When I revisited the movie at station B, I found a few more barrages saying that Anthony's actor was ugly, and I couldn't help but want to complain about the failed look of Liburton in this film.
After watching a lot of his films from different eras and comparing them in many ways, I came to a conclusion that he is very unsuitable for the style of ancient Rome.
He is a typical British drama protagonist face. Suitable for white, graceful, luxurious, majestic, arrogant British classical dress or modern dress wearing a suit and trench coat, as well as military uniform, clergy wear. The more black and white the better.
And the general shape in the ancient Roman color film, with dark skin, pitted cheeks, curly hair and light green eyes, looks very uninspired, even a little rustic.
Comparing his British appearance and ancient Roman appearance in the same period, we can see that there are obvious advantages and disadvantages whether it is 52 years and 53 years or 62 years and 63 years.
The 63 version of the cup was originally filmed for 20 hours. It was planned to be cut into 8 hours and broadcast in two films. As a result, because the leader took over, it was directly cut into 3 hours, which greatly reduced Anthony's role. It is very abrupt to let him change from hero to bear without transition, only the emotional scene with the heroine is left.
For this, Elizabeth Taylor was very angry, thinking that this seriously damaged Anthony's image and destroyed the fruits of Richard Burton's labor.
But I think the worse part is that the screenwriter wrote the script while editing and shooting. Because Tyler Burton's love affair happened in the middle, the screenwriter deliberately transplanted Burton's character, image and behavior to Anthony. This is obviously an entrainment of private goods .
You must know that except for alcoholism and romance, the two have no similar personalities at all. Anthony is cynical, and Burton is sensitive and depressive, so in the end, he did not play Anthony at all, but Burton himself.
This is also the reason why this version of Anthony is so serious from the beginning to the end, and basically can't see any lustful acts and is seriously out of the historical image. The only cool thing is that he was slapped by Queen Yan and then slapped her back, knocking her directly to the ground, when he was fed up with the bird's anger, he could finally vent it all at once. What's going on behind the scenes in this drama is so much more exciting.
Because the screenwriter wanted the audience to see Burton and Tyler ripping off in front of the camera, so after she heard the news that Anthony went to Rome to marry Octavia, she was holding a dagger and scratched Anthony's clothes. Duan, the people on the set said that Taylor was trying to force Burton to marry, but Burton did not agree, and she committed suicide twice. In this scene, she wielded a knife and shouted the name of Burton's original partner, Sybil, so she acted so violently and realistically.
Roddy McDowell, who played Octavian, is gay and Taylor's best friend. So he played the play where Octavian heard that Anthony was dead, and when he started to recite Shakespeare's line in memory of Anthony, his whole person exuded the light of being gay~ I was surprised when I read this paragraph, No wonder he played Octavian obviously full of hostility to Anthony but somehow a bit rotten.
In reality, Taylor and Burton are surrounded by two groups of gays with different stances. Tyler's best friends hate Burton and speak ill of him behind his back. The gays around Burton have more or less had an affair with him or have an ambiguous relationship. They have also been persuading Burton and Taylor to separate, and they did not give up this effort until the year before Burton died.
Therefore, it is not easy for the two to break through so many obstacles, and their determination to love each other has never been shaken by these people.
When Burton and Taylor announced their separation in 1973, reporters went to interview Burton, who explained it with Shakespeare's lines.
He said, "Because I am not a giant with two feet across the ocean and raised arms over the earth (Anthony and Cleopatra), and she is not the queen of the Nile."
The famous director Tony Richardson went to Burton to play the film version of "Anthony and Cleopatra", but he refused. A few years ago, he was filming in Richardson's crew. Because he participated in an auction in the middle and bought a famous painting by Degas, the media rushed to report. Richardson thought he was deliberately showing off, so he took revenge for private revenge. The excuse for being late was to reprimand him in public and kick him out of the set (he was never late, only 30 minutes late that day to bring Taylor's daughter to the set).
Because of this Liangzi, Burton did not play the real Shakespeare version of Anthony, and many people regretted this, because the original book was much more exciting than "Cleopatra" and should be played by him, a Shakespeare genius.
When Anthony went to Silesia after Philippi to summon the Queen and was tempted to get on the boat, the screenwriter wrote that the necklace of gold coins with the head of Caesar was hanging around her neck. Anthony was jealous and dragged it off.
In fact, it was the insinuation that Burton went to Taylor's villa to see that she had placed many pictures of her late husband Todd and became jealous.
So the sense of inconsistency in this play was so strong because it became the most popular Liz Dick show at the time, and the audience wanted to see the notorious couple tearing and unlucky.
In fact, Anthony and Burton have many similarities.
First of all, the first contact between the two was homosexuality when they were teenagers. They were once lost, and then they turned to heterosexuality. Then they both started having children in their thirties, and the first was a daughter. Moreover, both of them were alcoholics, and both were subdued by a woman, who turned from lustful to maddening lover. In the end, they all abandoned their careers and ruined their lives because of love.
All of them were caught in a same-sex scandal when they were in distress. Anthony was rumored to be selling himself in a brothel and then was ransomed and adopted by his gay brother Curio. Burton was adopted by his adoptive father Philip Burton, his mentor Emlyn Williams, and several gay uncles such as Lawrence Oliver and John Gielgud.
Then Tyler and Sybil competed for Burton in the same way as the Queen and Octavia competed for Anthony, both because of all kinds of flirtatious entanglements and crying, making trouble, and hanging their wives away.
In the end they both abandoned their wives and daughters and married them, and Sybil and Burton had two daughters, and Octavia and Anthony had two daughters, all very young at the time.
Obviously they are two people with completely different personalities, but their fates are so strikingly similar. It is no wonder that the screenwriter's brains are open to all kinds of substitutions.
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