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Caesar and Cleopatra (1945)
Abomination, Total Distortion, Misrepresentation of History
This is a total misrepresentation of History. Cleopatra, was an extremely powerful, beguiling, highly educated women. It was not her beauty that won over men,(she was rather homely, bordering on ugly)but her intellect, powers of conversation, persuasion, and affective leadership skills. It was Caesar, and Antony who learned about life, and governing, after encountering the glorious and stupendous Greco-Egyptian environment Cleo had established around her. At time the movie seems like a two man show on stage..The only positive thing(s) about this movie is seeing Claude Rains, and Vivian Leigh. However the image it leaves movie watchers who may be ignorant of that periods History is upsetting. I guess it is like an Oliver Stone film of it's day, totally devoid of any truth, not historically accurate, and self serving, promoting, bordering on psychotic (a vehicle to show, fairy tale, beliefs of Author, and how they would of wished things were like). History is so beautiful,funny, sexual, at times perverse, so much so, that great, and interesting movies can be made, without changing or distorting it. Instead of a censoring committee, perhaps they should run each film through a Historicaly Accurate committee, to avoid such travesties, and misrepresentations. Thanks for Listening