So without further delay, let’s count down our top 10 most memorable Napoleon Dynamite quotes, ranked. The dialogue from the film is perhaps the best encapsulation of this. However, for our money, it probably has something to do with the relatable characters, off-beat humor, and lighthearted tone coming together in a sublime mixture that tickles our funny bone in just the right way. It’s hard to know what exactly makes Napoleon Dynamite simultaneously so timeless and a time capsule all at once. The aesthetic of wood-paneled mobile home interiors, fanny packs, sweatpants, ’80s graphic tees with horse illustrations, and beige CRT computer monitors from the ’90s is apropos of the 2000s feeling in itself like a particularly awkward decade, as it regurgitates the look and feel of the past 20 years that came before it, trying to find its own identity. In particular, the movie captures a kind of wholesome awkwardness that is so defining of adolescence. It focuses on the misadventures of Heder’s Napoleon as he navigates the various ups and downs of high school. Courage isnt having the strength to go on - it is going on when you dont have strength. Note that all of these Napoleon quotes have variants, depending on how the French was translated, and on how the phrases have mutated over the past 200 years. Considering the circumstances in which Napoleon said them may put a different spin on them. After more than two decades of dominating European. For the uninitiated, Napoleon Dynamite is one of those lightning-in-a-bottle films that seemed to capture the zeitgeist of the moment like no other comedy of its release year. Here are 10 Napoleon Bonaparte quotes that are often taken out of context. Ridley Scott on directing 'Napoleon' 07:39 Any casual student of history knows how the story of Napoleon Bonaparte ends: Waterloo, 1815.