Only in fake Hollywood would they portray Ancient African Egyptian as White, knowing Goddam well in Ancient time White ppl were in caves...how pathetic!
@ottoma59 they're supposed to be entertainers and servants of Cleopatra, brought from Egypt. A greater historical inaccuracy is the Arch of Constantine replica.
...what lovely comments you all seem to be making, how about we just fuck what is historically correct just this once and enjoy the amazing scene of Cleopatra entering Rome? My favourite part of this film by far :)
@twinkletownmusical What is wrong with people these days?? Everyone wants to be an asshole. I post one comment in good humor and I get insulted about my slang (why didn't you get turned off with MsMaynes pettiness??) and then I get you who is someone whom doesn't even KNOW me cursing me. Screw you both. I usually am not nasty, but if u can't even post mild stuff w/out being derided then FUCK you twinkle toes or whatever your punkass screenname is bitch.
@MsMaynes By the way "smart" aleck, one more thing. You should've used a comma instead of a semi-colon. A semi colon is only used to present a new thought, but within the same idea. Duh. Wrong punctuation. Geeez, get with it. Cheerio!
@CalLady79 You need to calm the fuck down. MsMaynes was just pointing something out, not asking for a fucking grammar lesson. You didn't need to explain what the fuck you wrote. 'GEEEZ' !
@MsMaynes Give me a break! I MEAN gimme a break (just to piss you off). "I'd've" is a real shortened word with the marks in the correct places. "geez" is a term people actually use as well as "ta do" being how people who aren't stuck up like you actually speak. A relevant (yes I know what THAT means) question deserves an answer no matter the lingo. I wish you actually had a reason to post here besides picking fights. Bug off, lady. Oops. I mean begone, madame.
If I was one of those women sitting there, I'd've been like, "Geeez! Where IS she already? I got things ta dooo...like flog a servant or eat a pheasant & olives." This movie is visually extraordinary! WOW! BUT did her arrival REALLY look like this? Or was it just for film's sake? I'm a history buff, I love accuracy. I need to read up on what her arrival was really like...
Wrong! The movie did not specify which arch it is but arches has been around in Rome since the 2nd century BC. One of the first recorded building of triumphal arches was when Lucius Steritinus erected two in 196 BC to commemorate his victories in Hispania.
@etrax2000 i am not an historian, but clearly recall that that particular arch with that design was illustrated in Roman archives, but had not yet been built during Cleopatra's time, so therefore, I am right.
Did someone say one of the most beautiful women in the world? Miss Taylor/Cleopatra is, as the Bard wrote, 'A lass unparalleled' Elizabeth Taylor was the most beautiful women of the Twentieth Century and in my opinion probability; the most beautiful woman who has ever lived.
I just saw this movie for the first time ever yesterday! This scene made the hair on my arms stand up. I had tears in my eyes. Such beauty, class, and elegance. R.I.P our dear Elizabeth. Heaven just gained one heck of a lady.
"Was this well done by your Queen?" asked the Centurion and the maid replied "Very well done, as befitting the LAST of a long line of noble actresses".....RIP Elizabeth, there never was one like you and you shall never pass this way again.
Ms Taylor's entrance into heaven has surpassed Cleopatra's entrance into Rome. Thank you Ms. Taylor for your charm, elegance and art you shared with the world.
@naru24dude - The Ptolemy dynasty was descended from one of Alexander the Great's general. They were Macedonian Greeks. There was no African blood there,
@BrookeaCookea She was greek. The ptolemic phaerohs were of greek decent. The egyptians themselves were more Arabic in coloring with the exception of the Nubians from down south.
They just don't do it like that anymore!! And no CGI either!! That movie was worth every $ spent on it! But they cut out the gals with snakeskins around them. It would've also been great if Elizabeth/Cleo burst out in song...either "I'm A MATERIAL GIRL or I ENJOY BEING A GIRL!! :-)
Caesarion was proclaimed a god, son of god and "King of Kings". This grandiose title was "unprecedented in the management of Roman client-king relationships" and could be seen as "threatening the 'greatness' of the Roman people". Most threatening to Octavian (whose claim to power was based on his status as Julius Caesar's grandnephew and adopted son), Antony declared Caesarion to be Caesar's true son and heir.
after Alexander the Great's death during the Hellenistic period. The Ptolemies, throughout their dynasty, spoke Greek[8] and refused to learn Egyptian, which is the reason that Greek as well as Egyptian languages were used on official court documents like the Rosetta Stone.[9] By contrast, Cleopatra did learn Egyptian and represented herself as the reincarnation of an Egyptian goddess, Isis. She later elevated her son with Caesar, Caesarion, to co-ruler in name
Perfectly stated ! Elizabeth Taylor in her prime was stunning and one of the few actresses I think that could have "nailed" this scene like she did (then and now!).
