Julius Caesar

Sobre Julius Caesar

Julius Caesar é uma adaptação cinematográfica de 1970 da peça de mesmo nome de William Shakespeare, dirigida por Stuart Burge. Ela é estrelada por Charlton Heston como Mark Antony, Jason Robards como Brutus, Richard Johnson como Cassius, John Gielgud como Caesar, Robert Vaughn como Casca, Richard Chamberlain como Octavius, e Diana Rigg como Portia. Foi uma produção independente da Commonwealth United Entertainment, filmada na Inglaterra e na Espanha. É a primeira versão cinematográfica da peça feita em cor.

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Notable quotes

“Sed fortuna, quae plurimum potest cum in reliquis rebus tum praecipue in bello, parvis momentis magnas rerum commutationes efficit; ut tum accidit.”
— Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.
“I assure you I had rather be the first man here than the second man in Rome.”
— On passing through a village in the Alps, as attributed in Parallel Lives , by Plutarch, as translated by John Langhorne and William Langhorne (1836), p. 499<!-- ; also quoted in p. 372 Handy-Book of Literary Curiosities (1892) by William Shepard Walsh
“I will not ... that my wife be so much as suspected.”
— His declaration as to why he had divorced his wife Pompeia, when questioned in the trial against Publius Clodius Pulcher for sacrilege against Bona Dea festivities (from which men were excluded), in entering Caesar's home disguised as a lute-girl apparently with intentions of a seducing Caesar's wife; as reported in Plutarch's Lives of Coriolanus, Caesar, Brutus, and Antonius by Plutarch, as translated by Thomas North, p. 53
“It is not the well-fed long-haired man I fear, but the pale and the hungry looking.”
— As reported in Plutarch's Anthony'; William Shakespeare adapted this in having Caesar declare Cassius as having "a lean and hungry look."

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