Ponsonby's father, William Ponsonby, 1st Baron Ponsonby, was not killed by the French. He died in Seymour Street, London, on November 5, 1806, and was buried in Ireland. Ponsonby himself was given the chance to surrender at Waterloo by the French lancers who had recognized his rank and worth as a prisoner. However, Ponsonby failed to understand them, and when a group of his own Union Brigade spotted him and rode to his rescue, the French lancers had no option but to kill him.
The smoke from the battlefield kept getting inside Jack Hawkins' stoma.
Though third billed in the film's credits and on movie posters and promo materials, actor Orson Welles only appears in the picture very briefly, in a pre-credits sequence.
Christopher Plummer would later reprise his role as the Duke of Wellington in The Duke of Wellington (1974).
Filming took place over more than six months in 1969, the 200th anniversary of Napoleon's birth. Eagle in a Cage (1972) and The Adventures of Gerard (1970), two other films about Napoleon, were made in the same year. All three were box-office failures.
Russian director Sergey Bondarchuk was hired based on the strength of his four Russian "War and Peace" epic pictures he had directed during the mid-1960s but Bondarchuk had not directed the English language War and Peace (1956) movie.
Sixteen days of the production shoot were lost with most of the delays due to inclement weather.
Footage of the film's depiction of the Battle of Waterloo would later be used in The Man Who Saw Tomorrow (1981), which was presented and narrated by Orson Welles (King Louis XVIII).
Rod Steiger and Christopher Plummer would later appear in Jesus of Nazareth (1977).
Principal photography took about 28 weeks.
Rod Steiger's marriage to Claire Bloom ended after she left him for the man he entrusted to look after her while he was away making this film.
Opening credits: Napoleon Bonaparte, inspiring his people with his military and political genius and his revolutionary fervor, became, within a few brief years, Emperor of the French and master of all Europe.
In 1812, after 15 years of victory, Napoleon met with disaster in the Russian Campaign. By 1813, defeated by the combined forces of Austria, Russia, Prussia, and England at Leipzig, Napoleon was driven to the very gates of Paris - there to await his destiny.
Nice....
But Napoleon did not master Russia, UK, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, in Europe.
As for Ponsonby, he was a prisoner before being murdered by the Lancer officer. The French lancers were a ruthless bunch - throughout the campaign they murdered wounded helpless men on the ground with lance thrusts.
The movie 'Adventures of Gerard' really did fail at all levels.... the Conan Doyle 'Brigadier Gerard' story was not honored.
@@BaronsHistoryTimes Did you know that Napoleon was a poor chess player?
@@StephenLuke No I did not! But I know he liked cheating in table games :)
@@BaronsHistoryTimes Here are some more facts about Napoleon Bonaparte:
Despite being known for his diminutive stature (Many believe him to be around five feet tall), Napoleon was around 5'7, above average height for an 18th-century Frenchman (5'5). It was propaganda from his sworn enemy, England, that created his reputation as a miniature, petty tyrant. Several misconceptions have aided in perpetuating the image to this day. First, French feet of the period were longer than modern feet, causing his height in French feet to be numerically smaller. Also, his nickname Le Petit Caporal, ("The Little Corporal"), actually referred to his humble background and modesty around his troops, rather than his physical size. Finally, he was often seen during wartime on foot, surrounded by hulking bodyguards (who had a height requirement), making him look short by comparison.
Ludwig van Beethoven dedicated his third symphony, the Eroica (Italian for "heroic"), to Napoléon in the belief he would sustain the ideals of the Revolution, but tore out the title page when Napoléon's true ambitions became clear.
His second wife was Marie Louise of Austria, daughter of Francis II, Holy Roman Emperor. Married by proxy on March 11, 1810, they met for the first time 16 days later. Their son and only child, Napoléon François Joséph Charles (Napoléon II), was born on March 20, 1811. Marie Louise did not join Napoléon in his first or second exile. She married the father of her next three children three months after Napoléon died. In 1940, the body of Napoléon II (who died in 1832 without issue) was moved from Vienna to Paris, where he rests beside his father as a gift to France from Adolf Hitler. Rumored to have fathered at least five illegitimate children, Napoléon acknowledged only one, Charles Léon (1806-1881), whose birth was all the incentive he needed to divorce his first wife Joséphine, as she had failed to give him an heir. Oddly, he refused to have anything to do with Charles and his mother but provided for them.
Sold the Louisiana Purchase to Thomas Jefferson for $11,250,000 ($0.05 per acre) plus the United States assumed claims of its citizens against France for up to $3,750,000.
