Caligula (1979)

August 13th, 2010 by knut bipspoeder

photo replaced – gast!



Caligula is a 1979 film directed by Tinto Brass, with additional scenes filmed by Giancarlo Lui and Penthouse founder Bob Guccione. The film concerns the rise and fall of Roman Emperor Gaius Caesar Germanicus, better known as Caligula.
Caligula was very tall, with spindly legs and a thin neck. His eyes and temples were sunken and his forehead broad and glowering. His hair was thin and he was bald on top, though he had a hairy body (during his reign it was a crime punishable by death to look down on him as he passed by, or to mention a goat in his presence).

Knut: ’tis het soort slechte film die je wel gezien moet hebben, al was het maar vanwege Malcolm mcDowell, bekend van A Clockwork Orange’
Gore Vidal, die het script leverde, wilde zijn naam niet in de credits, trok zich terug na het zien van de eerste gore scenes.
BONUS: A Documentary on the Making of ‘Gore Vidal’s Caligula’ (1981)
Newsweek magazine called Caligula “a two-and-one-half-hour cavalcade of depravity that seems to have been photographed through a tub of Vaseline.”
In 2005 verscheen er een trailer van wat de remake van Caligula zou moeten worden..

Note the pope at the end, just before Courtney Love does haar intrede.

Other things 0chers might like after seeing this film:

My Penis and Everyone Else’s from Lawrence Barraclough on Vimeo.

(Full-lenght version)
Tot slot haken we af met een passend liedje:

Have a nice weekend /0/chers!