Apparent no "diversity" (besides some Turks or Arabs being blasted away by the God of War in Egypt) means it can't win Oscars and other such stupid awards like BATFA, but who really cares about these anymore, or even watches their ceremonies. "Academy Award winner" in this trailer is so ironic in that context.
I also wonder how much of these are real sets (and real actors), I remember (I'm old) how Gangs of New York was said to be the last historical epic without CGI sets before the new era. I'm so completely sick of anything blatantly CGI in movies (think all the dumb Marvel garbage that used to so excite people), and I'm actually really impressed by the otherwise crazy cultist Tom Cruise insisting on everything being real in the Mission Impossible movies and also on him making all his stunts (because he's insane). Also he never really ages what the fuck (Keanu Reeves too).
If they were using real sets it would have 100x the budget and you would have literally heard about 10,000 actors marching around the fields of France.
I think it looks good (and frankly large scenes of armies is a topic CGI has gotten a lot better at).
The problem that I see, which is a problem with all Revolutionary French films, is that they are going to go out of their way to ignore the fact that Napoleon was a raging Leftist. He wasn't a rightst, and he wasn't just opportunistic. He seized power both for himself, and because he believed that only he could bring the revolution to it's height. That mob he fired on was a royalist mob trying to end the revolution. He did not end the revolution, he expanded it. No one in France thought the Revolution had ended. None of the opponents of the revolution outside of France thought it had ended. The only people who thought the French revolution ended with Napoleon were other Leftists who thought that you couldn't have an authoritarian Leftist.
Apparent no "diversity" (besides some Turks or Arabs being blasted away by the God of War in Egypt) means it can't win Oscars and other such stupid awards like BATFA, but who really cares about these anymore, or even watches their ceremonies. "Academy Award winner" in this trailer is so ironic in that context.
I also wonder how much of these are real sets (and real actors), I remember (I'm old) how Gangs of New York was said to be the last historical epic without CGI sets before the new era. I'm so completely sick of anything blatantly CGI in movies (think all the dumb Marvel garbage that used to so excite people), and I'm actually really impressed by the otherwise crazy cultist Tom Cruise insisting on everything being real in the Mission Impossible movies and also on him making all his stunts (because he's insane). Also he never really ages what the fuck (Keanu Reeves too).
If they were using real sets it would have 100x the budget and you would have literally heard about 10,000 actors marching around the fields of France.
I think it looks good (and frankly large scenes of armies is a topic CGI has gotten a lot better at).
The problem that I see, which is a problem with all Revolutionary French films, is that they are going to go out of their way to ignore the fact that Napoleon was a raging Leftist. He wasn't a rightst, and he wasn't just opportunistic. He seized power both for himself, and because he believed that only he could bring the revolution to it's height. That mob he fired on was a royalist mob trying to end the revolution. He did not end the revolution, he expanded it. No one in France thought the Revolution had ended. None of the opponents of the revolution outside of France thought it had ended. The only people who thought the French revolution ended with Napoleon were other Leftists who thought that you couldn't have an authoritarian Leftist.