From: kerrison126-spartan@yahoo.co.uk   
      
   On Tuesday, March 16, 2021 at 3:48:24 AM UTC, gggg gggg wrote:   
   > On Thursday, July 14, 2011 at 7:48:00 AM UTC-7, really real wrote:   
   > > With the new cheap blu-ray version of Spartacus available, I thought I   
   > > would watch this epic again. What a treat! The huge battle scene looks   
   > > quite fantastic in high def, especially when we know its down with   
   > > thousands of extras and not computers.   
   > > And what an amazing hodge podge of a movie. It was the most expensive   
   > > Hollywood movie of its time, back in 1960, and with Stanley Kubrick   
   > > directing, it's quite a spectacle and a scene. I read a quote from   
   > > producer/actor Kurt Douglas saying he hoped Kubrick would have a flop   
   > > soon so he would learn hou do compromise. But did Kubrick compromise   
   > > after Barry Lyndon?   
   > > Some of the acting in Spartacus is terrific. Charles Laughton and Peter   
   > > Ustinov are wonderful especially in their scene together. Laurence   
   > > Olivier is good. Kurt Douglas is hammy. John Gavin, as Julius Caesar,   
   > > seems to belong in a different movie. And why do they call him Caesar? I   
   > > thought Caesar was a title, like Czar or Kaiser.   
   > >   
   > > Jean Simmons is gracious and lovely. She too seems to be coming from a   
   > > different movie than one about oppressed slaves thousands of years ago.   
   > > The homosexual subtext in the movie is also a delight, not only with the   
   > > snails and oysters scene, but with all the cute naked statues. And there   
   > > is a scene where Laughton talks about liking women, as if it were wrong   
   > > to like women.   
   > > The political subtext of the movie is also fascinating, with commie   
   > > propaganda lurking throughout. There are lovely scenes of the escaped   
   > > slaves in their camps, working in their paradisaical collective.   
   > > It's fascinating the way Spartacus veers from being an intelligent   
   > > Kubrick movie to a Hollywood schlock movie.   
   > Concerning the music composed for Spartacus:   
   >   
   > https://groups.google.com/g/rec.music.movies/c/rxSBzvBFKus   
      
      
   The infamous "Snails and Oysters" scene, where Tony Curtis is giving Laurence   
   Olivier a rub-down in the tub, was shot in a single take. Maybe Kubrick   
   suspected it wouldn't make it to the final print ...   
      
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4oOj3vycvZQ   
      
   According to Stephen Spielberg, Kubrick enjoyed shooting the Laughton &   
   Ustinov scenes the most ...   
      
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6l2b_8RWkc   
      
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