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    Posted: February 09 2007 at 00:30
What's your favorite film that takes place in ancient Rome? Sorry if I didn't include your favorite.

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My favorites are Gladiator and Ben-Hur although Spartacus is quite good as well. I chose Ben-Hur because of the amazing performance by Charlton Heston
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There're Augustus, Nero, or the Rome series just for additional info. My favourite is probably Gladiator. Love the war scenes. Augustus was also a good movie
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I'll go with Kubrick's Spartacus.
 
Gladiator's intro battle is great but some other mistakes annoyed me, like mixing men and women in the arena and the main character being dubbed 'Spaniard'. Confused
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Ben  Hur -dubbed the greatist film ever made , don't know if I agree with that, but still supurb. I thought Gladiator lacked the depth of the earlier classic Roman movies, It kind of had the same story line as a Van damme or Steven Segal movie - bad guy kills good guy's family, so good guy gets revenge by killing band guy, while Ben Hur went deeper than that and explored the futility of revenge.

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clearly Caligula.
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Is Julius Caeser Shakespeare?

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Spartacus gets my vote.
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I'm Spartacus!

...for a TV series, the BBC's I, Claudius would certainly take it.
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Other. "Quo Vadis" because of a fantastic Peter Ustinov as Nero. Leo Genn as Petronius is also great in that movie; the scenes involving him and Ustinov are the best in the movie. Were it not for these two, the movie would be history bombast kitsch. Fortunately they are in it.
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Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

Other. "Quo Vadis" because of a fantastic Peter Ustinov as Nero. Leo Genn as Petronius is also great in that movie; the scenes involving him and Ustinov are the best in the movie. Were it not for these two, the movie would be history bombast kitsch. Fortunately they are in it.


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i have seen only gladiator and spartacus out of these, so i'll only add that in  spartacus there are just a few indoor scenes that take place in rome, and only one outdoor scene with the senators leaving the Senat... much to little to call it "a film with the action placed in ancient rome".
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Originally posted by BaldFriede BaldFriede wrote:

Other. "Quo Vadis" because of a fantastic Peter Ustinov as Nero. Leo Genn as Petronius is also great in that movie; the scenes involving him and Ustinov are the best in the movie. Were it not for these two, the movie would be history bombast kitsch. Fortunately they are in it.
By the way, Ustinov was 28 when he appeared for the casting. He was told: "Aren't you a bit young for Nero?" and replied: "Well, I am 28; Nero died at that age, so I don't have much time left". After that answer he was chosen for the role.
 
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Originally posted by Atkingani Atkingani wrote:

I'll go with Kubrick's Spartacus.
 
Gladiator's intro battle is great but some other mistakes annoyed me, like mixing men and women in the arena and the main character being dubbed 'Spaniard'. Confused
 
he was found in spain and didn't give his name so they called him spaniard. What's not to get.
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I voted 'other', simply because the HBO series 'Rome' is probably the greatest thing ever put on TV.
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Originally posted by video vertigo video vertigo wrote:

Originally posted by Atkingani Atkingani wrote:

I'll go with Kubrick's Spartacus.
 
Gladiator's intro battle is great but some other mistakes annoyed me, like mixing men and women in the arena and the main character being dubbed 'Spaniard'. Confused
 
he was found in spain and didn't give his name so they called him spaniard. What's not to get.
 
People then were generally recognized by their tribes or ethnic groups not the geographical place where they lived, being from the Iberian Peninsula he should be associated to hundreds of different people that lived there.
 
Even if the geographical name had prevailed, he should be called 'Hispanicus', from Hispania, since the names Espaņa/Spain appeared only in the Middle Ages. It's like if he came from Britannia and had been called 'English'. That's my objection!
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Um, Monty Python's Life of Brian.    Seriously, Gladiator was pretty good.
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