Sunday, July 29, 2018

Caesar ♥ Cleopatra





What?



I know my Egyptian stuff too!

6 comments:

edutcher said...

Funny, I was old enough to (sort of) get what was going on between Liz and Dick when the movie was being shot (you had to be one of the last Nip holdouts in the Pacific to have missed it), but you see the movie today and Rex Harrison walks off with it.

I know sex sells, but the second half of the movie really isn't anything at all. Even the battle of Actium can't save it.

Trooper York said...

This was a weird clip with Timothy Dalton in it.

Never saw the movie. I have to try to find it on Amazon Video.

edutcher said...

You see a lot of remakes on cable, but the only ones of Cleo I recall were made for TV.

Made in the 90s when he was doing DoubleAughtWhatshisface. Cleopatra 1999.

That's when the Lefties were insisting Cleo was black.

Trooper York said...

You might want to catch the HBO miniseries "Rome" which is on Netflicks and free on Amazon Prime. It is very well done and covers the same ground as these movies.

Well worth catching.

ampersand said...

Cleopatra was an inbred red headed Greek woman with a prominent shnozz that would put Durante to shame. Her image is captured on a bust made circa her Rome visit and various coinage.

That's not the only weird clip Timothy Dalton is in.

edutcher said...

Cleo was a Ptolemy, descended from the occupation force Alec left when he went off to conquer Inja. Which turned out to be his Russia.

But without snow.

Trooper York said...

You might want to catch the HBO miniseries "Rome" which is on Netflicks and free on Amazon Prime

Saw it first run. Got a few things right, like how slaves had no rights and basically were disposable. Mostly notable for Polly Walker walking around in her birthday suit.

They did, however, get a ton wrong. Even the grafitti got the Latin wrong and I'll never forget the one idiot who kept saying things like, "Juno's cunt!", as if that was how Romans swore.

Say what you will about Joe Mankewicz (sp?), he got his history right.