Sir Ian Holm also played Napoléon Bonaparte in Bandits, bandits... (1981) and Napoleon and Love (1974); in the 1970s, Stanley Kubrick approached him to star in his aborted biopic.
While the historical Napoléon Bonaparte never had the opportunity to say "They have changed my battlefield", it is reported that the Duke of Wellington, said exactly that when he revisited the place after the huge Dutch memorial mound was erected there.
Napoleon adopts poses reminiscent of famous portraits of him, including when he makes the speech to Pumpkin in his new uniform. When he sits on the chair after speaking his pose is the same as in the Delaroche painting "Napoleon after his abdication".