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Julius Caesar (1970) 📽️🍿 [R]

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Published on 03 Mar 2023 / In Television / Movies

⁣⁣⁣⁣[This version replaces an older version which was destroyed in an Israeli DDOS attack on World Truth Videos.]

⁣Julius Caesar is a 1970 film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play of the same name, directed by Stuart Burge. It stars Charlton Heston as Mark Antony, Jason Robards as Brutus, Richard Johnson as Cassius, John Gielgud as Caesar, Robert Vaughn as Casca, Richard Chamberlain as Octavius, and Diana Rigg as Portia. It was an independent production of Commonwealth United Entertainment, filmed in England and Spain. It is the first film version of the play made in colour.

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nimblehorse
nimblehorse 19 days ago

"Let me have men about me that are fat, Sleek-headed men, such as sleep a-nights. Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous" ~ Caesar

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Spectralwulf
Spectralwulf 19 days ago

I was amazed to see a Llama in the parade at the beginning, but who knows - maybe they did cross the Atlantic ocean and the record of it was lost and overshadowed by more crucial events? Rome was certainly powerful enough to send a few ships exploring into the western ocean. There's no reason to think such exploration was never thought of or commanded during the many centuries of Roman civilization.

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nimblehorse
nimblehorse 19 days ago

the Romans could not navigate the oceans and traveled the seas by hugging the coasts.
it s more likely that the Hollywood producers used artistic licence in using the lamas in place of dromedaries ?

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Spectralwulf
Spectralwulf 19 days ago

@nimblehorse: I think the Greeks, Carthage/Phoenicians and Romans all had the ability and skills to cross the Atlantic and some may have succeeded in doing so, but many in the expeditions may not have survived it or made it back. If a Carthaginian King or Roman Emperor wanted to know what was on the far edge of the map, he could simply command a sea-worthy ship of expendables to do it - just out of curiosity. It surely must have happened over the centuries whether it was successful or not. I think Carthage was most capable of doing it, succeeding and keeping it a state secret, but the Romans utterly destroyed Carthage and most of their knowledge was lost. When the last Carthaginian ships were being hunted down in the Mediterranean and the pirates on them were marked for death, what did a sea-people have to lose by fleeing west? Desperation could have spurred exploration. The bearded gods of Central America who were dated around the beginning of the first century BC suggests it was in fact accomplished.

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nimblehorse
nimblehorse 19 days ago

@Spectralwulf:
roman artifacts have been found in the Americas...perhaps a Boat blown off course, unable to return to the East.
the Phoenicians had seagoing galleys equipped for the voyage to the Cornish Tin mines and Iron from Brazil, they kept those positions secret.
im of the understanding that Roman ships were small vessels, unsuited to ocean swells, there knowledge of the seas were supersticious.

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Spectralwulf
Spectralwulf 19 days ago

@nimblehorse: Carthage was the primary western Phoenician port. They were a sea-people used to spending long periods of time at sea and built the best ships. The Romans had to copy and mass produce Carthaginian warship designs in order to defeat them. The arrival of the god Kukulkan to Chichen Itza in the Yucatan peninsula coincides with the period when Carthage was at the height of their power and within the time frame of the Punic wars. So by the 1st century BC, the cult of the "War Serpent" was already well established among the Maya. I think Carthage discovered and explored the new world and the Kukulkan worshippers were like a modern "cargo cult" waiting for the "war serpents" to return from the eastern ocean.

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