Word: ghosts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Although entitled Julius Caesar, the play is not about Caesar but about Caesarism. Caesar himself appears in only three of the eighteen scenes (plus a brief apparition as a ghost). Bernard Kates plays him as a forceful man who seems much younger than his 55 years. It is hard to reconcile this Caesar with the one who, Cassius tells us, ran out of steam while swimming in the Tiber. Although Caesar has recently returned from military victories. I prefer a Caesar who is slightly over the hill, who is clearly showing signs of weakness (like the deal left...
Voice of a Ghost...
...dazzling Southwest scenery is present in abundance, but it is functional, not merely decorative. And whenever the movie moves indoors, usually to a saloon, the sets-however slickly photographed-are appropriately dark and tumbledown, as if some New Mexico ghost town had been converted into a sound stage...
...story takes place after Byron's death, so the hero appears only in flashback and as a ghost. The whole work is framed as an answer to the question of why Westminster Abbey would not allow Byron's body to be interred there. Thomson might almost have called it "One Sinner in Three Acts," because he dwells almost exclusively on the rakish side of Byron's character-his playboy excesses, his foppish haughtiness, his promiscuous escapades with both sexes. The listener must take Byron's poetic and personal genius on faith...
Between the shadow and the ghost...