In case anyone is wondering, there isn't actually a line like that in the movie. Apparently it does perpetuate the myth that he was short, but there's never an explicit spoken reference to his height
Although I like a myth of him saying he's ready to cut people's legs in order to stand face to face.
Watched the movie a few days ago and didn't catch anything about his height
The one thing I read was something about him having to stand on a box to look at a mummy, but I haven't seen the movie and I'm just summarizing a one redditor's summary
He was actually taller than average for the time, it must have been a garbage movie if they got that wrong.
British propaganda is best propaganda have you seen how real Nelson is in Trafalgar!
From what i heard, the movie is in fact garbage.
Well that sucks. I was looking forward to it.
Unfortunately, that is true. The only facts the movie gets right, are the dates it quotes. I understand artistic leeway, but then at least make it entertaining, but the movie fails at that as well. The movie is incoherent, maddeningly inaccurate historically and, even though I really like Joaquin Phoenix as an actor, an absolutely terrible portrayal of the person Napoleon was. Phoenix portrays him as if he was mocking the character, making him into some autistic wizzkid who is socially incredibly awkward.
Nelson was shorter
Wasn't it because that he recruit even taller folks to be his guards. So that caused people to assume that he was short.
That's quite possible, selecting troops for height for prestigious roles is nothing new.
This just in: It's woke to make fun of people for their height.
The way people use the word, I feel like it's not crazy to have woke as a synonym for "something I hate" coming from someone using it as a derogatory term
Hyberbole is often employed for humorous effect
I am woke and I do tease my gf for her height. Mostly because it’s fun when a tall skinny lady and her short fat partner both call each other tiny.
But yeah this guy just thinks woke is when things he doesn’t like. As though body positivity including for short men doesn’t fall under the progressive scale of things.
Even though this is “totally true and real”, people who cheer in movies are the absolute bottom of the barrel of IQ
It’s also cultural. Some cultures see going to a movie as a community event and so they react to it like a concert. You see similar things even outside of that in cult films. Anyone who wants to sit down and quietly watch rocky horror for example is astonishingly strange
Even though I'd probably also be pretty annoyed if I ever heard someone cheering in a movie, people who think IQ is some real-life INT stat are not as clever as they think they are
Especially when they conflate laughing at a dumb joke with cheering
No way, it makes the whole experience so much fun
What short temper anon has.
Bait so tasty that it gets nibbled even on other sites.
I really doubt that Ridley Scott would stoop this low, but I wanted to say that a lot of people are dumb as fuck and will laugh and cheer at anything if the movie tells them to laugh and cheer because a lot of people are like cattle.
Besides Napoleon was average height for someone who's not nobility for his era
I don't get it. Wouldn't mocking short people be the opposite of woke?
The french are people now?
Wouldn't go that far.
How little of him to get so upset at a movie.
I assumed this was a Star Wars reference
Likely a little short for a stormtrooper too.
Huh?