Well, to Ceitiosaurus: In the original version, that the director of the movie had intended for release, WERE elephants in it! It was cut, so were full two hours of that glorious movie. To this day I think of that as an awful loss! And...the production of it was 44 Million Dollars at the time-which is 10 times that amount today!!! It was unheard of and nearly bankrupted 20th Century Fox!!! That's why it didn't made enough money back than. It's a real classic anyway!!!
@rascalracer because she was white. Cleopatra was Greek, not Egyptian. The ruling dynasty of Egypt at that time was Greek. They built a new capital called Alexandria(library of Alexandria), named for Alexander the Great.
It was one thing to bed a foreign queen but to bring her to Rome as Caesar did, to set her up in one of his own houses where the populace could learn of her son, who was given the name Ptolemy Caesar, was a public relations mistake.
Yes this is a great movie, and I love Miss Taylor very much, BUT I would love to see a major movie done where Cleopatra is not played by a blue eyed white woman. Wouldn't That be novel?
Oh, but it has been remade with a non-white Cleopatra. It was the star-power of Burton and Taylor that made it all work. That, and spectacle period pieces still made big money in 1963. Today this film would cost $40-50M to produce, and no studio today would attempt it,(probably).
@oysterjoe But it wasn't a "bomb". Because of all the advance publicity, Ms. Taylor being denounced by the Pope and the US Congress, and daily coverage in the papers of La Scandale, EVERYBODY went to see it. The media was told to say it was a bad film--it was not. Audiences stood in line around the world for premieres in Paris, London, New York, LA, and San Francisco. That it cost over $3 Million to make in 1963 was the problem. Took years to recoup the money, but it was seen by most.
Great creation of greast minds and work. I realized it is not that old but the last sean is amazing direction and performense of the most beautiful lady.
Hard to believe the original sets were build in England, before they pulled the plug on that scheme and moved the entire production to Rome. Makes me wonder what it would have looked like if they had originally filmed in in Britain as planned?
That scene is the greatest part of this movie [IMHO]; but I never realized it was over 9 minutes long...WOW! Thank you for posting this, I enjoyed it immensely.
No one seems to have mentioned that the dress was real gold, not fake at all., and cost a fortune. I love all the unspoken undercurrents in this scene, like when Caesar's wife finally stands up.
No wonder the romans did not like Cleopatra and thought she was over the top- girl brought an entire sphinx with her, half of Kush/Nubia, the entire Harem, all the birds in Egypt, a band, AND she stole their men.
The whole movie nearly bankrupted 20th Century Fox! This scene alone cost over one million dollars to shoot. I'm having to study it for an assignment, and now I can see why it was so expensive!
On Cleopatra's facial reconstruction Archaeologist Dr Hilke Thuer from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, who led the discovery, says: "It is unique in the life of an archaeologist to find the tomb &the skeleton of a member of Ptolemaic dynasty. The results of the forensic examination and the fact that the facial reconstruction shows that Arsinoe had an African mother is a real sensation which leads to a new insight on Cleopatra's family & the relationship of the sisters Cleopatra & Arsinoe."
good movie
TheMarkenson 1 week ago
Love this scene, using it in my next video, that wink at the end is powerful.
conor845 2 weeks ago
We Egyptian are not black and we are still not Africans
EgyptianWereNotBlack 2 weeks ago
Man drop the fake b*tch
eyeshine1 2 weeks ago
Only in fake Hollywood would they portray Ancient African Egyptian as White, knowing Goddam well in Ancient time White ppl were in caves...how pathetic!
eyeshine1 2 weeks ago
@eyeshine1 Cleopatra was Greek/Macedonian, was she not? She was part of Alexander The Great's dynasty...
alidubya 1 week ago
really i didn't think it was
kitten12e58 2 weeks ago
Was all that really necessary
kitten12e58 3 weeks ago
@kitten12e58 yes, it was. every last bit.
ibrahimdesign 2 weeks ago
;)
jamesaellis 3 weeks ago
chancellor Merkel will soon be entering in this fashion, zakozy sitting there as Ceasar,
kopynd1 1 month ago
Excuse me, no Black people were part this great society!
ottoma59 1 month ago
@ottoma59 they're supposed to be entertainers and servants of Cleopatra, brought from Egypt. A greater historical inaccuracy is the Arch of Constantine replica.
conor845 1 month ago
@ottoma59 eh? No Africans had anything to do with Egypt...which is in...Africa...
