It actually reminds the life of real Caligula. I don't think of the movie as a masterpiece or even a good movie for all of its 2.5 hours. The movie also includes quite nasty and gruesome scenes of torture, executions, murders, and humiliations but all of the events have been documented in the historical documents that still exist. The movie is notoriously famous for the plentiful scenes of real sex, including incest, necrophilia, rape, and orgies. Anyway, Nero made Caligula his role model and managed to surpass his uncle's' notorious fame. If you read the chapter dedicated to Nero, you'll be even more shocked because Nero was always fascinated by his uncle Caligula (he was a son of Caligula's sister Agrippina who later became a wife of Claudius who adopted Nero and made him the heir for the title and the power of Roman Emperor). Suetonius Tranquillus, the Roman Historian. Maybe it helps to be familiar with the history, Art, and literature of the Ancient Rome because "Caligula" is surprisingly truthful adaptation of the chapter about Caligula in "The Lives Of The Twelve Caesars by C.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |