{"id":10681,"date":"2023-12-05T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-05T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/?p=10681"},"modified":"2023-11-24T07:32:22","modified_gmt":"2023-11-24T07:32:22","slug":"did-napoleon-really-fire-at-the-pyramids-a-historian-explains-the-truth-behind-the-legends-of-ridley-scotts-biopic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/modernsciences.org\/staging\/4414\/did-napoleon-really-fire-at-the-pyramids-a-historian-explains-the-truth-behind-the-legends-of-ridley-scotts-biopic\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Napoleon really fire at the pyramids? A historian explains the truth behind the legends of Ridley Scott\u2019s biopic"},"content":{"rendered":"\nJoan Tumblety<\/a>, University of Southampton<\/a><\/em><\/span>\n\n

Directors of historical feature films face a difficult task. How can they make the characters familiar to an audience without reducing them to caricature? How can they make sure that knowledge of the outcome \u2013 battles won or lost, empires built then ruined \u2013 doesn\u2019t make the story seem like it\u2019s writing itself? <\/p>\n\n

Director Ridley Scott is not a historian and presumably wants to entertain rather than to enlighten. But the problem of historical truth is an interesting one. <\/p>\n\n

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