Let's simply paint her a portrait first, a beautiful girl should be painted by someone.
Her nose is neither high nor low, and her oval face has an oriental charm. Perhaps because her ancestors are Greeks, she has blue eyes of Western beauty;
she loves to study mathematics and astronomy, and is proficient in poetry and literature. She has multiple languages, respects the philosophy and science of the Greek era. It can be said that she is a "scholar";
she spends time on grooming her face and body, and studies "make love". In her opinion, the charm of a woman means that to conquer the rights of men.
Perhaps, when she was born, she was just a beautiful child, but the court of intrigue and sibling rivalry taught her how power protects herself, and she also learned to take advantage of a woman.
Yes, there can only be one such woman in the history of the world, and that is Cleopatra - Cleopatra.
In each version of the "Cleopatra" movie, at the beginning, it was accompanied by a long stretch of the gorgeous carpet, the beautiful Cleopatra slipped out of it, and then "seduced" the Roman ruler Caesar. Taking advantage of Caesar's dream of "conquering the world", she persuaded Caesar to support her as a pharaoh, on the condition that Caesar was continuously supplied with Egyptian wealth. She even gave birth to a child for Caesar. After Caesar was assassinated by the opposition, she seduced Caesar's love, Anthony, and had a son with Anthony. Anthony, who was stunned by the "beauty", gave her large swathes of Roman territory, which angered Rome up and down. In the naval battle, Antony was defeated by Octavian, the adopted son of Caesar. Antony died of her wounds, and Octavian executed her children and stated that Egypt would be a "province" of the Roman Empire. In desperation, she ended her life in the "most Egyptian" way - a cobra.
Shakespeare wrote a line for her: I am the wind, I am the earth, and everything in me belongs to decay...
In Shakespeare's view, her tragedy was a tragedy of love, and the person she loved dies.
In my opinion, all she loves is Egypt.
In Elizabeth Taylor's version of "Cleopatra", "Hollywood style" was staged in ancient Egypt, and Cleopatra played by Taylor always has an infinite desire for power in her eyes. The classic scene is that she always emphasizes herself. It is "Goddess Isis" and "Nile".
There is such a scene in "Cleopatra" starring a Chilean actress in 1999. The queen, who was pregnant with Caesar's child, was in charge of government affairs. She ordered the execution of the "opposition" and the execution of the "man who beat his children and his wife." It's a reflection of Cleopatra's inner role as mother and woman. At the same time, when she saw that her subjects could not eat, and a large amount of grain was hoarded to "repay the debt" to the Romans, she opened the door of the grain depot and delivered the grain to the Egyptians with her own hands.
At night, she gave birth to a baby, and there were crowds outside. She knew she was a subject of Egypt. Regardless of the fact that she had just given birth, she came to the balcony of the palace, looked at the crowd in the night, raised her child confidently and truly felt that the people were supporting her, and said, "This is the aftermath of Egypt!"
I think this scene is truly beyond Without any grand scenes in Taylor's film, she fully interprets the fact that the Queen "belongs to Egypt." "After Egypt" instead of "After Rome", and she is also the "King of Egypt" and the patron saint of Egypt.
In this sense, as a woman, she received love and gave love; as a queen, she guarded Egypt, and Egypt guarded her.
She conquers men, by whatever means. But she wasn't always victorious, and there were men she couldn't conquer.
What defeats her is that peace will eventually prevail, and a powerful empire will eventually replace the decaying dynasty, and all of this is exactly what her "enemy" Octavian wants to accomplish.
What she wanted was "an independent Egypt", and what Octavian wanted was "Egypt as a Roman province". Octavian didn't need her life, but everything she had was used to "guard Egypt". If Egypt wasn't there, she wouldn't be there.
Egypt, which has since become a province of Rome. Octavian established the Roman Empire and created 200 years of "prosperity and peace", known as "Augustus the Great".
In various versions of the film, perhaps out of sympathy for her, Octavian is portrayed as a "villain", but in my opinion, a person who is committed to creating peace and prosperity is definitely a true hero at heart .
"Little people" love war, only heroes love peace.
More than a thousand years later, the Roman Empire collapsed, and the glory of "Augustus" was no longer. The common cultural motherland of Cleopatra and Octavian, Greece, also embarked on the road of striving for national independence together with the Egyptian people. ...
I share the same birthday as Octavian, perhaps to analyze his heart more clearly, we have the same hobbies, from politics to literature.
Octavian was actually the most suitable person for Cleobat, and he thought not only of "conquest", but also "construction". Antony can kill poets (Cicero, the most famous writer in ancient Rome), but Octavian is making more poets, which Cleobat actually likes.
The era without poetry is tragic, the era when only one person "composes poetry" and the rest are "reconciled" is boring, I think, if there is an afterlife, perhaps Octavian will be in the "Battle of Greece" To build a beautiful and tough woman, you can talk about poetry, talk about literature, think about it together, and build a "forever peaceful" country tomorrow.
Today, they are all statues, the white marble, for Octavian, is a story of "power and glory", for Cleopatra, is a story of beauty and sorrow.
When the pen was just written, the first snow of the year was ushered in. The spirit of snow fluttering on the cheeks makes people feel moved and hopeful.
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