10-04-2010, 06:28 PM
As I remember the TV Spartacus (and dimly I will admit) at one point it looks as though the Romans are using metal trash can lids as shields the same way we used to do as kids.
You are quite right Graham, Ustinov and Laughton are tough to beat, plus Olivier ...
According to the book George Lucas's Blockbusting:
"It irked Charles Laughton that rival Laurence Olivier's salary was five times his own. The competition between the two actors became so fierce that Olivier required someone else to feed him his lines."
"Kubrick himself never thought of Spartacus as part of his oeuvre, since he hadn't seen it through from conception." However... "He insisted on a brutal realism in the war scenes and persuaded Douglas to add the final battle between the Romans and the slaves. The panoramic shots of the approaching Roman army too Kubrick a full week to shoot with the Spanish military."
--George Lucas's Blockbusting, c2010, ISBN: 978-0-06-177889-6, p443.
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Narukami
You are quite right Graham, Ustinov and Laughton are tough to beat, plus Olivier ...
According to the book George Lucas's Blockbusting:
"It irked Charles Laughton that rival Laurence Olivier's salary was five times his own. The competition between the two actors became so fierce that Olivier required someone else to feed him his lines."
"Kubrick himself never thought of Spartacus as part of his oeuvre, since he hadn't seen it through from conception." However... "He insisted on a brutal realism in the war scenes and persuaded Douglas to add the final battle between the Romans and the slaves. The panoramic shots of the approaching Roman army too Kubrick a full week to shoot with the Spanish military."
--George Lucas's Blockbusting, c2010, ISBN: 978-0-06-177889-6, p443.
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Narukami
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