I, Cluadius.
Anyone else been watching the re-run on UKTV History? I'd forgotten what a masterpiece this series is. A veritable cornucopia of acting talent.
Look at this for a cast list.
Brian Blessed (sans beard)
John Hurt
Ian Ogilvy
Derek Jacobi
George Baker
Patrick Stewart
http://www.historyinfilm.com/claudius/
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Fantastic TV series. Best thing after you've watched it is to read the books. Then you've got those fantastic performances fresh in your mind, but the book has an unlimited FX budget -- you get the games, the battles, the triumphs, all of the stuff they couldn't afford over at the BBC.
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i remember watching this on pbs when i was a kid and being mesmerized. will have to dig it up online somewhere for old times sake.
now i'm here, and history is vindicated.
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I have it on DVD. Marvellous series and as you note, some astonishing actors.
You forgot Sian Phillips, playing Livia - a tour de force of cold ambition, whose penultimate scene with Claudius where she shares her actions and reveals a terror of the afterlife, is utterly compelling.
"If there is a sin against life, it consists not so much in despairing as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this one."
Albert Camus "Noces"
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Absolute masterpiece. I watched that series in two days in my first summer of college.
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Yes a tour-de-force in anyones book. Just don't let her make you a Sunday lunch!Originally Posted by Banquo's Ghost
She must have bumped off half the royal family. Yes little boots did upset her on her deathbed didn't he?
Ah well an intermission until tuesday, I can't wait.
There are times I wish they’d just ban everything- baccy and beer, burgers and bangers, and all the rest- once and for all. Instead, they creep forward one apparently tiny step at a time. It’s like being executed with a bacon slicer.
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.”
To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticise.
"The purpose of a university education for Left / Liberals is to attain all the politically correct attitudes towards minorties, and the financial means to live as far away from them as possible."
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POISON IS QUEEN
Got it on dvd, best series ever. Period.
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I've watched the series twice, and am in the process of watching it again. You could say that I enjoy it.
"P-P-P-Poison!!!!"
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