Created the Code Napoléon, a codifier of civil law, as opposed to English common law. Louisiana law is based on the Code Napoléon.
Crowned himself Emperor on December 2, 1804. Claims that he seized the crown from Pope Pius VII during the ceremony are false; in fact, the procedure had been agreed upon in advance. After the Imperial regalia had been blessed by the Pope, Napoléon crowned himself, then his wife Joséphine. The ceremony was immortalized in Jacques Louis David's painting "The Coronation of Napoléon".
Researchers have discovered genetic evidence that lice-borne disease played a key role in his retreat through Russia in 1812.
Followers of Michel de Nostredame believe he named Napoléon as the first of three anti-Christs, Adolf Hitler as the second, and the third not revealed.
His father, Carlo Buonaparte, an attorney, was named Corsica's representative to the court of Louis XVI in 1778.
@@StephenLuke - Well, Napoleon was portrayed smaller than tall even by his own artists because he was not tall and just about average height. Differences in height existed by averages in various parts of Europe, French were considered shorter than Brits, and I'll say Scandinavians were tall on average. South Euros were average smaller - like Napoleon.
Political caricatures was common where there was no censorship. These images are aimed to mock the targeted persons. It's not odd that political cartoonists in various nations did excessive mockeries.
Napoleon shut down scores of French newspapers, keeping only a couple alive as censored propaganda tools. He was definitely an Imperial Tyrant.... that's actual fact. But that's not to say his rival Empires were not tyrannical in their various degrees either.
Napoleon's Dad was under-rated.... against all odds he got his son into France and a posh education - even if in abject poverty.
The big key during the retreat was massive temperature drops - disease attacked frozen-weakened soldiers.
Louisiana was Spanish owned before being exchanged to France which was lost in relation to Napoleon's disastrous decision to re-establish slavery in the French Caribbean which blew up in Haiti. Nobody told the Indigenous Natives their lands were staked out and owned by foreign Empires.
In fact, his Polish Mistress Marie Walewska visited Napoleon on Elba clandestinely, bringing their son for some brief fun times together. She'd see him again after his escape and downfall in Paris.
Beethoven was a wishful thinker in not realizing how Napoleon establishing an Imperial Dynasty had divorced himself from the Liberal leaning French Revolution aspirations.
Orson Welles's portrayal of King Louis XVIII steals the show.
1:54:13 the song very great
I find it amazing that during the height of the Cold War, two NATO nations (Italy and UK) teamed up with USSR to make a movie about the Napoleonic wars era.
Somebody should have showed this to Ridley Scott. It took liberties with history and had flaws, but it's a freakin' masterpiece compared to the stinker he made.
And after a career of exceptional historical movies obviously Gladiator which even eminent historian Mary Beard rates as one of the best / accurate of all time
Ridley Scott sucks
This movie is a contender for the highest historical fidelity and least deviations from reality, you'd be hard-pressed to find mistakes with the facts and I love it for that.
This movie bombed in the theaters at the time and actually got the Napoleon movie Stanley Kubrick was going to do's funding pulled last minute, and it's the greatest movie that never was.
They had 5000 Hungarian horsemen hired, and all the Uniforms made, but then the funding got pulled.
Ridley Scott has seen this film. He deliberately made what he made. He artistic integrity has disintegrated.
What a production... The scale is just incredible.
Never get tired of watching.
"there is nothing we cant do"😞
like it vive le france
*Leave it to an Italian to create an epic-like Waterloo; Agostino "Dino" De Laurentiis! Rod Steiger is just as brilliant when recreating the eminent Napoleon as he was when he played Al Capone, Dutch Schultz, Benito Mussolini, W.C. Fields & Sam 'Mooney' Giancana; there are very few actors with his versatility and depth.*
Bonapart ❤❤❤ 🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷🇹🇷
1:21:55
In that scene, I think the purpose of those farms was for the defenders to break up or weaken on the flanks the advance of the French infantry towards the army in the center where Wellington was. That is why Napoleon wanted to conquer those fortifications and allow the French infantry to advance without serious damage.
But what I don't understand is why they didn't destroy those farms to the ground, with artillery or cannon fire instead of making multiple attempts to take it.
PS:
I'm still glad that those farms have been preserved as a historical relic.
La Haye Sainte (in the centre) is privately owned and generally seals itself off from tourists.
How many people where in this movie 🎬?great movie 😂❤
Isn't this movie called 'Waterloo'?
english version... not all is true but Rod Steiger is superb!
The birds eye view of the battle is great, they even show the British going into a box formation, when charged by the French, cavalry.
