Comparison:
[Ridley] Scott plays, to push Welles’s metaphor further, with the biggest train sets conceivable—giant, beautiful, gleaming machines that can, by turns, transport and overwhelm you. He’s a heavy metal guy.
New York Times film reviewer Manhola Dargis borrows a metaphoric image about big-time filmmakers from Orson Welles to capture the scale and ambition of Ridley Scott in his November-release of Napoleon.
Context:
When he was in his mid-20s and first visited the studio where he would later shoot ‘Citizen Kane,’ Orson Welles is said to havelikened the movies to the best electric train set a boy could have. Welles is a defining inspiration for Ridley Scott, who is best known for monumentally scaled historical epics like ‘Gladiator’ and ‘Kingdom of Heaven.’ In these movies as well as in his latest spectacle, ‘Napoleon,’ Scott plays, to push Welles’s metaphor further, with the biggest train sets conceivable—giant, beautiful, gleaming machines that can, by turns, transport and overwhelm you. He’s a heavy metal guy.
Citation:
Dargis, Manohla. “‘Napoleon’ Review: A Lumpy, Grumpy Little Man.” New York Times, 22 Nov. 2023. Web.
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