This article contains spoilers for Ridley ScottsNapoleon.
Even in the first trailer, it is an immensely chilly spectacle.
And from their embankment, they watch coolly as the enemy blunders right into a massacre.
UnderRidley Scotts direction, the full breadth of this horror is felt by the film andJoaquin Phoenixs steely gaze.
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Its absolutely terrifying.
I simply never do.
He even resorted to play-acting for the Russian envoy Prince Peter Petrovich Dolgorukov the month before the battle.
By comparison the French only lost 9,000 soldiers.
So Whats the Story with the Ice?
Napoleons victory over the Austro-Russian forces that December was total.
And the way it was canonized by the likes of French general Adolphe Marbot was even more impressive.
Some even erroneously still insist it mightve been a few thousandbut not 20,000.
So why exaggerate the spectacular slaughter of Russians?
As a consequence, Great Britain cemented itself as the unrivaled master of the seas around Europe.
Ridley Scott clearly does.
Napoleonis in theaters now and will make its global streaming premiere on Apple TV+ down the road.
