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Caligula, one of the most controversial movies ever made, is now available on DVD. This film was a accurate eye-opener for me, and the DVD is far valid to the VHS that was floating around a bit in the ’80s (for all you people complaining about the quality, objective shudder to consider of how it primitive to be) . The fable of Rome’s evil emperor was probably not this wild in genuine life, but this is Penthouse and as a result is chockablock with sexual scenes and graphic violence. Because Caligula is basically in every single scene, it’s hard for the other characters to produce, but there are some radiant supporting players, and McDowell really delivers. It’s hard to own his next film was to play the reserved, scholarly H.G. Wells (”Time After Time.”) He is quite a talented actor. The movie drags on and on, and sometimes the cinematography is unsafe, but other times it is humdrum on the money. The film is a bit grainy on DVD, but as someone else once said, this really contributes to the “gritty” factor. As far as realism, many of the sex scenes search for actual, but I doubt the world has ever seen the likes of that purple-skinned four-eyed (or was it three-eyed? ) woman, plus the guy with all those extra digits and the siamese twins joined at the head resting at Tiberius’ palace. And how about the scene where Caligula “consecrates” that marriage…if that’s how it was, I’d never win married.
The DVD has these things going for it: the creepy music added to the menu (the same as the opening title with the quote from Impress), the 30 chapters nicely divided up, the documentary about the making of featuring Gore Vidal and Bob Guccione (although in places everyone’s face looked diagram too pale, but it was an feeble ’70s film), and the sound is far well-behaved to the VHS from what I can remember.
But this is Caligula and I would definitely not let anyone under 18 (or maybe even 21) notice it.
I will concentrate on the movie’s historical accuracy (or its lack of it), since the previous reviews seem to either have overlooked it, or claimed that it is “historically lawful”, or on the opposite rude, that it totally ignored history.
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“Caligula” does have some merit from the historical point of understanding, surely already point to in Gore Vidal’s modern script. It’s also very broken-down in many points.
The bare events of Caligula’s life and reign are actually quite lawful. It may surprise many viewers that most of the secondary characters – Emperor Tiberius, Senator Nerva, the praetorian prefect Macro, Tiberius’s grandson and Caligula’s rival for the succession Gemellus, Caesonia, Chaerea (who murdered Caligula), his sister Drusilla – were all historical and, as far as the facts have arrive down to us, their portrayal in “Caligula” was fairly proper, at least according to some customary authors.
Tiberius did retire to the island of Capri in his last years and did invite the elderly Nerva to join him there, and faded authors do claim that he indulged in sexual perversions there. Nerva really committed suicide as shown in the movie.
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The conversations between Caligula, Nerva and Tiberius, probably by Vidal, really mediate contemporary views and issues – for instance, the deification of Julius Caesar and Augustus, Tiberius’s predecessors: Tiberius was totally cynical about the whole thing, whereas Caligula firmly believed it. Throughout the movie, many of Caligula’s lines near straight from obsolete authors.
On the other hand, Nerva’s comment on Caligula’s “gift for logic” seems to owe more to Camus than to customary sources – tranquil, a nice touch, I concept.
Tiberius’s cancel by Caligula and Macro, Caligula’s removal of Macro and Gemellus, his incestuous relationship with Drusilla, her death, his marriage to Caesonia, her giving him a daughter, his increasing tyranny, his farcical invasion of Germany and attempted invasion of Britain, and his cancel by his bear guard – are all historical facts, and on the whole not too inaccurately shown in the movie.
On the other hand, the movie’s biggest weaknesses from the historical point of conception are (1) the device it *looks* and (2) the suggestion that Caligula’s and Tiberius’s depravity were somehow “normal”, portion of Rome’s “decadence”.
The sets and clothes all inspect more like something from a Fellini film than from musty Rome. Tiberius’s palace on Capri is perhaps the most unrealistic, along with that ship, and the execution machine – and countless details.
The clothes aren’t very realistic, either. Romans were more casual about nudity than we are today, and I philosophize that their clothes might divulge powerful some times. But I doubt that Roman ladies would be as casual about parading half-naked as portrayed in the movie (I mean in normal situations, not the sex scenes) .
Moreover, it’s simply not upright that “orgies” such as that portrayed in the movie were popular among the Roman upper classes. Actually adultery – also on the section of males – was an offense punishable by death, at least for the upper classes (this didn’t mask prostitution) . The astronomical majority of the Roman senatorial class would, and did, accumulate behavior such as that of Tiberius and Caligula sinister.
However, Caligula’s in cognito wanderings through Rome after Drusilla’s death give perhaps for the first time in a movie a generous impression of what former Rome actually was at night – risky, murky, chaotic, where no person of means would venture without an armed escort.
I also enjoyed the behold of what an emperor’s routine largely consisted of, with Tiberius and Caligula stamping their seal onto endless piles of official documents.
“Caligula” was obviously intended to be mainly a pornographic movie – Bob Guccione made distinct of that. But it also, at some point, was intended to have a core of historical accuracy, which is why Gore Vidal was asked to write the script.
This core is level-headed show in the movie, and it’s not good that you don’t learn anything of Roman history by watching it.
But of course, I know that that’s not what most people will peer it for. So perhaps Guccione was apt.
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