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Looks Excellent... made me think of Terry Thomas though so it will be hard not to expect a comedy....
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This sounds to be an interesting film. I remember the early 1950s. I was a child, but I remember many of the hearings being broadcast on TV live, although I had little interest in watching. Playing cowboys and Indians outside made preeminently more sense to me then...and perhaps still, albeit now Romans and barbarians. In my life I have been a staunch anti-statist. Thus, despite firmly believing that communism is a vacuous and failed theory, it was at that point in history aggressively seeking to expand from its Russian and Chinese bases. Still, suppressing free speech was not then nor is it now the way to defeat dangerous political foes.
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Fifties American epic films often reflected concerns of the era.
The Romans were a metaphor for these concerns. That is why the emperors are frequently British, fear of British Imperialism. The Praetorians are dressed in black and give fascist salutes, fear of Fascism. The Romans from a non Christian empire often ask for lists of names of the disloyal, fear of Communism.
The American founding fathers also saw themselves as new Roman Republicans. There was also the concern then of what had happened to the Roman Republic and the decline of the Roman Empire.
Ironically it is Rome, the recreation of the glory and spectacle that is used to market the films. This took the form of the tie in Roman toys and games, soldiers helmets and chariots as well as furniture or clothing, "look like a Centurion" or "a Gladiator", "live like a Senator" etc...
Graham.
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Apart from the Spartacus link, and the 'kill free speech' agenda, I'm also drawn to the film because of Bryan Cranston. What a legend he is - Breaking Bad rules!
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