ThatGypsyBoy 1 month ago
@ottoma59 lol are u serious?
Azzaro323 2 weeks ago
SS
policeman7093 2 months ago
...what lovely comments you all seem to be making, how about we just fuck what is historically correct just this once and enjoy the amazing scene of Cleopatra entering Rome? My favourite part of this film by far :)
lizski26 2 months ago 2
4:45 - the wink... Very powerful!
Peace4905 2 months ago 2
Cleopatra enters Rome is in the Guinness Book of World Record .........
lorenniole 2 months ago
Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra is not only the prettiest woman in the world ....... but a goddess of beauty in its true essence!
lorenniole 2 months ago
That wink killed me.
ntherewas1 4 months ago
@twinkletownmusical What is wrong with people these days?? Everyone wants to be an asshole. I post one comment in good humor and I get insulted about my slang (why didn't you get turned off with MsMaynes pettiness??) and then I get you who is someone whom doesn't even KNOW me cursing me. Screw you both. I usually am not nasty, but if u can't even post mild stuff w/out being derided then FUCK you twinkle toes or whatever your punkass screenname is bitch.
CalLady79 4 months ago
@MsMaynes By the way "smart" aleck, one more thing. You should've used a comma instead of a semi-colon. A semi colon is only used to present a new thought, but within the same idea. Duh. Wrong punctuation. Geeez, get with it. Cheerio!
CalLady79 5 months ago
@CalLady79 You need to calm the fuck down. MsMaynes was just pointing something out, not asking for a fucking grammar lesson. You didn't need to explain what the fuck you wrote. 'GEEEZ' !
twinkletownmusical 4 months ago
@MsMaynes Give me a break! I MEAN gimme a break (just to piss you off). "I'd've" is a real shortened word with the marks in the correct places. "geez" is a term people actually use as well as "ta do" being how people who aren't stuck up like you actually speak. A relevant (yes I know what THAT means) question deserves an answer no matter the lingo. I wish you actually had a reason to post here besides picking fights. Bug off, lady. Oops. I mean begone, madame.
CalLady79 5 months ago
If I was one of those women sitting there, I'd've been like, "Geeez! Where IS she already? I got things ta dooo...like flog a servant or eat a pheasant & olives." This movie is visually extraordinary! WOW! BUT did her arrival REALLY look like this? Or was it just for film's sake? I'm a history buff, I love accuracy. I need to read up on what her arrival was really like...
CalLady79 5 months ago
@CalLady79
If you want to ask serious questions about history and receive serious answers; you really will have to improve your English.
MsMaynes 5 months ago
Cleopatra was the most sexy woman in the world Lady Gaga is monster.
beRIGHTperson 5 months ago
NOw let's see if Lady Gaga can do that =-)
cobolsaurus 5 months ago
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TheCleopatralove 5 months ago 22
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TheCleopatralove 5 months ago
Miss lizz so much
nteli2201 5 months ago
@nteli2201 same here...
cobolsaurus 5 months ago
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I love this movie soo much
RIP
RamenDestroyer 5 months ago
Love me some Liz Taylor. She looks just like my granma :)
Fusiondoom 5 months ago
did she bring Egypt along with her?!?!?!?!
alexoldmovies27 5 months ago
@alexoldmovies27
Lol, I was thinking the same thing =)
malegi29 2 months ago
Why is the crowd shouting Lizz....
reviewer120 5 months ago
i love how she winked
237cupcake 6 months ago 5
She starts making an entrace at about 4:00
1MrDonCarlos1 6 months ago
TYPICAL..... powerful leaders wasting money on stupid shit...bitch could have just came on a horse...lmfao
mrtundra45 7 months ago
@mrtundra45
panem et circenses
CSATexan 6 months ago
After all this it was time to go home again.