A square. Infantry in the defense.
Alexey German, senior would have commented "Махнёмся трубками Генерал, на памяти, на памяти!"
Maybe the best war movie ever made.
Now this is a proper EPIC
That's a real test of greatness: after 55 years, even though this movie has been available on several TH-cam channels for over a decade, this upload has 1.1 million views in a month. That's a film with staying power. Ridley's Napoleon movie, on the other hand, has been all but forgotten (and rightfully so) after a mere few months.
Ridley Scott be like: I made one mistake I should have burned the original!
The director of the film is a talented soviet man Sergei Bondarchuk.
Ridley’s one really should have been a multi series tv show. I hope at some point someone does that because the movie felt rushed
@@tombardsley3081 Yeah, same thing with the Sopranos movie. You just can't do that much with 2 or even 3 hours. A limited series is the superior form for long, dense narratives.
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The BEST Napoleon was the 4-part 1982 Napoleon by HBO staring John Malkovich as Talleyrand. Look for it -- it's everything the Ridley Scot atrocity wasn't.
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What a man!
Defined by cause and effect
epic battle scenes, I suspect would not be allowed to make it now due to the horse stunts., heck you may not even find enough horses.
the war condemmed. but for the freedom
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he was a man, with no mercy in his wars, and yet he cried, cried for his country, for his people, what a legend, my heart broke up in this scene, this made me tear up.
War is War
This is how Napoleonic Warfare Chain of command look like not Napoleon solo play RTS game by himself in Ridley Scott movie
1:58:58 when realization hits hard
As many times I've watched this over the years that has always been my favourite scene, " This man knows how to defend a hopeless postion. Raise him to Corporal. ! "
i got a kick out of that as well, knowing the soldier faced summary execution for pillaging
@sinister. Also my favourite scene, although it probably didn't happen!
Ugh
Hollywood
It never happened
Whats the song they play when Duke of Wellington enters the ballroom?
It just hit me that the actor portraying Marshal Ney (Dan O'Herlihy) is the same actor called the "old man" in RoboCop.
indeed it is my dear fellow. also played in "The Last Starfighter" as Grig.
:Nice shooting, son, what's your name?"
maravillosamente increíble 🎉
I was glued to this one, its really great in my opinion.
Marshall DAVOUT, and not Grouchy, should've been in the Waterloo campaign and assigned the pursuit of the Prussians...HE would've known to march to the sound of the guns! The Iron Marshall would've swept the 'Iron Duke' from the field...
Alas.
100% agree!
Wonder if he ever regretted leaving Davout in Paris and replaced either Ney or Grouchy with him.
"Though I love you all, I cannot embrace you all. With this kiss, remember me. Goodbye my soldiers, goodbye my sons, and goodbye my children".
What a powerful way with words Napoleon had, which is probably also why he was able to once again to bring all of France back to his side when he made his unprecedented return from Elba.
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Canito, hijo mío.
Don't be blinded by words that were a means to an end.
Napoleon was completely indifferent to his soldiers in Russia when he abandoned them and fled back to France alone.
He didn't care about them after the Battle of Leipzig when he left them starving and thirsty on the side of the road in Germany.
These soldiers didn't even dare to go into nearby villages to beg for food because they were afraid of simply being beaten to death by the villagers.
And not all of France was waiting for his return; on the contrary, he had to choose his route to Paris by leaving out the larger cities because the population no longer wanted him.
The fact that the army deserted and defected to him is simply explained: he promised new wars, i.e. good pay for the poor soldiers and the chance to accumulate some wealth through looting.
Like in Russia today, where the rural population without any means of income enlists in the military in order to have a paid job at all.
ha ha ha ha
Napoleon liked speeches he knew that his soldiers liked. I don't think his speeches impressed the general public.
The movie gives a gist of the actual speech that was made. It's not the actual speech itself, which was longer but still moving.
Napoleon,le pir pour la france et le monde.
La inesperada caída de Napoleón se debió a la llegada del Mariscal de Campo Prusiano Von Blücher en apoyo de Wellington..sé suponía qué nó llegaría a causa de la lluvia...
size is a matter to a country. small is small, big is big.
Vive l'Empereur 🇫🇷
The actual decisive battle that ended the Napoleonic Wars was his defeat at The Battle Of The Nations at Leipzig in what is now Germany. The British Peninsular Campaign contributed little except the destruction of Spain and its Empire by its supposed ally Great Britain. Waterloo was basically an afterthought which the British almost lost before the real battle was won by the Prussians showing up.
