#operation napoleon

[51kas81]

Iain Glen in Operation Napoleon (2023)

[mrwhittaker]

[corpyburd]

Iain Glen in Operation Napoleon

Operation Napoleon centers on young Icelandic lawyer Kristin, who gets drawn into the vortex of an international conspiracy when she receives footage of an old airplane wreck, recently revealed by the melting of one of Iceland’s largest glaciers.

[myloveiainglen]

Iain Glen: 'Game of Thrones' were happy but heavy days!

A totally new in interview for me and one of the best. Iain’s finally words moved me so deeply, I had tears in my eyes. I love this man so much!

[cherrygeek]

CHERRY THE GEEK TV-INTERVIEW: "OPERATION NAPOLEON" DIRECTOR OSKAR THOR AXELSSON SHARES SECRETS BEHIND NEW CONSPIRACY THRILLER

Operation Napoleon, a new conspiracy thriller from Iceland, opens in theaters and VOD this Friday, August 11th. Vivian Olafsdottir stars as Kristin, a young Icelandic lawyer who, shortly before her brother disappears without a trace, receives a video clip showing him near an old airplane wreck in the Icelandic ice. Before Kristin can fully grasp the meaning of these startling images, she finds…

[aquitainequeen]

Ridley Scott: I made a film about two rival officers constantly duelling throughout and in the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars, and now I've actually done a film about Napoleon!

Me: Great! Could you also do a film about Baron Dominique Jean Larrey, a vital innovator in European battlefield surgery and triage, often considered the first military surgeon; who pioneered the ambulance volantes ("Flying ambulances") to quickly transport wounded men from the battlefield, effectively creating a forerunner of the modern MASH units; co-led the team that performed one of the first accurately recorded pre-anaesthetic mastectomies in Western medicine; was spotted helping wounded men while under heavy fire during the Battle of Waterloo by the Duke of Wellington who purposefully ordered for his soldiers not to fire in Larrey's direction; and when captured by the Prussians after the battle was about to be executed on the spot when he was recognised by one of the German surgeons, who pled for his life because he had saved the life of Field Marshall Blücher's son some years earlier?

Ridley Scott:

Ridley Scott: Um.

Me: Yeah. Didn't think so.

[ellethespaceunicorn]

Musical asks! (I lost the numbers when I copied! Boo!):

who is the artist you put on to make you smile?

how did you discover your favorite artist?

who is the artist you put on to make you smile?

omg, Charlieeeeee hiiiiiiiii ok you're gonna laugh at me but like, anything by Louis Prima is gonna get me to smile for sure, but this track gets me out of my funk (and it's on my love, napoleon playlist - spotify - youtube music)

how did you discover your favorite artist?

my favorite artist is hard to even choose, but I think it might be Prince. I discovered him, like most of my faves, through my lovely mother. my mama couldn't sing a lick but somehow gave birth to me who isn't too shabby playing the vocal chords.

(maybe one day i will share audio of me singing)

[theragamuffininitiative]

One of my favorite things about TMFU (series) is how often Napoleon starts going into The Worst Over The Top Self-Inflated "Kiss Me I'm A Secret Agent And You Are Woman" Flirting with whatever female happens to be present and .2 seconds later someone else shows up to immediately embarrass him and throw off his groove. It goes from cringe to priceless every single time. You earned this, Napoleon. You worked for it and you deserve.

