After the film was released, the reviews and word of mouth showed obvious polarization. Although the Oscars still gave the film an objective and fair courtesy, the public and the media did not seem to buy it very much.
The first is that the movie is too long. If the story of this movie is magnificent and the plot is ups and downs, then the length of the movie is reasonable, because it is a compromise and concession to the integrity of the narrative.
But "Cleopatra" is obviously not a qualified epic masterpiece, and the content finally presented cannot support more than four hours of movie time under normal circumstances.
It spends a lot of time on the narrative of the characters' emotions, and does not effectively integrate the historical background with the story itself. And the high-standard production scale obviously does not match the plot of the film.
The second thing I want to say is that the excessively long dialogue in the movie, especially the emotional dialogue of the hero and heroine with strong emotions, is almost an unreasonable suicide in today's Hollywood.
At that time, the great criticism of the film by the media critics mostly focused on the film showing off visual effects and costumes and props, but did not carefully polish the plot and narrative, resulting in the film looking too much like a romance film in the guise of a historical film. .
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