Nerva (Latin: Marcus Cocceius Nerva Caesar Augustus; 8 November 30 – 27 January 98), was Roman Emperor from 96 to 98. Nerva became Emperor at the age of sixty-five, after a lifetime of imperial service under Nero and the rulers of the Flavian dynasty. Under Nero, he was a member of the imperial entourage and played a vital part in exposing the Pisonian conspiracy of 65. Later, as a loyalist to the Flavians, he attained consulships in 71 and 90 during the reigns of Vespasian and Domitian respectively.
On 18 September 96, Domitian was assassinated in a palace conspiracy involving members of the Praetorian Guard and several of his freedmen. On the same day, Nerva was declared emperor by the Roman Senate. This was the first time the Senate elected a Roman Emperor. As the new ruler of the Roman Empire, he vowed to restore liberties which had been curtailed during the autocratic government of Domitian.
Nerva's brief reign was marred by financial difficulties and his inability to assert his authority over the Roman army. A revolt by the Praetorian Guard in October 97 essentially forced him to adopt an heir. After some deliberation Nerva adopted Trajan, a young and popular general, as his successor. After barely fifteen months in office, Nerva died of natural causes on 27 January 98. Upon his death he was succeeded and deified by Trajan.
Marvin Pentz Gay, Jr. (April 2, 1939 – April 1, 1984), better known by his stage name Marvin Gaye (he added the 'e' as a young man), was an acclaimed American singer-songwriter and musician with a three-octave vocal range, who achieved major success in the 1960s and 1970s as an artist for the Motown Records label. He was shot dead by his father on April 1, 1984.
Starting his career as a member of the doo-wop group The Moonglows in the late 1950s, he ventured into a solo career after the group disbanded in 1960, signing with Motown Records subsidiary, Tamla. He started off as a session drummer, but later ranked as the label's top-selling solo artist during the 1960s. He was crowned "The Prince of Motown" and "The Prince of Soul". because of solo hits such as "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved by You)", "Ain't That Peculiar", "I Heard It Through the Grapevine," and his duet singles with singers such as Mary Wells and Tammi Terrell.
His work in the early- and mid-1970s included the albums, What's Going On, Let's Get It On, and I Want You, which helped influence the quiet storm, urban adult contemporary, and slow jam genres. After a self-imposed European exile in the early 1980s, Gaye returned on the 1982 Grammy-Award winning hit, "Sexual Healing" and the Midnight Love album before his death.
Plot
Set in the late 21st century, a subculture of humans have emerged who have been modified genetically by a vampire-like disease, giving them enhanced speed, incredible stamina and acute intelligence, and as they are set apart from "normal" and "healthy" humans, the world is pushed to the brink of worldwide civil war aimed at the destruction of the "diseased" population. In the middle of this crossed-fire is - an infected beautiful woman - Ultraviolet, who finds herself protecting a nine-year-old boy who has been marked for death by the human government as he is believed to be a threat to humans.
Keywords: action-heroine, ambush, anti-heroine, antigen, automatic-pistol, bare-butt, battle, biological-warfare, blood, box-office-flop
The Blood War is On
First, they made her a weapon. That was their next-to-deadliest mistake. Now, they've made her a target...
[first lines]::Violet: Hello. My name is Violet and I was born into a world you may not understand.
Daxus: Are you mental?
Long-Haired Hemophage 2: How can you hope to defeat us? We're as strong as you...::Long-Haired Hemophage 1: ...we're as fast as you...::Violet: ...but are you one-tenth as *pissed off* as I am?
Violet: [facing a room full of Daxus' warriors] You are all going to die.
Violet: [after dispatching a room full of Daxus' warriors] Is that all you got?
Daxus: You got hemo blood on me... [pulls off gloves]... It is on.
[Violet walks through a scanning device]::Computer: Warning. Warning. Firearms detected.::[Violet's possessions in the "pocket dimension" begin to appear, which happen to be two very long rows of identical handguns]::Computer: Number of weapons found... [long pause] many.