[moviesandmania]

OPERATION NAPOLEON: FROZEN CONSPIRACY (2023) Reviews of action thriller

‘A dark secret hides beneath the ice’ Operation Napoleon: Frozen Conspiracy is a 2023 action thriller film about a female lawyer who is accused of a murder she didn’t commit. Her only chance of freedom lies in uncovering the secret of an old German WWII aeroplane, long buried deep beneath the ice, before the CIA… Directed by Óskar Thór Axelsson (I Remember You; Black’s Game) from a screenplay…

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If you hardcore wanted to theorize Nart warfare:

I think the bijuu (so, modern Nart) map well to the nuclear era. Bijuu have power that normal humans can't match, therefore nukes. It works. This era is characterized by less "direct" war but also more "low-level" war... it's so dangerous for a country to actually use a nuke these days, because every other county will go "holy fuck that guy used a nuke we need to take him out before he turns the planet into a desert"

The way to flex in this era is actually...by accumulating more nukes than anyone else. The philosophy goes: if you have lots of nukes, your nuke stash can't be destroyed in one fell swoop. The most intimidating guy on the board is therefore the one with the most nukes, because he can retaliate faster than you can destroy all his stashes.

Ironically this maps poorly to Naruto itself in a mechanical sense because Naruto has Plot Powers dictating the kyuubi and Naruto as the strongest for Main Character reasons. But, y'know, if you're looking for an actually logical take on the whole thing

Warring States era is obviously characterized by good old-fashioned pseudo-medieval throwing a bunch of guys at each other. A distinct lack of huge-scale jutsu. Let's say, maybe, Napoleonic War? Or Charlemagne era? Hashirama with the mokuton was essentially the same as the gatling gun in WW1

That leaves the first/second shinobi world wars to be analogous to...regardless of the metaphor I just used, WW1. WW1 was characterized by technological leaps and a bloodbath of trying to adapt to it. It makes sense for ninja villages recently post-unification to have a bunch of sudden technological jumps

The third shinobi world war is...actually that also seems analogous to WW1, cause-wise.

WW2 is largely characterized by its atrocities and its technological revolutions (Navajo code talking, atomic bombs, fake tank spyfare) and I don't think it maps very well to any of the Nart wars, actually. Well, that's partly because we know so vanishingly little about the shinobi world wars...

We did have both Kannabi Bridge and Minato driving off a thousand guys, which suggests a shift to the modern system of warfare where technological superiority rather than human numbers are what determines victory. Mobility is the key to the modern system, and that's pretty much Minato's jam.

[agentnico]

Most Anticipated Movies 2023

Though the COVID pandemic can still be referenced within the film realm as the recent Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery does, the movie industry itself has now seemingly fully recovered from those lockdown days and we now get to enjoy the full might of Hollywood and indies yet again. As such 2023 is proving to be a stacked yet for movies. There’s a lot of them! So many! Many of which will most likely be crap, but here I am listing the ones I am most excited for. Again, come end of 2023 and prepped for disappointment for a lot of these, but as of right now I am full of hopes and dreams! So, in no particular order...

HONOURABLE CURIOUS MENTIONS: Oppenheimer, Next Goal Wins, The Old Way, Wonka, Mission Impossible - Dead Reckoning: Part One, Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

John Wick: Chapter 4 - It simply doesn’t get better than seeing Hollywood sweetheart the beautiful Keanu Reeves plays an unkillable hitman who is able to kill a man with a single pencil or a book or any item at his disposal, let alone give him a gun. Those headshots then come at the speed of a Call of Duty pro-player! So obviously I want to see what’s next for Mr Wick.

Killers of the Flower Moon - Let the Brendan Fraser renaissance continue! It’s been absolutely adorably awesome seeing him back and looking so happy and pleased to be appreciated for how amazing he is! I mean, yes Killers of the Flower Moon also happens to be a new crime drama from one of cinema’s greats Martin Scorsese featuring a cast including Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert de Niro, but honestly I’m just happy seeing Fraser getting solid work again. Go get them tiger! 

Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre - Technically this was originally slated as an early 2022 release, however due to distribution issues it has been moved a year later. Regardless, Guy Ritchie always makes slick gangster flicks, with his recent The Gentlemen being especially cool and badass, so I’m willing to see Ritchie continue making these types of films as many times as he wants, as long as his dialogue stays sharp and Hugh Grant keeps saying “Darling” during every appearance.

