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Assombrado pelo assassinato de sua família, o jovem e desconfiado Calígula toma o trono do decadente Império Romano ao eliminar seu avô adotivo, mergulhando em um ciclo de corrupção, violênc... Ler tudoAssombrado pelo assassinato de sua família, o jovem e desconfiado Calígula toma o trono do decadente Império Romano ao eliminar seu avô adotivo, mergulhando em um ciclo de corrupção, violência e insanidade.Assombrado pelo assassinato de sua família, o jovem e desconfiado Calígula toma o trono do decadente Império Romano ao eliminar seu avô adotivo, mergulhando em um ciclo de corrupção, violência e insanidade.
Malcolm McDowell
- Caligula
- (cenas de arquivo)
Helen Mirren
- Caesonia
- (cenas de arquivo)
Teresa Ann Savoy
- Drusilla
- (cenas de arquivo)
Peter O'Toole
- Tiberius
- (cenas de arquivo)
John Gielgud
- Nerva
- (cenas de arquivo)
Guido Mannari
- Macro
- (cenas de arquivo)
Giancarlo Badessi
- Claudius
- (cenas de arquivo)
Bruno Brive
- Gemellus
- (cenas de arquivo)
Adriana Asti
- Ennia
- (cenas de arquivo)
Leopoldo Trieste
- Charicles
- (cenas de arquivo)
Paolo Bonacelli
- Chaerea
- (cenas de arquivo)
John Steiner
- Longinus
- (cenas de arquivo)
Mirella D'Angelo
- Livia
- (cenas de arquivo)
Donato Placido
- Proculus
- (cenas de arquivo)
Osiride Pevarello
- Giant
- (cenas de arquivo)
John Francis Lane
- Major Domo
- (cenas de arquivo)
Eduardo Bergara Leumann
- Bergarius
- (cenas de arquivo)
Andrew Lord Miller
- Senator Acesius
- (cenas de arquivo)
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As a huge caligula fan i own all there is to own about my fav roman emperor and so when i heard there is a new extended edition of the beloved 1979 film with around 20 or so new footage scenes i was excited and i immediately bought the new spanish blu ray release.
Sadly things did not went well with this.
This cut has a lot of flaws. In fact all went wrong if u exclude some new deleted scenes.
Those deleted scenes were the only worthy part of the film.
U get to see how caligula orders other people to worship his own statues which replaced those of the gods. This scene was great and there are a few more but the good things end here.
Unfortunately this is NOT the original take of the film and everything was changed.
What i mean is even the voices the way the actors performed was different than the theatrical version and that was not good.
More important the divine music which made the original film so much better was not here.
The music used here was boring and added nothing to the film.
I was tired watching this.
I will only keep this cut cause of the new footage and that's that.
I'm very disappointed of this new extended cut.
So i advise you to stick to the imperial edition of the film and the original 155 minutes long version.
Sadly things did not went well with this.
This cut has a lot of flaws. In fact all went wrong if u exclude some new deleted scenes.
Those deleted scenes were the only worthy part of the film.
U get to see how caligula orders other people to worship his own statues which replaced those of the gods. This scene was great and there are a few more but the good things end here.
Unfortunately this is NOT the original take of the film and everything was changed.
What i mean is even the voices the way the actors performed was different than the theatrical version and that was not good.
More important the divine music which made the original film so much better was not here.
The music used here was boring and added nothing to the film.
I was tired watching this.
I will only keep this cut cause of the new footage and that's that.
I'm very disappointed of this new extended cut.
So i advise you to stick to the imperial edition of the film and the original 155 minutes long version.
Difficult to write too much.
I appreciated the final result of long fight for offer the quasi original film. I liked the new scenes , offering some fresh air to a movie representing, including for bitter critics, a legend or a sort of classic.
My curiosity was about the impressions of viewer discovering only this version. Its virtue- the idea of power without limits and its price becomes more clear , familiar frames are almost in new light but the essence is the same and the pornographic scenes are less significant than you imagine seeing the previews version.
Impressive ? No doubts !
Perfect ? Far to hope to become. Maybe provocative but it is its basic virtue . In short, for many reasons, an absolutely must see.
I appreciated the final result of long fight for offer the quasi original film. I liked the new scenes , offering some fresh air to a movie representing, including for bitter critics, a legend or a sort of classic.
My curiosity was about the impressions of viewer discovering only this version. Its virtue- the idea of power without limits and its price becomes more clear , familiar frames are almost in new light but the essence is the same and the pornographic scenes are less significant than you imagine seeing the previews version.
Impressive ? No doubts !
Perfect ? Far to hope to become. Maybe provocative but it is its basic virtue . In short, for many reasons, an absolutely must see.
Having looked at the laserdisc R-rated version, the "Imperial" unrated version and the documentary promotional short featuring Guccione and Vidal attempting to explain, I find it very hard to see the "Ultimate Cut" as the new movie it is supposed to be. It does indeed appear to be made of elements previously unseen. This was never a terrible, but an unfortunate movie, born crippled over and over. We may never see the 4 hour masterpiece that (perhaps) could have been. In this version there is much to like, much beauty and humor. Maybe not the best takes, or camera angles, but more story. The whole thing makes more sense. Not subtle, but fun. Happily the actors have loads more screen time. Teresa Ann Savoy isn't just pretty and likable. As Caligula's calculating, patient, loving sister, she helps so much! If you have ever dreamed of being a movie editor because it looks easy, this movie and its difficulties will enhance your respect for the editor's art. Enjoy it some time when the children and the easily offended are not around.