reticulan5 7 months ago
2 ppl wis they were ballin like cleo
ihearttwinkies1 7 months ago
there just waiting like where the hell is she
ihearttwinkies1 7 months ago
That was cleopatras way of paternity test.No maury povich just a grand entrance to say you are the father
jackiej114 7 months ago
wat lovely entrance hats off to t director though t movie basically flopped tere r certain tings which make it a master piece
joshuap000 8 months ago
...subtle
raikespeare 8 months ago 18
90% of the people in this scene are already dead. extras included.
etrax2000 8 months ago
THE arch that they come through was not even built until hundreds of years later.
etrax2000 8 months ago
@etrax2000
Wrong! The movie did not specify which arch it is but arches has been around in Rome since the 2nd century BC. One of the first recorded building of triumphal arches was when Lucius Steritinus erected two in 196 BC to commemorate his victories in Hispania.
tacotony24 5 months ago
@etrax2000 i am not an historian, but clearly recall that that particular arch with that design was illustrated in Roman archives, but had not yet been built during Cleopatra's time, so therefore, I am right.
etrax2000 5 months ago
More beaty movie of history...
neferayesha 8 months ago
The best scene ever!!!I wish I was Cleopatra it would be so delightful.I wish I was in Rome in those days having that experience.
herrera2681 9 months ago
Burton at 6:21......instant chubby! :D
queenrosered 9 months ago
two people don't understand how egypt was gone because of this woman
ChaozXIII 9 months ago
@ChaozXIII egypt was destroyed by the corrupt eunichs and royal parasites who destroy all societies ..including our own
etrax2000 8 months ago
undoutfully the most exiting scean in hollywood histry
edia05 9 months ago
The greatest scene!
machkando 9 months ago
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fabulous but very inaccurate, the egyptians are not white. they are dark skinned
jaykattslim 9 months ago
Cleopatra was not fair skinned she was a dark skinned woman
14sugarberry 9 months ago
lol i just walk in
thehappyturtle1 9 months ago
What an entrance! 10 minutes just to get through the door! wow......
ernesto91291....ha ha ha
MrShaun42088 9 months ago
SOPHIA LOREN SHOULD HAVE HAD THIS ROLE.
LBraunhaus 10 months ago
amazing history..
unitedstateofamerful 10 months ago
Did someone say one of the most beautiful women in the world? Miss Taylor/Cleopatra is, as the Bard wrote, 'A lass unparalleled' Elizabeth Taylor was the most beautiful women of the Twentieth Century and in my opinion probability; the most beautiful woman who has ever lived.
MsMaynes 10 months ago 3
Cleopatra was from a greek dynasty of royals. from the ptolemaic.
italoluder 10 months ago
I just saw this movie for the first time ever yesterday! This scene made the hair on my arms stand up. I had tears in my eyes. Such beauty, class, and elegance. R.I.P our dear Elizabeth. Heaven just gained one heck of a lady.
certainfury 10 months ago 3
"The Queen has conquered the people of Rome."
joshualovesisaac 10 months ago
@joshualovesisaac "The people?!?!? Yeaahhh"
sevlarievlis 8 months ago
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twhite7101 10 months ago
She was one of the all time greats, in every way. Gentle, vibrant, gracious, passionate, sublime, brave, daring and compassionate.
twhite7101 10 months ago
that is one hell of an entrance
Apink420 10 months ago
The blink at the end!! was like woooow!
You will always be the best Lizzie Taylor! Long live the Queen!! <3
NikkyArchitect10 10 months ago 3
"Was this well done by your Queen?" asked the Centurion and the maid replied "Very well done, as befitting the LAST of a long line of noble actresses".....RIP Elizabeth, there never was one like you and you shall never pass this way again.
queenrosered 10 months ago 2
I love this women..so elegant and poise. Rest In Peace Elizabeth Taylor.
alexandraalvarez78 10 months ago
One of the most beautiful women in the world. No doubt about it!
gslewis0417 10 months ago
Ms Taylor's entrance into heaven has surpassed Cleopatra's entrance into Rome. Thank you Ms. Taylor for your charm, elegance and art you shared with the world.
nancynurse1112 10 months ago 2
What the hell is this chick doing running around with her titties exposed LOL 1:20
stupidstickmen84 10 months ago
the best Cleopatra ever,miss Taylor,R.I.P.
ponnef 10 months ago
RIP Mrs. Taylor
marilynphan 10 months ago
Octavian dislikes this
philmarsh1000 10 months ago
May her memory be eternal. God bless you, Miss Taylor.
