As a product of the Hollywood blockbuster trend in the 50s and 60s, the shooting process of "Cleopatra" can be described as extremely luxurious. At that time, there was no advanced computer digital technology, and the producer must pursue the most realistic effect, which led to the construction of large-scale scenery. For example, the famous scene in the film, Cleopatra's visit to Rome's entrance ceremony, the scene is magnificent, the streets and gates are built with real building materials, so that some people say that the crew of "Cleopatra" intends to rebuild a Roman city. However, input and output are not always proportional. "Cleopatra" has become the most loss-making film in film history, and its failure has also planted the bane of Fox's final bankruptcy. Of course, some people also benefit from it. The two leading actors of the film, Hollywood actress Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor and British movie star Richard Bolton, acted in the filming process and performed a lingering love story. This was also heated up by the media at the time.
"Cleopatra" indeed reproduces a period of magnificent history in the ancient Roman era with amazing courage. The director Joseph Leo Mankiewicz's ability to control the big scene is not simple. The film describes the ambitious Egyptian Queen Cleopatra married to Caesar of the Roman Empire for political purposes, but later she had a stormy love with the Roman general Marc Anthony. The depiction of this triangular relationship is relatively in-depth due to the show off of the external landscape, but the scenes of several battles and the queen entering the city in the film are breathtaking.
