Napoleon And What's Making Us Happy

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🗓️ 21 November 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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In the new film Napoleon, director Ridley Scott tells the story of French leader Napoleon Bonaparte (Joaquin Phoenix). It's a lavish war epic that tracks Bonaparte's rise to power through epic military battles, and explores his tumultuous marriage to the love of his life Joséphine (Vanessa Kirby).

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0:24.0	French leader Napoleon Bonaparte has been a legendary figure for more than 200 years.
0:34.7	He was a military leader and an emperor and ruthlessly ambitious at both.
0:39.3	Now his story is told in a lavish war epic directed by Ridley Scott and starring
0:44.3	Joaquin Phoenix as Napoleon. I'm Aisha Harris. And I'm Stephen Thompson
0:48.8	today we are talking about Napoleon on pop culture happy hour from NPR.
0:54.0	Joining us today is writer and critic Walter
0:56.2	Walter.
0:57.2	Welcome back Walter. Hey thanks for so much for having me.
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1:00.5	So Napoleon begins in 1793 as French citizens gather to witness the beheading of Queen Marie Antoinette.
1:08.0	The French Revolution is well underway and Napoleon Bonaparte is watching in the crowd.
1:13.4	Napoleon is played by Joaquin Phoenix.
1:15.8	From there we see Napoleon's rise to power as he presides over many epic military battles,
1:21.6	stages a coup to seize control over the French government, becomes
1:24.7	France's emperor presides over many more epic military battles, gets exiled, returns, and gets
1:30.4	exiled again.
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