Christina5Archer 10 months ago 2
☮ Hommage à une artiste magnifique de beauté , de talent et de coeur biz ☆☮
TheOttosky 10 months ago
R.I.P. MISS TAYLOR
puzleman1 10 months ago
Thank you Mrs Taylor !
You gave me so much joy !
My favourite scene ...sooo impressive ,you got talent!
I still look at this movie around 'Eastern 'time ...a very nice tradition .
dominique1990ist 10 months ago
We have lost a true national treasure!
mehari54 10 months ago
Rip Dear Elizabeth
ahonemillions 10 months ago
RIP, Elizabeth!
TCall2004 10 months ago
The eye wink at the end makes the scene.
akaflint10 10 months ago 4
Amazing, Liz you were great for a white version of Cleopatra
naru24dude 10 months ago 3
@naru24dude - The Ptolemy dynasty was descended from one of Alexander the Great's general. They were Macedonian Greeks. There was no African blood there,
TCall2004 10 months ago
R.I.P ' Cleopatra '.
ThePapillonrose 10 months ago
rest in peace sweety
kakilino 10 months ago
Adeus, rainha...
antoniostenico 10 months ago
Adeus, rainha...
antoniostenico 10 months ago
Cleopatra was BLACK MOTHAFUCKA!!
BrookeaCookea 10 months ago
@BrookeaCookea She was greek. The ptolemic phaerohs were of greek decent. The egyptians themselves were more Arabic in coloring with the exception of the Nubians from down south.
Pfisiar22 10 months ago 4
A great scene -- and the music is AMAZING!
MrThatcodyguy 10 months ago
Such a DIVA! I will miss you, Liz!
krackergmac 10 months ago
RIP
rijekarastocine 10 months ago
Impresionante presentacion !!! Esa si es una entrada espectacular !!!!!!
trismegistus1971 10 months ago 2
Serás siempr recordada!
TEJonesWI 10 months ago
She knew how to make an entrance and a graceful exit too. Rest in Peace Dame Elizabeth.
lisamtheufo 10 months ago
Goodbye my Queen
Haldacar 10 months ago
Goodbye my Queen
Haldacar 10 months ago
"Kalo taxidi" Liz
Kostas from Greece
kratiras 10 months ago
RIP, darling Elizabeth!
Moem43 10 months ago
The greatest entrance in the history of film. Worth every penny. There was even more
to this that got cut. (I saw some of the cut footage that had giant snakes in the parade).
I love this movie. RIP, Elizabeth Taylor.
stevie68a 10 months ago
R.I.P. Elizabeth Taylor.
Thelgow 10 months ago
Rest in Peace, Your Majesty.
LightKia11 10 months ago
They just don't do it like that anymore!! And no CGI either!! That movie was worth every $ spent on it! But they cut out the gals with snakeskins around them. It would've also been great if Elizabeth/Cleo burst out in song...either "I'm A MATERIAL GIRL or I ENJOY BEING A GIRL!! :-)
mylesag2 10 months ago
They just don't do it like that anymore!! And no CGI either!! That movie was worth every $ spent on it!
mylesag2 10 months ago
This is my favorite part of this movie. Thanks for posting.
UhuraSong 10 months ago
Translation from ancient Egyptian "I have arrived".
spencnaz 11 months ago
Caesarion was proclaimed a god, son of god and "King of Kings". This grandiose title was "unprecedented in the management of Roman client-king relationships" and could be seen as "threatening the 'greatness' of the Roman people". Most threatening to Octavian (whose claim to power was based on his status as Julius Caesar's grandnephew and adopted son), Antony declared Caesarion to be Caesar's true son and heir.
sonicsoundwaveus 11 months ago
after Alexander the Great's death during the Hellenistic period. The Ptolemies, throughout their dynasty, spoke Greek[8] and refused to learn Egyptian, which is the reason that Greek as well as Egyptian languages were used on official court documents like the Rosetta Stone.[9] By contrast, Cleopatra did learn Egyptian and represented herself as the reincarnation of an Egyptian goddess, Isis. She later elevated her son with Caesar, Caesarion, to co-ruler in name
sonicsoundwaveus 11 months ago
the power of the woman, Queen of the queens, Mrs. Taylor, great actress....!
pitocopistica 11 months ago
6:10...That three ladies was thinking " Stupid fucking bitch" LMAOO
paygi110709 11 months ago
How unafraid they are.
