Plot
A film about living in New York City surrounded by so much wealth and struggling to find some scraps for yourself. Fat Cat's, the Greenwich Village club where the story takes place, is the stomping grounds for a motley cast including homo-thugs, teenage delinquent chess players, college kids and the film's central characters: Annie, Dee and Evgenya. A Russian-American "masseuse" from Brighton Beach, Brooklyn, Evgenya has inherited the native New Yorker's dream to see her name in lights. Dee is a Lesbian from Brooklyn and a Lothario who does her best to come across like a thug and a hard case until she finds her intellect challenged by a college girl. Annie, who sees her father carried off in handcuffs, has become a harried, small time grifter who works all day and spends her nights at Fat Cats where people find ways to scam, seduce and connect to each other while the drinks flow and the music plays. Annie just wants a piece of the old New York, when any scam was possible, but these days she's drinking herself to sleep at Fat Cat's certain that she's owed something better but unsure of what it is and how to get it. These are the fat cats, lost people dreaming big about the wrong things.
Dee: So where my pussy gunna meet me now, huh?
Plot
Action-packed look at the beginnings of the fall of the Roman Empire. Here is the glory, the greed and grandeur that was Rome. Here is the story of personal lust for power, and the shattering effects of that power's loss. Here is the tale of the plight of a people living on the brink of a political abyss.
Keywords: 70mm-film, ambush, ancient-rome, armor, arson, axe-fight, based-on-true-story, battle, battle-axe, battlefield
The Most Magnificent Re-Creation . . . Of An Ancient Empire . . . Launches A New Epoch In Motion Pictures . . .
Timonides: [when Ballomar threatens to continue burning Timonides's left hand] Let's look at this logically...
Commodus: Livius, if you listen very carefully, you can hear the gods laughing!
Livius: You're beautiful.::Lucilla: You're beautiful.
Timonides: As you see there is more than enough for ourselves. We were right Livius. There is no limit with what can be done with a human spirit, for good or evil.
Timonides: Men of Rome, men of Rome! Do not touch these people, they have become your brothers. They're Roman now. The whole Northern people will answer with fire and blood, their hatred will live for centuries. Men of Roman blood will pay for this. You will make nations to kill us all. Let us live in peace!Peace! [Timonides is killed with a javelin in the chest]
Victorinus: We're in command now Livius, the throne is yours.::Senator: Gaius Mettelus Livius, the people are asking for you.::Livius: You would not find me very suitable, because my first official act would be to have you all crucified.
Livius: [standing over body of Timonides] What happened, gentle Greek? Did you try to tell them there were three possibilities? Did you not know there was a fourth? This! [picks up and throws spear away]::Lucilla: This is the way they answer to reason and now even you must see, this is the only way to answer them.::Livius: He does not seem dead to me, I can still feel his life, hear his words. Tell me what I must do in his name. [yelling] March the army into Rome and drown the city in blood!::Lucilla: [uncovering the Christian cross Timonides wore around his neck] He was my father's friend and a wise man.::Livius: I shall go alone into Rome, if I do not return by sunset, let the army enter Rome.
Livius: A few days longer, Caesar, we'll bring you his head.::Marcus Aurelius: No Livius, please don't bring me his head. I wouldn't know what to do with it.
Closing Narrator: This was the beginning of the fall of the Roman Empire. A great civilization is not conquered from without, until it has destroyed itself from within.
Niger (French pronunciation: [niʒɛʁ], but occasionally pronounced as /niːˈʒɛər/ or i/ˈnaɪdʒər/), officially the Republic of Niger, is a landlocked country in Western Africa, named after the Niger River. It borders Nigeria and Benin to the south, Burkina Faso and Mali to the west, Algeria and Libya to the north and Chad to the east. Niger covers a land area of almost 1,270,000 km2, making it the largest nation in West Africa, with over 80 percent of its land area covered by the Sahara desert. The country's predominantly Islamic population of just above 15,000,000 is mostly clustered in the far south and west of the nation. The capital city is Niamey, located in the far southwest corner of Niger.
Niger is a developing country, and consistently ranks as one of the lowest ranks of the United Nations' Human Development Index (HDI), 186th of 187 countries in 2011. Much of the non-desert portions of the country are threatened by periodic drought and desertification. The economy is concentrated around subsistence and some export agriculture clustered in the more fertile south, and the export of raw materials, especially uranium ore. Niger remains handicapped by its landlocked position, desert terrain, poor education and poverty of its people, lack of infrastructure, poor health care, and environmental degradation.
Slowly the center of the universe shifts
No longer is he the birth of my shame
Now I see the end to this
Now I’m free to end all this
He don’t call me
and I surrender
He won’t see me
but I am headstrong
and I could be a little better
and I could be a little bit stronger
and I could be a little bit of everything
He was the stone on the ground I stepped upon
He meant to have me as I was for way too long
Now I see how I grew up
Now I’m here and he’s torn out
He won’t call me, and I surrender
He won’t see me
but I am headstrong
and I could be a little better
and I could be a little bit stronger