Caligula Page #2

Synopsis: The rise and fall of the notorious Roman Emperor Caligula, showing the violent methods that he employs to gain the throne, and the subsequent insanity of his reign - he gives his horse political office and humiliates and executes anyone who even slightly displeases him. He also sleeps with his sister, organises elaborate orgies and embarks on a fruitless invasion of Britain before meeting an appropriate end. There are various versions of the film, ranging from the heavily truncated 90-minute version to the legendary 160-minute hardcore version which leaves nothing to the imagination (though the hardcore scenes were inserted later and do not involve the main cast members).
Genre: Drama, History
Production: Analysis Releasing
  2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.3
Rotten Tomatoes:
23%
UNRATED
Year:
1979
156 min
2,248 Views


...Claudius that's uncle.

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The others struck down by fate.

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And it is fate, little boots,

that rules us, not any god.

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You are a god, Lord.

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No, I'm not.

Not even when I'm dead.

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Julius Caesar and

Augustus Caesar,

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they are gods.

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So say the Senate...

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and so the people

prefer to believe.

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Such myth they use.

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Little boots, just look at you.

-Yes, Caesar?

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I am mercy.

A viper in Rome's bosom.

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Uncle.

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Caligula.

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Do you think

this boy have been drinking?

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I think he has, Caesar.

-So do I. Macro.

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Yes, Lord?

-Bring him more wine.

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And waste none.

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Remove your bootlaces.

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And what do thet

say of me at Rome?

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Oh, well, they need you,

Lord and they miss you.

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Most of my life I have given

to the Roman people.

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I have fought.

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I have given all.

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Aren't they lovely?

-Yes, Lord.

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The Satyrs are from Illyria.

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And... uh...

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This Nymph... is from...

Where are you from?

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Britain, Lord.

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Britain.

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Speaking statues.

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Yes, yes. And they do more

than speak. They do...

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You prefer nymphs to satyrs?

-I like both, Lord.

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One needs both.

Yes. To keep healthy.

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Rome is a republic and

you and I are playing citizens.

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More confection.

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That's it.

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That's the best of my stallions.

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Serve the state, Caligula, although

the people in it are wicked beasts.

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But they love you, Lord.

-Oh, no. No.

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They fear me.

And that is much better.

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I had no choice, you see.

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No choice.

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No choice?

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All I wanted was private life.

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I did not truly want

to become emperor,

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but I had to.

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Had to?

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If someone else

had become emperor,

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I would have been killed.

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As you will be.

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Will be?

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Will be gra... gr...

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Will be, Grandfather?

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Would be, if you were not my heir.

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When Rome was just a

city and we were...

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just citizens, we're

known to one another.

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And we were frugal, good,

disciplined and dignified.

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The Romans I rule

are not like we were.

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They lust... they lust for power

and pleasure.

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Money...

the wives of other men...

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Oh, yes,

I am a true moralist.

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And stern as any Cato.

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Faith chose me to govern

swine in my old day...

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which I have become a swine-herd.

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The faithless boy. Has

he drunk enough wine?

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I think he's drunk enough, Lord.

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So do I.

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Now he is happy.

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Homer. You would not know that?

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You were educated

in army caps only.

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You will know enough

to be a swine-herd.

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Caesar? The Senate sends these

documents for your signature.

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Of course.

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The revise list to candidates

for the requested order.

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I, Tiberius Caesar,

command on the name...

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of the Senate and

the people of Rome.

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Tax assessment, regime minor,

Brescia and Gaul.

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I, Tiberius Caesar,

command on the name...

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of the Senate and

the people of Rome.

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Senator guilty of treason.

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Every senator believes

himself to be a potential

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Caesar, therefore every

senator is guilty of treason.

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In thought,

if not indeed.

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The Senate is the natural enemy

of any Caesar, Little Boots.

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Remember that.

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Traitors. Look at them.

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Traitors.

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They offer to prove any law I made

before I made it.

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I said:
'What if I go mad?

What then?'

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No answer. They were

born to be slaves,

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Germanicus, never forget that.

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I'm not Germanicus, Lord.

I'm his son, Caligula.

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Yes.

And your friend is Macro.

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He serves you and only you, Lord.

-And his wife is your friend, too.

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Is she friendly in bed?

-We must ask Macro that, Lord.

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She seems friendly.

-And your sister, Drusilla...

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My sister is my sister, Lord.

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I know everything

that is said and done.

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And thought.

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The setting sun

and the rising moon.

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Gore Vidal

Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (; born Eugene Louis Vidal; October 3, 1925 – July 31, 2012) was an American writer and public intellectual known for his patrician manner, epigrammatic wit, and polished style of writing.Vidal was born to a political family; his maternal grandfather, Thomas Pryor Gore, served as United States senator from Oklahoma (1907–1921 and 1931–1937). He was a Democratic Party politician who twice sought elected office; first to the United States House of Representatives (New York, 1960), then to the U.S. Senate (California, 1982).As a political commentator and essayist, Vidal's principal subject was the history of the United States and its society, especially how the militaristic foreign policy reduced the country to a decadent empire. His political and cultural essays were published in The Nation, the New Statesman, the New York Review of Books, and Esquire magazines. As a public intellectual, Gore Vidal's topical debates on sex, politics, and religion with other intellectuals and writers occasionally turned into quarrels with the likes of William F. Buckley Jr. and Norman Mailer. Vidal thought all men and women are potentially bisexual, so he rejected the adjectives "homosexual" and "heterosexual" when used as nouns, as inherently false terms used to classify and control people in society.As a novelist Vidal explored the nature of corruption in public and private life. His polished and erudite style of narration readily evoked the time and place of his stories, and perceptively delineated the psychology of his characters. His third novel, The City and the Pillar (1948), offended the literary, political, and moral sensibilities of conservative book reviewers, with a dispassionately presented male homosexual relationship. In the historical novel genre, Vidal re-created in Julian (1964) the imperial world of Julian the Apostate (r. AD 361–63), the Roman emperor who used general religious toleration to re-establish pagan polytheism to counter the political subversion of Christian monotheism. In the genre of social satire, Myra Breckinridge (1968) explores the mutability of gender role and sexual orientation as being social constructs established by social mores. In Burr (1973) and Lincoln (1984), the protagonist is presented as "A Man of the People" and as "A Man" in a narrative exploration of how the public and private facets of personality affect the national politics of the U.S. more…

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