L.L.D.D. Chief of Research: Violet Song jat Shariff. Tell me I'm wrong::Violet: You're wrong.::L.L.D.D. Chief of Research: Why are you doing this?::Violet: Because I hate humans with every fiber of my being... and I'll kill every single one of them... almost as quickly as they'll try and kill me.::L.L.D.D. Chief of Research: You used to be human.::Violet: But not anymore, right? I got sick and now I'm something less than human. Something worthy of extermination.::L.L.D.D. Chief of Research: It's academic now, isn't it? You won't make it out of here with that case.::Violet: Watch me.
Violet: I've never failed to complete
Violet: Nerva, listen. You know it doen't matter for me. I'll be dead in 36 hours, no matter what. But every human for a quarter mile doesn't have to die with me.
Plot
John the Baptist, the prophet of Israel, is imprisoned by Herod, governor of Judea for protesting Herod's marriage to his brother's wife. Jealousies rage and Herod's step-daughter and niece Salome seduces Herod by means of a torrid dance to give her the head of the prophet - but then tries to save the life of the man she has thus condemned. Updated to a WWII setting
Keywords: based-on-play, character-name-in-title, dance, female-nudity, independent-film, nudity, one-word-title, religion, remake, salome
Plot
The rise and fall of the notorious Roman Emperor Caligula, showing the violent methods that he employs to gain the throne, and the subsequent insanity of his reign - he gives his horse political office and humiliates and executes anyone who even slightly displeases him. He also sleeps with his sister, organises elaborate orgies and embarks on a fruitless invasion of England before meeting an appropriate end. There are various versions of the film, ranging from the heavily- truncated 90-minute version to the legendary 160-minute hardcore version which leaves nothing to the imagination (though the hardcore scenes were inserted later and do not involve the main cast members).
Keywords: actual-animal-killed, affection, alternate-version, ambush, anal-fisting, ancient-rome, ancient-world, animal-love, animal-lover, animal-sex
What would you have done if you had been given absolute power of life and death over everybody else in the whole world?
The most controversial film of the 20th century is now the most controversial film of the 21st century.
Caligula: Let them hate me, so long as they fear me.
Caligula: I have existed from the morning of the world and I shall exist until the last star falls from the night. Although I have taken the form of Gaius Caligula, I am all men as I am no man and therefore I am a God.
[at an orgy]::Caligula: Longinus, you're not having any fun! Enjoy yourself! What is your preference?::Longinus: Everything and nothing Caesar.
Caligula: I hear you have a taste for little boys. Is that not so?::Chaerea: No Caesar, big boys.
Chaerea: Give him enough rope...::Longinus: ...and perhaps, he'll hang us all.
Tiberius: Do you prefer nymphs to satyrs?::Caligula: I like both, Lord.::Tiberius: One needs both, yes, to keep healthy.
Tiberius: Do you think this boy has been drinking?::Caligula: I think he has, Caesar.::Tiberius: So do I. Macro? Bring him more wine!
Caligula: Caesar begged you.
[after a man is decapitated]::Caligula: If only all of Rome had just one neck.
Tiberius: Serve the state, Caligula, though the people in it are wicked beasts.::Caligula: But they love you, lord.::Tiberius: Oh, no... they FEAR me... and that is much better.
I'll take the island by storm . . . and the woman with it!
Jonatto: He's not dead. He's only fainted. We're wasting time trying to get anything out of him. We'll hang him in the morning.
Plot
Private detective Edward Mercer goes to Venice at the request of a French insurance company to locate a brave Italian whom they wish to reward for his part in the rescue of an Allied airman shot down during the war. At least, that is what Mercer thinks as he steps off the steamer at the Piazza San Marco and is greeted by a smiling street photographer, Cassana. Mercer makes his way to a shop and finds his first contact dead from a knife stab, and the trail leads him to Adrianna. He faces danger from police chief Spaloni and also from a group of foreign patriots, led by Count Borian and Lieutenant Longo, who want to use him as a stool-pigeon for a planned Coup d'Etat. A hectic race across the roof tops, high above the great square, brings Mercer to grips against his unknown enemy.
Keywords: assassin, assassination, based-on-novel, coup, murder, private-detective, rooftop-escape, venice-italy
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Returning to Rome after 3 years in the field, General Marcus Vinicius meets Lygia and falls in love with her. She is a Christian and doesn't want to have anything to do with a warrior. Though she grew up Roman, the adopted daughter of a retired general, Lygia is technically a hostage of Rome. Marcus gets Emperor Nero to give her to him for services rendered
Keywords: 1st-century, adopted-daughter, ancient-rome, ancient-times, animal-attack, antiquity, apostle, architect, arena, armor
Three Years in the Making! Thousands in the Cast! Filmed in Rome!
