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    7 months ago

    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

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    7 months ago

    He was actually taller than average for the time, it must have been a garbage movie if they got that wrong.

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      7 months ago

      British propaganda is best propaganda have you seen how real Nelson is in Trafalgar!

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        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.

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      7 months ago

      Wasn’t it because that he recruit even taller folks to be his guards. So that caused people to assume that he was short.

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    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.

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    7 months ago

    “People make fun short people and will never be seen as a leader.”

    Meanwhile, Joseph Stalin is 5’5" and earned him fame and infamy and still worshipped by idiots to this day. I have seen in Reddit reasoned as to why De Santis puts on high heels is because people are shallow and don’t take kindly to short folks. Well, i think it’s not true and so long you have what i call “force of personality”, the short height will be offset. I don’t mean to make Stalin the shining model of humanity, but I’m sure he charmed and manipulated his way to the top regardless of his stature.

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      It’s funny when short people try to hide it, like DeSantis. It isn’t funny that he’s short. It’s funny that he (and his constituents probably) are so obsessed with not being short that he has those stupid looking heals. As far as I’m aware, Stalin wasn’t worried about his height. Also, I think Napoleon I was (or at least our common meme of him is).