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Monday, April 3, 2017

Sharing some of Kubrick's Screenplay: NAPOLEON






In the end, he decided to pursue Barry Lyndon, which would yield him the battle scenes Napoleon offered.


NAPOLEON

{laughing]


Yes, my dearest Marie-Louise, I am your husband.


They both laugh


Napoleon looks at her, admiringly, and takes her hand




SKIP



INT  .  NAPOLEONS BATHROOM - DAY



NAPOLEON soaks in a tub.

Talleyrand, constantly wiping his glasses, balances on his lap a thick sheaf of draft notes of the treaty of Tilsit, referring to them during the discussion.

TALLEYRAND

Article 46, calls for the virtual dismemberment of Prussia, reducing her population by half, and her army to a token force.

NAPOLEON

Does she deserve anthing better?

TALLEYRAND

Those are extremey harsh terms.


NAPOLEON


I did not ask her to go to war against me.




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