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My, my! How Napoleon Bonaparte is still influencing pop culture 250 years after his birth
J ack Nicholson, who paid £250,000 in 1984 for the rights to a film about Napoleon , mused back then about the English obsession with France’s famous emperor. “Napoleon was a man who conquered the world twice and then became a symbol of the devil – that’s the way they described him in England,” said the three-time Oscar-winner. Nicholson never fulfilled his dream of impersonating the victorious general of Revolutionary France, a role played by hundreds of actors, including Marlon Brando , Rod Steiger , Danny DeVito , Groucho Marx and Rowan Atkinson . Napoleon has been portrayed in films, musicals, plays, television shows and adverts; in artwork, fiction, historical biography and video games. He has even been the subject of psychological theories and syndromes. Napoleon remains a global cultural icon 250 years after his birth in Ajaccio, Corsica, on 15 August 1769. Napoleon started ‘Little Man Syndrome’ With Napoleon, it’s hard no...
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