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...more picture of Richard Burton or Elizabeth Taylor or Joseph Mankiewicz on the cover of a national magazine, I'll scream...
Overshadowed Antony. Hence, he was not exactly a virgin when he tumbled for Cleopatra. He was bored with Camelot, and 20th Century-Fox paid $50,000 to get him out of it; also, Writer-Director Joe Mankiewicz promised him "a playable part." Fox's $40 million movie has been seen by no one and will not be until its release in June. But judging by the script, Mankiewicz did indeed give Burton a playable part. Since most of the scripting took place as Cleopatra was being shot, Writer Mankiewicz?in his approach to each character?knew just whose brain, tongue...
...Mankiewicz constantly wrote around Elizabeth Taylor, although she is supposed to be the picture's heroine. The early hours of the film also seem to give rather heavy emphasis to spectacle?everything from a 2 2-ton rolling sphinx to an acre of skin, dancing. Mark Antony is essentially absent until after the intermission, but then the level of the writing rises. The dialogue
...edges toward the Elizabethan, Richard Burton's adoptive world, and the study of character develops an interesting flair with Mankiewicz' concept of a long-overshadow Antony who comes to hate the very name of Caesar...
...answer is probably yes. "Show a Welshman i.ooi exits, one of which is marked SELF-DESTRUCTION," says Mankiewicz, "and he will go right through that door." The outcome of the Taylor-Burton game must inevitably yield up a loser. If he should ever marry her, he will be the Oxford boy who became the fifth husband of the Wife of Bath. If she loses him, she loses her reputation as a fatal beauty, an all-consuming maneater, the Cleopatra of the 20th century...