Mon Dieu!
In Variety's review of Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian we find this sentence:
Plucky Amelia Earhart (Amy Adams, trying a bit too hard) joins him, only to be matched by a trio of history's worst villains: Ivan the Terrible (Christopher Guest), Napoleon (French comic Alain Chabat) and Al Capone (Jon Bernthal), who've united with Kahmunrah to create the ultimate axis of evil.
I realize the judgment of history can change, but is Napoleon now widely considered to be a bad guy? One at the level of Al Capone?
posted by LAGuy @ 12:20 AM
3 Comments:
Boney has always been demonized. I think the Brits thought he was the Anti-Christ, even worse than the mob rule and Terror of the Revolution and painted him that way.
Of course he's French and had some measure of success, so that could explain it too
The worst you could say about him is that he waged "aggressive war" to conquer other countries. I don't believe there's any evidence that he did so in a particularly bloodthirsty way. Similarly, there was nothing particularly "terrible" about Ivan IV. The Russian term "grozny" that's been translated as "terrible" is probably better translated in modern parlance as "fearsome" or "awesome."
Ivan was known to be a cruel leader, though he's not the worst, historically.
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