Rome Episode 2-1
Added 2023-03-11 13:15:06 +0000 UTCCurses! Foiled again!
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That's a good point
Dexter Goad
2023-03-15 10:04:44 +0000 UTCas you said different times :) but also there are bigger problems in the city right now then a killed gang leader and his crew for titus it was a politician
KlausBerndUWE
2023-03-14 16:47:26 +0000 UTCYou know I was wondering if they cut the speech for budgetary reasons but then I realized they did have crowd shots of the stuff immediately before the speech so how much extra expense would it have been? You already have a crowd assembled, just get some extra reaction shots from them and then shoot him giving the speech on a different day with closeups. So its interesting that it WAS budgetary reasons after all.
Dexter Goad
2023-03-11 21:30:51 +0000 UTCI think the stuff Marc Anthony says in his meeting with Brutus is the main reason Caesar wasn't afraid of the senate. Caesar was very popular with the people and had a huge army stationed nearby that was fanatically loyal to him. It's unlikely to end well for you if you kill a guy who is that popular, Caesar probably thought the Senators understood this enough to not attack him. He underestimated how stupid they were >_< Just a decade before this, another guy popular with the people (Clodius) got killed by people supportive of the senate; the people tried to lynch senators and ended up burning down the senate house in the riots that followed. I suspect Caesar thought the senators would remember that? Then again, the ancient sources basically say "he was really arrogant" so that definitely factored into it! It's a shame the episode basically skips the funeral. Marc Anthony's speech that riled up the masses is a big part of Shakespeare's play Julius Ceaser and other films about this event. The show runners said it would cost too much to show the speech; you know more about that than i do, but it seems odd a speech would be too expensive to film. Lictors are basically bodyguards for elected officials in Rome. They seem to have mostly played a ceremonial role though, kinda like the British royal guards with the big black hats.
paul cook
2023-03-11 17:12:44 +0000 UTC
