Sir Ridley Scott recently released Napoleon, yet another film in the historical fiction genre. Although he is widely known for his epic forays into science fiction with the likes of Blade Runner and Alien, it's clear that Scott's passion lies in historical fiction epics. With announcements of a second Gladiator film being filmed, it's clear Ridley Scott is ready and raring to make the kind of films he loves after lots of breaks as a producer on franchises like Alien and many historical television projects. Unfortunately for Scott, his favorite genre has always been followed by a mob of scrutinizing historians, of both academic and armchair persuasions, which chase and chastise his every creative stroke. Every time this has happened, it opens a fascinating study on why these critics believed his exciting and engaging style of film is wrong for the genre, instead of understanding what Ridley Scott is about with his storytelling as a whole, and what that does for the periods represented in Gladiator, Kingdom of Heaven, The Last Duel, and Napoleon, to name a few.
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