A film about the French Field Marshal's youth and early military career.
"Napoleon" is widely considered to be one of the greatest and most innovative films of the silent era, and it is easy to see why. There are a variety of ways the camera is used, and just the very fact it is so long... the version I saw ran four hours, and I hear there are versions that go more than six. That seems almost unthinkable in the silent era, when so many movies were an hour or less.
With so many versions out there, I have no idea how to tell which is the best. Even with the newer Kevin Brownlow versions, he has put together something like five different cuts at different speeds. What is now considered the definitive version?
"Napoleon" is widely considered to be one of the greatest and most innovative films of the silent era, and it is easy to see why. There are a variety of ways the camera is used, and just the very fact it is so long... the version I saw ran four hours, and I hear there are versions that go more than six. That seems almost unthinkable in the silent era, when so many movies were an hour or less.
With so many versions out there, I have no idea how to tell which is the best. Even with the newer Kevin Brownlow versions, he has put together something like five different cuts at different speeds. What is now considered the definitive version?