Happy Birthday Napoleon Bonaparte!

[anteros_lmc]

Today, 15th of August, marks the anniversary of the birth of Napoleon Bonaparte. In order to commemorate the birth of Europe's greatest military leader / the megalomaniac Corsican tyrant (delete as appropriate), allow me to share one of his finest cinematic outings. Now there have been numerous outstanding portrayals of Napoleon on stage and screen, and many distinguished actors, including Rod Steiger, Marlon Brando and Herbert Lom, have donned the famous bicorne and shoved their hand inside their jacket. However, to my mind, the greatest onscreen Napoleon has to be Ian Holm in Terry Gilliam's Time Bandits. Enjoy!

"Alexander the Great, five feet exactly....Oliver Cromwell, the only man with any balls in British history, not a big man at all....Louis Quatorze, five foot two and a half....Charlemagne, totty little five footer....Attilla the Hun, five foot one an a half...."

Comments

[donnaimmaculata.livejournal.com]

Vive l'empereur! Permit me to share this little Emperor-centred piece to celebrate the occasion:

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

*dies laughing* I will never be able to look at a penguin the same way again!

ETA I'll never be able to look at Napoleon the same way again either XD

[donnaimmaculata.livejournal.com]

Aren't they the loveliest when they're passing their eggs to each other?

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

Adorable! And they look so cute tobogganing down the slopes :) Hard to believe they invaded most of Europe.

[esmerelda-t.livejournal.com]

*snort* I have to point out that list at the next team meeting at work!

*4ft11andabit*

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

Hehe! Thought you might appreciate that!

*fivefoottwoandthreequarters*

[http://users.livejournal.com/_likimeya/]

Aww, I loved Time Bandits when I was a kid! I used to watch it all the time. The sequence with the cages made me uncomfortable, though. :/

And another coincidence: Time Bandits was mentioned in the episode of The Big Bang Theory that I watched earlier tonight. How improbable is that?!

Sorry, random…

[anteros-lmc.livejournal.com]

How improbable is that?!
Hey, it's all connected!

Time Bandits is an awesome film, but I agree the way it can flip from hilarious to disturbing can be quite unsettling.

[vespican.livejournal.com]

Boney's B'day overshadowed in the US Pacific Northwest by Mariner's pitcher Felix Hernandez... pitched the 23 perfect game in Major League history... the first ever for the Seattle Mariners!
Dave