Behind the Scenes of Napoleon with Joaquin Phoenix

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It's time to go behind the scenes of the epic historical drama movie Napoleon, directed by Ridley Scott.  Napoleon Cast:  Joaquin Phoenix, Vanessa Kirby, Tahar Rahim, Ben Miles, Ludivine Sagnier, Matthew Needham, Youssef Kerkour, Phil Cornwell and Ian McNeice  Stream Napoleon now on Digital!

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00:00 Apart from being an incredible strategist,

00:03 Napoleon was merciless.

00:06 Take this as a warning to your king.

00:08 I will keep you guessing and scared.

00:11 [THUNDER RUMBLING]

00:14 Auslitz was one of Napoleon's greatest campaigns.

00:20 He used false intelligence to lure the enemy in and trap them.

00:25 Ready!

00:25 Wait!

00:27 Let them think they have the higher ground.

00:29 Let's run!

00:30 He even made a lure right on the edge of a lake,

00:33 which is frozen, and he had his troops hide.

00:36 Send in the infantry.

00:37 Got the double.

00:38 [SHOUTING]

00:41 We are running a boot camp to train soldiers to get everything

00:45 as close to reality as possible.

00:46 Everyone has to know the drills, how to be in step,

00:49 how to load a musket.

00:52 There's thousands of infantry coming in from the left flank.

00:56 Then from the right flank is the cavalry.

00:59 They're on a massive wave and push them onto the lake.

01:02 Cavalry from the west!

01:03 Pierce their flanks!

01:05 We've got visual effects.

01:06 We've got special effects.

01:08 We've got stunts and horses.

01:10 We've also got a huge frozen lake.

01:12 [SHOUTING]

01:16 We dug a 30 meter by 14 meter tank into the ground,

01:20 which was then concreted.

01:22 And I had my snow team go in there and ice it up.

01:25 And then we used that as our effects area

01:27 for people falling through ice.

01:29 [MUSIC PLAYING]

01:33 We're going to have different platforms that will

01:35 crack like the ice is breaking.

01:37 [MUSIC PLAYING]

01:43 He actually drowned about 2,000 men.

01:46 Cut off their retreat!

01:49 The blood on his hands is horrendous.

01:52 [MUSIC PLAYING]

01:55 If you are a wolf, it's brutal.

01:58 He's like a real wolf.

02:00 He's a wolf.

02:01 If you do not provoke me, you do not have to fear me.

02:05 [MUSIC PLAYING]

02:08 (dramatic music)

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