Word: caligula
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...Drafted as Roman emperor in A.D. 41 after the assassination of his depraved nephew Caligula; strengthened Rome's legal system...
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...that Fukuyama and almost everyone else thinks about it, has been around for only 70-odd years. There were plenty of predatory tyrannies before Lenin arrived at the Finland Station, and there will be plenty more even if a Romanov is restored to a Kremlin throne. Genghis Khan and Caligula didn't need a course in dialectical materialism to make their periods of history interesting, and neither do today's bad actors -- or tomorrow...
Unfortunately, the current production of The Bacchae is less provocative than your average Greek salad. Not that we want Caligula, but The Bacchaesorely lacks sustained dramatic interest...
Impossible, you say, to turn Love is a Many Splendored Thing into a crowd-pleasing romance? Mad, you say, to attempt to transform Caligula into a film less mindless than its creators? Bizarre, yes, unheard of, yes! But mad? Well, maybe...