The Super Mario Bros. Movie - Setting aside the controversial lack of effort that Chris Pratt is putting into that Mario voice, this animated effort from Universal and Illumination is actually looking surprisingly enjoyable. The animation looks great and there are some great nostalgic call backs to the games, and even the voice cast (aside from Pratt) are all sounding great. That Bowser voice from Jack Black - woah!! Can’t wait to hear more of that! 

Napoleon - Ridley Scott is doing a movie about Napoleon, and Napoleon himself is played by Joaquin Phoenix. Great director, superb actor, an integrally interesting historical figure at the narrative centre... what’s not to be excited for!

Knock at the Cabin - M. Night Shyamalamalamalamadingdong is back with another plot twist. Look, M Night is very hit-and-miss, and when he’s great he’s great, but when he’s bad he’s bad in a fun way. His last film Old was filled with plot-holes, inconsistencies and ridiculous narrative choices, yet I had a ball watching it and pointing out all the obvious foreshadowing. And then Shyamalan is also responsible for The Happening, which, well, happened. Anyway, new Shyamalan film - gimme gimme gimme!

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3 - Before James Gunn fully takes over the running of DC films (though he already took Henry Cavill as Superman away from us the monster!!!) he still has one Guardians film from Marvel left for us. And though I was not a fan of Vol. 2, the recent Holiday Special has reinstated my hope in this ragtag space-travelling group of outcasts, and Gunn himself has been on a roll with The Suicide Squad and Peacemaker, so they’ve got this. Also Rocket has an otter girlfriend in this one so I’m ready to witness some animal loving. 

Barbie - Okay, so it’s okay for a guy to look forward to a Barbie movie?? What’s so wrong with that?? It’s not weird! I don’t have a thing for dolls if that’s what you’re thinking. Nope, in fact I am more hoping that similar to how The Lego Movie managed to take a famous toy and create a superbly meta entertaining movie classic, Barbie shows promise to also go against conventional genre tropes and do something different weird. At least judging from that 2001: A Space Odyssey piss-take of the teaser, Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach have created something real unique. Also Ryan Gosling as Ken.....either the greatest casting choice or the worst decision ever. We’ll see...

Renfield - Nicolas Cage is a worldwide treasure, and one thought that him playing himself in a movie was the craziest thing yet. Nah, now he’s playing Dracula. Yep, THE Nicolas Cage is playing THE Count Dracula! And this time he really is a vampire!

Cocaine Bear - It’s a bear that’s high off it’s tits on cocaine and is going on a murderous rampage whilst trying to get more cocaine. I don’t need this to be a good movie. I don’t need it to win any awards. I just want there to be bears, I want there to be cocaine, and ideally those two to be connected for the entire time. What’s more is this is based on the real life story of a 175lb black bear who ingested a duffel bag of abandoned cocaine in northern Georgia in 1985. I mean yes that bear died fairly quickly, but in the movie they’ve evidently taken some creative choices (and definitely the correct ones!!) and instead this bear is simply killing everyone left and right and being high as a kite. And from that recent trailer from the very first appearance you can tell that this bear is on cocaine. That is all I want. 

[51kas81]

Iain Glen in Operation Napoleon (2023)

[mrwhittaker]

[corpyburd]

Operation Napoleon centers on young Icelandic lawyer Kristin, who gets drawn into the vortex of an international conspiracy when she receives footage of an old airplane wreck, recently revealed by the melting of one of Iceland’s largest glaciers.

Starring Iain Glen

[myloveiainglen]

In conversation with Iain Glenn | Operation Napoleon | Gletschergrab | I...

I am thrilled at the new interviews for the film, he looks fantastic as always!

[pitch-and-moan]

Able I Was, Ere I Saw Archer

Napoleon Bonaparte discovers a time travel portal in a cave on Saint Helena during his final exile. He uses the portal to travel to different points in history in an attempt to conquer Europe. His first stop is Belgium, November 7, 1983, where he attempts to redirect the Able Archer NATO exercise but gives up as dawns on him how much more destructive weapons have become in the future.