Colossal [Quo Vadis]
THIS IS THE BIG ONE! The splendor and savagery of the world's wickedest empire! Three hours of spectacle you'll remember for a lifetime! [1964 re-release]
Petronius: It is not enough to live well. One must die well.
Petronius: [in his dying letter to Nero] To Nero, Emperor of Rome, Master of the World, Divine Pontiff. I know that my death will be a disappointment to you, since you wished to render me this service yourself. To be born in your reign is a miscalculation; but to die in it is a joy. I can forgive you for murdering your wife and your mother, for burning our beloved Rome, for befouling our fair country with the stench of your crimes. But one thing I cannot forgive - the boredom of having to listen to your verses, your second-rate songs, your mediocre performances. Adhere to your special gifts, Nero - murder and arson, betrayal and terror. Mutilate your subjects if you must; but with my last breath I beg you - do not mutilate the arts. Fare well, but compose no more music. Brutalize the people, but do not bore them, as you have bored to death your friend, the late Gaius Petronius.
[on being told the Christians are being blamed for the burning of Rome]::Vinicius: The people won't believe such a lie!::Petronius: But they are believing it. People will believe any lie, if it is fantastic enough.
Petronius: [after seeing Rome consumed by flames] Now indeed, Nero has his place in history.
Petronius: [to Nero] You will be worthy of the spectacle - as the spectacle is worthy of you.
Vinicius: [as the Christians file into the arena, singing] These people know how to die, Nero. In death you will squeal like a hog!
[Nero is exasperated with the mobs]::Emperor Nero: Do I live for the people or do the people live for me?::Petronius: You are the sun in their sky! Does the sun have privacy?::Emperor Nero: The sun has the night! These people expect me to shine both day and night!
Emperor Nero: [as the Christians enter the arena to die]They're singing!
Vinicius: [when asked how his army defeated the Gauls and the Britons] We fought them with our bowels! Try it sometime!
Petronius: [to Eunice] You ask why I do this. Because I love Nero, perhaps? He fills me with loathing!
When the puzzle connects
It's like you never forget
The way it's got to be
It's nobody's concern
Cause they don't know how it burns
When you're not here with me
So am I wrong or up my way in the sky
Cause I can never deny
These feelings
How can I ever stop
When I don't want to give up
This is my reason
Reason (repeat)
Cause I get you, I get you
And you get me, you get me
It's that simple, It's that simple
Don't matter what we are
Cause we don't ever fall
When the puzzle connects
It's like you never forget
The way it's got to be
It's nobody's concern
Cause they don't know how it burns
When you're not here with me
So am I wrong or up my way in the sky
Cause I can never deny
These feelings
How can I ever stop
When I don't want to give up
This is my reason
You do your best, you take the fall
You reminisce about almost nearly having it all
You see the stars, you try and catch one
Ooh, you tried so hard chasing nothing because
We're all no one 'til someone thinks
That we're someone
'Til then we're no one
And you got me looking at you
I said, we're all no one 'til someone thinks
That we're someone
'Til then we're no one
And you got me looking at you, looking at you
We're all the same, we all have hopes
Ohh, it gets insane when you're slipping
Down that downward slope
I come with peace, I offer love
So if you're hearing me then hurry baby
Give it up because
We're all no one 'til someone thinks
That we're someone
'Til then we're no one
And you got me looking at you
I said, we're all no one 'til someone thinks
That we're someone
'Til then we're no one
And you got me looking at you, looking at you
I said, we're all no one 'til someone thinks
That we're someone
'Til then we're no one
And you got me looking at you
I said, we're all no one 'til someone thinks
That we're someone
Oh c'mon, ooh c'mon
Do ya' best, do ya' best, do ya' best, do ya' best
Do ya' best, do ya' best, do ya' best, do ya' best
Do ya' best, do ya' best, do ya' best, do ya' best
Do ya' best, do ya' best, do ya' best, do ya' best
Do ya' best, do ya' best, do ya' best, do ya' best
We're all no one 'til someone thinks
That we're someone
'Til then we're no one
And you got me looking at you
I said, we're all no one 'til someone thinks
That we're someone
