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From: Cryptoengineer <petertrei@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Pearls Before Swine: Uncle Is Not Good With Money
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2025 16:07:55 -0500
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On 1/17/2025 1:56 PM, Scott Lurndal wrote:
> Paul S Person <psperson@old.netcom.invalid> writes:
>> On Thu, 16 Jan 2025 12:46:59 -0500, Cryptoengineer
>> <petertrei@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> <snippo, topic is the recent /Napoleon/ movie and its historicity>
>>
>>> Not his whole life, but I heartily recommend the 1970 "Waterloo"
>>> starting Christopher Plummer, Rod Steiger and Orson Wells.
>>>
>>> I've seen analysis by historians to the effect that this is the
>>> most historically accurate version of the battle ever filmed.
>>
>> Being by Bondarchuck, I would think so.=20
>>
>>> The battle was filmed in Ukraine. The Soviet Army lent the
>>> production 17,000 soldiers, who were trained to drill and
>>> 'fight' in period style and uniforms. This was before CGI and
>>> Maya, and if you see a soldier, he's real. This led to a
>>> minor degree of randomness that underscores the reality of the
>>> scene, details such random glints of sunlight off the bayonets
>>> of a formation half a mile away.
>>>
>>> This was by far the largest number of extras ever used in one
>>> movie, and was said to be the 'seventh largest army in Europe'.
>>
>> Actually, <https://movieweb.com/movies-highest-number-extras/> has it
>> at 9th largest. The largest number is 300,000 for /Gandhi/.
> 
> _Waterloo_ may well have had the largest number of
> extras _at the time it was made_ (1970).   Ghandi was a
> decade later.

Not according to the article Paul linked. It lists several
movies that both pre-date it, and had more extras.

Regardless, the movie is very good.

pt