Kyle Smith writes that director Ridley Scott fails to present Napoleon in a proper cinematic glow (“‘Napoleon’: Caricature Of a Conqueror,” Film Review, Nov. 22). Leo Tolstoy, who was no fan of the French emperor, wondered why senseless bloodshed and conquest should be thought grand in a man. He wrote, “The recognition of greatness not measureable by the measure of good and bad is only recognition of one’s own insignificance and immeasurable littleness.”
John W. Pluta
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