Cleopatra enters Rome

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Cleopatra enters Rome in the monumental movie "Cleopatra (1963)".

Cast: Dame Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Rex Harrison, ...
Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz
Production: Walter Wanger
Screenplay: Sidney Buchman, Ranald MacDougall, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Ben Hecht
Music: Alex North
Camera: Leon Shamroy
Cut: Dorothy Spencer

The movie can be ordered here:

http://www.amazon.com/Cleopatra-Elizabeth-Taylor/dp/B000BZISSU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=...

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Some Trivia about the most amazing woman that ever lived:

Since the time of her ancestor Ptolemy II there had been many brother-sister marriages in the royal house, and Cleopatra, for all her outstanding intellectual and physical endowments, was the product of generations of incest. Certain elements in her character may have been due to this persistent in-breeding, notably her total absence of moral sense, and a tendency to murder her brothers and sisters which may have been partly an inherited family habit.

Though queen of Egypt, Cleopatra possessed not a drop of Egyptian blood in her veins. The last ruler of the dynasty of the Ptolemies, she was of wholly Greek upbringing, and to a very considerable extent of Greek race.

During her stay in Rome she started calling herself the New Isis and was the subject of much gossip. She lived in luxury and had a statue made of gold placed by Caesar, in the temple of Venus Genetrix.

One of the many stories about Cleopatra's extravagance relates to pearls. It was said that she took a specimen of unequalled size and value from one of her ear-rings and dissolved it in vinegar, which she then proceeded to drink so as to show how little the waste of such a valuable object mattered to her.

Capital punishment in Alexandria was sometimes inflicted by the bite of a cobra, since this was considered the most painless and humane method of execution. But the anti-Cleopatran tradition at Rome developed a legend that the queen, before choosing to die in this way, had tested out various ways of dying upon criminals in the Alexandrian market-place, callously scrutinizing their death-agonies.

She was a brilliant linguist and the first of her Greek-speaking dynasty who learned Egyptian.

Her love affairs were carefully calculated to further her plans to restore the empire to its former greatness and she was a ruthless foe to all who stood in her way.

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[raikespeare]

...subtle

[237cupcake]

i love how she winked

[kingcleopatra]

This is by far an amazing scene never seen again. Madonna recently paid tribute at the Superbowl, it instantly dawned on me - Cleopatra. Then at the Oscars, the now famous Cleopatra wink was shown. She has, is and will continue to bewilder us with her talent, beauty and generosity. We will always love you.

[OuterSpace90]

Cleopatra was black

[mrteemumilto]

And it implies that all that show is just pompousness and irrational, not stateship.

[mrteemumilto]

6:10 I assume he is her lover and he thinks, how can he approach such a powerful figure. The authority of "the other" is questioned.

[mrteemumilto]

6;10 Notice how the movie implies that Romans are us, ordinary common sense folks, and that man is like us, and Cleopatra isn't.

[mrteemumilto]

The dancing coreography is disingenious. I can see New York studio influences.

[LolaPellizco]

My favorite scene <3

[JumpStreet1983]

I sure hope the extras that pulled the huge Egyptian float were paid well or received good treatment, because that looked VERY heavy. God forbid they made the men do more than 5 takes for this scene.

[boronghousegtk]

I don't care how much money this money lost but it is a classic piece. The best Cleopatra movie, the worst being Leonor Varela's 1999 one. The planning made this movie a flop not the worst movie no wonder this considered as one of the greatest movies ever made.

[superamandaaddiction]

@EgyptianWereNotBlack  who cares? You can find a double for any of you in Black areas of the US. That does not make YOU Black and it does not make you a different culture than you are but it is not an insult.