I've seen Vivian Leigh's stage-like Caesar & cleopatra in 1934, 1963, 1999, and even 1945, and this summer, I watched the NT live version of Anthony & cleopatra. What other bits and pieces are like HBO There are cleopatra characters in the TV series Rome and the 2002 film Julius Caesar, and my favorite is this version.
Leonor varela is really not beautiful enough, but very sexy and attractive, and finally a darker-skinned actress starred in Cleopatra. Looking back at the genetic ancestry of cleopatra VII, she does have Macedonian ancestry, but based on the custom of intermarriage between previous Egyptian dynasties in order to keep the blood pure, even with Macedonian ancestry, it is impossible to have the same skin color as traditional whites (although historical The skin color of the queen has never been studied), but according to the mixed gene, the side with the most melanin gene will be more. I won’t go into details here, please refer to the genes of African Americans.
In addition, cleopatra VII in history was the first pharaoh who was proficient in Greek and Egyptian. At that time, Egypt was deeply influenced by the trend of ancient Rome, and these nobles only learned Greek. I wonder when there will be a book using Greek The appearance of cleopatra, which speaks lines, is closer to the situation at that time.
In the 1999 version, the queen seduces Caesar and Anthony with her beauty, of course she also has ambitions, she hopes to conquer the world with caesar, but her condition is that divorce calpurnia, married me and name caesarion your one true heir! For A man in power, a husband, no matter how unfaithful he is, no matter how much he loves cleopatra VII, it is impossible for Caesar to abandon his wife, because Caesar knows very well that if so he may lose everything, and it turns out that even if he did not do so He was also killed by those so-called loyal to him, and there were 23 stab wounds, how ruthless these people are.
I really like Julius Caesar because he is a real hero, a king. In the 1963 version, Caesar told cleopatra VII that he wanted to be another Alexander, but unfortunately he was over 50 years old, and this wish was difficult to achieve. If Alexander was a conqueror, then Julius Caesar was definitely an emperor. After he became a consul, he did make the ancient Roman Empire glorious for a period of time, but after Octavius came to power, Rome went down.
This version of the Tao of service is actually worse than the 1963 version, but the story is relatively concise and not so long, and it quickly cuts into the theme. Leonor varela's performance is natural, and it is said that the king of a country needs love, and in fact all versions Did not mention that in addition to Caesarion, cleopatra VII also had 3 children with Anthony. She actually had 4 children in her life, but generally only agreed that Caesarion was a pharaoh because he once ruled Egypt with his mother for a period of time. time.
The scale of this version is obviously larger than that of the 1963 version, and it can indeed better express the fact that the love between the Queen and Caesar and Anthony is actually different. Caesar needs cleopatra VII by his side, and the two realize the dream of conquering the world together. But he would never marry her. Anthony is relatively young. Although he and Octavius ruled Rome together, he is willing to give up and marry cleopatra VII, but he is relatively cowardly.
Caesar is a hero who never gives up, even if he only has 2 legions in his hand, he can still win. On the contrary, Anthony is defeated like a mountain even with twice as many legs as Caesar. I really want to know how to face such a cowardly Man, what is Queen Yan's mood like? As the head of a country, she chose suicide to save the country in the face of subjugation (there is another saying that she was killed at all, because the cobra's venom did not match the time of death). The 1999 version and the 1963 version have almost the same dialogue at the end. Some people say that Zhuyu comes first, but I don't think Elizabeth Taylor's performance is that good. Her mid-Atlantic accent is really hard to listen to, and it really doesn't feel good to watch her act, she is undoubtedly beautiful, but she is too fat to be a actress.
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