Cleopatra (1963)

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Who talked about it

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Came from

What the speakers say it drew on. Each is a speaker's account: “the maker said so” when they report the maker's own words, “the host's read” when the read is theirs.

No line says it drew on another film or person.

Led to

What the speakers say drew on it, marked the same way.

No line says another film or person drew on it.

Connected to

Spartacus: 1 line theme ×1

  1. theme (genre escalation): Spartacus → Cleopatra. Cleopatra was the end of the epic era's escalation; it cost three times as much.
    “Cleopatra was like the end of an error”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:08:18 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Where it came up

What was said about it, by kind

theme (1)

  1. theme (genre escalation): Spartacus → Cleopatra. Cleopatra was the end of the epic era's escalation; it cost three times as much.
    “Cleopatra was like the end of an error”
    Blank Check — Patreon · Spartacus with Richard Lawson (Ad-Free) · 1:08:18 · unknown (0.40 sure it was them)

Fun items about it

  1. fun, about Cleopatra: Gray jokes that a century from now films will look like the pyramids, and notes Cleopatra's 10,000 extras can't be done again.
    “look at us having made films as a civilization and look at it as like making the pyramids”
    The Big Picture · ‘The Lost City of Z’ Director James Gray | The Big Picture (Ep. 9) · 0:03:52 · James Gray (0.90 sure it was them)
  2. fun, about Cleopatra: Gray cites Mankiewicz's 10,000-extras scene as a marvel of scale.
    “has a scene where there's 10,000 extras”
    The Big Picture · ‘The Lost City of Z’ Director James Gray | The Big Picture (Ep. 9) · 0:04:12 · James Gray (0.90 sure it was them)

Who the speakers said made it

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