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Bone dry battlefield


Napoleon's generals kept telling him how wet the battlefield was, but in the movie horses are kicking up dust left and right.

Not much the producers could do about it, they can't make it rain at will.

Plummer is really good in this I reckon.

Biggest problem I have with this movie is that they cover the entire 10 months on Elba and the escape in a mere footnote. One minute Napoleon is finished, 10 seconds later he's back.

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Biggest problem I have with this movie is that they cover the entire 10 months on Elba and the escape in a mere footnote. One minute Napoleon is finished, 10 seconds later he's back.


Well, after all the movie is focused on his final battle at Waterloo, so it's natural that they didn't dwell on Elba for very long. Though I wouldn't have minded a scene of Napoleon on Elba, just to help set the stage a bit.

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One minute Napoleon is finished, 10 seconds later he's back.

No doubt Louis XVIII and the royalists felt the same way!!!



Send her to the snakes!

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Yes I saw it too watching it now

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The movie IS called 'Waterloo' after all.

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I am pretty sure they filmed it in the then Soviet Union, in an area more arid than Western Europe. It definitely did not look like central Belgium, which is now too built up to convincingly play the battlefield.

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i noticed.

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