'Til then we're no one
And you got me looking at you, looking at you
Right to the end
Right to the end
Hearts run right to the end
Right to the end right to the end
Hearts run right to the end
People come home you don't need to be scared
'Cause you gonna love
You gonna love again
Hearts run right to the end
People come home you don't need to be scared
'Cause you gonna love
You gonna love again
[Chorus]
You're gonna love
You're gonna love
You're gonna love again
You're gonna love
You're gonna love
You're gonna love again
Love again
[Verse 2]
Take a chance on a broken heart 'cause we're starting
again
We gotta try even if it's hard
Try baby to understand
To find a rainbow in every storm, you gotta believe
Don't ever doubt that you do belong now
'Cause it started with you
It started with me
Hearts run right to the end
You're gonna love
You're gonna love again
Love again
Love again
You're gonna love
You're gonna love again
Hearts run right to the end
People come home you don't need to be scared
'Cause you gonna love
You gonna love again
[Chorus]
You're gonna love
You're gonna love
You're gonna love again
You're gonna love
You're gonna love
Give us, give us a chance
I just wanna hold on,
I just wanna hold on
Hold on
I just wanna hold on
Waiting for your love
Cause I can't break away
No I can't break this start
Fading from your touch
Why do I keep us safe
To your distant heart
Give us, give us a chance
I just wanna hold on
I just wanna hold on
I just wanna hold on
I just wanna hold on
Hold on
Hold on
I just wanna hold on
I just wanna hold on
Just wanna, just wanna, just wanna
Hold on
Just wanna, just wanna, just wanna
Hold on
There were times
When didn't even recognize myself
I don't know why,
But I believe the lies that you would tell
Now, don't you cry and tell me
That you got the right to speak
Just listen up now,
Cause you don't get the chance
To make me weep
Finally, finally I see
He'll never leave her, ooh
Understand me now,
You'll never see me 'round 'round, 'round here
Cause I don't believe ya
And the fantasy is dead
Stop messing with my head,
Cause now I know
I'm taking this no more, no no no
I'm going on my own
I'm leaving you alone
I'm taking this no more, no more no more
I'm going on my own
I'm leaving you alone
I'm taking this no more, no more no more
I'm taking this no more!!
Faith!
I'm supposed to get this right, not so?
But I sold the pressure and fueled the fire.
Keep playing the worldly games and you keep missing the goals you aim man.
Fuel the fire.
I'm supposed to get this right.
Your supposed to stay in sight.
And no one does it better.
I'm supposed to get this right.
Your supposed to paint the night.
And no one does it better.
Braced me,
And then He changed me.
But .... He promised the world!
But the mind don't stall.
I won't give you peace.
Fuel the fire.
But the book says:
Why don't you just ask?
Stop mocking what you dare not task.
Every time there's a wall I can feel it coming on.
Not like a dove gently surfing the air come on.
I cant believe can't control all the power over,
over the lives on the creatures the word is spoken.
But then you say you'll believe when you see it all.
Well here I am only inches from your eyeballs.
Once again blown away by the North Star,
Vanity's glare take the wheel of your crash car.
They say it's all over now...
Let me educate you now, yeah.
Feel now. Push up the level!
Feel it now. Push up the level!
Push up the level the heavens will fight for me!
Lately I'm beginning to understand
Hey, I'll be with you always.
They know exactly what to say.
I hate every single game they play.
No remorse for yesterday.
Not rest till I find you. (you're the one I want)
When will you be free?
I'll tell you when you follow Me.
You can hide but there's nowhere
you can be to get rid of Me.
You'll be Mine...
Yeah! I'll be with you always.
You learn from your mistakes.
And I won't go away!
Stains on the rest of you may fade,
but you cannot stay this way.
I'm a renaissance mayday.
Your conscience sent for Me. (you're the one I want)
Can you push aside all those you hate in your life?
No I don't think you'll do that,
My hand stop you dead right.
So I'll stay and pray to you...
She likes drawing pictures of herself on her walls.
In time maybe then she'll learn
to like it when she smiles.
Do you like the way you are?
Rip away at my heart.
Do you like the way the stars rip away at the dark?
Then finally looking at her own face,
She was tired.
