How accurate IS Ridley Scott's Napoleon? From Marie Antoinette's hair to shooting the Pyramids with a cannon - experts reveal film's made-up scenes after it riled French critics

With its general release still a week away, Ridley Scott's new Napoleon biopic has already managed to ruffle some critics' feathers. Reviewers in the French media branded it 'deeply clumsy' and 'boring' and described Joaquin Phoenix's Napoleon as a 'petulant man-child' Antoinette's hair was cropped when she was executed and she wasn't wearing a black dress The film's trailer shows Antoinette with a shock of frizzy hair as she defiantly makes her way to the guillotine in front of a baying mob. Marie Antoinette - portrayed by Catherine Walker - is seen in Ridley Scott's Napoleon with a shock of curly hair before she is executed Napoleon wasn't at Marie Antoinette's execution In the trailer for the film, Napoleon is seen watching as Marie Antoinette is guillotined in front of a baying crowd in Paris during the French Revolution. In the trailer for the film, Napoleon is seen watching as Marie Antoinette is guillotined in front of a baying crowd in Paris during the French Revolution Marie Antoinette likely wasn't defiant as she was put to death Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Today programme yesterday, French academic Dr Estelle Paranque said she was irritated by Scott's feisty depiction of Antoinette. 'It did annoy me a little because he made her kind of fearless and a bit feisty, and at the time honestly she was not,' she said Antoinette was executed after a trial in which she was accused of incest with her son Napoleon didn't target the Pyramids The Napoleon trailer also shows the emperor's troops shooting at the Pyramids during his escapades in Egypt.