Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature may not be available in some browsers.
A great movie even the younger generation would enjoy, about a Roman Gladiator slave and his followers, I saw it for 2 weeks as a child, only movie in our part of town.
The rebellion and defeat of Spartacus in 71 B.C. by the increasingly decadent and slave-based “Republic” of Rome followed by 75 years the final defeat of Carthage, giving Roman “Republican” oligarchs monopolistic control over trade in the Western and Central Mediterranean.
The horrible deaths of the reformist Gracchi brothers in 133 and 122 B.C. and the msssacre of their supporters — even in the Roman Forum itself! — had already shown that no reversal of long evolving imperial expansionism, enslavement, land expropriation by the wealthy, was internally possible. Occasional “Tribunes of the People” became occasional semi-legal “dictators,” yet the “forms” of the Republic remained for many generations.
The old militarily disciplined and patriotic city-state Roman citizen soldiers were gradually dispossessed of land and a new much larger state / army / mercenary Empire grew. The pride and patriotism of old Republican Senators and “New Men” fighting for power and wealth remained. There was a remarkable expansion of citizenship and Roman law at the same time as decadence, slavery and empire grew. Even later “great orators” like Cicero were only to become cynical “New Men,” helpless before the inevitable destruction of the Republic.
The great drama of (and questions about) the Spartacus slave Rebellion remains. The movie portrayal was somewhat melodramatic of course. But I suspect the historically real crucifixtion of six thousand remaining rebel slaves along the Appian Way to Rome may have represented (in the minds of many slaves at least) the end of hope in this world. Perhaps the Christian religious story of Jesus Christ’s crucifixtion managed to raise memories of the servile wars, and create a holy myth that superceeded them.
And?It is a well-produced drama but it is not historically correct in all aspects.
It's rather gay.And?
Do you prefer snails or oysters?It's rather gay.
I prefer tbone steakDo you prefer snails or oysters?
It was a good movie; that is I enjoyed it. Of course that has little to do with the overall quality of the movie or the performances.It is quite awesome. Not only that but Douglas effectively deblackballed Trumbo but correctly putting his name as writer.
It has everything. Douglas being his best. Lord Lawrence Olivier pulling out all the stops, jean Simmons, Charles Houghton rocking it hard, and lots of killy killy.
It's a good movie. Not the best acted for sure, and this generation is not going to identify with a movie where men act like men.