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Re: Speilberg to make Kubricks Napoleon epic...
« Reply #30 on: March 09, 2013, 01:42:21 am »
Dissapointed. I was hoping for Michael Bay actually.

No one has ever hoped Michael Bay would do anything. Except maybe die.

The one good thing about Spielberg is that he will certainly be able to get a decent budget for the project. Maybe we'll see more than a dozen soldiers at once, unlike that terrible miniseries that came out about a decade ago.

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Re: Speilberg to make Kubricks Napoleon epic...
« Reply #31 on: March 10, 2013, 12:08:32 pm »
I doubt that they would be real though... While Kubrick was actually trying to hire several thousand or atleast hundred men to make the battle scenes, Spielberg is most likely going to hire maybe 20 men for closeups and the others are going to be computer generated...
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Re: Speilberg to make Kubricks Napoleon epic...
« Reply #32 on: March 10, 2013, 12:43:18 pm »
For anyone interested and hasn't already done so, have a read of Kubrick's script...


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Re: Speilberg to make Kubricks Napoleon epic...
« Reply #33 on: March 10, 2013, 06:29:46 pm »
I hope it focuses on the battles and isn't full of politics. I bet they end up putting in some romance story as well..

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Re: Speilberg to make Kubricks Napoleon epic...
« Reply #34 on: March 11, 2013, 10:06:16 pm »
Yeah, fuck the story. We want battles, dern it!

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Re: Speilberg to make Kubricks Napoleon epic...
« Reply #35 on: June 01, 2013, 03:07:40 pm »
Can't... wait... much... longer...



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Re: Speilberg to make Kubricks Napoleon epic...
« Reply #36 on: June 03, 2013, 01:12:24 am »
I doubt that they would be real though... While Kubrick was actually trying to hire several thousand or atleast hundred men to make the battle scenes, Spielberg is most likely going to hire maybe 20 men for closeups and the others are going to be computer generated...

Considering what they can do with computers nowaday, I say, does it matter?

If they make a Waterloo scene without showing or naming NL troops, I'll burn down the cinema...

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Re: Speilberg to make Kubricks Napoleon epic...
« Reply #37 on: June 03, 2013, 07:39:36 pm »
I'm excited Spielberg is directing this. His war movies are generally of a high quality. I won't expect too much of him, but he has directed some of my favourite films. Schindler's List, Jurassic Park, Saving the Private Soldier Known As Ryan But Not To Be Confused With His Brothers Also Called Ryan, etc...

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Re: Speilberg to make Kubricks Napoleon epic...
« Reply #38 on: June 03, 2013, 10:14:35 pm »
But the Napoleonic Wars are not American enough... I wonder how he is going to add Americans to it.

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Re: Speilberg to make Kubricks Napoleon epic...
« Reply #39 on: June 03, 2013, 10:58:20 pm »
You know, I don't care for most of Spielberg's films, but I recently got around to seeing Lincoln and I thought it was an absolutely brilliant and subtle movie. Not at all the over-wrought Oscar-bait I was expecting. Makes me have some hope he'll do an all right job with this.

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Re: Speilberg to make Kubricks Napoleon epic...
« Reply #40 on: June 04, 2013, 12:02:16 pm »
But the Napoleonic Wars are not American enough... I wonder how he is going to add Americans to it.

There was this one american in the 7e BvL and thus at Quatre-bras/Waterloo. Though he presumably was just born there, considering he apparantly served in the portuguese army from the age of 13.

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Re: Speilberg to make Kubricks Napoleon epic...
« Reply #41 on: June 10, 2013, 12:00:24 am »
I'd say there may have been the odd one in the British army too.
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But seriously, there is bound to have been a few Americans in the British army.
But the Napoleonic Wars are not American enough... I wonder how he is going to add Americans to it.

There was this one american in the 7e BvL and thus at Quatre-bras/Waterloo. Though he presumably was just born there, considering he apparantly served in the portuguese army from the age of 13.