The film is 158 minutes long and rated R for strong violence, some grisly images, sexual content and. Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821), also known as Napoleon I, was a French military leader and emperor who conquered much of Europe in the early 19th century. Napoleon releases in theaters on November 22. This can sometimes go as far as to lead to acts of violence or will to dominate those that are larger than the short person.Īlfred Adler pioneered the psychological work on inferiority complexes, and used Napoléon Bonaparte as an example of someone whom he thought was driven to extremes by a psychological need to compensate for what he saw as a handicap: his small stature. It was unclear whether Scott would lean into the Napoleon complex of it all, but the director does just that, showing a disdain for the man that leads to hysteria as often as it does confusion. The term is also used more generally to describe people who are driven by a perceived handicap to overcompensate in other aspects of their lives. The film tracks Napoleon’s rise to fame during the French Revolution, delves deep. In the fields of psychology and psychoanalysis, Napoleon complex (or Napoleon syndrome) is a colloquial term used to describe a type of inferiority complex suffered by people who are short. Ridley Scott’s biopic Napoleon, in which Joaquin Phoenix plays the French emperor, hits theaters on Nov.