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Joaquin Phoenix will be Napoleon in the upcoming Sony/Apple biopic.

Admittedly Joaquin Phoenix looks slightly less unlike Napoleon than the typical caricatures of Napoleon in English language films.    But still, Napoleon was famously baby faced, and was in his late 20s and 30s when he won all of his major battlefield victories.      Why does Joaquin Phoenix look every brooding minute of his grizzled 48 years as he played Napoleon at Austerlitz?    He looked more like Napoleon when he depicted the Patricidal Roman Emperor Commodus in the Russel Crow flick Gladiator 23 years ago. 

Think Marlon Brando’s depiction in 1954 film  Desiree still looked the most like the real Napoleon of any mainstream English language film depiction

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What about



Boru

Napoleon, at 5 foot 6 inches, would look like a basketball player next to Danny DeVito’s 4 foot 10 inches.