From: ggggg9271@gmail.com   
      
   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.   
      
   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKYNctR98H4   
      
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