Julius Caesar is an 1953 MGM film adaptation of the play by Shakespeare, directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz, who also wrote the uncredited screenplay, and produced by John Houseman. The original music score is by Miklós Rózsa. The film stars Marlon Brando as Mark Antony, James Mason as Brutus, John Gielgud as Cassius, Louis Calhern as Julius Caesar, Edmond O'Brien as Casca, Greer Garson as Calpurnia, and Deborah Kerr as Portia.
Many of the actors connected with this film had previous experience with the play. John Gielgud had played Mark Antony at the Old Vic Theatre in 1930 and Cassius at the Shakespeare Memorial Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon in 1950, James Mason had played Brutus at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in the 1940s, and John Hoyt, who plays Decius Brutus, also played him in the 1937 stage version. Gielgud later played the title role in the 1970 film with Charlton Heston, Jason Robards and Richard Johnson (as Cassius) and in a stage production directed by John Schlesinger at the Royal National Theatre. John Houseman, who had produced the famous 1937 Broadway version of the play starring Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre, also produced the MGM film. By this time, however, Welles and Houseman had had a falling out, and Welles had nothing to do with the 1953 film. P. M. Pasinetti, Italian-American writer, scholar, and teacher at UCLA served as a technical advisor.
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This film is a gangster version of Shakespeare's 'Julius Caesar'. It is set in the modern world of organized crime. It is shot in black and white to recall the gangster-noir movies of the 30's and 40's. Shakespeare's language has been preserved with just a few edits to fit the context of the film. As Caesar is about to be made the new 'don', Cassius convinces Brutus, Caesar's most trusted friend, to join a conspiracy to assassinate him because he has become too 'ambitious'.
Keywords: based-on-play, character-name-in-title, shakespeare's-julius-caesar
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Sentenced to spend out the rest of his adult life laboring in the harsh deserts of Egypt, the Thracian slave Spartacus gets a new lease on life when he is purchased by the obese owner of a Roman gladiator school. Moved by the defiance of an Ethiopian warrior, Draba, Spartacus leads a slave uprising which threatens Rome's status quo. As Spartacus gains sympathy within the Roman Senate, he also makes a powerful enemy in form of Marcus Lucinius Crassus, who makes it a matter of personal honor to crush the rebellion.
Keywords: ambush, ancient-rome, ancient-times, armor, army, bare-chested-male-bondage, based-on-book, based-on-novel, based-on-true-story, battle
Once a slave. Forever a legend.
Spartacus: Live Draba - that is what life is for.
Spartacus: I am not a king. I am something better. A free man.
Crixus: Fighting Romans is like fighting a grist mill. The stone keeps on turning. No matter how many times you attack it, in the end it grinds you down to dust.
David: I will be back...::David: ...and I will be millions!
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Young Vercingetorix came of age in 60 B.C., as soldiers of the Roman Empire ran roughshod over Gaul and his father was captured and executed by Romans. A wise and philosophical druid, Guttuart, tells the angry Vercingetorix that he should seek justice by winning freedom for Gaul from the Romans. As an adult, Vercingetorix becomes a brave and insightful warrior, and at first joins forces with the charismatic Julius Caesar. But in time Vercingetorix is betrayed by the great leader, and soon he raises an army of his own to defeat Caesar and bring Guttuart's prophesy to life.
Keywords: 1st-century-b.c., ancient-rome, archer, archery, army, assassination, barbarian, battle, battlefield, blood
His people made him a leader. The empire made him a renegade. History made him a hero.
Every battle needs a hero.
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Julius Ceasar: We have made an enemy, and it would have been much better to have him as a friend.
Vercingétorix: You want to fight? You want to live forever? Then I will lead you.
Julius Ceasar: I offered to make you a king.::Vercingetorix: So now, accept the surrender of a king.
Julius Ceasar: When Alexander the Great was ten years younger than I am now, he had control of half of the civilized world.::Vercingetorix: When he was as old as you are now, Alexander the great was dead.::Julius Ceasar: All the more reason to hurry.
Julius Ceasar: I will make you a king, appointed by Rome.::Vercingetorix: Why not a king appointed by destiny?
Vercingetorix: I come to offer you the glory of your victory, which Rome will forever honor with inscriptions in stone and eternal flames.::Julius Ceasar: The light of my victory will make my invisible past failures heavier.
Guttuart: He's going where nothing more can be written. The greater the magic, the greater the price that must be paid.
Guttuart: King of the Arverians, leader of great warriors, what do you see after this great victory?::Vercingetorix: I see all the peoples of Gaul united.::Guttart: United? Under the dark desire of revenge?::Vercingetorix: No, I want to force Ceasar back on the same road himself built. It's movement which uses the the pretext of the free movement of goods and men to accelerate the orders of the empire, which stangles us to satisfy its ambition. In my father's memory, I will realize the magic he wanted to create: to chase the Germans and Romans out of Gaul.
Vercingetorix: You accuse me of treason? Then kill me. Yes, I betrayed Gaul. Yes, I was a coward. Your anger is my anger, at myself. Because I made one mistake: I listened to you. The city had to burn, and would I had done it, the inhabitants would still be alive and the troops of Ceasar famished. But Ceasar made a worse mistake when he ordered the slaughter, which horrifies and revolts my heart, and yours, and the hearts of all Gaul. Now, if you think you've done me a favor by giving me this command, and if you think I am no longer worthy of this honor, I'll hand it back to you right now.
