Thematically, this is of a piece with his recent interview with Deadline, in which he started to warn about the dangers of AI, only to end up boasting about his readiness for the apocalypse (“We are all completely fucked. Then there’s Sunday’s interview with the Evening Standard, which strayed far enough from the brief to include his thoughts on whether or not Earth has been visited by aliens (“How did the Egyptians build the pyramids? Rolling 20-tonne stones on logs? Fuck off!”).

“Excuse me, mate, were you there?” he raged. Scott responded by addressing the entire historian community. Speaking to the Sunday Times’s Jonathan Dean last weekend, he also reserved some ire for historians, some of whom have suggested that Napoleon might not be the most rigorously accurate film ever made. Scott was informed of some less than stellar French reviews of his film – French GQ called it “deeply clumsy” and “unintentionally funny” – to which Scott replied with the following solid gold banger: “The French don’t even like themselves.”īut don’t think that insulting an entire country is enough for Scott. The headline from Ridley Scott’s Napoleon charm offensive came during an interview with the BBC this weekend. This is the best possible news for all of us.

As such, he has become a little defensive. Even better, it seems as though Ridley Scott has got wind that, while most people seem to love Napoleon, some people don’t.

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