Ypipable 11 months ago
That child Grew up to become Jesus Christ!!!!!!!! This happen only 34 bc.
sonicsoundwaveus 11 months ago
And THAT, ladies and gentlemen..is how one makes an ENTRANCE!!! ;D
queenrosered 11 months ago 56
@queenrosered : no problem.. give me a handful of picked men, a kingdom and tons of gold. that´s it. ;)
CYBERQUEEN01 10 months ago
@queenrosered Amen.
Cance251 9 months ago
@queenrosered
Perfectly stated ! Elizabeth Taylor in her prime was stunning and one of the few actresses I think that could have "nailed" this scene like she did (then and now!).
katesatriani 6 months ago
does anybody have the 2-CD soundtrack of this film in mp3 format?
BibleJoker2Face 11 months ago
cleopatra was so conniving.
AntaresInScorpius 1 year ago
Aah that sexy lil wink of the eye phew most beautiful woman ever!!!
americanmonarchist 1 year ago
it would have been flippin hilarious if the queens giant throne didn't fit through the archway
vashti4ever 1 year ago
Jesus christ! what an entrance! Every womans dream lol.
jimmy27paul 1 year ago
Now that is what I call making an entrance!!!!
buddmar 1 year ago 2
Some of those things did not look very egyptian looking to me
aztecsun12 1 year ago
@aztecsun12
Because Egypt had come under Macedonian influence. Cleopatra, despite being ruler of Egypt, was Macedonian.
bjnboy 11 months ago
@aztecsun12 you mean that black african tribal dance? Egypt was multicultural .... but yeah they didnt look like egyptians..
mrtundra45 10 months ago
She entered the city not like a triumphant tribune, but like a god, and then bowed low to her beloved Caesar!! Magnificent!
Horse1888 1 year ago
Attention Whitehouse head of protocol: How a head of state should make an entrance
Downsizegov 1 year ago 2
@Downsizegov Aaaaahahahaha!!! Damn right
BIJMOZ 1 year ago
Every time I go into work Ima go in like this LMAO!
ernesto91291 1 year ago 28
@ernesto91291 I just died laughing LOL
BIJMOZ 1 year ago
Well, to Ceitiosaurus: In the original version, that the director of the movie had intended for release, WERE elephants in it! It was cut, so were full two hours of that glorious movie. To this day I think of that as an awful loss! And...the production of it was 44 Million Dollars at the time-which is 10 times that amount today!!! It was unheard of and nearly bankrupted 20th Century Fox!!! That's why it didn't made enough money back than. It's a real classic anyway!!!
Garbo1964 1 year ago
why do plp think cleopratra was white looking?
rascalracer 1 year ago
@rascalracer because she was white. Cleopatra was Greek, not Egyptian. The ruling dynasty of Egypt at that time was Greek. They built a new capital called Alexandria(library of Alexandria), named for Alexander the Great.
Ironzealot7531 1 year ago
It was one thing to bed a foreign queen but to bring her to Rome as Caesar did, to set her up in one of his own houses where the populace could learn of her son, who was given the name Ptolemy Caesar, was a public relations mistake.
hollywoodwerewolf 1 year ago
One of the greatest entrance in cinematic's history. Just superb!!!
md991free 1 year ago
she looks beautiful in the end part of this clip!!!! <3
chixie91 1 year ago
Wouldn't it be cool if there were elephants in it?
ceitiosaurus 1 year ago
What a grand procession
avdanmark619 1 year ago
Yes this is a great movie, and I love Miss Taylor very much, BUT I would love to see a major movie done where Cleopatra is not played by a blue eyed white woman. Wouldn't That be novel?
Discoboy504 1 year ago
@Discoboy504
Oh, but it has been remade with a non-white Cleopatra. It was the star-power of Burton and Taylor that made it all work. That, and spectacle period pieces still made big money in 1963. Today this film would cost $40-50M to produce, and no studio today would attempt it,(probably).
b30307 1 year ago
Resembles Kurt Russel at his self indulgent worst.
No wonder it's considered a bomb. Hollywood wasted Liz Taylor in dog after dog.
oysterjoe 1 year ago
@oysterjoe But it wasn't a "bomb". Because of all the advance publicity, Ms. Taylor being denounced by the Pope and the US Congress, and daily coverage in the papers of La Scandale, EVERYBODY went to see it. The media was told to say it was a bad film--it was not. Audiences stood in line around the world for premieres in Paris, London, New York, LA, and San Francisco. That it cost over $3 Million to make in 1963 was the problem. Took years to recoup the money, but it was seen by most.