One night someone left a note that read:
Live your life and you feed on it all.
25 wives and you feed on it all.
War is the viewers choice you feed on it all.
3rd eye the ancient voice, you feed on it all.
Smile on my face,
It makes the wait more bare able.
Smile makes the wait bare able.
The Banded!
Born to be striped!
Broke my heart and you feed on it all.
It's all been done before.
It's all derived from someone else's wrongs.
Retying every lace it's swallows it's own face and storms at the ground.
And it's always the same.
And I will rearrange!
And then everyday it gets a little more obsessed with it's own worth.
Retying every lace it's swallows it's own face and storms at the ground.
It's all been done before.
Creep time, not left behind.
I reached for the bottle but it's dead inside.
Re-find I'll keep this time: the calming,
the leaping, the best in design.
New Love!
Light as the morning and heavy as tear now riveting questioning birth of my fear.
But You call me again like never before and I hear You.
Life just keeps on turning over...
Creep time, not left behind.
I reached for the bottle but it's dead inside.
Re-find what I'll keep this time!
Calming. Calming.
This time I'll be the man I aught to be the deepening narrow that no one can see.
Newfound the beauty as I left behind: the calming, the leaping, the best in design.
New Love!
Turning again there's a scent in the air.
A reminder of once when life was so clear but you call me again like never before and I hear You.
I love the gracious creature in my lap.
She's the sole provider of my happiness.
I didn't come here to bend.
But all our little feuds they should end.
Where is the magic?
Nothing to see, those crystal eyes I adore.
I am ready, subjugate your fears.
Could you bare to spare me some time?
I could not understand why
you found my surrender so bland.
Make way with path to Zion!
I declare this a heavenly scene,
May this be the noise your sole to feed.
I declare this a heavenly scene,
451 they gathered on mound Carmel.
“...baal the living baal-baal the real,
come deliver devour the meal!..."
but he did not come.
Elija bowed.
The flames came down
It was time to run!
The way He teaches one,
the way He teaches all!
It's just the way that we are,
We always go where the others' been before.
It's just the way that we are,
The heart can see but the mind wants some more.
450 dead.
And the drought was done.
All these wheels, dreams of old, A Lifeless sole.
The road is never clear, fueled by tears and notes on breathing.
And now here I am, an aching man.
Not for you not for the world and notes on breathing.
This will haunt me no...
No more...
He's the One now!
Can you hear me?
Stand beside me and carry everything I need!
Now these nights have sleep
And these days are mine to give to the One who gave you love.
Who gave you love.
This will haunt me no...
No more...
He's the One now!
Can you hear me?
Stand beside me and carry everything I need!
He's the One now!
You can here me!
Hey driver, where're we going
I swear my nerves are showing
Set your hopes up way too high
The living's in the way we die
Comes the morning and the headlights fade away
Hundred thousand people...I'm the one they blame
I've been waiting long for one of us to say
Save the darkness, let it never fade away
In the living daylights
All right, hold on tight now
It's down, down to the wire
Set your hopes up way too high
The living's in the way we die
Comes the morning and the headlights fade in rain
Hundred thousand changes...everything's the same
I've been waiting long for one of us to say
Save the darkness, let it never fade away
In the living daylights
Comes the morning and the headlights fade away
Hundred thousand people...I'm the one they frame
Lonely lonely lonely Sunday morning.
Such a pity you're asleep.
Young girl getup alright.
Alright now!
If you find just a little time
in your crazy life for me.
Lonely lonely lonely Sunday morning.
Such a pity you're asleep.
Young girl getup alright.
Alright now!
Where's your rings of hope?
They dissapear with no reason.
No Reason.
Where the rings of fire?
You should have gave up when they
came calling
Lonely lonely lonely Sunday morning.
Such a pity you're asleep.
Young girl getup alright.
Alright now!
Inside my head's alive
With images of you
Lonely lonely lonely Sunday morning.
Such a pity you're asleep.
Young girl getup alright.
Alright now!
Where's your rings of hope?
They dissapear like logs in a fire
Where the real desire?
Where going to raise up,
all the rivers up
Where's your rings of hope?
They dissapear with no reason.
No Reason.
Where the real desire?
It's a burning Fire!
Lonely lonely lonely Sunday morning.
Such a pity you're asleep.
Young girl getup alright.