For the Siege of Toulon scene, Napoleon (Joaquin Phoenix) guides his army to victory against the British forces when they storm the city. However, his beloved horse is struck by a cannonball and ...

In an early scene that sets the tone for the rest of the film, a horse is blown to pieces by a cannonball, which Phoenix’s Napoleon recovers as a souvenir. But no live cannonballs were ...

Napoleon imagined himself akin to Hannibal ... Hegel, he was the Enlightenment on horseback, clearing away thrones and altars to make room for the modern world. To the nineteenth-century ...

(Even in this scene, Napoleon’s horse he’s riding is blown up by a cannonball. As Napoleon is helped up he’s asked if he’s okay and answers in a very, “Yes I’m okay. Of course I’m okay.

What makes the French emperor stand out from the other uniformed men on horseback? Naturally, his bicorne hat. Napoleon’s penchant for croissant-shaped headwear made him one of the few ...

If you want to read his biography, or even see his horse, you can. By Victor Mather With the new Ridley Scott film “Napoleon,” starring Joaquin Phoenix and Vanessa Kirby, hitting theaters this ...

Napoleon in 1795 orders his troops to shoot ... Max and his team eventually found a horse breeding farm whose owner happened to be a Ridley Scott fan. “He was happy for us to dig up his field ...

When the philosopher Hegel saw Napoleon on horseback in 1806, he declared him nothing less than the “soul of the world.” Now, even if we can register the enormous impact Napoleon has had ...

“We would have as many horses that we needed, with actors riding horses, but when there was something too dangerous, we used a mechanical horse rig or we stepped in and added extra horses using ...