Cleopatra**********
Since the invention of Cinema, there have been over a hundred actresses who’ve portrayed the Queen of the Nile. But there have been very few on screen Cleopatra’s, that have blown us away with their powerful performances.
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Q° 1. Which of these stars did you feel was Cleopatra incarnate? Who was the most beautiful Cleopatra of the silver screen?
a) Vivien Leigh as Cleopatra in Caesar and Cleopatra (1945)
b) Elizabeth Taylor as Cleopatra in Cleopatra (1963)
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c) Another actress completely (Please Specify; e.g. Helen Gardner (1912), Theda Bara (1917), Claudette Colbert (1934), Sophia Loren (1954), etc etc …)
Q° 2. If there were a newer bio-pic on the life of this, pre-feminist era, bold feminist, Pharaoh, which one of these actresses should play the role of Cleopatra?
a) Angelina Jolie
b) Kate Winslet
c) Marion Cotillard
d) Sridevi
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e) Kerry Washington
Q° 3. If there were to be a new movie on the life of Cleopatra, which of these would you prefer to see?
a) a bio-pic on her life based on an original new screenplay.
b) another movie based on William Shakespeare’s 1623 play Antony and Cleopatra.
c) another movie based on George Bernard Shaw’s 1898 play Caesar and Cleopatra.
d) a mystical, fantasy, surreal piece of artistically and visually spectacular, intellectual piece of cinema.
e) a blockbuster, with a weak script, meaningless violence (an action flick), good looking bodies (sexualising the film’s characters with necessity for very limited acting skills), where the computer graphics dominate the entire premise of the movie; meant for the masses, just to make a load of cash; which would be here today and gone tomorrow.
Nuwan Sen’s Film Sense
Q&A: Your Opinion Matters
Question 1 I would say Elizabeth Taylor
Question 2 I would have to say Marion Cotillard, she’s such a good actress
Question 3 I would say answer D.
Great! Love your answers. Yup Taylor for me too. Although I love Cotillard, Angelina Jolie felt the best for a Hollywood version for me. And the last question, your answer was a pleasant surprise. I wasn’t sure anyone would pick (d), it’s same for me too.
Thanks for your answers again.
for me, Liz Taylor will always be Cleopatra……… for all time
Ha!! True, nobody can match Taylor’s powerful performance nor her bewitchingly Cleopatranisque beauty. She felt Cleopatra in every way.
1 B
2 C
3 A
Cheers,
Micky
Thank you Micky!!
NS