Napoleon largely focuses on the titular character, emphasizing his historical rise and personal flaws. While certain details and characterizations have been modernized for contemporary audiences, the film doesn't overtly sideline narrative in favor of current identity issues. Its deviations seem more related to streamlining history than pushing diversity for diversity’s sake.

The film takes liberties with historical events and character relationships, occasionally injecting modern attitudes into 19th-century France. However, it doesn’t aggressively undermine traditional values in a way that many modern films do. There is some cultural revisionism, but it doesn’t seem to be the main agenda.

While the film pokes at old power structures and occasionally frames them as problematic, it doesn’t fully villainize traditional perspectives nor insist on a single, modern viewpoint throughout. There's a surface-level nod to modern sensibilities, but nothing as extreme as outright ideological monoculture.