Napoleonic Wargame Club (NWC)

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<center>Monsieur le Marechal Baron John Corbin
Duc de Paive
Commanding the Division de Cavalerie de la Jeune Garde
NWC President</center>

I have no doubt that Al Pacino is a very talented actor, a real heavy weight of the industry. I have enjoyed several of his films including Scarface, Scent of a Woman etc etc etc. However, my initial reaction to the casting of Pacino as Napoleon is one of bewilderment. I may be doing him a disservice and perhaps the superb performace of Rod Steiger in Waterloo is clouding my judgement, but I just don't see him filing the role well. After all, I remember the Merchant of Venice! Not so much his performance as his accent.

I hope he does well and will just have to defer judgement until I have seen the movie.

<font color="gold">Général de Division Baron Greg Morgan, Comte de Gironde
Commandant IIIème Corps
Armée du Nord
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I've watched alot of Pacino films I just don't picture him as Napolian but you never know.

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<center>Fahnrich
Gary Christian
IR #11 Erherzog Rainer
1st Division
1st Armee Korps
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The bigger question is: why do a movie that only touches on Napoleon's final years in exile at St. Helena? Given one of the most dramatic careers imaginable, why did they limit themselves to the twilight of that career?[xx(]

Paco

<i>Maréchal M. Francisco Palomo
Prince d'Essling, Grande Duc d'Abrantes et
Comte de Marseille
Commandant - Division de Cavalerie de la Vieille Garde </i>
AdC - <i>Ieré Corps de Armee</i>

A good question, Paco! [:)]

Why His final years?
Maybe in order to show "the fall" of the greatest man in the history of mankind?
Because He was politically incorrect?
Because He's enemy no.1 of the Saloon<font color="yellow">*</font id="yellow">?

<font color="yellow"><font size="2">*the worldwide tyrrany of the "political correctness" idiots, lefties, gauchistes, mental communists etc/</font id="size2"></font id="yellow"> [:D]

<center>Maréchal T. Nowacki
<b>V KORPUS ARMII RENU</b>

Comte de Liege
Duc de la Moskova

Chasseurs a Cheval de la Vieille Garde</center>

<blockquote id="quote"><font size="3" face="book antiqua" id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"><i>Originally posted by Tomasz</i>
<br />Why His final years?<hr height="1" noshade id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></font id="quote">Why not? It doesn't take away from his achievements but it could show that even the greatest can be brought down and humbled. A good lesson for all...

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