Kirk Douglas is the father of Michael Douglas. It looks like a mold, and even the voice is the same. He was brilliant in the opening scene of the film. When the narration said that he "Dreaming of the death of slavery, 2000 years before it came true", he brutally broke the hamstring of a Roman soldier. However, with the development of the plot, Kirk portrayed Spartacus as a thin, high-quality image, awe-inspiring, loves freedom and beauty, led the people to liberation, faced the coercion and profit of the exploiting class, and persuaded him to die. In the end, he was heroic. So much. The scene in the film showing the slave rebels are self-reliant and self-reliant makes me have the illusion of traveling, as if I have come to the holy land of Yan'an for mass production. Except for his love for beautiful women, he may be the same as a large number of images created by a certain eastern country after 2000.
However, this is an epic film. The exquisite and true image of the protagonist of the epic film is a kind of surprise, and there is no such surprise in this film. We should focus on the historical figures that appeared in the epic film. The other core character of the film is the Roman consul Crassus who suppressed the Spartacus uprising. He is a typical iron-blooded figure who advocates dictatorship to eliminate the corruption of the Roman Republic and make Rome more dazzling. Such a character is played by the well-known Lawrence Oliver. It is conceivable that the film is not only Gao Daquan, but also a stage play-style Gao Daquan. They guarantee the traditional taste of the film, pure and brilliant. Fortunately, we also have Tiberius Gragu, a dramatic pragmatist, whose political views vie with Crassus. In addition to the generous statements of the Senate, he also used various yin or yang methods to deal with it. Political enemies, many of them have quite a sense of humor. Swinging between them was Julius Caesar, the first name that anyone who first heard of Rome heard. Thanks to them, the level of the film is richer, the characters are fresher, and the struggle within the Senate is more exciting than Spartacus's hack.
Let me talk about the details. The color and setting of the film evoked my memories in Pompeii. The earthy yellow earth and Roman pillars, the scorching sun was in the sky, and what was missing was a group of Roman legions leaving in the dust. The 3 hours of film length also allows the film to have enough time to pave the way for the Spartacus uprising, which obviously cannot be without love. Joan Simmons is a classic beauty, but when this role is very suitable. Although the love scenes are very clichéd, in this film love is the direct fuse of the Spartacus uprising-the same as many historical Hollywood films. Spartacus even improvised an uprising for this---faced his lover being sold off, he pressed the guard into the water tank and drowned. Before this, there was a Spartacus gladiatorial plot. The highlight of this section is the audience of two ladies. Their poor gladiators have to stand under the scorching sun to fight, but they have no perspective to fight to death for their entertainment. This kind of aristocratic hypocrisy is still not uncommon today.
I think the filming motive of this film is probably the great success in 1959, which won 11 Oscars for "Benxu". The same ancient Roman background, the same pictures of blue blood and yellow sand, the same biographies of the insurgents, the same motives for revenge, the same epic scenes, the epic film length, and the epic drama tone. Even the 10-minute black screen overture with a 10-minute opening and a 10-minute black screen break in the midfield are the same. This incredible and breathtaking practice today I have only seen in "Gone with the Wind", "Ben Xu" and this film. However, these similarities are superficial features. In essence, the film still has a lot of gaps from "Bin Xu". First of all, the image of the male protagonist is thin, and the deliberate creation of the high-quality image makes it lose the charm of personality. The focus is also on eulogizing the emancipation of slaves, unlike "Benxu", which talks heavily about Jesus and the worldview he brought. In short, it was a big production at that time, and the overall quality was not bad, but apart from understanding the history, there is no reason to watch it today.
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