The Ptolemaic dynasty in ancient Egypt after Alexander was ruled by sisters and brothers, but Cleopatra was obviously constrained everywhere, and finally ordered his own The servant wrapped herself in a rug and sent it to Caesar, taking this as an opportunity to start a close cooperation between her and Caesar, relying on Caesar and the Roman power behind him, to successfully dominate the Egyptian throne.
In order to contain the Roman power behind Caesar, she even gave birth to a son for Caesar, named Caesarion. The original purpose of this child's birth was probably his mother's bargaining chip with his father's country. Then at the right time, the Egyptian queen spent thousands of dollars for a grand meeting on the chassis of Rome, wearing a golden robe and riding a sphinx slowly through the Roman gate to Caesar, bowing her head as a little woman shape.
The wealthy Egyptian depicts her contempt under the dark blue eye shadow, and Caesar's support pours out the domineering in her eyes. In the first half of her life, she bet all her ambitions on Caesar and won the bet.
It is a pity that the good times did not last long, Caesar was assassinated before he could unify Rome, and Cleopatra's ambition to rule Rome through Caesar's hand was not finally fulfilled. She wisely left Rome overnight and returned to Egypt.
At this point, the story of the Egyptian queen and Julius Caesar is basically over. I feel that the relationship between the two is more about political cooperation than the most basic love between men and women.
Ahem, two hours have passed, and there is still the second half of the movie, and Mr. Anthony, the Queen's loyal servant lover, makes an appearance and swims magnificently between the Queen's bath and the Queen's...bed.
Mr. Anthony is very weak in this feminist film, and he is very indecisive on major decisions, which makes people want to slap him twice. Anthony's support group basically collapsed after he left Rome for the gentle homeland of the Queen of Egypt, but he was only the Queen's lover in Egypt, and the use of military power had to go through the Queen herself, which was also very frustrating. Because the opponent Octavian is very good at maneuvering and is very tricky in the art of war, and because the Queen always uses Caesar's standard to measure Anthony, the higher the expectations, the greater the disappointment, and the huge gap in contrast has given Anthony an unspeakable pressure. Moreover, Anthony himself can be said to be a very good subordinate or a good executive officer, but he lacks strategy and decision-making. Taken together, whether it is a land battle or a naval battle, it can only be a defeat.
What made matters worse was the last naval battle. The Queen actually let the ship sail away from the military area after the defeat. This time, Anthony was distraught. He only knew that he chased the Queen's ship away, paying no attention to his subordinates and the soldiers in front of him. There is no time for war. The Queen's departure expressed her disappointment at Anthony's defeat and her despair at the failure of her expectations. Afterwards, she burst into tears in the main hall and said that the performance of leaving by boat after thinking that Anthony was dead was pure nonsense.
But Anthony really followed the queen all the way. From the beginning, the queen stayed in the port of Rome for a night, asking Anthony to personally ask her for financial support, and finally the queen hid herself in the tomb to avoid Octavian's pursuit. Anthony hoped to be able to accompany the queen, and finally died in the queen's arms.
In the first half of her life, Cleopatra achieved the throne of the queen because of Caesar. In the second half of her life, she wanted to train Anthony to become Caesar, but she did not want to meet the infatuated species and could give up the country for the beauty. Jiangshan and love, she has it. In addition to failing to complete the ambition of unifying Alexander, it can basically be said that there is no regret.
In the end, she died from a snake kiss, which is really a very Egyptian queen's way of dying. Before his death, he also ordered the maid to put on the golden robe that he had worn at the meeting in Rome, and it was rumored that Octavian asked to be buried with Antony. The request for a joint burial made people think that the queen might really have loved Anthony. She carried Caesar's gold coins for three years, and finally did not ask for a joint burial with Caesar, and Egypt seemed to have a solemn spiritual ceremony for funerals.
The noble queen, the legendary life, her death also ended the short-lived Ptolemaic dynasty. As her domineering remarks: Egypt is me, I am Egypt.
Well, the movie is over, let's talk about the actors, Elizabeth Taylor, and, Richard Burton, who play Cleopatra and Anthony, respectively.
After watching a movie, I usually feel "Oh, this actor is very nice", so I will look for the actor's information, and then, these two let me watch the movie again... It's probably similar to "After 8 marriages, Yu Po will never forget it. "Burton" "Burton will never forget his love at the end of his life - Elizabeth Taylor" and the like can make the headlines of gossip.
Perhaps compared to other works, Elizabeth Taylor's "Cleopatra" is not a top-quality work, but I always think she is Cleopatra, the last queen of the Ptolemaic Dynasty, both coquettish and charming , has ambitions, but at the same time, longing for love and longing to be loved, when Yu Po was young, she really played a real Egyptian queen. I don't quite understand why the translation is called Cleopatra, she is a king not a queen, she is also a beautiful king, not the legendary queen.
Burton's Anthony is indeed inferior to Taylor's queen, but this film was originally centered on the heroine. Burton played a very good lover, gentle and considerate, and the queen was the center. .
As the saying goes, life is like a play, and play is like life. Taylor and Burton became attached because of "Cleopatra", and then went through ten years of marriage, divorced, remarried, and divorced again four months later, torturing each other for 22 years. Part of their real life may reflect this drama, they are united because of love, and they are separated because of too much love. Love to the point of being unable to love, gathering to the end, the extravagant and flashy life bloomed with grand fireworks in the hourglass of time, and finally disappeared in the dark night of nothingness, leaving countless gossips that the people who eat melons relish.
Maybe even the queen or even the jade woman can't tell who she has loved and whom she has loved.
Who said that you can't see through the world, you can't see the words of love, all living beings are suffering, and suffering is a life of love.
ps1. I always feel that understanding Western culture with eastern thinking will have a funny result, because many cultural differences are incomprehensible. In addition, Western love is primitive and impulsive. From BC, it can be staged to roll the sheets when looking at the eyes, but Eastern love is always full of abstinence and work. The spiritual shackles of the heart, wanting to refuse but also welcoming, wanting to talk, and love is hard to open in the bottom of my heart. But culture dictates, Western culture is yes or no, simple and rude but direct and effective, Eastern culture can definitely give you a lot of giggles, and a lot of people can't make it out in the end. However, in the information age where the Eastern and Western cultures are colliding with each other, being implicit is not a good thing. You will miss job opportunities, your lover, and many unexpected things. We yearn for unrestrained love and freedom. The ancient Egyptians did it before BC. ok! ! ! (But they are queens, and they are not universal....)
ps2. This year, on New Year's Day and Xiaoman, I went to Nanbo to see the Laowang Exhibition. When I heard Cleopatra in the explanation, my two There was no response. When I heard the words "The Legendary Cleopatra", I glanced at each other, and then eagerly slammed on the window glass to look at it. After reading it, I thought, "It's pretty, isn't it? Cleopatra?", very puzzled. Rumors have been circulated for thousands of years, and the water on the Nile River has passed for thousands of years. Who still remembers who is who, who can really confirm the right and wrong in the rumors.
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