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...pans across the battle, a sea of extras, stretching farther than the eye can see, brings the army to life on a breath-taking scale. Which makes very clear what the veteran visionary Scott wants his Gladiator to be a bona fide throwback to old-fashioned Hollywood epics like Spartacus and Ben-Hur, which prided themselves on creating the biggest spectacle possible. Sure, those films had stories (Spartacus had a great one, in fact), but even more important was the way in which they took full advantage of cinematic technology in order to make the saga seem literally larger-than...
From the moment he took the stand last week, Edwards answered yes-or-no questions with unsolicited sermons. It's like "Spartacus to the Romans," complained prosecutor Jim Letten. U.S. District Judge Frank Polozola admonished, "This is not a theater." Of course it was. Edwards told of high-stakes poker games in the Governor's mansion and of "stacking up cash and throwing it away" on lavish impulses. Prosecutors say he used $733,567 in cash toward the purchase of a $1.3 million house. "The government prints $200 million in $100 bills every day. Must be a lot of other...
...Spartacus Youth Club (SYC) supports the fight for Geronimo's freedom. Geronimo represents the best of a generation who fought against the vicious conditions suffered by Blacks in this racist capitalist society. Under "liberal" death-penalty Democrat Bill Clinton these conditions are only getting worse...
...Scorceses Mean Streets. Even the shoot-em-ups were intellectual. If you don't believe me, check out Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde. Sure, there had been spectacle movies before Star Wars, but never one so openly connected to the world of childhood. From The Ten Commandments to Spartacus, there was an earnestness--a high mindedness, you might say--to the pre-Star Wars epics. Star Wars did away with all that, or at least stole center stage from it. Lucas didn't serve up intellectual considerations or emotional explorations for his audiences. Instead, he packaged their childhood fantasies...
...Life this November. Jeffrey Katzenberg, who had nothing to do with the latter before he left Disney for DreamWorks, says Antz "is the story of one ant who wants to be an individual in a world in which that's a big no-no. That ant turns into Spartacus and leads an entire revolution. And Woody Allen is Spartacus...