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— Caligula
Never, in the history of the world, will there ever be another show like Caligula. And never, in the history of this website, will there ever be a production 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 clip, 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 to the Sword and Sandal epics of the 50s; and 2) that sex would be incorporated to promote th
Caligula � financed with 10 million dollars from Penthouse this movie splits motion picture fans all over the world. Some criticise the weird cutting, arbitrary camera movement, exorbitantly shot porn scenes and vast excesses of Caligula. Others like the acting, for example McDowell, the deep going characterization of Caligula and the brilliant sets.
The development of the movie was delayed through various fights between scriptwriter Gore Vidal and director Tinto Brass with Bob Guccione and dissociated with the production (as many actors also did). Guccione took concern of the ultimate cut and included about 5 minutes of additional hardcore material. Only not many countries allowed a theatrical audition in this form and the cut versions had not that much success. So movie was considered a financial disaster.
This censorship notify show the comparison between the R-rated and the uncut version. In 1981 the movie has been cut to a R-rating and was later published on video and laserdisc in the same version. This version was extremely cut but substituted problematic scenes with alternative material.
At the end of the 90s a DVD release has been announced. A modern R-rated version has been created
Caligula and his “romances”
Caligula was remembered as one of the worst rulers of ancient Rome. If we consider historians’ accounts the Emperor would include distinguished himself with controversial ‘romances’.
Augustus, his great-grandfather, would certainly be shocked if he saw what Caligula is doing. During his reign, he lived in an official concubinage with his control sisters. In addition, he often allowed himself to deal with married women, and with the knowledge of their husbands. We recognize the message that the emperor was once on Gaius Piso and Livia Orestillia’s marriage. After the whole ceremony, Caligula went with the wife of Piso to his chambers to give back and announce that he married a woman as Romulus, who according to legend, had ordered the kidnapping of the women from Sabines to Rome.
Only after a scant days, the Emperor divorced Livia, because his attention was attracted by the beautiful Lollia Paulina. He was so charmed by her beauty that he called her and her husband to Rome and ordered them to create divorce. The marriage of Caligula and Paulina lasted only a few weeks; the emperor, as before, divorced and under the death penalty f
An irresistible mix of art and genitals! Featuring real 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 harsh 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 land 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 die. Yet for his insane levels of depravity, Caligula surely ranks as the ‘GOAT’ (greatest of all time) – a term we can safely use since the emperor’s assassination in 41AD aged just 28.
It comes as no great surprise, therefore, that the 1979 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 perhaps the most controversial and notorious production ever made.
For years it was banned in nu