شكرا لكم كثيرا على ترجمة هذا الفلم
@21:06 On the far right side of the screen a soldier is holding a Mosin Nagant, not a musket. @22:56 Also on the far right side another Mosin Nagant.
L'un des meilleurs films sur Napoléon
awesome movie
Rod Steiger is the best Napoleon. Joaquin Phoenix's version was shit.
Something tells me your comment will have tons of thumbs up likes before long.
@@BaronsHistoryTimes That would be awesome! Its my opinion nothing more and nothing less.
PREACH 🙏🙏🙏‼️‼️‼️‼️🔥🔥🔥
What a difference between this and that disaster of a movie from Ridley Scott.
Yes a Great film
Underrated war film.
Highly recommended movie
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This is not called The last hundred days of Napoleon, it is called WATERLOO
You are right!
Una joya de la cinematografía!!
Phenomenal. Absolutely timeless.
No CGI, I wonder how many real horses had to be put down because accidental real broken legs?
lol
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Hope this could be re-release in cinema.
god is good
This film was so well produced and directed. Will anyone make such a full scale production again in the 21st Century? Not even AI could do this.
Well the French do reenactments regularly & this is where all the bodies come from with other countries as well taking part. Same with films of the English & American Civil war, who use the reenactments societies as extras who know what to do.
1:54:12 Old Guard marching
Thank you for posting this masterpiece with such a good quality, subtitles and both French and English versions of it!
2:03:26 that horse look like he is just chilling on the ground
So many nations took part in the making of this movie,So well done
And the actors do well researched for
Personalities. Depicting their roles.❤😊
My favorite part 1:34:37
As a small child Queen Victoria met Duke Welliton, as a Old Woman she met Winston Churchill
If only that winter was a little warmer
Hell no, most french soldiers died or deserted during the hot summer
@@SebastianForal Im implying the winter during the french retreat in 1812. It was the worst temperatures napoleon had ever faced the likes of.
Vive l'Empereur !! 🤧
Enjoyed the movie more so the setting 😊😊
An epic film depicting the brilliance, sadness and futility of this period. What is little shown is the strategic genius shown by Napoleon...and his decline. Davout, in his memoirs, referred to the conduct of Napoleon as a tragedy. The man at Waterloo was considerably different to the man who made his name in Italy. It becomes the ultimate folly, in that of human nature....and we never learn.
Or Marengo, as mentioned in the film...
@@robruss62 He almost lost.
that was one of the best period of man kind, sad that a buffon like this one managed to convince men to die for him in pointless wars to fuel his greed
that was hard, good one
A great lesson that's never learned. Once gained-- never over reach. Patience, perserverance
FABULOUS 🎥🍿💓
A true Roman Emperor
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Ett svartskalles historisk beskrivning😢 på planet jorden😢
God seeing that British line infantry leave the formation to question the war was so sad. Hearing his voice echo through out the battle field as the camera pans out to show the destruction and death as a result of the war makes you realize how courageous and the soldiers were to bleed for their country. May God bless all of the infantry who fought valiantly.
"Hmmmm how do all this people in a movie get paid"?
It's the greatest movie of the Napoleon at his last war !
Brilliant film and actors.❤
I can remember watching it at the cinema with my mum and dad when it first came in 1970. It was probably the first film that really struck me as a great film. Rod Steiger was awesome as Napoleon, what a performance.
I later read up on Wellington, what a fantastic general he was. When I first went to Dublin, I had to see his family home. I used to live not from Stratford Turgis his home I'm Hants. Hilter fashioned himself on Napoleon and came to the same sticky end. Though Wellington had help from other armies, it's a bit like Agincourt when Henry V gave the Frenchies another kicking, not wonder the French don't like us English, and no wonder Charles de Gaulle didn't want the British army to enter Paris when it was liberated in WW2
Que el caudillo austriaco alemán se ‘inspiró’ en Napoleón? Qué tonterías escribís?.
Das Ding heißt Waterloo. Egal wie er den Film nennt es ist ein und derselbe.
Bardzo dobry film ..Polecam ...
No you don't.
I like how during the old guard science Ney is just shown all beaten up an dirty 😂
Rod Steiger’s portrayal of Napoleon has the same quality standard as Bruno Ganz’s portrayal of Adolf Hitler. had to of required immense study of both men and their mannerisms.
I’m living in Leipzig 😊
Thank you for uploading this film, It was one of the last great epic films.
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Thank you for posting. I've been obsessed with the French Revolution in the last 12 months. Love this flick!!!
The height of a civilization charging into its own destruction.