Best Film set in Ancient Rome
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Topic: Best Film set in Ancient Rome
Posted By: video vertigo
Subject: Best Film set in Ancient Rome
Date Posted: February 09 2007 at 00:30
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What's your favorite film that takes place in ancient Rome? Sorry if I didn't include your favorite. ------------- "The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse." - Zappa |
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Posted By: video vertigo
Date Posted: February 09 2007 at 00:51
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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 ------------- "The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse." - Zappa |
Posted By: kazansky
Date Posted: February 09 2007 at 00:58
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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 ------------- The devil we blame our atrocities on is really just each one of us. |
Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: February 09 2007 at 06:17
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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'.  ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: Cheesecakemouse
Date Posted: February 09 2007 at 06:26
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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. ------------- |
Posted By: laplace
Date Posted: February 09 2007 at 06:47
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clearly Caligula.
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Posted By: Snow Dog
Date Posted: February 09 2007 at 06:56
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Is Julius Caeser Shakespeare? Anyway, for me Gladiator easily and from TV I would pick the mighty I, Claudius.  ------------- http://www.last.fm/user/Snow_Dog" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: WaywardSon
Date Posted: February 09 2007 at 07:26
| Spartacus gets my vote. |
Posted By: Mascodagama
Date Posted: February 09 2007 at 12:34
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I'm Spartacus! ...for a TV series, the BBC's I, Claudius would certainly take it. ------------- Soldato of the Pan Head Mafia. We'll make you an offer you can't listen to. http://bandcamp.com/jpillbox" rel="nofollow - Bandcamp Profile |
Posted By: BaldFriede
Date Posted: February 09 2007 at 12:52
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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. 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. -------------  BaldJean and I; I am the one in blue. |
Posted By: Padraic
Date Posted: February 09 2007 at 13:07
Loved that book, never knew they made a movie out of it. |
BaldFriede wrote:Posted By: andu
Date Posted: February 09 2007 at 13:27
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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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Posted By: The T
Date Posted: February 09 2007 at 18:09
 Ustinov was such a magnificent actor. ------------- 
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Posted By: video vertigo
Date Posted: February 09 2007 at 19:15
he was found in spain and didn't give his name so they called him spaniard. What's not to get. ------------- "The rock and roll business is pretty absurd, but the world of serious music is much worse." - Zappa |
Posted By: GoldenSpiral
Date Posted: February 09 2007 at 19:19
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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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Posted By: Atkingani
Date Posted: February 09 2007 at 21:50
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! ------------- Guigo ~~~~~~ |
Posted By: yesfan88
Date Posted: February 10 2007 at 01:14
Um, Monty Python's Life of Brian.  Seriously, Gladiator was pretty good.------------- "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"- Evelyn Beatrice Hall |