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Cleopatra, the famed Egyptian Queen born in 69 B.C., is shown to have been brought by Roman ruler Julius Caesar at age 18. Caesar becomes sexually obsessed by the 18 year old queen, beds her, and eventually has a son by her. However, his Roman followers and his wife are not pleased by the union. In fact, as Caesar has only a daughter by his wife, he had picked Octavian as his successor. The out-of-wedlock son of Cleopatra is seen to be a threat to his future leadership. Thus Brutus and other Roman legislators plot the assassination of Caesar. Caesar's loyal general, Marc Antony, and Octavian then divide up the Roman empire. Antony takes Egypt and soon takes up the affair with Cleopatra. However, Octavian soon launches an attack on Antony and ultimately defeats and mortally wounds him. Rather than permitting herself to be humiliated by Octavian, Cleopatra sends her son away to India and she commits suicide by permitting the deadly asp to bite her.
Keywords: 1st-century-b.c., adultery, ambush, ancient-egypt, ancient-rome, assassination, bare-breasts, bare-chested-male, bare-chested-male-bondage, based-on-novel
Passion. Power. History.
Passion. Power. Betrayal.
[Final lines]::Octavian: You have won, Cleopatra. You have won!
Marcus Brutus: Octavian, join us! Aid us in destroying this tyrant!::Octavian: No, I could never betray Caesar...::[Short pause]::Octavian: But I won't stop you either.
Cleopatra: Divorce your wife! Marry me and name Caesarion your one true heir!::Julius Caesar: No! Caesarion is my son. Octavian is my heir.
[On Caesarion]::Marc Antony: [to Octavian] Looks like you have competition.::Octavian: I don't think so. Caesar will never name him his heir.::Marc Antony: You know the future?::Octavian: I know my uncle.
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Brutus, Cassius, and other high-ranking Romans murder Caesar, because they believe his ambition will lead to tyranny. The people of Rome are on their side until Antony, Caesar's right-hand man, makes a moving speech. The conspirators are driven from Rome, and two armies are formed: one side following the conspirators; the other, Antony. Antony has the superior force, and surrounds Brutus and Cassius, but they kill themselves to avoid capture.
Keywords: 1st-century-b.c., 40s-b.c., 44-b.c., ambush, ancient-rome, armor, army, assassination, assassination-plot, bare-chested-male
Julius Caesar: [after being stabbed by Brutus] Et tu, Brute? Then fall, Caesar!
Marc Antony: Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them, The good is oft interred with their bones; So let it be with Caesar.
[last lines]::Marc Antony: This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators save only he, did what they did in envy of great Caesar. He only, in a general honest thought, and common will for all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elements so mixed in him that the nature might stand up and say to all the world, "This was a man."
Marc Antony: [to Caesar's dead body] O pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers.
Cassius: [referring to Julius Caesar] And this man is now become a god.
Cassius: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars,/ But in ourselves that we are underlings.
Julius Caesar: Cowards die many times before their deaths; / The valiant never taste of death but once.
Cassius: Ye gods, it doth amaze me/ A man of such a feeble temper / Should so get the start of the majestic world/And bear the palm alone.
Brutus: Since Cassius first did whet me against Caesar/ I have not slept./ Between the acting of a dreadful thing / And the first motion, all the interim is / Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream: / The Genius and the mortal instruments / Are then in council; and the state of man, / Like to a little kingdom, suffers then / The nature of an insurrection.
Cassius: Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed that he hath grown so great?
Oh whoa (x4)
Well you're a wild horse
On a collision course
With the sun
(repeat)
I wanted to ride that wild horse
Into the sun
(repeat)
But I no longer think that
I'm your chosen one
On no, I no longer think that
I'm your chosen one
Oh whoa (x2)
Maybe it's best for you to ride
Ride into the sun
Because I no longer think that
I'm your chosen one
Oh no, I no longer think that
I'm your chosen one
Oh whoa (x4)
(Intro)
Check it out, it's Notorious BIG with my peoples present
If you don't know now you know
(Bridge)
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(Verse)
Smoking on that granddaddy like it's liquor
We talk 100 cars, nigga Julius Caesar
Shawty hold it down, nigga she's a keeper
On my neck 100 thou, Julius Caesar
Came up out the block tryna make a dollar
Then I bought the drop, gave a bitch a dollar
Dirty money, all my niggas stackin piles
Fully quipin wheels and my gang got em
Talk about that bread, should make a movie
Jerk it to the end, to the roof
Young thinkin about er, man I done told er
Servin them the code, forgot the coke
Getting money, blowin money, rich & poor
Gave the shit like I played for Florida
I done cleared about 10 mill
And my chain about 10 deals
Drink lean, smoking marijuana
World Cup FIFA, watch at night only
(Hook)
We talk 100 cars, nigga Julius Caesar
On my neck 100 thou, Julius Caesar
We talk 100 cars, nigga Julius Caesar
On my neck 100 thou, Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar, Julius Caesar
We talk 100 cars, nigga Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar, Julius Caesar
On my neck 100 thou, Julius Caesar
(Verse)
Team full of shooters, we don't got no call
Just a duffle bag with a lot of O's
All my niggas make movies, all them bitches be choosing
All them cars be toppin, all of my niggas ain't losin
They get it fresh up out the border
I might cook it on a yacht on the port
Bad bitches getting high beside the border
Show me responses, talk about all
Me and Miley Marley flex high
Lost 200 on the same body
Take two of thee and take it back
F*ck a photo shoot, we do this every night
(Hook)
We talk 100 cars, nigga Julius Caesar
On my neck 100 thou, Julius Caesar
We talk 100 cars, nigga Julius Caesar
On my neck 100 thou, Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar, Julius Caesar
We talk 100 cars, nigga Julius Caesar
Julius Caesar, Julius Caesar
On my neck 100 thou, Julius Caesar