Interview With The "Napoleon" Visual Effects Team

The Next Best Picture Podcast

Tv & Film

4.2 • 542 Ratings

🗓️ 13 February 2024

⏱️ 19 minutes

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We previously interviewed the Oscar-nominated Production & Costume Designers for Ridley Scott's epic historical film "Napoleon." Now, we're bringing you the final of its three Oscar nominations with Best Visual Effects. The team of Charley Henley, Luc-Ewen Martin-Fenouillet, Simone Coco, and Neil Corbould are also nominated at the Visual Effects Society for Best Supporting Visual Effects In A Photorealistic Feature and the BAFTA Awards for Best Visual Effects. All four were kind enough to take a few minutes to discuss their work on the film. Please be sure to check out the film, which is up for your consideration at this year's Academy Awards and is now available to stream on Apple TV+. Thank you, and enjoy! Check out more on NextBestPicture.com Please subscribe on... SoundCloud - https://soundcloud.com/nextbestpicturepodcast Apple Podcasts - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/negs-best-film-podcast/id1087678387?mt=2 Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/7IMIzpYehTqeUa1d9EC4jT YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWA7KiotcWmHiYYy6wJqwOw And be sure to help support us on Patreon for as little as $1 a month at https://www.patreon.com/NextBestPicture Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You are listening to The Next Best Picture podcast, and this is Brendan Hodges's interview with the Oscar-nominated visual effects team for Napoleon, Charlie Henley, Luke Ewan Martin Finuliot, Simone Coco, and Neil Corbold.
0:17.8	General, we are discovered.
0:21.2	Good.
0:24.4	Wait.
0:28.0	Nice.
0:28.9	It's a trap.
0:30.1	Redrig!
0:30.8	I'm not built like other men.
0:42.3	Congratulations on the movie.
0:44.4	I'm super excited to talk about Napoleon because we've kind of rarely see movies made on this kind of epic scale anymore.
0:54.1	Even though there's all these blockbusters always coming out, of course,
0:57.1	this almost felt like a throwback in a way to the great 60s epics,
1:01.9	like David Lean and movies like that.
1:04.4	And I'm wondering,
1:05.1	what were the visual effects and special effects challenges on a project of this scale
1:09.5	and getting so much into those epic images
1:12.3	on that big canvas.
1:13.9	It's interesting you say that because I think the whole methodology of filming and the
1:19.9	planning stage when we all sat around in this war room with Ridley figuring out how we're going
1:25.5	to make this film, it just maybe partly because it's such a period film in itself, but it just evolved
1:33.1	that we want to try and make it as if it was in an old epic where we had for real 50,000
1:43.1	Russian soldiers hired to, you know, actually play the part.
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