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Guilty Pleasures: Caligula
Get swept up in the trash you perceive you shouldn&#;t treasure. But somehow these cinematic wretches, warts and all, still warm our hearts.
In Susan Sontag&#;s famous essay, &#;On Camp,&#; she declares that the inherent ingredient necessary for something to be considered &#;campy&#; is seriousness; a seriousness that fails. Perhaps no other production in the last 30 years has been as self-importantly serious as Caligula, the sword and sandals/porno chic monumental produced by Bob Guccione, publisher extraordinaire of Penthouse magazine. In The Making of Gore Vidal&#;s Caligula, filmed at the time of production, he gives an interview seated at the far side of an ornate, marble table. Relaxed, with silk shirt open to the navel, Mr. Guccione has the appearance of a man composed entirely of year aged Scotch, fine Corinthian leather and genital warts. Dark tufts of chest hair sprouting up enjoy angry weeds, this ridiculous little guy with his gold chains and gallons of chutzpah has every intention in the world of producing the GREATEST CINEMATIC EPIC OF ALL TIME. I
An irresistible mix of art and genitals! Featuring true sex (thanks to a porn baron), it was one of the most notorious films ever. Now Caligula's been re-cut using unseen footage
Despotic, debauched and deranged: the Roman Emperor Caligula was a mean sadist who reputedly slept with all three of his sisters and wanted to make his horse a consul.
He was also so touchy about his bald spot that if he saw anyone standing on higher ground than him, looking down on it, they were sentenced to death.
He was similarly sensitive about his excessive body hair and declared that if anybody ever mentioned goats in his presence, whatever the context, they too would expire. Yet for his insane levels of depravity, Caligula surely ranks as the ‘GOAT’ (greatest of all time) – a legal title we can safely apply since the emperor’s assassination in 41AD aged just
It comes as no great surprise, therefore, that the biopic Caligula, starring Malcolm McDowell, Helen Mirren, John Gielgud and Peter O’Toole – produced and bankrolled by Bob Guccione, the American founder of the soft-porn magazine Penthouse – remains
Restored ‘Caligula’ is still no classic
When “Brokeback Mountain” was released in , the world was a very different place.
Now, as it returns to the enormous screen (beginning June 20) in celebration of its 20th anniversary, it’s unachievable not to look at it with a diverse pair of eyes. Since its release, marriage equality has become the statute of the land; gay visibility has gained enough ground in our accepted culture to allow for diverse queer stories to be told; openly homosexual actors are cast in blockbuster movies and ‘must-see’ TV, sometimes even playing queer characters. Yet, at the same time, the world in which the movie’s two “star-crossed” lovers live – a rural, unflinchingly conservative America that has neither place nor tolerance for any gentle of love outside the conventional norm – once felt like a place that most of us wanted to believe was long gone; now, in a cultural atmosphere of resurgent, Trump-amplified stigma around all things diverse, it feels uncomfortably like a vision of things to come.
For those who include not yet seen it (and yes, there are many, but we’re not
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Never, in the history of the nature, will there ever be another movie like Caligula. And never, in the history of this website, will there ever be a movie more difficult than Caligula to describe.
It all began with Gore Vidal writing a screenplay about the life of the infamous Roman Emperor Caligula, based on an unproduced television mini-series by Roberto Rossellini. Though Vidal and Franco Rossellini (Roberto's nephew) originally only intended for it to be a modestly budgeted historical drama, they were unable to attain funding for it and sought help from none other than the founder of Penthouse magazine, Bob Guccione. And it's actually not his first film, either; Guccione previously produced Chinatown. Yes, really.
Guccione agreed to finance Caligula on two conditions: 1) that it would be tarted up into a lavish, flamboyant spectacle akin