History YMMV / Napoleon2023

** Robespierre's arrest is downright nuts, with people getting knocked over and tackled as if they were in a wrestling match, all in an effort to arrest just one man. And then there's the awkward pause after he shoots himself in the jaw that wouldn't be out of place in an episode of Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia if one were to add the music and title cards from that series.

* FetishRetardant: The various sex scenes in the film were criticised for being awkward and cringe-worthy, even more so than Film/HouseOfGucci, which got the same criticisms for it's sex scenes. According to Ridley, they were improvised as he finds sex scenes boring and decided to make them amusing and funny as to add sensuality to them, but many noted that it didn't work and just made it even more cringy and uncomfortable.

* FranchiseOriginalSin: Ridley Scott's previous forays into epic historical film, ''Film/{{Gladiator}}'', and ''[[Film/{{KingdomOfHeaven}} Kingdom of Heaven]]'' were, if anything, even ''more'' [[ArtisticLicenseHistory inaccurate]] than ''Napoleon'' has been widely criticised as being. Notably, [[{{ArtisticLicenseHistory/Gladiator}} all]] [[{{ArtisticLicenseHistory/KingdomOfHeaven}} three]] [[{{ArtisticLicenseHistory/Napoleon2023}} have]] dedicated pages for their sheer numbers of historical inaccuracies. However, those two were covering [[SmallReferencePools relatively obscure]] periods of and events in history, greatly helping to popularise and bring attention to relatively undernoted figures and acting as significantly more well-researched works than many previous [[EpicFilm epic movies]]. ''Napoleon'', on the other hand, covers an ''extremely'' well-known figure, in an era when historical knowledge is far more widespread, discovering inaccuracies far easier, and fictional accuracy far more highly prized than it was in the 2000s. The result? A '''much''' more [[BrokenBase contentious]] film than its precedessors.

** The Egypt campaign is chock full of these, with Napoleon firing cannons at the pyramids before a battle (which didn’t even happen in real life), having a particular interest in a mummy and even affectionally touching it’s face (we even get a musical buildup to it), saying “No dessert. You may go.” to Junot after he tells Napoleon of Josephine cheating on him, and then him abandoning his entire campaign just to go back to France and confront her, despite his men warning that it’ll be seen as desertion.

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%%** Robespierre’s arrest is downright nuts, with people getting knocked over and tackled as if they were in a wrestling match, all in an effort to arrest just one man. And then there’s the awkward pause after he shoots himself in the jaw that wouldn’t be out of place in an episode of Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia if one were to add the music and title cards from that series.
%%** The aforementioned line "You think you're so great because you have BOATS!".
%%** The Egypt campaign is chock full of these, with Napoleon firing cannons at the pyramids before a battle (which didn’t even happen in real life), having a particular interest in a mummy and even affectionally touching it’s face (we even get a musical buildup to it), saying “No dessert. You may go.” to Junot after he tells Napoleon of Josephine cheating on him, and then him abandoning his entire campaign just to go back to France and confront her, despite his men warning that it’ll be seen as desertion.
%%** Napoleon’s death, where we get a still shot of him staring out at the sea……..and then he slowly keels over out of frame as if he had passed out drunk in a way that wouldn’t be out of place in a comedy skit. Even worse is that it’s the final shot of the movie before it cuts to the credits.

%%** The Egypt campaign is chock full of these, with Napoleon firing cannons at the pyramids before a battle (which didn’t even happen in real life), having a particular interest in a mummy and even affectionally touching it’s face (we even get a musical buildup to it), saying “No dessert. You may go.” to Junot after he receives word of Josephine cheating on him, and then him abandoning his entire campaign just to go back to France and confront her.

** Apparently, Napoleon really, ''really'' [[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext likes mummies...]]

* FetishRetardant: The various sex scenes in the film were criticised for being awkward and cringe-worthy, even more so than Film/HouseOfGucci, which got the same criticisms for it’s sex scenes.