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Why this movie didn't make sense

posted 18 years ago by neoricen
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I don't think they really showed the characters right, this meant the assasination made no sense because except for Cassius little motivation was given and even Cassius' motivation was dumb, He never had plans to go to Gaul and therefore his motivation in the MOVIE is inaccurate and I think kinda dumb. Also Marc Antony was WAY WAY WAY too young as was Brutus. Overall the Movie had a problem with casting by age. I suppose that's the problem if you want to tell a persons whole life because Caesar was just too young at the end. Also the Cleopatra storyline was done poorly and they didn't show the battle of Pharsalus which was really important and they missed out the fact that in the civil war Brutus fought for Pompey.
Also they took the route of most movies and made Octavian look really bad even though he wasn't in the movie. This was also something that was missing, Octavian really should have been in the movie.
Anyway I still think it was a pretty good movie considering it was TV, much better than the TV Spartacus.

[–] 18 years ago

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[–] Metdavo 17 years ago

...Caesar had grey hair and wrinkles at the end.

My father is about the same age of Caesar at the time of his assassination in 44b.c, and my father looks much much younger than Sisto did.

People don't get 'old' with grey hair and wrinkles and flubby skin at 30 years old.

[–] Romulus99 16 years ago

they also missed out that Caesar at the time of his assassination was about to go and fight a campaign to conquer partha

and that in this they make out he was broke but he got massive loans from crassus

[–] 16 years ago

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[–] Romulus99 15 years ago

Suetonius adds that Lucius Cotta proposed to the Senate that Caesar should be granted the title of "king" for it was prophesied that only a king would conquer Parthia.[100] Caesar intended to invade Parthia, a task which would later give considerable trouble to Mark Antony during the second triumvirate.

I was going to do this with out the insult but you really should get your facts right before you post with an insult you just make yourself look like a fool

[–] spinmonkey44 14 years ago

You should insulted him back. He's the dumbass.