This is truly a lost opportunity. After a massive search, a film scholar tracked down all of the original film shot by director Tinto Brass, who is still alive, and he wante4d to work with Brass to finally make a director's cut.
Penthouse, which own the rights, changed management and the new management instead turned the footage over to some people with absolutely no background in film restoration. This new team said they wanted to restore the film to the intentions of Gore Vidal's script. The main problem with that is Tinto Brass was not filming Vidal's script as it was written, as he thought it was terrible. He and actor Malcolm McDowell reworked the script into something more of an art film.
The result of this restoration is that the scenes are finally in the right order but put together with with no sense of style or pacing. Tinto Brass envisioned lots of close up and fast editing, and completed about half of the film this way. Instead we get long takes that emphasize the lavish sets and obscure the action. It looks like a rough cut that is waiting for someone to add closeups and quicken the pace. A few individual scenes work much better in the original due to better editing.
Another drawback is the overly modern score, which doesn't reflect musical trends of the 1970s, when the film was shot.
On the plus side, all of the incongruous hardcore scenes shot by Penthouse chief Bob Guccione are gone. A more coherent performance by Malcolm McDowell can be seen, though at times some of the more manic takes might have worked better to emphasize his deteriorating mental state.
Penthouse, which own the rights, changed management and the new management instead turned the footage over to some people with absolutely no background in film restoration. This new team said they wanted to restore the film to the intentions of Gore Vidal's script. The main problem with that is Tinto Brass was not filming Vidal's script as it was written, as he thought it was terrible. He and actor Malcolm McDowell reworked the script into something more of an art film.
The result of this restoration is that the scenes are finally in the right order but put together with with no sense of style or pacing. Tinto Brass envisioned lots of close up and fast editing, and completed about half of the film this way. Instead we get long takes that emphasize the lavish sets and obscure the action. It looks like a rough cut that is waiting for someone to add closeups and quicken the pace. A few individual scenes work much better in the original due to better editing.
Another drawback is the overly modern score, which doesn't reflect musical trends of the 1970s, when the film was shot.
On the plus side, all of the incongruous hardcore scenes shot by Penthouse chief Bob Guccione are gone. A more coherent performance by Malcolm McDowell can be seen, though at times some of the more manic takes might have worked better to emphasize his deteriorating mental state.
Now I'll be honest, I think John Hurt ("I Claudius" - BBC - 1976) made a better Caligula, but Malcolm McDowell is still pretty convincing as the despotic sexual deviant who held the ultimate power in the Roman Empire for four years. It ought not to have been a surprise that he turned out the way he did when we are introduced to the decrepitly monstrous Tiberius (Peter O'Toole) on his island paradise of Capri. He lives there in a court of acolyte nymphs and "fishes" guided only by the vaguest semblance of decency from his friend Nerva (Sir John Gielgud). When that brief sequence of hedonism is swiftly over, our antihero assumes the throne and proceeds to share it with his sister Drusilla (Teresa Ann Savoy) with whom he enjoys a pretty incestuous relationship. There's pressure on him to marry, though, and father a legitimate child - so along comes Caesonia (Helen Mirren) - a woman all too keen to father the imperial progeny whilst enjoying a life of luxury and depravity. That's the history bit - which is really all rather peripheral to this shockingly scripted exercise in soft-porn which we are now going to watch in all it's three hour glory. It's clear that no expense has been spared on the look of the film, and to be fair to director Tinto Brass he does offer us quite a convincing glimpse at the excessiveness of a despotic court ruled by a monarch who believed himself a god - and who had few prepared to argue. It's maybe on that last point that "Longinus" (John Steiner) takes a decisive stance. He is the chancellor who increasingly finds himself, along with Praetorian Commander Chaerea (Paolo Bonacelli), more and more disgusted by the antics of this man with the thinnest grasp on reality. There's nudity all over the shop to the point that it becomes innocuous and once you've got used to that the rest of it fails to carry what could have been a blank cheque opportunity to portray the pivot of historical decadence. Instead, we have McDowell hamming it up energetically as he flounces around, scantily clad, but very little else. It's tawdry, no other word for it - and the unwelcome intermission completely throttled whatever pace there was as it sort of lumbered along in the most clunky of episodic fashions to an denouement that history told us about nearly two thousand years ago. It doesn't seem to know whether it's a movie or a sequence of short theatrical plays, Mirren adds precisely nothing and the magnificently odious O'Toole isn't around long enough to make enough of a difference. It's a shambles, certainly, and this ultimate cut is far, far too long - but somehow it's not unwatchable. You might never eat cottage cheese again!
Você sabia?
- CuriosidadesThe film is a complete re-imagination of Calígula (1979), based on 96 hours of never-before-seen footage recovered many years after its release. Under the supervision of historian Thomas Negovan, an "Ultimate Cut" of the film was created. Instead of expanding existing scenes with the new footage, the entire film was edited from scratch, which resulted in a version that doesn't contain a single frame from the theatrical version. Visual effects were used to enhance scenes and replace cheap sets and backgrounds, and AI technology was used to restore previously unusable dialogue that was plagued with background noises. A new music score was composed as well, in contrast to the public domain ballet music. A limited theatrical release was planned in late 2020, but it was delayed due to legal difficulties, distribution issues and the Covid-19 pandemic. This version eventually premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2023, with high remarks by actors Malcolm McDowell (who previously had been ashamed by the film) and Dame Helen Mirren.
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