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Does it look like “Bony”? Quick sketch during class. Did the BG in the subway ride home and colour @ home.
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I saw this movie after wanting to know more about Napoleon and his big battle. Being a fan of martial arts I’m also interested in war history. A period that never interested me much was the Napoleonic time, where formations basicly marched towards each other and shot there muskets. Soldiers dying in a row never seemed logical to me. But then you start to wonder what all those other history fanaticals find so interesting about this period. So that then brings me back to this this movie.
An 1970 released movie of epic scale. I happened to read a bit about the movie when I was doing a bit of directing research for my latest university project for which we will do a movie. Anyway, reading the book made be realise just how amazing directing a huge battle scene must have been.
At the time of filming the directer had under his command the biggest standing army in the world at that time.
Are you serious? Well logically they hadn’t the CG’s we are used to seeing in movies like LotR and had to fill the shots with actual extras. But that would have meant that 10.000+ people would have to be orchestrated, trained and be acting at the same time. Fucking awesome!
With that in mind I watched the movie. I do think it’s a bit of a shame you can’t really understand the tactics used and why, because you don’t get a clear overview of the battle field. But then again, that’s the fog of war for you. What I understand about the actual battle of Waterloo was that the smoke from the guns and cannons actually had the same effect.
The other thing that bother me besides that the pyrotechnics for the cannons where a bit to fake (well it is a old movie so I’ll forgive them for it), it’s the close ups of the generals when they ride into battle. Never seen anybody that steady riding a horse, LOL.