Tema: Cleopatra (20??)

Iniciado por Branagh/Doyle

Denis Villeneuve’s ‘Cleopatra’ Will Feature “Lots Of People Swearing And Having Sex”

“It’s similar [to ‘All the Money in the World’] in that there’s a lot of research involved and there’s a question with all that of how do you want to do it and how do you make something new out of it? With Getty, part of the idea was to take two genres we felt we knew, which was the kidnapping genre and what we’ll call the ‘great man’ genre — the ‘Citizen Kane‘ genre — and smash them together and make something new out of them. With ‘Cleopatra’ … instead of doing the movie as the prestige picture — the three-hour, lots of pageantry, people with fans and English accents and all that stuff — [we] really treat it as a political thriller. Dirty, bloody, lots of people swearing and having sex and all of that other stuff and just treat it as a two-hour, lean, mean political thriller, full of assassinations, etc. Just going the opposite direction from the way we think that movie is going to go.”




Por fin algo de fidelidad histórica.

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Suena a capítulo expandido de Roma (no pasé del primer capítulo, oigan ), o de Spartacus, Blood and Sand (no pasé de los diez primeros minutos). Me temo que nos quedamos de nuevo sin ver a esa Cleopatra que era mucho menos guapa que Liz Taylor, pero tremendamente inteligente y comprometida con la política y la cultura (algo de éso teníamos en la de Manckiewicz, cuando Cleo se entera de que la Biblioteca de Alejandría ha sido incendiada; y en otra escena, por desgracia cortada, la veíamos discutir sobre ciencia con su erudito Sosígenes).