Napoleon: ignore the griping over historical details, Ridley Scott’s film is a meditation on the madness of power: While Ridley Scott’s Napoleon has been causing consternation among some historians, they are overlooking the fact that the historical record does actually support the film’s narrative in terms of one man taking power and shaping a new …
Did Napoleon really fire at the pyramids? A historian explains the truth behind the legends of Ridley Scott’s biopic: 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 – battles …
What led to Antarctic explorer Captain Scott’s death: Uber Bilder/Alamy Captain Robert Falcon Scott lay cold, frostbitten and dehydrated in a tent in Antarctica. He was accompanied by two companions – Edward Wilson and “Birdie” Bowers. Knowing death was near, he lay in his frigid sleeping bag and scrawled final messages to his friends, loved …
Two centuries before Marvel and Star Wars, Walter Scott’s Rob Roy was the first modern anti-hero: Alasdair MacNeill, CC BY-SA Rival siblings, disappointed fathers, resentful sons, cowards, double-crossers, powerful women, colonial guilt, crumbling Highland estates and an elusive anti-hero: Sir Walter Scott’s Rob Roy has it all. It is a masterclass of serious pantomime. Two …
South Africa in the news: Golf: Prayad wins in Singapore after Scott’s watery woe: Four players – Phachara Khongwatmai of Thailand, Juvic Pagunsan of the Philippines, Jbe Kruger of South Africa and the defending champion, South Korea’s Song Young-Han – finished tied for second after a thrilling final day where six players had a share …