Artsettimavn 1 year ago
I just love the little moment between Cleopatra and Caesar, when she winks at him... so sweet!!
edualym 1 year ago
Well, you see where all the money went...
Layers, upon layers, of spectacle.
Now THAT'S how you make an ENTRANCE!
dabigdikdangler 1 year ago
Great creation of greast minds and work. I realized it is not that old but the last sean is amazing direction and performense of the most beautiful lady.
MadhuMurthe 1 year ago
Hard to believe the original sets were build in England, before they pulled the plug on that scheme and moved the entire production to Rome. Makes me wonder what it would have looked like if they had originally filmed in in Britain as planned?
manuelherrera777 1 year ago
That scene is the greatest part of this movie [IMHO]; but I never realized it was over 9 minutes long...WOW! Thank you for posting this, I enjoyed it immensely.
avallonmist 1 year ago
No one seems to have mentioned that the dress was real gold, not fake at all., and cost a fortune. I love all the unspoken undercurrents in this scene, like when Caesar's wife finally stands up.
RickTBL 1 year ago
The Most Fantastic scene ever of epic movie amazing
Danielavrasinec 1 year ago 3
No wonder the romans did not like Cleopatra and thought she was over the top- girl brought an entire sphinx with her, half of Kush/Nubia, the entire Harem, all the birds in Egypt, a band, AND she stole their men.
YodaTheWise1 1 year ago
love this movie, music score, vibrant colors and costumes are most impressive
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MiguelKertsman 1 year ago
would be so funny if one of them stacked it and she went flying!!:D 7:52
SarahRosalind 1 year ago
@SarahRosalind
FOr the real Cleopatra---they'd have been flogged or executed.
For Liz---the least would be they'd never work in Hollywood again!
blackiemittens 1 year ago
@blackiemittens would be hilariouse tho tbh:p
SarahRosalind 1 year ago
a scene of a cult
GiancarlaSenna 1 year ago
The whole movie nearly bankrupted 20th Century Fox! This scene alone cost over one million dollars to shoot. I'm having to study it for an assignment, and now I can see why it was so expensive!
FoopLoopString 1 year ago
This surely was one of the grandest "entrances" in recorded history!
buddmar 1 year ago
Ohh yes!, I prefer this that all that "paint-movies" of today.
Eudora74 2 years ago
Impressive... amazingly beautiful! The reason why Cleo as become such a myth...
SouthSuavest 2 years ago
Elizabeth Taylor is just breathtaking, so, so, sooooooo beautiful.
walford70 2 years ago 3
Elizabeth Taylor was so incredibly beautiful.
spaciousgalaxy 2 years ago
Mattel did a fine job recreating this costume a few years ago on a Elizabeth Taylor doll.
sashaqueenie 2 years ago
Just how much money did they spend on this one scene alone? Hollywood today surely wouldn't spend so much for an entire movie.
who3697cares 2 years ago 3
Hollywood nowadays would CGI everything, making it look fake and unsubstantial.
You build sets, with moveable parts and call in hundreds of extras, it plums up the scene thus making it memorable.
Only in Forest Gump did I think CGI work well.
sashaqueenie 2 years ago
@who3697cares As far as I have read, this scene alone had a budget as high as 3 movies of those times!
Stasi78 1 year ago
They don't make em like this anymore!
bjnboy 2 years ago 3
whoa!
darcuz 2 years ago
This scene is pure Hollywood, but historically accurate. Cleopatra was mistress of the grand entrance, and her
entry into the city, robed as Isis, riding with her son Caesarion on a huge replica of the Sphinx, drawn by slaves, was recorded by eyewitnesses.
bookkeeper57 2 years ago 2
On Cleopatra's facial reconstruction Archaeologist Dr Hilke Thuer from the Austrian Academy of Sciences, who led the discovery, says: "It is unique in the life of an archaeologist to find the tomb &the skeleton of a member of Ptolemaic dynasty. The results of the forensic examination and the fact that the facial reconstruction shows that Arsinoe had an African mother is a real sensation which leads to a new insight on Cleopatra's family & the relationship of the sisters Cleopatra & Arsinoe."
violetrose28 2 years ago
@violetrose28
Arsinoe and Cleopatra had different mothers and skulls are not good indicators of race.
bjnboy 11 months ago
wow they must of spent o dozen on this set!
ShezzLuvsShadow 2 years ago