Historian: While I don't have a problem with the Napoleon movie as a piece of art, there were some historical innacuracies that irked me.
Ridley Scott: Get a Life! How about grow up you fucking man-child, the guy wasn't even criticising the film itself, just pointing out that it's historically innacurate.
Ridley Scott: When historians have a problem with my films I say "Where you there? No? Then shut the fuck up!" OH MY GOD! What an arrogant sack of shit. No they weren't there, but UNLIKE YOU, THEY have dedicated a significant portion of their lives to researching these events, pouring over all the available sources, to the point where they absolutely have a better idea of what happened than your ignorant old ass.
Ridley Scott: Napoleon dies, someone writes a book about it. 40 years later, someone else writes another book and so on and so forth, there's always a lot of imagination involved.
I think Metatron handled that last part well enough in the video, 'cause wouldn't even know where to start with how full of shit this idiot is.
The saddest part is that if he just did what most people who make historical movies did and just say "we took liberties to make the story more interesting or dramatic" which is a completely valid thing to do in a movie, it's not a documentary. That's why that sub-genre is called historical FICTION.
But no, this complete man-child insists that his completely uneducated historical takes are just as valid as anybody else's, which anyone even remotely educated in the history of the things he's made movies about can tell you, is simply not the case. Grow the fuck up and learn how to take criticism, especially when it's not even leveled at the film itself just it's take on history.
I mean Gladiator's a classic no matter how inaccurate it is and I personally enjoyed the hell out of Kingdom of Heaven even after learning how much of a mess it is historically. But Jesus Christ Ridley, get your head out of your own ass.