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Napoleon

A commentary

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Dec 03, 2023
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Long-time members of the Oxford Dawn community will know that I admire Ridley Scott. However, I have an ongoing complaint with his historical films based on the European aristocracy: quite simply, these films fail to capture the culture of the environment in which they’re set. As other commentators and historians have already addressed that the film’s p…

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