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‘Napoleon’ Opens Big in France, Despite Nasty Reviews Vive la France 😄

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A bit more infos about Bill Smith: https://www.shortform.com/blog/bill-smith-osage/ It doesn't sound to me like he was part of the plot (not saying he didn't marry for money but probably didn't kill for it?). Actually he found the death of his wife suspicious (and all the ones who followed) and started his own investigation. When he came to close to the truth he and his 2nd wife were killed. @LuckyGirl you have to understand how diabetes and insulin work (and also the poison of course) when you want to kill a patient (slowly). Honestly I don't think Ernest was smart enough for such a plan or just the idea of it. So when he first injected Mollie the insulin I think he wanted her to do better - at least in the movie.

Leonardo Dicaprio and Vittoria Ceretti sight-seeing with family in London with Nomandie more pics: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12787551/Leonardo-DiCaprio-low-key-girlfriend-Vittoria-Ceretti.html

Personally from someone who worked in a medical area I think like they mentioned insulin was highly new on the market back then (and highly expensive so no one could afford it) what mean no one really had experience (no doctors, no patients). When you suffer under diabetes it's not just "here you have some insulin, inject it and then you get immediately better". First of all there are different types of diabetes and different types of insulin. Then every patient need different dosis to different times. It's even important in which part of your body you inject it. Of course your personal every day life standard is a factor too. What you eat and drink (especially how much sugar and from what they said in the movie even if it sounded racist when they lectured Mollie "you have to stop to eat like a white chick" their point was true from a medical view), how much you exercise, how much you weight, your body index etc etc So it's very realistic you have to try for a while before a patient is starting to get better. Even today. To your other question: I think they were all killed by her white money hungry husbands. One of the only few decent dudes was the one whose house they blew up (he was white right?). If I remember correctly it was the same one which didn't let Ernest and his uncle in his house during one funeral what was kinda hilarious when Ernest was banned on the veranda and he was like wtf dude? lol

Cutting down a movie to please the crowd (who's still not pleased most audience reactions of Napoleon are very medicore lol) is mostly a bad idea and not helping a movie/storyline/character development at all. I think I only liked once a theatrical cut better than the director's cut. Even the unofficial extended cut of TITANIC is much better than Camerons offical version he clings on since forever while making one stupid cut after another of those god awful boring Avatar movies.

Tomorrow I'll finally watch OPPENHEIMER. I'm a bit curious I have to admit 😄 Oscars — Best Actor Has Four Locks: Murphy, Cooper, DiCaprio and Giamatti I’ve seen most of the major acting performances in contention for the Best Actor Oscar —save for “Maestro,” which I’ll be watching next Tuesday. It does look as though I’ll be pulling for either Cillian Murphy or Leonardo DiCaprio to win the Oscar. Jeffrey Wright (“American Fiction”) and Paul Giamatti (“The Holdovers”) also deserve to be up there. I have 11 Best Actor contenders on my predictions list. I can’t see anyone else being added. They are as follows: Cillian Murphy — “Oppenheimer” Bradley Cooper — “Maestro” Leonardo DiCaprio — “Killers of the Flower Moon” Paul Giamatti — “The Holdovers” Colman Domingo — “Rustin” Jeffrey Wright — “American Fiction” Jamie Foxx — “The Burial” Barry Keoghan — “Saltburn” Joaquin Phoenix — “Napoleon” Andrew Scott — “All of Us Strangers” Zac Efron — “The Iron Claw” If there’s a dark horse that isn’t part of this final 11, and that could sneak up into contention in the coming weeks, it’s Teo Yoo (“Past Lives”) who I thought gave the best performance in Celine Song’s highly praised film. It’ll be hard to beat Cillian Murphy. It’s such a tour-de-force performance and he’s practically in every scene of the 3-hour “Oppenheimer.” His Robert J. Oppenheimer also turned into an unlikely meme generator this past summer with the ‘Barbenheimer’ phenomenon. I don’t know many people who didn’t like his performance. DiCaprio’s work in ‘Killers’ isn’t being talked about enough because, well, he doesn’t have much of a narrative. He already has an Oscar. If quality is actually a factor in winning awards, then DiCaprio’s rich work in ‘Killers’ would have a major shot at Oscar gold. It’s one of his best performances. As I mentioned, I haven’t seen Bradley Cooper in “Maestro,” but those that have believe he has a clear shot at winning for his “transformative” performance as Leonard Bernstein. The film hasn’t been getting all-out raves from critics. It has a 76 on Metacritic and sits at 82% on Rotten Tomatoes. Good, but not great. However, there are those that completely abide by “Maestro”, passionate supporters, which gets me very excited to finally catch it next week. Paul Giamatti is wonderful as the curmudgeon professor in “The Holdovers.” He wasn’t even nominated, and should have won, for 2004’s “Sideways.” I can’t see him getting snubbed again for this performance. He will also likely not win, but crazier upsets have occured in the past. I believe we have four locks in this category — Murphy, Cooper, DiCaprio and Giamatti. The #5 slot could be a fight between Domingo and Wright. However, watch out for Zac Efron (“The Iron Claw”) as his film as barely been seen and I’m hearing good things about his performance.

