10-06-2010, 10:48 AM
My wife and I started watching the 1945 version of Caesar and Cleopatra. While Vivien Leigh was cute as anything cavorting around on her pet sphinx, when the Roman soldiers appeared with their pompadour helmets, we went to bed laughing. Claude Rains did appear to be up to the part, but the whole thing just seemed comedic, with a totally bizarre series of dialog exchanges. We lasted about twenty minutes or so.
Imagine the Queen of Egypt playing alone in the desert at night, no cloak, no bodyguard or slave, or any kind of escort. Now imagine Julius Caesar walking up to her, wearing a toga, same desert, same night, no escort or bodyguard, no weapon. You begin to get the picture? Fun for a laugh, I'd say, though maybe the plot improved. Hard to know. Might come on again late one night and we'll venture further.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038390/
Imagine the Queen of Egypt playing alone in the desert at night, no cloak, no bodyguard or slave, or any kind of escort. Now imagine Julius Caesar walking up to her, wearing a toga, same desert, same night, no escort or bodyguard, no weapon. You begin to get the picture? Fun for a laugh, I'd say, though maybe the plot improved. Hard to know. Might come on again late one night and we'll venture further.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038390/
M. Demetrius Abicio
(David Wills)
Saepe veritas est dura.
(David Wills)
Saepe veritas est dura.
