Julius Caesar Page #2

Strangle him.

- Wait!

He's been proven innocent.

Well I,

just disapprove of the verdict.

Sulla...

He's a good man,

and he's here on my introduction.

Allow me to vouch for him

and protect him.

You can vouch for him all you like.

But protect him you can't.

the penalty protests strangulation.

Strangle him.

- There seems to be an error of judgment.

My judgment?

Pompey...

You're becoming very critical.

You want to rise above me.

Just waiting for your chance.

Those men worship the rising sun

and not the setting sun.

That's how the saying goes isn't it?

But I am not the setting sun not

yet but in the meantime...

...I expect you to subordinate yourself

to my wishes weather you understand them...

...or not.

Strangle him!

No...

You...

You strangle him.

No.

Taije did you hear him say no?

Ah, my dear general.

I asked you to strangle Flavius

and strangle Flavius you will.

And you will do it with your own bare hands.

You will strangle Flavius

or you yourself will be strangled.

Strangle him!

Strangle him now!

I will not have my orders disobeyed!

I swear to...

Father...

Who are your friends?

Portia and Marcus.

Don't you remember them?

Of course Cato's children.

Just don't grow them so much.

Thats our cousin.

Brutus...

What you reading?

- "Ethics".

Aristotle?

- My uncle Cato gave it to me.

How is he?

- He's as grumpy as ever.

Hasn't changed a bit.

- Mother.

Caesar!

Don't get up.

- I'm not ill.

Let me get dressed.

I'm well,

I just got up too fast.

You don't have to get dressed.

Lets lie down together.

No wait.

Just...

Cornelia...

I never stopped waiting for you.

I never stopped missing you.

and now...

Here...

This is not supposed to happen.

I'm back now, my love.

Two years is just too long.

There are those of you who work with Sulla.

and those of you who worked...

...against him.

But not all that worked with

him agreed with his laws.

I therefore propose that the rights

of the tribunes be restored

So that once again the people

can be fairly represented.

I propose a thorough reform of the courts.

And an unqualified reinstatement

of the senate

As the principal body of government.

Caesar!

It's good to see you fresh

from another victory.

Oh he let's me win.

It makes me feel old.

I'm Glad to see you made it back safely.

I hear you met with a number

of obstacles.

Yes. Fortunately your friend

Nicomedias has proven to be a great ally.

I never had a chance to thank you...

...for saving my life.

You defied Sulla.

He told you to divorce your wife and you

said no even though it meant sudden death.

That impressed me.

And it...

reminded me of something.

You see my friend,

Sulla once told me

to divorce my wife.

And unlike you I obeyed him.

I left the one woman I loved.

Life is full of lessons.

So we thought each other

a thing of two.

Tell me how to get where

you are now.

Don't tell me I was wrong

to hope you were spared.

I have something to give to Rome.

But I have no voice.

If you want a voice in Rome,

Win the people,

speak from your heart...

And when you make a promise,

keep it!

Pompey...

I promise you

if you ever need my help...

...just give me a sign,

I'll come to your aid.

My name is Julius Caesar.

I'm here to honor

my wife, Cornelia...

...publicly

and for the last time.

She was a good woman.

She gave no thought to her own wellbeing.

Only to the wellbeing of others.

Rome was her first and greatest love.

We shared that love.

We dreamt of a Rome

without dictators.

Where sons never raise their

hands against their fathers.

Where brothers never raise

their swords against brothers.

Where Romans lived at peace

with fellow Romans by their side.

I ask you now to join with me,

In honoring not only the

memory of my good wife,

But in memory of all the good men and

women who have died fighting for a better Rome.

People of Rome, I, Julius Caesar,

make you this promise on the

body of my beloved wife...

...I will not rest until the Rome

she dreamed of is the Rome we live in.

Join me.

By not only the nephew

to our beloved Marius,

Who fought against the evils of Sulla

who took his life from him.

But I'm also a son of the Julia,

Who are descendents of the goddess Venus herself.

I offer you my hand.

A power supreme amongst mortal men,

Granted by the gods

superior to kings.

Let us work together comrades,

in our quest for an empire,

that is boundless,

united...and free.

We shall have to watch him.

Or use him.

Good morning to you, Caesar...

Hail Caesar.

Greetings, Caesar.

Julia, I have something for you.

Now then... Ah here it is.

And I hope it will make you smile.

That's the first I seen

you smile in weeks.

Stop it all of you!

There is nothing he can do about it.

What happened?

- The price of bread has tripled.

There is no grain in Rome.

--Why?

Because the grain supply from Egypt

was cut off by pirates.

Half of Rome is without bread.

The city is close to panic.

Only the very rich can afford bread.

We must fight the pirates now or

Rome will be crippled forever.

So I propose that Pompey be given legions

to attack this problem once and for all.

It's not a question of weather or

not we fight pirates,

It's a matter of how.

I propose we equip ten small armies to fight

the pirates at different parts of the coast.

So the pirates can destroy Rome

one two by the time?

The pirates are a bunch of

uneducated hoodlums.

I hardly think they could stand

against a Roman assault of any size.

Lets talk about things are gentlemen.

Not the way we would like then to be.

I can attest to the threat posed by these scavengers.

I was a victim of one of their assaults myself.

Then perhaps you will regale us

with your sea stories Gaius Julius

In the tavern after the work

of the senate is done.

The work of the senate

is rarely done.

You see there are not thousands of pirates

in our waters. But hundreds of thousands.

Enough for all the rogue bands

preying on single vessels.

There are pirate admirals seeking,

With thousands of ships and troops

more skilled in naval combat even than our own.

Pretty speeches like this won't

even cook our lunch.

No speeches do as little

work as the senate.

How dare this arrogant newcomer

insult this Auguste body?

Auguste and plump, Bibulus,

like your own body.

Apparent from ardent chatter and inactivity.

Enough, ...enough, ...enough!

We have a man in our company who can

resolve this conflict with the pirates.

But do we honor him with that duty?

No.

I'm with Caesar,

we have no bread.

Now are we a great empire or

are we going to be ruled by outlaws?

To perform this commission,

Pompey will have to be given

an army twice the size

of the one Sulla used to take Rome

Have we learned nothing from the past?

I see Rome should go Hungary because Cato

can't find a single man he can trust.

Not any man with an army would take the state.

Not every man is a Sulla.

Rate this script:2.0 / 1 vote