^The original post I guess.

I agree. The DC of KoH was an entirely different movie. I think Napoleon + Josephine being an "odd couple" is the heart of the movie 😄 4 1/2 hours - but people think Killers of the Flower Moon or Avatar and The Irishmen were long? lol

So NAPOLEON numbers are as medicore as KOTFM. Even if apple pretends it's not about money I really don't believe for a second they don't care. In this industry everything is about money and two massive bombs in a row is not a promising look for future projects. The only but important difference is no one seem to really like NAPOLEON. Medicore critics, medicore audience score what makes it even worse for apple because now everyone is aware they can't sell a good nor a bad movie and for sure can't win any prestige with that little french weirdo lol ‘Napoleon’ Wins Tuesday Previews With $3M in Grosses; ‘Wish’ Nabs $2.3M Ridley Scott’s “Napoleon” is now in theaters. It did decently well last night in Tuesday previews with a $3 million showing. The film cost Apple $200 million to produce. It’s now looking at a 5-day total of around $30 million. I know I’ve used the excuse that Apple couldn’t care less about not making money on “Napoleon” and “Killers of the Flower Moon,” and it does look as though both films won’t be recouping their budget and marketing cost, but it’s not really a “win” for them either. At least, ‘Killers’ will get plenty of Oscar nominations, that’s the most positive way of looking at it. “Napoleon” likely won’t.

Another upcoming KOTFM q&a I know @akatosh already posted some award news but can't remember if it was this one.

He's really great in GLADIATOR but same for Russell Crowe. Period cinema at the finest. I don't think Scotts intention of NAPOLEON is historical accuracy but more how gossip and rumors shape that history.

Not really Leo related but since it's oscar topic.... also I'm really excited for MAESTRO

Just the latest insta gushing of the two "buddys". https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cz6r-qoACFe/

Gosh she's so adorable 🥰 Love her accent and love her and her love for Leo. She's so underrated and not only one of my all time favorites of Leos leading ladies but one of my favorites in general. She's one of the few I just watch movies because she's in Even better I like most of her movies 😄 What a great, humble, sweet person!!

Leo admitting Titanic is still "the universal language". Damn right man https://www.instagram.com/reel/Cz6V3RyOrvT/

Don't think this was posted already? 1 more movie before his big 50. Ok then. Sounds not too unrealistic? 😄

^I don't even know how old (or young) Napoleon was when he became who he is famous for to be honest. But I prefer Phoenix "older" look over botox any day. But since this movie also works as a satire (even better I heard from some critics) I think his washed up look is kinda perfect for the role. Also didn't age people much faster back then than nowadays?

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