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I still think that it is an interesting movie with very good actors. It is also known that soon after becoming head of Roman Empire, Caligula suffered an illness and as the result of it, he became incredibly nasty, cruel, and suspicious man who had indulged in the worst acts of debauchery, cruelty, and sadism. Shrewd Tiberius said about his adopted grandson that "never humankind knew the better slave and the worse ruler than Caligula" and that he was rearing "a viper for the Roman people and a Phaethon for the world." When the young man finally received an access to the absolute power it had absolutely corrupted him. When he grew up as a heir to the cruel and suspicious Tiberius, he had to hide his feelings and go through many humiliations in order to survive. In his childhood and youth, he was adored by Roman people and especially by the army and he was a promising young man. It actually reminds the life of real Caligula. I don't think of the movie as a masterpiece or even a good movie for all of its 2.5 hours. 5.3 (35,000) Caligula is one of the most notorious and controversial films ever produced the involvement of Penthouse founder and magazine publisher Bob Guccione altered the film from an exploration of the reign of Roman Emporer Caligula to an exploitation film starring some of the most respected British stars of the 1970's. The movie also includes quite nasty and gruesome scenes of torture, executions, murders, and humiliations but all of the events have been documented in the historical documents that still exist. The movie is notoriously famous for the plentiful scenes of real sex, including incest, necrophilia, rape, and orgies. A dramatization of the ascent to Caesar and subsequent reign of Caligula, one of the most notorious leaders of ancient Rome. (TintoBrass)' cm videt 'eve58' nev felhasznl tlttte fel a(z) 'film/animci' kategriba. Anyway, Nero made Caligula his role model and managed to surpass his uncle's' notorious fame. With Malcolm McDowell, Teresa Ann Savoy, Guido Mannari, John Gielgud. If you read the chapter dedicated to Nero, you'll be even more shocked because Nero was always fascinated by his uncle Caligula (he was a son of Caligula's sister Agrippina who later became a wife of Claudius who adopted Nero and made him the heir for the title and the power of Roman Emperor). Suetonius Tranquillus, the Roman Historian. Read this NSFW list with someone you love.Maybe it helps to be familiar with the history, Art, and literature of the Ancient Rome because "Caligula" is surprisingly truthful adaptation of the chapter about Caligula in "The Lives Of The Twelve Caesars by C. But the 3o films here all share one thing in common: They all come as close to being pornographic as mainstream films will allow. Some have been imported in as prestige foreign films, and others have been produced and distributed by Hollywood studios. They are designed to play in multiplexes and art houses. These films are cast with A-list movie stars and directed by world-class filmmakers. Rather, it’s the latest in a long line of films that have pushed the envelope in terms of what can be shown in “mainstream” films and not be considered the sort of movie that requires you to give your credit card to a Web site in order to watch. (LeBeouf even sent in a homemade pornographic videotape for his audition.)ĭespite the abundance of explicit sex on display, however, Von Trier’s film is not pornography. Though some stunt, er, parts were employed, you are basically watching actors like Charlotte Gainsbourg and Shia LeBeouf engage in the sort of unsimulated activities you associate with porn stars. 2 doesn’t arrive until April 4th, though you’ll be able to catch both chapters on video-on-demand starting on March 20th.) Never one to shy from provocation - he’s more likely to sprint towards it - the Danish director’s chronicle of one woman’s sexual awakening is littered with spankings, fellatio, a ménage à trois or two, sodomy, masturbation and good old-fashioned humping. Arriving on a wave of high anticipation, hype and bag-headed public appearances, the first “volume” of Lars Von Trier’s two-part, five-hour magnum opus Nymphomaniac will start rolling into theaters on March 21st.